Retired 8yrs, Shelley switched swimsuit for business suit, now creating Champions in all of us with her down to earth, openness & honesty as she connects & engages her audience sharing her personal experiences. She holds Bachelors in Education in Physical Education, is a qualified trainer in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and currently pursuing her doctorate in Philosophy.

A highly energetic and inspiring motivational keynote speaker Shelley presents at international conferences, national conventions, individuals and teams at in-house small business and corporate events helping to remove the blocks, including procrastination and loss of motivation; that stop people from achieving peak performance and ultimately success.

Champion Mindset^® has provided Taylor-Made Solutions to both blue ribbon corporations, small & medium business and professional athletes & sporting teams including St Joseph’s College Head of the River Rowing 1st 8’s, Australian Swimming Teams, St. George Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Colonial First State, Cadbury Schweppes, Blackmores, Foxtel, Warner & Roadshow Entertainment, PLAN Australia, The Department of Veteran Affairs, The Australian Taxation Office, Sheridan Australasia and Avon all discovering first hand how-to Champion their own performance and life, both personally and professionally.

Possessing the incredible capacity to remain focused, having broken record after record and utilising one’s greatest asset, ‘The Champion Mindset^®’, Shelley overcame considerable adversity triumphing over scoliosis, partial paralysis, benign breast tumour and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Many have said:
“Shelley will not tell you what you want to hear, she’ll tell you what you need to hear!”
“Her enthusiasm is contagious and her passion mind blowing!”
“A rollercoaster ride of emotions that you never want the ride to stop.”
“Not in 7 years organising conferences have I witnessed a standing ovation with not a dry eye in the room.”

Be inspired, improve morale, motivate your team, celebrate success, inspire performance, embrace change and step-up to the next level of success with audiences guaranteed to leave as Champions of their own world. Author, trainer, speaker or sportsperson, the underlying message throughout all of Shelley Taylor-Smith’s endeavours is, “...if you don’t quit, you will make it.”

Shelley will ‘Taylor-make’ a speech on any topic following a thorough briefing with the client. No program is exactly the same, since the makeup and needs of the audiences change. The talk or program will be designed to accomplish your outcomes and the results you require.

The 7 Taylor-Made Topics (and successful too) in previous conferences include:

1. Create Your Own Champion Mindset

Passionate & Powerful Shelley Taylor-Smith at her best - advises to stop playing it safe and start creating what's truly possible in life by stretching yourself, taking risks and surrounding yourself with your very own positive, supportive team spirit.

Learn how to stop bumping into your potential every now & then, discover the keys to consistent performance and transform your potential into performance on how to:

• Step up, out of your comfort zone and commit to higher goals
• Recognise negative people and detoxify them from your life
• Challenge yourself and put your fear of failure to rest
• Maintain your thirst and stay hungry making "no" your daily vitamin (motivation)
• People don't fail because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit
• Why passion, planning and focusing on what matters most are the Golden rules today

2. Success Strategies of World Champions

Shelley Taylor-Smith reveals the success strategies of Champions who achieved their outcomes – ordinary, every day people in all walks of life. Shelley presents motivational ideas and principles that are followed by provocative questions and action exercises to help you apply the strategies to create your own success! You'll learn how to:

• Increase your income
• Achieve your goals
• Eliminate your doubts & fears
• Actualise your full Champion potential
• Create and live your Winning Attitude

Master these strategies so you:

• Don't confuse to-do lists with plans of action.
• Do not compromise your beliefs and standards but at the same time be tolerant of others.
• Know the difference between the three truths: Your truth, their truth, the truth.
• We cannot always control our reaction but we should always control our response.
• Appreciate that you can depend on others but have them respect the fact that they can depend on you.

Watch and learn while Shelley presents 7 practical ideas on how to:

• See people who don’t want to see you then make them glad they did
• Think big and creatively as you step out of your comfort zone
• Develop and maintain relationships in creative ways
• Become an ‘attractive’ magnet, attracting clients and customers
• Prevent clients or customers from draining you
• Turn no into yes, knowledge into power, ideas into action that will have your competitors drawling and your clients/customers begging.

