Ron is an engaging, dynamic speaker with a wide range of subject matter expertise. With his easygoing, highly-interactive style, Ron shares his unique insight, educating and energizing his audience. His presentations are custom-tailored for each audience or event—they are never canned or pre-packaged. Ron has spoken at conferences, seminars and workshops across the country. Contact him for a list of references and reviews.
Benefits of hiring Ron as a speaker:
- Ron offers distinctive professional expertise and perspective. He is not just a speaker but a lifelong entrepreneur with an exceptional track record of overcoming obstacles and achieving success
- He provides practical, relevant, timely information and strategies that lead to measurable, real-world results
- Ron is a captivating speaker who engages his audience in the presentation
- His diverse experiences across a wide range of industries enable him to relate to any audience—from front line employees to senior management and executives
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Government grants and incentives
Having won more than $200 million in competitive grants and funding during his professional grant writing career, Ron is one of the top producers in the industry. Ron is also an engaging, informative speaker who has inspired and educated audiences across the United States. Through his workshops and keynote presentations, he shows his audience how to transform their grant writing for maximum effectiveness. Few people can match his track record of success. In competitive funding programs his proposals continually receive the highest scores and the highest dollar awards. In his presentations, Ron draws on his work as a professional grant reviewer for state and federal funding agencies, sharing his “insiders’ knowledge” about where most grant writers miss the mark and the key factors that set winning grant proposals apart from the ones that don’t get funded. Consider this:
- He has won more than $20 million in funding in the highly competitive Carolyn M. White Physical Education Program (PEP), writing six (6) winning proposals (only 72 were awarded nationally)
- Wrote a $7.7 million winning grant to support public safety telecommunications
- Secured a $9.3 million award for a start-up tech company to commercialize a new technology
- Landed a $1 million USDA grant to support a biomass demonstration project for a start-up
- Has won single grant awards for Tribal projects in excess of $3 million
- For two consecutive years, wrote the only Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Community Connect grants awarded to tribal governments in 2011 and 2012 (awards of $1.1 million and $1.3 million)
Government grants- and incentives-focused keynote presentations and workshops:
General government grants presentation for fund raising professionals
In his business-focused grants Keynote Presentation and Workshops, Ron separates truth from fiction and teaches his audience everything they need to know to seek out and apply for business grant opportunities.
- Topics covered and audience takeaways: Through this engaging, informative session, participants learn the five keys to writing a successful grant proposal that stands out from the competition and gets funded. Ron also discusses his work as a professional grants reviewer, presenting an overview of the critical errors most grant writers make when preparing grant proposals, along with suggestions about how to avoid them. He also provides tips and suggestions for using search tools to uncover state and federal grant opportunities.
Government grants for businesses
As one of the most successful grant writers in the field, Ron Flavin has won more than $138 million in grant funding for his clients. Working with the smallest start-ups to large, multi-national corporations he has secured single grant awards in excess of $9 million to commercialize a new technology. In his business-focused grants Keynote Presentation and Workshops, Ron separates truth from fiction and teaches entrepreneurs the basics of uncovering and applying for local, state and federal government grants for businesses.
- Topics covered and audience takeaways: Through this engaging, informative session, participants learn the five keys to writing a successful grant proposal that stands out from the competition and gets funded. Ron also discusses his work as a professional grants reviewer, presenting an overview of the critical errors most grant writers make when preparing grant proposals, along with suggestions about how to avoid them. He also provides tips and suggestions for using search tools to uncover state and federal grant opportunities.
General government grants presentation for tribes
Ron has helped tribes across the United States to obtain millions of dollars in government grants to support construction, infrastructure, law enforcement, public safety, distance learning, cultural, job training and telecommunications projects. Through his ongoing work as a professional grant reviewer, he has an in-depth knowledge of what makes a winning grant proposal. In these highly focused Keynote Presentations and Workshops, Ron provides participants with actionable strategies to dramatically improve their grant writing success.
- Topics covered and audience takeaways: Through this engaging, informative session, participants learn the five keys to writing a successful grant proposal that stands out from the competition and gets funded. Ron also discusses his work as a professional grants reviewer, presenting an overview of the critical errors most grant writers make when preparing grant proposals, along with suggestions about how to avoid them. He also provides tips and suggestions for using search tools to uncover state and federal grant opportunities.
Government grants and incentives for renewable energy projects
Ron has won millions of dollars in grant awards to enable his business clients to research, develop and commercialize innovative renewable energy technologies. He has won single energy-focused grant awards of more than $9 million. He has been working in the renewable energy sector for nearly a decade and is a regular Expert Source for Journalists writing about the topic of renewable energy-related finance, government grants and incentives These keynote presentations and workshops provide energy sector professionals with essential knowledge about the government grants landscape as it relates to funding for renewable energy projects.
- Topics covered and audience takeaways: Through this engaging, informative session, participants learn the five keys to writing a successful grant proposal that stands out from the competition and gets funded. Ron also discusses his work as a professional grants reviewer, presenting an overview of the critical errors most grant writers make when preparing grant proposals, along with suggestions about how to avoid them. He also provides tips and suggestions for using search tools to uncover state and federal grant opportunities.
Small business start-up and management
Overview: A career entrepreneur, Ron Flavin is a creative, start-up and growth strategist, dedicated to helping fellow entrepreneurs to develop and execute plans to sustainably launch and grow businesses around the world. Having started his first business at the age of 21, Ron knows what it takes to start, operate and grow a thriving business. And through his years of working in the trenches, he knows first-hand the mistakes that many entrepreneurs make and more important, how to move through them and achieve sustainable success.
Small business strategy and growth
Ron has engineered the launch and growth of successful small businesses around the globe, which enables him to not just talk about theory but to share real-world tips and strategies from his own experiences as a successful entrepreneur. Examples of topics include:
- How he and his business partner took a concept from idea to multi-million dollar company with major customers such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens and more in just 12 months
- How he was able to help a small health and beauty care manufacturer go from less than $100,000 in annual sales to knocking a billion-dollar global competitor off the shelves at Kroger
- How to plan, engineer and executive a successful new product launch in any market
- His tried and true formula for small business success
