Motivational Speaker
A veteran keynote speaker and seminar leader, Wendeen Eolis designs programs to optimize deal making at any negotiating table. Using her highly honed, "people-reading system," and her understanding of negotiating strategies, Wendeen entertains as much as she enlightens audiences.
Wendeen provides an overview on her 12-point people reading system and connects it to four key negotiating strategies, continuously involving her audience in the analysis of negotiating DNA.
The Negotiating Ace
- Power up Common Sense
- Choose Profitable Pursuits
- Demystify "Negotiating DNA"
- Use Secrets of a "People Reader"
- Negotiate Health Care Minefields
- Travel Like an A Lister
- Nail Down that Promotion
- Women Win More, Bluffing Less!
Speaking Topics
Her programs are presented in a wide variety of venues. Here are some examples:
- Cruise Ships - Queen Mary, Carnival World Yacht
- Special Events - NY Learning Annex, Women's Forum, Women's Biz
- Legal Profession Kramer Levin, Time Warner Legal Department
- Associations: Law - ABA NY Bar; Recruiting - NAPC, NALSC, ICPC
- Poker Events - WSOP, Brooks Brothers, American Cancer Society
Wendeen's interactive seminars and motivational speaking engagements demonstrate effective interviewing techniques learned in the executive search business with wisdom derived from extensive experience in the legal profession and the C-Suite and government.
By demystifying "people reading" prowess and "negotiating DNA," she arms attendees, with new tools for more profitable negotiations. She adds principles of power poker to perfect people-reading skills and to decode negotiating DNA, the secret ingredients in negotiating excellence.
Speaker & Journalist
Wendeen Eolis is a speaker who optimizes negotiating strategies for deal-making at any table - always mindful of the power of common sense and her 3D philosophy of discipline, desire, and determination.
Wendeen's Engagements
- Seminars
- Keynotes
- Master Classes
- Special Events
Wendeen's experience in business, the legal profession, politics, government, and card rooms is intertwined in her humorous analysis of heart-wrenching and hair-raising vignettes; count on her to take responsibility for her own trials and for offering laudatory explanations of others' triumphs.
Wendeen's purview for negotiations is informed by her role as CEO of an international executive search firm for lawyers, her training as a certified professional coach, many thousands of deals based on the collaboration of parties, and her diverse experience in government and public affairs. As the first woman to cash in the main event of the World Series of Poker, and the first woman to do so twice, she has yet more reasons to understand negotiating prowess and know from whence she speaks!
Wendeen seamlessly links principles of poker to the art and science of all negotiations, while cautioning her audiences on the dangers of falling in love with “power poker plays” in negotiations beyond the felt!
Wendeen's interactive seminars and motivational speaking engagements demonstrate effective interviewing techniques, the wisdom gained from varied experience and principles of power poker that promote negotiating excellence.
Wendeen's writing assignments include penetrating profiles, deep investigations into business practices, and the successes and slips of negotiators of every conceivable stripe.