Nothing short of exceptional.
“Stan Phelps's keynote presentation at the Association for Test Publishers Innovations in Testing convention was nothing short of exceptional. His insightful exploration of Customer Experience and emphasis on the significance of small moments resonated brilliantly with our diverse audience...making it one of the most memorable keynote addresses in recent years.”
Program Chair, Association of Test Publishers
I challenge audiences to think differently by exploring opportunities to be successful in tomorrow’s changing world.
Actionable tips that all attendees could incorporate into their daily work immediately
"Stan Phelps truly was fantastic as a presenter in our most recent Association of National Advertisers (ANA) training session on “Presentation Tips/Practices for the Workplace.” The content and tips covered in the session provided actionable tips that all attendees could incorporate into their daily work immediately—while being both engaging and interactive, which can be a difficult task when working with 100+ people in large presentation room. I particularly liked the addition of virtual presentation tips, especially since most of the business world is shifting to more of a hybrid work environment in the future. Overall, a fantastic speaker/presenter who I highly recommend."
Senior Director of Marketing, TXU Energy
Useful, engaging content that resonates with a very broad team
"I’ve had the pleasure of attending two of Stan’s training sessions. He does a great job of providing useful, engaging content that resonates with a very broad team. I hope to continue to work with Stan in the future, and would recommend him to anyone looking for a productive and informative team training session."
Acquisition Marketing Manager, Vistra Energy
Nothing short of amazing
"Stan was nothing short of amazing!!!! We held our annual conference with 150+ accounting firm owners on the world-famous Boracay Island in the Philippines. Stan did a double session at our event, and he was nothing short of amazing. His content blew our attendee's minds and was full of practical content they could walk away and implement. What was even better was Stan spent time with our attendees over the 2 days at the event, so it wasn’t just a presentation and he was gone. I highly recommend Stan."
Founder, TOA Global
Stan’s delivery was captivating
"Stan was our keynote speaker on our 9th annual Top Executive Event in Fort Lauderdale, FL with the participation of over 125 CEOs and Executives from the US and Latin America of fast-growing companies and Clients of our Scaling Up program ($5M to $300M in sales). Stan delivered a 3-hour workshop on Purple GoldFish and provided amazing insights and practical tools. Stan’s delivery was captivating and he created an engaging connection with the audience. Clear, insightful, dynamic, and applicable to our businesses. We appreciate Stan’s experience and engagement before, during, and after our event. We highly recommend Stan for your next event."
CEO, Quantum Growth Advisors
Just mind-blowing
"Stan's session with our Director's and Ambassadors Team was just mind-blowing. His concepts were crystal clear and easy to understand. But I think it was the inspiring Call to Action that made this session extraordinary as everyone left inspired."
National Operations Support Director, BNI Australia
Inspirational, informative, and highly engaging
"We have engaged Stan to deliver seminars to my MBA candidates who are in senior management. Stan has been inspirational, informative, and highly engaging in his seminars. We will definitely get him back again!"
Co-Founder and Director, Kings University College
Our team left feeling motivated and armed with practical tools
"We were fortunate to have Stan provide our member service team with his Pink Goldfish training in April of 2023. The energy he exuded was infectious, setting the tone for an engaging session, and his anecdotes and real-life examples resonated with our daily challenges in customer service, making the message relatable and meaningful. As a result of Stan’s talk, our team left feeling motivated and armed with practical tools and ideas to enhance our customer interactions."
Director of Energy Solutions, Blue Ridge Energy
Nearly nine months later, team members still talk about a skill or concept we learned
"Stan was the keynote speaker for our employee appreciation event in Nashville, TN. The custom workshop experience for “Excelling Under Pressure” introduced new skills and encouraged us to open our mind in ways we otherwise wouldn’t, as well as how to respond in real-world relevant situations. Stan was captivating from the moment the team met him at our welcome reception the evening before. During the 3-hour workshop, he immediately connected with the group, as all levels of management were quickly engaged. Nearly nine months later, team members still talk about a skill or concept we learned during the workshop. Stan’s knowledge and personality are amazing, I highly recommend him for your next event."
Director of Business Leadership, Proxy Retail
We walked away rich with new ideas to apply
"During the Innovation Summit, Stan Phelps delivered the most relevant and timely content to Ricoh’s customers and internal leaders. It is more of a conversation than a presentation that involves a good platform for the collaboration of thoughts and ideas. In today’s most challenging market driving ownership and a mindset to thrive, we walked away rich with new ideas to apply."
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Ricoh
A super engaging presenter
"Stan was a super engaging presenter. I liked how active he was as a facilitator and used all of his own techniques during the session. I'll definitely be practicing some of the things I learned from this session, like pacing, eliminating filler words, and breaking up the content to retain attention."
