Overview
Keynote talks
Small groups and mentoring
Online learning
Books
Overview
Keynote talks
Small groups and mentoring
Online learning
Books
 

Overview

Strong professional relationships underpin most of the challenges facing individuals and businesses today. Whatever you are trying to achieve, in most cases other people can help you. But knowing the right people and having deep enough relationships with them can be the difference between success and failure.

Individuals, teams and organisations can develop strong professional relationships for lead generation, to break down internal silos, stimulate innovation, gain promotion, influence key decision makers, recruit and retain top staff, and develop future leaders.

In short, Andy Lopata will help you develop a professional relationships strategy that generates tangible benefits for your needs.

His insights can be delivered in whichever way suits you. To find out more, please select the appropriate tab.

Keynote talks

You can book Andy to deliver a keynote talk that helps people develop their networking strategy.

Although he varies the content every time, according to your audience, here are some of his most popular talk titles, to give you an idea of how he can help:

  • Just One Reason – The Power of Professional Relationships
  • Connected Leadership
  • Just Ask – How Vulnerability Can be your Biggest Strength

Small groups

Whether working with a small group on an ongoing basis, or through individual one-to-one sessions, Andy will guide and mentor participants to devise their own tailored professional relationships strategy that will really get results.

Andy specialises in working with leaders and aspiring leaders to explore how their professional relationships impact on their responsibilities, role and career development.

With time, project, staffing, budgetary and other pressures all lining up for executives’ attention, little room is left for developing the professional relationships that underpin both career and business success. The lack of focus on relationships leaves a lack of support, intelligence, profile and advocacy that help to ease those pressures.

In a rapidly changing business environment, with technological and political shifts having a huge impact on a range of industries worldwide, strong and diverse professional relationships are more important than ever before. Look at most of the challenges facing leaders today, from managing change, driving growth, leading diverse teams and more, and you will see strong professional relationships underpinning successful resolution.

But where do you start and how can you focus your activity in the most effective way possible?

Areas explored can include:

  • Personal profile within your industry or organisation
  • How you use social media sites to the best effect
  • Encouraging strong relationship development across your team and with external stakeholders
  • How to influence key decision makers in your organisation, across your industry and in client teams
  • How to you manage and nurture existing relationships when you are busy?

 

Andy’s Mentoring and Masterminding Programme includes a mix of mentoring with Andy together with masterminding with other executives and entrepreneurs across different sectors through retreats and dinners.

Online learning

Andy’s online programme Introduction to Networking comprises 11 modules to help you implement a networking strategy that guarantees a return on your investment.

Modules include:

1. An Introduction to Networking
2. Who is in Your Network?
3. Building Relationships
4. Networking to Become Better Known
5. Networking to Become Better Equipped
6. How Can Your Network Support You?
7. Networking to Become Better Equipped
8. Conferences, Networking Events and Online Support
9. Networking to Become Better Connected
10. Finding the Right Networks for You
11. Your Personal Networking Plan

Books

Learn more about professional relationships strategy when you read Andy’s books (or order them for your people, as an optional add-on to any other service).

His fourth book, Connected Leadership goes into the details of developing an effective referrals strategy and has been highly rated on Amazon and Goodreads.


CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

    After meeting Andy at our EMEA conference in May 2022, we started a working group with senior professionals from Latin America to implement his Relationship Matrix.

    We have been working together and putting Andy's experience and expert advice into practice over the last few months to improve our networking.

    In doing so, our small group have either identified or been introduced to 50 connections who can help them achieve their objectives and created 16 supporters or advocates who will proactively support them.

    Andy has been coaching and mentoring me over the past 12 months helping me to develop professional relationships and often beyond.

    He is very experienced and is excellent at communicating his ideas in a way that I understood and was able to implement.

    Through his encouragement and great advice, I have been able to advance and develop many of my existing relationships and as a result I have a much greater confidence in my own abilities as an advisor through their affirming feedback and increased referrals.

    I have also felt more empowered to reach out to and engage with new people and develop new relationships.

    We organised a workshop with Andy for our business unit on how to leverage professional relationships. Andy delivered a highly engaging and first-class workshop for the cross-functional team which has led to a more strategic approach to building relationships both internally and externally. Andy provides excellent content and practical advice for all. Within my team, I have seen a change in mindset particularly with regard to accessing difficult-to-see customers as a result of his methods :)

    Juan Garza - Expense Reduction Analysts

    Dan Mindel - Cardano Advisory

    Mark James - Sobi

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