4. Think Like a Champion - Inspire Yourself from Within – KEYNOTE AND WORKSHOP

• Initiate the natural born Champion potential - who are you? What do you attract when you communicate? How do you stand out? What do your colleagues and clients 'buy' in YOU? What are you 'hot' at?
  
  
• Delve into the Champion behaviour that is unique? What are your unique qualities? What is your 'signature Champion style' that helps you stand up, stand out and shine? What is your positive brand impression?
  
  
• Discover the Champion Secret behind encouraging out-of-the-ordinary behaviour that sticks.
  
  The 5 qualities of Successful Champions:

• their intention (purpose);
• their attention (focus);
• their energy (passion);
• their belief (commitment); and
• their growth (resilience and mental toughness).

Learn how to identify the misconceptions and self-manage those associated emotions.

• Determine the Leading Edge in your Workplace and Industry - what they are known for that separates them from the rest and scares their competitors. Look to the edge – the winners are playing at the edge of the corporate playing field. What are the people on the edge of your playing field doing? How can we emulate their behaviours?
  
  
• Who’s Driving Your Bus? Who is in control of your career? Individual internal control of emotions and behaviour - how that affects our individual performance and our team mates.
  
  
• Understanding and promoting your inner assets that will support you in enhancing your career and increasing your professional profits.
  
  
• Desiring to be a professional success. Learn what drives your passion and how to present yourself and your company with the professional polish that clients want and expect.

5. THE WINNING FORMULA: How to Plan for it, Make it happen now and live the successful life that is your birthright to achieve.

Be inspired, improve morale, motivate your team, celebrate success, inspire performance, embrace change and step-up to the next level of success.

Hailed as one of the most passionate & patriotic Australians, Shelley Taylor-Smith knows the secrets of success in business and life. She is referred to as the respected motivational expert and affectionately called ‘disgustingly positive’ for her knowledge of human behaviour. Whether coaching CEO’s, small business owners or Olympians, Shelley is down to earth, relatable and knows her stuff.

Live life at a more purposeful level that guarantees satisfaction and success!

Shelley will walk you through the “Winning Formula” awakening you from the snooze to your natural born Champion potential within as you:

• Explore Shelley’s unique view of today’s world and opportunities within it
• Discover the plan to help you defeat what's been holding you back
• Learn how to take down what's been killing your motivation.
• Delve into the 3 ways to improve yourself and take advantage of those opportunities
• Discover how to attract success by becoming an "attractive" person
• Get Shelley’s short list for living a sensational life

She also offers guidance on how to achieve what matters most and get the most out of your day with her "Tips for Champion Success."

You will learn and apply these tips easily:

You won't want to miss a minute of the Winning Formula as Shelley explores the challenges of de-motivation, loss of focus and distractions, procrastination, deflated dreams and decreased energy levels and gives you a real plan to conquer your personal and professional "Motivation Assassinators."

6. Power through Pressure, Stress Less, Achieve Success and Live Longer in Sensational Style.

Champion stress in your life and achieve success! Regardless of what is thrown your way in work and life, sustain your momentum to work under pressure. Take responsibility and ensure yourself a longer life. The Taylor-Made Solutions shared are so effective that you will be wishing you knew about them much sooner. Shelley brings all these strategies, mindsets, tools and techniques together to provide you with a proven stress management system.

You need to know how to:

• Become resilient to pressure and bounce back from daily setbacks and obstacles.
• Redirect your focus and achieve what matters most to you.
• Release stress and revitalise your attitude to maintain your staying power.
• Work at your best from a physiology of excellence.
• Turn stress into energy and enthusiasm, your motivation and fuel in the tank.
• Live a realistic lifestyle whilst enjoying a balanced work-style.
• Work to live valuing you and connecting with your family and friends.

