Vienna, Virginia · Speaking nationwide since 1985
Arnold Sanow, MBA, CSP works with leaders and teams to fix the thing that quietly costs the most: how people talk to each other. More than 2,500 paid presentations, and over 90 percent of clients book him again.
Forty years of evaluations
Arnold has been doing this since 1985. These are his own published figures, and the one on the left is the one that matters: nine out of ten clients either book him again or hand his name to somebody else.
90%+
rebook him or refer him
2,500+
paid presentations delivered
500+
organizations worked with
4.8-5.0
average evaluation score
Why they keep asking him back
A speaker who bombs gets paid once. Arnold has been rebooked and referred by more than nine in ten of the organizations he has worked with, from the FBI Academy to Kaiser Permanente, and his evaluations average between 4.8 and 5.0 out of 5.
Programs
Every one of these can run as a keynote, a general session, a half or full day workshop, an ongoing training program or one to one coaching, in person or virtually. None of them is delivered off the shelf. Arnold rebuilds the examples around your people before he stands up.
The flagship
Communication, interpersonal skills and everyday interactions. Harvard and Stanford put 85 percent of professional success down to how well you deal with people, and only 15 percent to technical skill. This session works on the 85 percent.
Get Along Better detailsBooking him
Somebody has to stand up and say they picked the speaker. Four of the things Arnold does are aimed squarely at that person.
Arnold meets the organizers before the date, learns the audience, the pressures and the vocabulary, and rebuilds the examples so they are yours. One client wrote that he made the effort to learn their industry, which far too few speakers bother to do.
If you want it, he emails your participants before the event to sell them on attending, and again closer to the date. Attendance is the planner's problem, so he treats it as his.
Worksheets and handouts, articles for your newsletter, a follow up email to every attendee summarising the key points, permission to record the session, and a debrief with your leadership afterward.
He arrives early, meets people at the door, and is still there afterward. He does not present and leave. Several of the notes below mention exactly that, unprompted.
Clients
Working out of the Washington DC region for four decades has given Arnold an unusual client list for a communication speaker. Federal agencies book him repeatedly, and so do the associations, law firms and manufacturers around them.
Plus more than 450 others, including a commencement address at Stratford University to 450 graduates and 1,900 guests. See the fuller list.
In their words
“Arnold was a big hit this week! He was full of energy, had great stories, related well to our group, and was funny. The group walked away with specific ways to connect with our customers. Thanks for making both of us look good!”
“You did a fabulous job engaging everyone and keeping the presentation interesting and useful…”
“I can speak confidently for our entire group in saying that your delivery, pace, content, style, and especially the on-target videos and examples were just what we needed to accomplish our goal. When I saw you greeting attendees at the door on the first day, I knew we had hit a home run in selecting you as our trainer.”
“I have to tell you that it is rare for staff to seek me out and thank me for sending them to training, even when they requested it.”
“Arnold does an excellent job of listening to the client's needs, tailoring his presentation and absolutely exceeding their expectations. I have received many spin-offs from his original appearances for our clients and these have resulted in additional bookings.”
“He made some very important points in a relaxed and humorous way…”
How an engagement runs
You tell him the group, the date, the format and what is actually going wrong. He will tell you honestly whether he is the right speaker for it.
He talks to organizers, and often to a few participants, then rebuilds the session around your challenges. This is where most of his preparation time goes.
Keynote, workshop, breakout, general session or facilitation, in person or virtual. Interactive throughout, with the audience doing a fair share of the talking.
A summary email to every attendee, articles you can reuse, and a debrief with your leadership on what he saw and what he would work on next.
Arnold Sanow, MBA, CSP
CSP is awarded by the National Speakers Association and fewer than 850 speakers worldwide hold it. Arnold has also been voted Outstanding Speaker of the Year by Meeting Planners International in Washington DC and by his own peers at the National Speakers Association, and named by Successful Meetings magazine as one of the five best value speakers in the country. He taught at Georgetown, and he has been a national spokesperson for AT&T and Intuit.
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Vienna, Virginia, booking nationwide, in person or virtual. Programs run in person or virtually, and every one is built around your people before it is delivered.
speaker@arnoldsanow.com · Vienna, VA 22181
