Michel

Learn to differentiate yourself and your business in a competitive marketplace.

NOTE: I generally fly out of Boston, Buffalo or Toronto and offer flat rate travel within North America. With an E1 US visa and dual citizenships, I am fully eligible to work in the United States, European Union and many other countries around the world.  In addition to keynotes and workshops, I am also available for emceeing, panels, and videocasts.

Michel NerayMBA, BSc, Master NLP Practitioner

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What makes you different as a person is what makes you better... in your business, your career and your life.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Michel Neray knows what it's like to feel ‘different'. Born to a Jewish mother from France who had survived Auschwitz, and a Jewish father who fled Iran during during WWII to join the French Foreign Legion, his parents settled in Montreal to start a new life and raise their family. Michel grew up as a French-speaking Jewish kid in an English Protestant school in a province that was overwhelmingly French Catholic.Having a girl's name didn't help him blend in either.Rather than hide his differences, he learned to embrace them. Michel credits his early childhood experiences for the foundation of his unique expertise in branding and positioning. Today, Michel is widely considered an expert in helping organizations and individuals discover and communicate their greatest strengths and differentiation, enabling them to succeed both personally and professionally.“If you want to discover your true difference,” says Michel, “you have to dig deeper than traditional marketing approaches, and use non-linear, counter-intuitive techniques to see what is quite likely right in front of you.”A naturally dynamic, fun and engaging speaker, Michel is passionate about helping his audiences discover and communicate what he calls their 'Essential Message'. That's the most basic building block that enables individuals and companies to be the best at what they do; to have stronger relationships and better rapport with customers, colleagues, family and friends; to stand out from the crowd and make a difference; to provide exceptional customer service driven by a genuine desire to help; and above all else, to lead a more fulfilled, more effective professional and personal life.For his corporate clients, it's also the key to stronger brand positioning, sales focus and market messaging. Some of his clients have reported sales increases of 60% as a result of working with Michel.In 1995 Michel founded Portfolios Online, the world's first Internet search engine for advertising and creative professionals. Michel co-authored The Great Crossover, which made it to Jack Canfield's Achiever's Recommended Reading List. In 2005, his chapter, “Everything Starts With A Conversation” was selected as the lead for the book, ‘Sales Gurus Speak Out' and then again for ‘Awakening The Workplace Volume 3′. He has an MBA from McGill University, a BSc from the University of Waterloo and is also a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).Since 2008, Michel has held leadership positions in the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, and has spoken professionally in more than eight countries. He's married with three children, two dogs, three snowboards, a whitewater canoe and a black belt in Karate.

Michel is also the founder of MoMondays, a live event spreading around the world. MoMondays is a platform for everyday people and professional speakers to share their authentic stories, challenges and triumphs. (www.MoMondays.com)

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• Walmart Canada
• Jamaica Employers Federation
• Centric Consulting Summer Conference
• Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce
• Wise Snacks Annual Conference
• Fragasso Financial Advisors Sales Event
• REIC (Real Estate Institute) National Conference
• United Country Real Estate National Sales Conference in New Orleans
• VISA Small Business Big Ideas show (My session was so highly rated in Toronto, they invited me back the next year in Montreal.)
• The Coaching Super Summit in Baltimore (multiple engagements)
• The ICF-GTA Regional Conference (multiple engagements)
• Mackenzie Financial (multiple engagements)

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