Erik Vermeulen has been a Business consultant and international Keynote speaker since 1994. He specialises in Corporate Behaviour strategies, allowing companies to create more profitable behaviours by examining how their teams work and how they interact with their employees as well as their customers. Erik explores trends and behaviours that have shaped the business world, and ones that will be required to motivate and improve performance in a post-recession business world where corporate spin become less powerful than customer and employee experience.

He has served long-term consulting contracts with some of the world’s largest companies and leaders in the global marketplace. His clients have found that Erik has the ability to put plenty of real-life business issues into perspective and offer realistic alternatives to team and leadership issues. He is frequently singled out for his enthusiasm, down to earth attitude and refreshing approach to people.

Erik believes that you cannot motivate people, he takes a highly effective behavioural approach to leadership that allows him to influence what people are motivated to do! He shows companies how to build “virtual” teams which include both their employees and their customers, making a significant impact on the bottom-line. He has helped a global mobile phone company sell 60 000 units in a saturated market in under 3 weeks.

Erik is adept at speaking on issues relating to employee and customer relationships – soft skills that produce hard results. His insights into how consumers and employees behave and how to shape these behaviours in a new economy shaped by technology are essential in Leadership and bottom-line success.

Erik’s presentations focus on:

Personal Success – “Find your 5”

Customer and Employee Behaviour – “There’s a shark in the Vending Machine”

Social Media and Marketing – “Never Cold Call again”

Behavioural Styles in sales and team-work – “Why can’t everyone just be normal – like me?”

He has the ability to create an immediate total emotional and mental connection with any audience, from Executive level to Sales groups and Service delivery teams.  He has a stage presence, an energy which captivates, and most importantly, he delivers thought-provoking and take-home style content. This makes him an automatic choice to speak on human capital, motivation and people-related business issues.

Erik is a high energy presenter, effortlessly adding humour and entertainment to his powerful business messages. He’s often singled out for his passion and zest as well as his business insight.

The global recession in 2008 taught the world two things – relationships are everything and the emerging work force no longer trust the old guard. They expect something new and fresh. People expect the business world to build relationships differently and engage with employees and customers on a different level.

If companies and their employees are not prepared to accept the new world of business, they will be out of business pretty soon.  Staying in business in a post-recession economy is a very compelling reason for listening to these topics.

High Content, High Energy, Highly Entertaining. Audiences are always seen taking notes during Erik’s presentations, and they often battle to keep up!

Immediately actionable insights. The audience will leave with practical examples and perspective allowing them to immediately implement key changes, steps and activities to derive value from the presentations.

You want a return on investment, don’t you?

Collaborating with Erik will give your people and your company:

• A fresh and unique perspective on behaviour and people management.
• Immediately actionable behaviours to help realise your goals
• An understanding of the difference in people and how to communicate effectively with them in order to minimise conflict.
• A can-do Attitude towards team-work and customer service.
• The motivation to go the extra mile
• Vivid learning moments that are easy to recall, for several months after the event
• A speaker who provides both memorable content and tools that delegates can immediately apply in order to change their results.

Apart from creating memorable learning moments and providing often-needed perspective and challenging paradigms, Erik’s previous clients say what they found valuable in our collaboration?

“Erik delivers very insightful and stimulating sessions to ones team. He ensures to understand the desired outcomes upfront and you can be guaranteed of the expected result.”

Top qualities: Personable , Expert , Creative

Ulanova Visser, Samsung SA, RIM (BlackBerry) SA

“Erik assisted us through a tough period of change. He provided creative learning scenarios that he followed up with detailed support afterwards. We subsequently used him several times, most recently in 2009. I highly recommend him!”

Top qualities: Great Results , Personable , Creative

Brett Garrod, Johnson & Johnson

“Having had the pleasure of working with Erik previously, I can highly recommend his work. Erik is professional, focussed, he delivers superlative results and is extremely well received by all levels within an organisation, especially leadership. I am more than happy to share with you the details around work that we have engaged in with Erik.”

Top qualities: Great Results , Personable , Expert

Jacqualene Humphries, The Brand Union, Neotel

“Erik has been a guest on my mid morning talk radio show and is a delight to interview. His experience and knowledge are second to none and I highly recommend Eric as a professional, motivational speaker and business consultant.”