Global Marketing | Business Operations, Square
Outstanding ability to engage and heighten the participants' understanding
"Stan demonstrated exceptional proficiency while delivering two customized modules centered around customer-centric strategies. These modules focused on differentiation frameworks and leveraging data-driven insights for a prominent global company whose revenues surpassed $340 million. Stan's delivery was characterized by expert knowledge and innovation, showcasing his outstanding ability to engage and heighten the participants' understanding of the concepts."
Global Program Manager, Rutgers Business School
A fun and thought-provoking learning environment
"Stan helped my team learn valuable storytelling and presentation skills. He was informative, intelligent, and engaging. He created a fun and thought-provoking learning environment where everyone felt safe to participate. In our post-workshop survey, all participants strongly agreed that Stan was a fantastic instructor, making the workshop a great success!"
Assistant VP – Global Brand & Marketing, Met Life
With 250+ client reviews, Stan is the most recommended speaker on eSpeakers
Here's what event organizers and audience members are saying about his keynote presentations, workshops and GOLDFISH TANKS
Ideas that transcend industries
"When Stan speaks on the topic of employee engagement, he discusses ideas that transcend industries. Government, healthcare, business, or any industry you can think of will likely get a lot of out what he has to say on the topics. And the best part about Stan - besides being a great guy generally - is his focus on telling practical stories to get his message across."
Director of Marketing, Voiance
Wow, he can keep the attention of room of accountants, that's impressive
"After hearing Stan speak at a continuing education course for a group of CPA's I thought - wow, he can keep the attention of room of accountants, that's impressive. Fast forward a year and I was able to have the pleasure of scheduling Stan to speak to group of utility contractors. My point - whether it is a group of CPA's, or a group of contractors, Stan is able to provide relevant and thought-provoking presentations that allow you to better yourself and your organization. After hearing Stan, I have always kept one of his stickers on my laptop - a purple fish that reminds me to "think outside the bowl.""
President, NUCA of the Carolinas
Audience engagement and a strong takeaway of value
"Stan did a great job of prepping to address our group so that when he did, he was efficient and effective at hitting just the right points, allowing for audience engagement and a strong takeaway of value from the participants."
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, United Way Worldwide
Practical ideas [attendees] could take home and put to work immediately
"We were fortunate to have Stan as the keynote speaker for an industry event we sponsored in March. His practical ideas and broad perspective on customer service combined with genuine caring was more than just inspirational. He also managed to provide our audience with practical ideas they could take home and put to work immediately."
Founder and VP, Clinical Community, Clinicient
It was one of the best workshops we've had
"Stan led a fantastic virtual workshop for our marketing team on customer experience design. Stan took the time to learn about our products to ensure the workshop is tailored to our needs. He is an excellent speaker, who made the learning process interactive and fun. It felt like a great team building exercise, while we learned to develop a new way to reach our customers. It was one of the best workshops we've had. I heard many compliments from the team."
Asst Mgr, CRM & Customer Analytics, Hyundai
By far the best and most interesting speaker
"Here is feedback from the attendees in your session: Gain a lot of insight and learned new ideas. Great speaker. AWESOME!!! Like seriously, Awesome, no joke, he is just simply awesome. Favorite Best presentation today. Best one! Fantastic presenter! Engaging, not reading off slides, unique angle, interesting stories added depth. Best one! Best speaker all day. Want to see him again at PBLI. You were so awesome & engaging. -AKPsi Bro By far the best and most interesting speaker. Great work! Great. Best Presentation! Best presentation of PBLI! By far my favorite! Stan is wonderful. Great presentation. Favorite one all day! Very engaging. Showmanship. Great speaker!! Best one I went to! Great presenter. Saw him twice. He NEEDS to come back! Stan the man. This was a GREAT speaker! Favorite FANTASTIC!"
Director of Education, Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity
We look forward to having Stan back to speak again
"Stan is an extremely entertaining speaker! Our attendees walked away with a fresh approach to marketing and customer service. We look forward to having Stan back to speak again in the future, a real class act!"
Project Manager, North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association
Excellent feedback from your presentation
"It was a such a pleasure to work with you Stan. Your flexibility and approachabiility is rare in the Keynote speaker world, and makes the entire process a very valued one for the event planner. I'm already receiving excellent feedback from your presentation. Thank you so much."
Director of Franchise Development Events, Liberty Tax
Stan's virtual presentation was well-received, polished, informative, entertaining, and professional
"Stan Phelps presented for me at our October FENG meeting. Stan's virtual presentation was well-received, polished, informative, entertaining, and professional. I have had Stan speak at multiple events with up to 300 CPA's and is in the top tier of the over 150 speakers I have used."
Vice President, FENG
His presentation was enlightening and insightful
"Stan spoke to our Sports Leadership and Ethics graduate students. He spoke about the little things leaders do can make the biggest difference. His presentation was enlightening and insightful for our students as they shape their leadership journey."
