Speaker - Public speaking

Ron is an engaging, dynamic speaker with a wide range of subject matter expertise. With his easygoing, highly-interactive style, Ron shares his unique insight, educating and energizing his audience. His presentations are custom-tailored for each audience or event—they are never canned or pre-packaged. Ron has spoken at conferences, seminars and workshops across the country. Contact me for a list of references and reviews.

Benefits of hiring Ron as a keynote speaker

Ron offers distinctive professional expertise and perspective. He is not just a speaker but a lifelong entrepreneur with an exceptional track record of overcoming obstacles and achieving success
He provides practical, relevant, timely information and strategies that lead to measurable, real-world results
Ron is a captivating speaker who engages his audience in the presentation
His diverse experiences across a wide range of industries enable him to relate to any audience—from front line employees to senior management and executives

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Grants and grant writing

Having won more than $114 million in competitive grants during his professional grant writing career, Ron is one of the top producers in the industry and can help you to transform your grant writing. Few people can match his track record of success. In competitive funding programs his proposals continually receive the highest scores and the highest dollar awards. Through his regular work as a professional grant reviewer for a variety of state and federal funding agencies Ron has gained "insiders' knowledge" about the key factors that set winning grant proposals apart from the ones that don't get funded. Consider this:

He has won more than $20 million in funding in the highly competitive Carolyn M. White Physical Education Program (PEP), last year writing six (6) winning proposals (only 72 were awarded nationally)
Wrote a $7.7 million winning grant to support public safety telecommunications
Secured a $9.3 million award for a start-up technology company to commercialize a new technology
Landed a $1 million USDA grant to support an innovative biomass demonstration project for a California start-up company;
Has won single grant awards for Tribal projects in excess of $3 million
Wrote the only Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Community Connect grant awarded to a tribal government in 2011 (only 16 grants awarded nationally), securing the second-highest award ($1.1 million) in the country
Ron regularly works as a professional grant reviewer for a diverse range of state and federal funding programs including: BTOP; Department of Education; Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Native Americans; Florida Department of Education; Community Development Block Grant programs; and more

Small business strategy and growth

Ron has engineered the launch and growth of successful small businesses around the globe. But unlike many speakers, Ron doesn't talk about theory, he shares real-world tips and strategies from his own experiences as a successful entrepreneur. Examples of topics include:

How he and his business partner took a concept from idea to multi-million dollar company with major customers such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens and more in just 12 months
How he was able to help a small health and beauty care manufacturer go from less than $100,000 in annual sales to knocking a billion-dollar global competitor off the shelves at Kroger
How to plan, engineer and executive a successful new product launch in any market
His tried and true formula for small business success

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