From garbage collector to Wall Street executive, Alan Parisse’s diverse background enables him to present amazing keynotes on leadership, sales, and cycles of change to executives, marketing and sales teams throughout the world. Named one of the “Top 21 Speakers of the 21st Century” by Successful Meetings Magazine, Alan’s mission is to help individuals and organizations ranging from healthcare, to financial services and real estate, create and follow a blueprint for success. He works with numerous organizations, many in transition, to help them re-position their thinking, let go of the past, formulate a vision and take action while confronting their successes, challenges and opportunities.

Alan’s audiences benefit from his sound business judgment, hard won expertise and practical solutions for dealing with reversals and taking full advantage of booms. He is an expert in change, leadership, selling and sustaining success.

Program Topics

This Is Your Time
This is your time, not despite the considerable challenges and changes we are facing, but because of them. This is the time to Shift Into High Gear, optimize your business and position your organization for growing success. This “tough times” talk provides the perspective needed to Thrive In Turbulent Times.

Leadership in Turbulent Times
The traditional sources of power have all either disappeared or diminished. Today’s leaders must re-evaluate their style and master new sources of influence. Lasting success will come to those leaders who inspire new ways of thinking, being and acting.

The Doctor of Sales
Medical doctors are such great salespeople, that even they don’t know they are selling, but they are. Doctors tell us what to do and we are highly likely to do it. Why? Because doctors follow the 7 Rules of Selling. They start by Establishing Their Credibility and end by Taking a Chance and telling us what to do. They know that an expert who doesn’t get us to change our behavior hasn’t done anything. As one doctor put it, ‘nothing happens until the patient swallows the pill.’

In this program, Alan redefines selling in a way that turns the manipulative methods of old into a client-focused mission. Then he provides a roadmap of for advisors to sell and serve their clients and prospects.

Secrets of Successful Presentations
What you say is important, but how you say it often carries the day. This series of programs is designed to combat sameness, encourage authenticity, and expand the options presenters have to achieve their objectives. Formats ranges from a keynote speech to The Speaking Intensive (Two full days for up to 10 people).

Presentations for Financial Advisors

Questions Great Financial Advisors Ask
It is the questions you ask, more than the presentations you make that leads to success for clients and advisors alike. Based on the widely selling book of the same title, this presentation covers attributes of great advisors as well as the questions they ask.

A Lifetime of Saturdays
A successful retirement takes more than money. It takes understanding the human issues that arise and planning for them. Financial Advisors can serve current clients and attract new ones by expanding their client conversation to include more than money. This program will show advisors both the issues and the opportunity.

Complete Biography

Rising from garbage collector to Wall Street executive, Alan Parisse uses his diverse life experience to deliver relevant messages on leadership, sales, and cycles of change to executives, managers, marketing and sales teams throughout the world. Alan’s audiences benefit from his sound business judgment, hard won expertise and practical solutions for dealing with reversals and taking full advantage of booms. He is an expert in change, leadership, selling and sustaining success.

Combining insight and wit to penetrate the complexities of today’s marketplace, Alan has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford Business School, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Business, UCLA Graduate School of Management and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.

The first and only speaker to come out of the investment business to be inducted into the National Speakers Association’s Hall of Fame, his expertise, consistency, and client-centric focus led Successful Meetings Magazine to name Alan “One of the Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century”. An accomplished author, Parisse’s ideas have been quoted in numerous business publications, including: The Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Barron’s.

Alan has written and co-authored numerous books and audio programs including: This Is Your Time, Taking Charge: Lessons in Leadership, The Great Salesperson, Questions Great Advisors Ask, 101 Best Marketing Ideas and The Real Estate Investment Pocket Guide.

Parisse’s articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Executive Excellence, Advisor Today, Medical Product Sales, Life Insurance Selling, Financial Planning Magazine, Pharmaceutical Representative, The Stanger Investment Advisor, The Real Estate Review and The Bank Investment Representative.

Now a lifetime away from his garbage collection days, Alan works with the very best in financial services, healthcare, real estate, technology and more. Alan Parisse is the proven master, making lasting contributions to companies and industries undergoing major transitions throughout the world.

Alan Parisse also works closely with financial professionals enhance their client service and grow their practices by making timely and pertinent information accessible and actionable.

One of the Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century, Alan is the first person from the investment business inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame.

A seasoned financial service professional, Alan served as a senior executive for Oppenheimer and other national investment firms. In those roles, he was responsible for developing and marketing major investment strategies.

Some of Alan’s speaking clients include financial firms in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition, he works regularly with clients in high tech, health care, retail and government. This wide-ranging experience allows Alan to consistently offer new and unique perspectives to financial professionals.

A graduate of SUNY Buffalo (B.S.) and the University of Arizona (MBA), he is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Business Fraternity.

Alan lives with his wife Lisa in Colorado.