Meet Bernadette McClelland
Empowering Teams to Turn Uncertainty into Results with Courage, Conviction, and Choice
Bernadette Speaks on:
DELIBERATE DISRUPTION: Because Bouncing Back Doesn’t Cut It and Resilience Isn’t Enough
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Message: Helping you and your team shift from hesitation and uncertainty to intentional and decisive action.
AUDIENCE: CEOs | Leaders | Sales Teams | Associations | Franchises
Bernadette's Story
Born in New Zealand, citizen of Australia, and now resident of the USA, Bernadette McClelland’s journey is one of resilience, reinvention, and impact. Overcoming bankruptcy and being bedridden for a year, she turned adversity into a global platform for transformation, helping leaders and teams navigate their own version of disruption with courage and conviction.
A dynamic keynote speaker and executive coach, Bernadette empowers leaders, sales teams and organizations to turn potential challenges into breakthrough outcomes. She’s recognized by the US Government as being in the top 1% of global sales leaders, has been a Tony Robbins breakout speaker at his ‘Unleash the Power Within’ event setting a record for company sales as well as coaching his Elite and Platinum clients for Asia Pacific.
She is the author of six books, including ‘SHIFT and DISRUPT: Stop Selling Widgets. Start Selling Wisdom’ and ‘The Art of Commercial Conversations’, two having been endorsed by Brian Tracy. Her insights on Deliberate Disruption integrate neuroscience, leadership evolution, and real-world experience, equipping audiences with strategies to transform complexity into clarity and challenges into growth.
Bernadette mentors Harvard MBA students, mentors the incarcerated inside the walls of Colorado’s maximum-security prisons, and also mentors Australian and New Zealand businesses expanding into the USA. She’s been named a Top LinkedIn Voice, voted one of the 50 Top Keynote Speakers by Top Sales World and has been invited to speak at sales and leadership conferences in 12 countries on 4 continents.
In her personal life, she is happily married to her husband Tim, is the proud mother of two and grandmother to three little girls. Having personally experienced being on welfare a decade ago, her Deliberate Disruption framework equips leaders with actionable strategies to turn uncertainty into opportunity, leveraging courage, conviction, and choice.
Jeb Blount,
Managing Partner, Outbound Conference
For the past 3 years we have asked Bernadette to speak at Outbound because her ideas are fresh, have depth and our audience always walk away energized and ready to take action. We LOVE working with Bernadette because she is enthusiastic, kind, makes everything easy and is incredibly flexible and this is exactly why she is one of my favorite speakers and why I highly recommend Bernadette.
Tony Robbins
Peak Performance Coach, RRI International
Bernadette McClelland …You’re a superstar!
Nuno Rodrigues Poço
President, AA-ISP Portugal, American Association of Inside Sales Professionals
I won’t talk about Bernadette’s great speaking skills. Those are obvious. I’ll choose to talk about how she made such an impact in me, that even 10 days past her speech I still reflect on it daily.
If you’re looking for a public speaker, they’re a dime a dozen. Bernadette’s key difference is that she REALLY cares and goes the extra mile to deliver content and advice that makes a difference.
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