7. Can you believe it? How to use the power of belief to achieve anything you want (the size of your success is determined by the size of your BELIEF)!

Learn how to use the power of belief to change yours and your team. Belief and desire are the beginning of all achievement. If one of those key ingredients is missing, success is almost impossible.

That might explain why a lot of people get excited about an idea (desire) but fail to follow through with it (belief). It's rare that we will attempt to do something that we don't believe in, and we will never give 100% of our effort to something without a strong belief that we can do it. It's our human defense mechanism.

This one-of-a-kind presentation by Shelley Taylor-Smith is designed to:

• Change the way you think and deal with the obstacles and difficulties in your life.
• Identify the personal changes you need to make --- and then provide the impetus to make them.
• Teach you how to bounce back from setbacks, disappointments, and problems.
• Show you just how close you are to moving to the next level of achievement in your life and your goals – and how to get there.
• Teach you how to use the most powerful six-word “secret” in the world.
• Help you learn how to overcome negative circumstances.
• Banish, once and for all, the fear and limiting belief that you are not good enough, not smart enough and don’t have what it takes.

The long term value and the commitment is guaranteed with all the Champion Mindset Products and Services. View comments from Leanne Pilkington, General Manager, Laing + Simmons, Sydney.

All talks are supported by AV material.

"Shelley Taylor-Smith is a very powerful, passionate and motivating person. The most motivating person I have ever come across, in my time as an athlete and as a coach. And she has that true blue Australian way of speaking that others don't. A real winner." J-R CAMPION, Coach

"Balancing a full-time job with study is never easy, but producing an honours thesis while maintaining 50 - 60 hours working weeks seemed an insurmountable task. One weekend with Shelley made me re-think my approach and break it down into small, achievable goals. She inspired me, encouraged me and, most of all, enthused me about the journey ahead - a journey which ended with success! Shelley's approach is sensational. I highly recommend taking the next step, and attending one of her Champion Goal Setting Workshops." Belinda Lawton, NSW

“We chose Shelley Taylor-Smith on the basis of her inspirational story and how she has used that story to inspire others to reach for and achieve their goals in every area of their lives.

Your presence Shelley and openness on the day was outstanding, which coupled with your ability to link your story to the audience and their immediate business outcomes made for a strong and moving presentation." Kathy Cummings, General Manager, Third Party Banking, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

“After Shelley’s one day workshop with our long term unemployed (at least 5yrs) within 30 days 26% gained full time employment and 50% are still employed today.” Work Directions NSW

“Onyx had increased its closure of contracts ratio by 30% by Shelley Taylor-Smith motivating buyers through the fear factor.” Onyx

“Motivating a group coming together for the first time, without doubt, presents an enormous challenge. Shelley's enthusiasm, drive and passion ensured our workshop was not only a great success, but also set the foundation for our new team spirit and mutual vision. Shelley touched each and every one of us in a unique way, and challenged us to believe in our own ability to achieve enormous success. We all walked away with a more positive outlook! I highly recommend making Shelley part of your team.” Eli Lilly Pty Limited

“The best awards night ever” were the comments I received from my employees for weeks after our Awards night. Your moving presentation Shelley given to our staff left them all feeling uplifted, inspired and motivated. I saw multiple waves of emotion sweeping over my staff, there were tears and laughter and an immense feeling of pride and accomplishment.

Your life’s achievements are exceptional; my employees along with myself are privileged to have shared in your experiences.” Kenton G Farrow, Managing Director, AFMA Services Pty Limited, NSW, Australia

“Pricewaterhouse Coopers, sincerely thank you for your inspirational, motivational and humorous address to senior management at our MAD

Luncheon. Thank you for sharing the “jellyfish” story that has staff talking about “their jellyfish” and the importance to celebrate our ‘wins and milestones’ more often within our team. You’re right this is something easily overlooked.” Mac Lydiard, Business Development Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers

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