Mel Robbins

I have been doing what I do for over 20 years - almost 8 with HFMA - and in that time I have never worked with a speaker as engaged as Mel. Her commitment and investment in making ours a successful event is unprecedented. I look forward to working with her on the rest of our program.

Hiring speakers for 35 years, sometimes I think I've heard it all. I knew our attendees would benefit greatly from you, and you were even better than I already anticipated. What impressed me most is that I heard you speak two years ago, I've watched all your videos, and everything you shared in this presentation was new. You have the gift, grace, and tenacity to share your ever evolving wisdom.

As General Manager, Sales|Marketing for Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ JKHY), I have the honor of leading the search efforts for our annual sales meeting kickoff keynote speaker. Just recently, before a crowd of nearly 500 of my colleagues, we experienced a powerful, impactful, eye-opening keynote to launch our new sales year. Mel Robbins delivered an uplifting message, driven by her 5 second rule theme. She did so with vibrant energy, struck the proper balance and tone, worked the audience and personally connected with our organization. We found her content insightful and motivating, and her genuine, self confident communication style pulled the group towards her. I sincerely appreciate the contributions that Mel made to ensure that this 40th annual sales meeting proved to be so successful.

Mel's what they would call a five-tool player in baseball. She's teaching while being provocative and that's not an easy thing to do. What she adds to the mix at CNN, which is very important, she gives you all of those things we're looking for, but also gives you some palette of humanity. Because it's not just about the facts, it's about the feel. And Mel has that in a unique way. What lawyers often miss is the feeling that you have about a situation when you don't understand how the process works. Mel gets when things aren't OK and she gets the difference between someone having the right to do something and something being right to do. She gets that from the perspective of prosecutions, she gets that from the perspective of victimization. She just gets it.

It was so great meeting you and getting to work with you on our Corporate Leadership Group Summit. Your high energy presentation really brought our theme of leadership in action to life. Along with valuable insight, you provided attendees with realistic takeaways. In fact, survey results indicated that this year's summit was one of the best yet, and your presentation, specifically, was hailed as a fantastic way to pull the two days of the summit together. On behalf of everyone at Lincoln Financial, I'd like to express my sincere appreciation to you for your participation and for helping to make the summit a success, and look forward to seeing you at the Women's Leadership Summit in a few weeks.

We can't thank you enough for presenting at our National Conference in Dallas, Texas. Your presentation and personal engagement with our Stylists have made a lasting and significant impact on our entire sales force. Our Stylists walked away feeling empowered, encouraged and eager to build their business, cultivate their leadership skills and dive deep with their own personal development. You have truly inspired our company to reach for new heights - thank you.

Mel's uniqueness and value is that she's real. She's authentic in what she does. She provides analysis that's down to earth and she's not afraid to say what she's thinking. She attacks the elephant in the room at all times. Everybody else would want to say it and Mel just gets out there and 'boom.' Then she can get very technical and specific legally. She's going to address what needs to be addressed and she'll have done her research. If you're thinking about it, she's going to say it. And that has great value because you know what you're getting at all times—a no holds barred thing. At the same time, she does it with enough of a level of diplomacy such that she's right on. I can see people in their living rooms yelling, 'Yeah!' at the TV. Mel is a tightrope walk, but nobody walks the tightrope better. Because she's going to give you the perspective that people are thinking about, she's absolutely not going to run away from the controversy in the issue she's talking about, but she's going to add just enough flavor of diplomacy to what she says to get her point out in a very straightforward way that's no-nonsense, but not offensive. It's like, damn man, how's she's doing this?

Our audience is still raving about Mel and she scored the highest rating out of all of our presenters. The 5 second rule certainly resonated and I saw this mentioned in our survey comments as well as referenced in several meetings since the event. I was also personally impressed with Mel's presentation and she exceeded my expectations.