Matt Rix is an acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, and professional-level communications coach. He specializes in leadership communications development, persuasive presentation skills, corporate-level networking, "Story-Selling" techniques, and showing his clients how to go "From Invisible to UNFORGETTABLE"™. Matt helps organizations build compelling corporate and organizational stories while creating motivational speakers and influential executive leaders using his unique process called The Art of the Story™. Simply put … Facts Tell, but STORIES SELL!™
Matt’s credentials make him without equal. His formal education includes a Bachelor of Science and post-graduate research in microbiology and biochemistry, as well as an MBA in Technology Management. His professional background includes 22 years spanning international strategic communications, sales-force training, and corporate leadership development … not to mention over 9 years as a professional entertainer and stand-up comedian. His client list includes Fortune 500 corporate executives, top sales and marketing personnel, media personalities, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and even Miss America, Miss USA, and Miss Universe pageant contestants. As he is fond of saying,
"The real tragedy is when people don’t have the training to speak well or the intelligence to remain silent.™”
Matt specializes in helping clients increase sales closure rates, enhance market identity, promote leadership development, and maximize networking opportunities while helping clients create professional-level presentation skills that are persuasive, influential, entertaining, and memorable.
"The best way to predict the future is to control it … and to control the future, you must become an influential communicator and motivational leader."
He is uniquely qualified to teach the art of creating and telling compelling, memorable stories because he combines successful careers in live-stage entertainment, international business, public speaking, and corporate-level communications. His leadership development paradigm is elegant yet simple:
“Your Success Depends On Creating UNFORGETTABLE First Impressions!™”
As an internationally recognized speaker and dynamic professional presentation coach, Matt’s audiences laugh and learn while becoming active participants of his presentations and workshops. His eye-opening, life changing message is filled with humor, motivational stories, and extraordinary personal content. Matt is an experienced platform personality with over 1500 motivational presentations for events worldwide, and is in demand as “The Sage of Signature Stories”.
In summary, Matt is an educational and entertaining platform entrepreneur who teaches the art of persuasive, unforgettable corporate and leadership style story-telling through his “MATTRIXX Signature Story Formula™”, his “10 Commandments for Professional Presentations™”, and his “MATTRIXX Conversation Bridge™”. Matt’s concepts are compelling, emotionally stimulating, and undeniable … as is his tag-line:
“It’s Not What You Know That Counts, It’s How You SAY IT! ™”
I specialize in persuasive sales presentations, corporate-level networking, leadership development, and influential communication skills – quite simply, I help clients go from Invisible to UNFORGETTABLE.
Persuasive communication skills will increase your sales closure rates, develop stronger market identity, maximize your networking opportunities, and allow you to create presentations that are influential, educational, and unforgettable.
"If you can’t Tell IT, you can’t SELL IT!"