Associate Director, Global Sports Business M.S. Program, Rutgers University
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A fun, quirky and interactive presentation that literally got the audience up on its feet
"When we heard that Stan would be in town for a conference, we jumped at the chance to book him for a speaking engagement with our chapter of marketers. He was a joy to work with and gave a fun, quirky and interactive presentation that literally got the audience up on its feet. Our event with Stan sold out weeks in advance…so next time we'll need to book a bigger venue!"
President, AMA San Francisco
The stars couldn't have better aligned - so glad to have had the opportunity to bring you to Michigan!
"I wanted to thank you again for coming to our annual conference, sharing some energy and interest stories to inspire us to be a little weird and market how we're different. While it was a bit hectic when our other speaker canceled, the stars couldn't have better aligned - so glad to have had the opportunity to bring you to Michigan!"
VP of Programs, President-Elect, AMA SW Michigan
Stan appeals to and hits a chord, or two, of any business
"Beyond the enlightening content of his presentation, his engaging speaking skills, and the valuable goldfish nuggets he sends attendees home with, Stan gives and makes you feel the Lagniappe. In our organization, we have speakers from every corner of the marketing world, so we attract attendees from many different industries. While engaging and enlightening the crowd, Stan appeals to and hits a chord, or two, of any business, no matter the industry or scale."
President, AMA New Orleans
Speakers like Stan are a joy to share with your audience
"Speakers like Stan are a joy to share with your audience. He gave an interactive presentation that engaged every attendee of our virtual event. Stan promotes learning through his insightful takes on differentiation and his unique style. In their feedback, our attendees were enthusiastic and grateful for the experience."
President, AMA Columbia
Stan's energy level was also exuberant and made for a refreshing Zoom presentation that was both entertaining and educational
"Stan gave a great Pink Goldfish virtual presentation! We had originally booked Stan to present in person, but after many months of Covid precautions and postponements, we switched to a virtual presentation. He was very engaging and interactive. He kept the audience involved by asking questions and presented new marketing ideas and concepts to our chapter. Stan's energy level was also exuberant and made for a refreshing Zoom presentation that was both entertaining and educational."
VP of Programming, AMA Columbus
Stan's engaging style is informative and entertaining. He received an incredible 100% satisfaction rating on our post-event attendee survey
"Stan Phelps graciously came to Iowa and spoke to our local AMA chapter here in Des Moines. He has a knack for taking very strategic marketing tactics and explaining them with equal parts beloved college professor and late night talk-show host. Stan's engaging style is informative and entertaining. He received an incredible 100% satisfaction rating on our post-event attendee survey - what more can I say? I would highly recommend Stan for any speaking engagement!"
VP of Programs, AMA Iowa
I highly recommend Stan's energetic, thoughtful and innovative speaking
"We usually don't have events in the summer for our American Marketing Association chapter, due to historically low turnouts. When we learned Stan was on a book tour, we couldn't pass him up. Record turnouts and rave reviews followed, I highly recommend Stan's energetic, thoughtful and innovative speaking. We hope to have him back!"
VP Programming, AMA Kansas City
Bringing Stan Phelps in to speak to our chapter was one of the best decisions we made
"Bringing Stan Phelps in to speak to our chapter was one of the best decisions we made. At a time when people need fresh ideas and perspective Stan delivered right on time!"
President, NSA VA
Our attendees laughed and learned a lot
"Stan was a very dynamic and interesting speaker. Our attendees laughed and learned a lot. During our post-event reviews, our audience had nothing but positive things to say about Stan's presentation."
President, AMA Charleston
A ridiculously awesome presentation on customer experience
"Stan Phelps delivered a ridiculously awesome presentation on customer experience at our AMA Boston meeting. Referencing his book, Purple Goldfish, he talked about how the littlest things can make the biggest difference in how customers feel about a company's products and services. Stan was at once enthusiastic, engaging and entertaining in his presentation, never mind informative and insightful. Like the point he kept driving home during his presentation about the importance of brands and businesses giving something extra to their audience, Stan did just that with us. He didn't just meet our expectations, he exceeded them."
President, AMA Boston
A storyteller who captivates the audience immediately
"Stan is a storyteller who captivates the audience immediately. He delivers meaningful strategies that are actionable. Stan engages with the audience and has the unique talent to make you feel like you're the only person in the room. We received excellent feedback from the audience and would invite him again for our organization."
President, AMA Hampton Roads
We have received incredible feedback from our attendees and have personally recommended him to others because of it
"Stan is an incredible speaker who is also incredibly easy to work with. As the event planner, he made the whole process easy from start to finish, providing all of the details I typically need to chase down upfront and more. As an event attendee, Stan is an incredible speaker with a unique perspective. We have received incredible feedback from our attendees and have personally recommended him to others because of it."
President-Elect, AMA Philadelphia
Every time we do business together, Something amazing happens in the world!
When we complete a GOLDFISH TANK, we give 1001 days of clean water to school children
When we complete a GLOBAL engagement, we give 365 days of clean water access in Peru, 120 days of learning aids in Malaysia, and 50 days of business training for women in Malawi
