Elliot Epstein
‘The Sales Speaker Other Speakers Recommend’
As CEO of Salient Communication, Elliot is one of Australia’s leading speakers on winning new business in competitive markets. In addition, he has coached and trained over 4000 people including CEOs, senior management and successful sales teams throughout Australasia and Asia including Hong Kong and Singapore.

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Testimonials for Elliot Epstein
“Elliot is one of those people who is truly able to bring deep experience to the stage. He has developed content and insights from a variety of experiential and theoretical sources and delivers them in his powerful, humorous and unique style. He is now a person I use regularly as a personal sounding board because he has an innate ability to hone in on the real issues which then focuses you on the solutions you may not have considered initially.”
Ron Gauci, CEO, Melbourne Storm (NRL)
‘Sceptics will become believers – Elliot Epstein actually delivers positive results’
David Smorgon OAM Generation Investments President, Western Bulldogs Football Club
‘Elliot is the master, when you really need a result.’
Lauren Burns OAM Olympic Gold Medallist Tae Kwon Do, Sydney 2000 Corporate Speaker
‘If you want to sell more intelligently now and in the future….book Elliot”
Morris Miselowski Business Futurist Keynote Speaker
Elliot Epstein inspired the audience regarding passionate and engaging storytelling. He presented the main reasons why we lose and why we win deals – he covered every single issue with a great story…excellent!
Tamara Schenk, VP Sales Enablement International, T-Systems
“I have not found anyone that can provide the quality of experience combined with such deep strategic and analytical skills. His style of delivery, humor and focus has always achieved great results. I highly recommend Elliot to any organisation looking to improve sales performance and results”
Sean O’Halloran CEO, Alcatel-Lucent, Australia/NZ
“Elliot was a keynote speaker at our international sales leadership conference, CSE2012. We were delighted with his presentation which was entertaining, straight to the point and informative. Elliot was proactive and very engaged with the audience, as indicated by feedback from the 150 executive sales leaders who were in attendance. He was rated as a top speaker over the two day period and this was with two renowned international speakers from the USA and one from Europe. We will be engaging Elliot to play a role at future events.”
The Centre of Sales Excellence, Australia.”
Fee Range: Up to $5000
Elliot Epstein's Biography
‘The Sales Speaker Other Speakers Recommend’
As CEO of Salient Communication, Elliot is one of Australia’s leading speakers on winning new business in competitive markets. In addition, he has coached and trained over 4000 people including CEOs, senior management and successful sales teams throughout Australasia and Asia including Hong Kong and Singapore.
Elliot is a specialist sales conference speaker for high profile corporates having spoken at over 900 conferences, workshops and break-out sessions for leading companies such as HP, Alcatel – Lucent, Commonwealth Bank, Hitachi, Computershare and SEEK. Elliot’s presentations are engaging, interactive and relevant to winning business in competitive markets.
Elliot is renowned for his humor, unique insights into selling in today’s changing globalised world and a no holds barred approach to tackling issues that affect sales people’s performance. In addition, he is an Advisory Board Member of Generation –e, one of Australia’s fastest growing IT companies (BRW Fast 100).
Elliot speaks engagingly and passionately on the key areas of persuasive communication that affect your bottom line.
Speaking Topics Include
‘Outdo, Outplay and Outcome’ – How to win, grow and retain clients by building an emotional connection to win more business and outplay the opposition every time
‘Confessions of a Pitch Consultant’ – Elliot shares 15 years of real stories having consulted on high stakes pitches in the ICT, Financial Services, Professional Services, Utilities and Manufacturing Industries to win the unwinnable deal.
Secrets of Masterful Persuasive Presentations – How you can be a powerful presenter and storyteller guaranteed to build unique connections with audiences in high stakes, high pressure situations e.g. major sales bid presentations corporate conferences, road shows and critical leadership communication.
‘Win-Win Negotiation is like the Tooth Fairy’ – Protect your margin – It’s about your real, bottom line outcome , not some dated, idealistic philosophy’

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