Mike Hourigan

"Captivating from the first words he spoke. Mike entertained, informed, and engaged our multi aged audience on a topic of real importance, millennials in management. His presentation was rich in reality, strong in information, and accepted easily with his humor. Every level of business attending the seminar from large international corporations to small mom and pop businesses was impressed by Mike. He is a "must have" speaker."

Our company and our associates will earn more money as a result of the time you spent with us! Thank you for your fantastic keynote presentation! Our team thoroughly enjoyed your humorous, energetic and practical presentations. Even some our seasoned professionals found great value in attending our event,with the takeaways of your, inspiring and valuable tips.

Your presentation to this year's President's Cabinet was informative, timely, and addressed topics that our field associates and managers wanted to hear about to help them grow. You connected with each and every audience member.

Thank you for your stellar performance at our annual NAMA Coffee, Tea and Water show. Your programs really got the message across and your ability to get the audience engaged in the moment was fabulous! As your keynote sponsor, I want to thank you for your creativity in endorsing our company and our goals to all the attendees! It flowed, fit the moment, and coming from you, gave us instant credibility. I have already recommended your for the next year's NAMA program.

Mike Hourigan's program for our management team that was well received by all. The program themes were on point and as requested. His energetic message was easy to follow and comprehend. Mike provided insight and additional viewpoints we previously had not considered. He is highly recommended!

Thank you for speaking about Change Management at our Visit Charlotte Partners in Tourism event. The audience was immediately engaged by your powerful, passionate and persuasive speaking style. Your ability to relate to the audience, which was made up of individuals from a variety of different professional backgrounds, was impressive. It was obvious you took the time to understand our audience and tailor a message that resonated. You were funny and engaging, and I believe everyone took away something they could implement in both their personal and professional lives.

I have had the pleasure of working with Mike Hourigan on a number of occasions, supporting our ongoing Retailer Development initiatives for the Canadian Harley-Davidson® retail network. Mike's program, Recruit, Train and Retain, is an excellent managerial overview of dealing with your most important resource - your staff. Effectively learning how to identify, attract, hire, orient, develop, reward, motivate and cultivate your associate base is invaluable in running a successful business. Mike Hourigan provides an excellent forum in which to develop and practice these skill sets. I would recommend Mike to any organization looking to strengthen their selection and development processes.

I just attended Mike Hourigan's keynote speech "How to Use Your Silent Sales Force" at the Duro-Last National Sales Seminar. I have already started to implement some of Mike's powerful suggestions for maximizing my sales results. Mike had an entertaining and amusing way of getting his valuable points across to an audience of 1,200.

As former Training Director at Chase Manhattan Corporation and an HR consultant to numerous Fortune 50 companies I've worked with top training professionals nationwide. Mike stands out as one of the best facilitators and keynote speakers I've worked with. His ability to engage audiences using real world examples with creativity and humor is second to none. He adds valuable insights and solutions to every engagement he has been on. I can highly recommend him.

Mike Hourigan was our featured speaker at our 2016 annual convention. He addressed the subject of "Get What You Want through Negotiation". He did an excellent job of conveying this information to our audience. His material was current and applicable to a variety of our member businesses. Mixed in with some light humor, Mike gave our attendees many points with which to take back to their respective jobs. I would recommend Mike as a guest/featured speaker. He will make a meeting planner look great.

"Raycom Media brought Mike Hourigan in to speak with a diverse group; young and old, newbies and veterans in broadcasting. We knew it would be no easy task to find a speaker who would appeal to such a wide age range with such varied backgrounds. His goal was to educate the team about communication styles, and how best to interact with all types of people. As we work in the communications industry, this is crucial to our daily activities. From the variety of information provided by Mike's team prior to our engagement of his services, it was clear that his professional caliber matched our needs, but it wasn't until after we decided to move forward that we came to understand his dedication to making his presentation the best he possibly could. Mike took a morning to visit our offices and even sat with some of our team members to really understand what Raycom does and the unique challenges and opportunities we have to offer; so that these could be integrated into his speech. Not only was Mike's presentation well put together and overflowing with all the information we asked him to cram in, he was funny, engaging, and thoughtful. It was impressive to watch him both establish credibility and encourage our employees to relax and be entertained in the blink of an eye. The event attendees were alternately laughing, furiously taking notes, and engaged in deep conversation on Mike's topics. I could not imagine a speaker hitting all of the criteria of the presentation while keeping the crowd entertained in a better way. The feedback we received from employees was some of the most positive we've seen at these events, and we were encouraged by them to have him back as soon as possible. We may just have to take their advice on that."

Mike, your were were a meeting planners dream speaker. You asked appropriate questions to make your program applicable to our audience and you were accessible to me and our customers before and after your presentation. Thank you for your terrific presentation and handling your speaker responsibilities professionally and with great respect to the overall meeting planning.

Mr. Hourigan provided a key note speech I teamwork session for approximately twenty-five (25) of Continental's senior leadership team. The goal of the weekend was to bring these leaders together to build camaraderie and a common Continental vision as the company is undergoing growth and change. Mr. Hourigan's session was definitely the highlight of the weekend. He was very engaging, personable, and provided an interactive session that allowed us to leave the weekend and take back real-life concepts for implementation in our respective departments. Moreover, he was able to relate his session specifically to our company and the challenges we face in our industry every day. He clearly researched Continental Express and the transportation industry prior to joining us, and lead the session armed with practical knowledge and a good sense of humor.

I would encourage any company to enroll Mike if they're committed to continuous improvement and developing their people. Mike is very genuine and brings a lot of realism and practical thinking to his work. He really connected with our organization. I'm confident that those who apply his experience-based tips will improve their performance.

Mike commands the attention of his audience with both humor and relevant content. Clearly, Mike has attained mastery in his discipline and demonstrates this in the quality and choice of his material, the timing of presentation delivery and the way in which he engages the audience. All of this translates into one simple fact--Mike delivers lasting results!

Mike is an entertaining, energetic, and knowledgeable speaker. He works with you to make sure his presentation is on point and even interviews designated individuals to get all the subject matter facts beforehand. He has a tremendous amount of real-life business experiences that he weaves into his presentations that the audience can relate to and draw parallels to their own situation. He won't disappoint.

In just one morning, speaker Mike Hourigan packs as much punch as you'd get in a week-long seminar with other national speakers. Mike was engaging, disarming, instructive, stimulating, realistic, convincing, and humorous. The Chamber Business Summit was a big success because of Mike's content and delivery. The audience remained engaged the entire morning and wanted more when the summit concluded. That is a sign of a successful event.... guests staying after to talk with the speaker. Large business attendees from FedEx and The Boeing Company, as well as mom and pop enterprises, appreciated Mike's real-life delivery and factual information. He challenged all of us with his content. Mike's topic, Change: The New Hybrid Workplace (after Covid), was timely and pragmatic. His stories were simultaneously authentic and entertaining. He is accommodating, easy to work with and is worth every dime. Our chamber membership can't wait to have Mike as our speaker again. The audience will appreciate him for a third time.