Barry Maher
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Leadership, Communications, Mangement, Sales, Motivation Presentations Expert

Barry Maher Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leadership, Communication, Management, Motivation, Sales.
- Best Sellers
- Filling the Glass, No Lie: Truth Is the Ultimate Sales Tool, Legend, The Prentice Hall Marketing Yearbook, Getting the Most from Your Yellow Pages Advertising
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Author, Consultant
- Affiliation
- National Speakers Association, Inte ational Federation of Professional Speakers
Today, Barry Maher, www.barrymaher.com, is in demand for business audiences of all types. But he first made his mark as a management and sales consultant, helping clients improve their productivity, often dramatically. Selling Power magazine declared, “To his powerful and famous clients, Barry Maher is simply the best sales trainer in the business.” It soon became apparent that the strategies that were so effective in helping managers and salespeople succeed, worked every bit as well with the issues all of us face in business—and in life.
Whether as a speaker or a consultant, Barry is hired to get results: to improve productivity and attitude and ultimately, the bottom line. To make his clients money. Those clients include organizations like ABC, the American Management Association, AT&T, Blue Cross, Budget Rent a Car, Canon, Country Kitchen, Infiniti Automotive, Johnson & Johnson, Lufthansa Airlines, Merck, the National Lottery of Ireland, the Small Business Administration, Verizon and WellPoint.
Barry’s book, Filling the Glass has been honored as “[One of] The Seven Essential Popular Business Books” by Today’s Librarian magazine. His other books include, No Lie: Truth Is the Ultimate Sales Tool, The Prentice Hall Marketing Yearbook, the niche book, Getting the Most from Your Yellow Pages Advertising and the mini-cult classic novel, Legend.
Barry himself has appeared on the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBNC and hundreds of television and radio stations. He’s frequently featured in publications like USA Today, the Wall Street Jou al, the New York Times, the London Times, Business Week and—what he insists is his personal favorite—Funeral Services Insider.
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Teamwork and Management Greed: Speaking of Negative Motivation
Many managers extol and even demand teamwork, then set up situations that destroy any possible team spirit. Tip: Don't expect team players, if you haven't made it a team sport. If you want team play and then set up competitions in which one employee wins and others lose, you aren't going to ...
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Books for Business: Filling The Glass
Filling the Glass: The Skeptic’s Guide to Positive Thinking in Business by Barry Maher (Dearbo Trade Publishing, $19.95) Rating: $$$$$n n Barry Maher’s new book, Filling the Glass: The Skeptic’s Guide to Positive Thinking is a business self-help book with an edge: Chicken Soup for the ...
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Belief Sells, Confidence Motivates
It's far easier to make someone else a believe when you're a believe yourself. Let’s say you have a health problem and you go to a doctor. You want him to listen, evaluate and investigate. When he makes his recommendation, you want to hear as much confidence as possible. "Andrew, you've ...
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The Blame Game: Speaking of Not Motivating
When you fail, when you make a mistake, keep your head—unless you can think of a lot of situations that were actually improved by panic. And, own up to your mistake—to yourself and to any others involved. Anyone who doesn't realize that's the best course of action hasn't been paying much ...
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Business, Bliss and Selling $85 Million Worth of Cat Litter
I would love to be able to tell you to "follow your bliss." I'd love to be able to tell you that if you don't love what you are doing, go do something you love. That's the easy answer and it's a good one. Unfortunately like a lot of good answers it's not always possible. n n We've all heard the ...
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A Failed Business Plan: Motivationally Speaking
A few years ago, a management and sales expert came up with what he considered a first-rate idea. With so many unhappy, lonely people in the world, he figured he could provide them with a little comfort and make money at the same time by offering them personalized, written advice on their ...
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Existential Sex for Work/Life Balance
As you can tell from the title, this article is about sex. Actually it’s more business than it is about sex. Which is probably because I know a lot more about business than I know about sex. A fairly successful individual named Warren Buffett once remarked that he worried about people who ...
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Diamonds and Dollars: It’s Not What Your Product or Service Is Worth. It’s What the Customer Thinks It’s Worth.
One summer while I was on vacation from college I became a tin man: selling aluminum siding and roofing door to door in the Boston area. The business has a bad reputation but our siding and our roofs were the finest available. Our prices were high but fair. In spite of what consumers always want to believe, you can’t get the best without paying for it.
