Kelly Swanson

WHERE THE ART OF STORY MEETS THE BUSINESS OF PERSUASION. Motivational Speaker-Award-Winning Storyteller-Comedian-Strategic Storytelling Expert-Huffington Post Contributor-Author-TV Personality.

Expert on

  • Stress
  • Sales
  • Humor
  • Presentation Skills
  • Inspirational
  • Motivation
 

Fee Range

$15,000–$20,000

Travels from

NC, US

Biography

Kelly Swanson is an award-winning storyteller, comedian, motivational speaker, Huffington Post Contributor, and cast member of The Fashion Hero television show airing on Amazon Prime. She is also author of Who Hijacked My Fairy Tale, The Land of If Only, The Story Formula, and The Gutsy Girls Pocket Guide to Public Speaking and The Affirmation Journal for Positive Thinking. Kelly’s wacky wit and powerful stories have charmed hearts and tickled funny bones for over 20 years. In addition to her role as a funny motivational speaker, Kelly teaches people how she does it by sharing what she has learned about connecting and engaging to have more influence in business, through the use of one tool – strategic storytelling. Sharing her own powerful journey through story and the formula she discovered you come to that magical place where the art of story meets the business of persuasion.

Speaker Videos

THE STORY FORMULA: CONNECTION AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH STRATEGIC STORYTELLING

  • ​HR wanting to engage employees
  • Customer Service groups who want to create a connection with their customer
  • Healthcare groups looking to craft their patient story for marketing, or engage stressed employees in the vision
  • Sales people who want to establish an emotional connection with their buyer
  • Financial Planners who realize they speak a different language from their customer and need to find common ground
  • Non-Profits who need to raise awareness in the community and recuit volunteers through their story
  • Small Business Owners who need to stand out in a crowded market
  • Associations who want to build membership and build communities
  • Executives and Speakers who want to learn how to get people to WANT to do what they tell them to do
  • Anybody who has someone to persuade in business (which is all of us) 
  • Research and Development teams who need to write the story of their products 
  • Boards or Leadership who want to create a vision story
  • Young Professionals who want to ace their job interview
  • Faith based groups who want to write their testimonial story

WHO HIJACKED MY FAIRY TALE? DEALING WITH STRESS AND CHANGE.

This program is perfect for:

  • People who want high energy, high entertainment, high motivation, high laughter, and a “show” with content woven in
  • ​Burned-Out and Dis-Engaged Employees
  • Teams Struggling with Stress and Change
  • Direct Sales Groups where Confidence and Self-Esteem is an issue
  • Women’s Events 
  • Association Conferences
  • Corporate Retreats and Staff Education Days
  • Groups where Morale is Low
  • Faith Based Groups

The audience will leave with:

  • ​Information on how stress affects us
  • Understanding that stress is how we react to stressors – that we are the only thing we can control
  • Validation and Affirmation of value and sense of purpose and belonging
  • Six Steps to Rewrite Inner Script to create attitudes and behaviors that work for us instead of against us
  • An action step to change a negative mindset starting on Monday
  • The knowledge of how their job has purpose and meaning
  • Skills to change the way they view themselves, their customers, their situations, and their world
  • Hope

FOR THOSE WANTING SOMETHING REALLY DIFFERENT - FOR THE AUDIENCE WHO HAS SEEN EVERYTHING

Handwritten Masterpieces Created Just For Your Audience

Can’t get enough of Kelly’s stories? Already had her speak, and now you’re ready for her to come back again and bump it up a notch?

Hearing Kelly speak is awesome, but watching her do pure storytelling as a concert, is SIMPLY MAGICAL.

Hilarious. Captivating. Deeply Moving. Just a few of the words used to express what people feel when Kelly takes them to Prides Hollow, her magical little town about a mile and a hair past nowhere. Whether it’s Crazy Man Harry sitting on the corner of Route 29, Bitsy’s crazy idea at Myrlene, Vyrlene, and Shyrlene’s House of Beauty, Buster’s Fishing Mishap, Old Man Wither’s dying request, or the Beauty Pageant gone bad thanks to Wade and Bo Jr and a homemade tater gun – no matter what the story, the characters will charm you, you’ll laugh yourself silly, feel renewed by the message, and by stepping into their stories, you find yourself stepping into your own.

These shows are handwritten with care and customized to fit your event, your audience, and the message Kelly feels led to deliver.

No matter what story you get, you’ll never want to leave. Experience storytelling at its finest. The perfect addition to an event, for the group has seen everything.