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Barry Maher's most popular topics include:
1. Filling the Glass: Real World Tactics and Reality-Based Motivation for Increasing Productivity AND Job Satisfaction. Filling the Glass is the antidote to sessions that are entertaining but full of “let’s all think happy thoughts and everything will be wonderful” fluff. It’s chock full of nuts and bolts content. Yet it’s extremely entertaining and real-world motivational, even inspirational. Perfect for both the most cynical veteran AND the most starry-eyed (or the most discouraged) novice . . .
· Jerry Colangelo, former owner of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, says "Packed with useful, practical advice. . . entertaining and frequently laugh out loud funny."
· Trade Show Ideas writes, "Barry Maher finishes his keynote and the audience comes to its feet applauding. Clearly they enjoyed the speaker's every word. The conference and trade show are off to a perfect start.
2. Slicing through the Noise: Effective Communications for Leadership and Professional Success. Diplomacy has been called the art of telling people to go to hell in a way that they'll actually look forward to the trip. We don't advocate telling your people, your customers, your partners or your bosses to go anywhere like that, but this outstanding session from Barry Maher shows you how to communicate with people of all types: to diplomatically, tactfully get what you want and get people to look forward to whatever trip you'd like them to take.
3. Selling Your Ideas Your Vision, Yourself, Even Your Products and Services: Painlessly! Simple, extremely effective strategies that help not only in sales and in management but in almost any aspect of your business life. And even in your life outside of business. No lie, truth is the ultimate sales tool. It also the ultimate leadership tool. But only when used correctly.
· As Selling Power said, “To his powerful and famous clients, Barry Maher is simply the best sales trainer in the business.”
4. Shut Up and Speak: Non-Verbal Communication. Body language, gestures, tone, proximity: when it comes to succeeding in business, non-verbal communications can make the difference between getting your message across and completely undermining it, the difference between understanding those around you and just guessing.
You can find out far more about Barry including streaming video of him presenting on our website at www.barrymaher.com. And be sure to check out the amazing testimonials page that few speakers anywhere can match.
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His topics include:1. Filling the Glass: Real World Tactics and Reality-Based Motivation for Increasing Productivity AND Job Satisfaction. Filling the Glass is the antidote to sessions that are entertaining but full of “let’s all think happy thoughts and everything will be wonderful” fluff. It’s chock full of nuts and bolts content. Yet it’s extremely entertaining and real-world motivational, even inspirational. Perfect for both the most cynical veteran AND the most starry-eyed (or the most discouraged) novice.
· Jerry Colangelo, former owner of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, says "Packed with useful, practical advice. . . entertaining and frequently laugh out loud funny."
· MPI's (Meeting Professionals Inte ational's) The Meeting Planner says, "Often funny, occasionally blunt, always honest . . . Maher helps us fill our own glass through a skillful mix of case studies, tips, tactics and hard headed, reality-based inspiration."
· Trade Show Ideas writes, "Barry Maher finishes his keynote and the audience comes to its feet applauding. Clearly they enjoyed the speaker's every word. The conference and trade show are off to a perfect start."
2. Effective Communications for Leadership and Professional Success. Diplomacy has been called the art of telling people to go to hell in a way that they'll actually look forward to the trip. We don't advocate telling your people, your customers, your partners or your bosses to go anywhere like that, but this outstanding session from Barry Maher shows you how to diplomatically, tactfully get what you want: and to get people to look forward to whatever trip you'd like them to take.
Attendees will also learn:
· The single most successful strategy for building and improving relationships
· How to avoid costly and embarrassing misunderstandings
· How to defuse anger in yourself and in others
· How to deliver fool-proof instructions
· And much, much more . . .
3. Selling Your Ideas Your Vision, Yourself, Even Your Services: Painlessly! Simple, extremely effective strategies that help not only in sales and in management but in almost any aspect of your business life. And even in your life outside of business. No lie, truth is the ultimate sales tool. It also the ultimate leadership tool. But only when used correctly.
· As Selling Power said, “To his powerful and famous clients, Barry Maher is simply the best sales trainer in the business.”
4. Non-Verbal Communication. Body language, gestures, tone, proximity: when it comes to succeeding in business, non-verbal communications can make the difference between getting your message across and completely undermining it, the difference between understanding those around you and just guessing. You can find out far more about Barry including streaming video of him presenting on our website at www.barrymaher.com. And be sure to check out the amazing testimonials page that few speakers anywhere can match.