Biography

Michel Neray, MBA, B.Sc, Certified NLP Practitioner

What makes you different as a person is what makes you better…
in your business, your career and your life.

Michel Neray combines a science degree of University of Waterloo, an MBA from McGill University, and a career as a creative marketing copywriter, advertising agency director and marketing executive. A visionary and entrepreneurial game-changer, in 1995 he founded Portfolios Online, the world’s first Internet search engine for advertising and creative professionals.

As a consultant and facilitator, Michel helps his clients discover, communicate and focus on their greatest value and true competitive advantage — for massive increases in sales, leadership effectiveness and happiness! It’s what he calls your ‘Essential Message’.

As a motivational speaker, Michel empowers his audiences to dig deeper than the usual marketing messages to access a well of meaning and purpose that drive sales as much as they drive productivity, engagement, resilience and cooperation/collaboration. If you believe feedback forms, people love his humor, stories and energy. Since 2008, Michel has held a variety of leadership positions in the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, and has spoken professionally in more than seven countries around the world.

Michel co-authored The Great Crossover, which made it to Jack Canfield’s Achiever’s Recommended Reading List. In 2005, his chapter, “Everything Starts With A Conversation” was selected as the lead for the book, Sales Gurus Speak Out. He’s married with three children, two dogs, three snowboards, a whitewater canoe and a black belt in Karate.

Michel Neray, MBA, B.Sc, Certified NLP Practitioner

Michel Neray combines a science degree of University of Waterloo, an MBA from McGill University, and a career as a creative marketing copywriter, advertising agency director and marketing executive. A visionary and entrepreneurial game-changer, in 1995 he founded Portfolios Online, the world’s first Internet search engine for advertising and creative professionals.
Clients report quantifiable results including 60% year over year sales increases, doubling or tripling marketing response rates and winning significantly larger contracts than ever in the firm’s history. The results, however, extend beyond traditional measures of higher sales, market penetration and greater brand equity; the work that Michel does also increases the confidence and motivation that only come from being consciously aware of your strengths and purpose – both as a company as well as an individual.

As a motivational speaker, Michel empowers his audiences to dig deeper than the usual marketing messages to access a well of meaning and purpose that drive sales as much as they drive productivity, engagement, resilience and cooperation/collaboration. Since 2008, Michel has held a variety of leadership positions in the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, and has spoken professionally in more than seven countries around the world.

Michel has worked with major corporations including Honda, Volvo, Upjohn, Alias-Wavefront, Nikon, The Royal Bank, The Quaker Oats Company, Marathon Brokerage, Guardian Mutual Funds, Mackenzie Financial and many, many others — big and small.

Michel co-authored The Great Crossover: Personal Confidence in the Age of the Microchip, which made it to Jack Canfield’s Achiever’s Recommended Reading List. In 2005, his chapter, “Everything Starts With A Conversation” was selected as the lead for the book, Sales Gurus Speak Out and re-published in 2008 for Awakening The Workplace Volume 3.

Since 2008. Michel has held a variety of leadership positions in the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, and has spoken professionally in more than seven countries around the world.

He’s married with three children, two dogs, three snowboards, a whitewater canoe and a third-degree black belt in Karate.

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A visionary and entrepreneurial game-changer, Michel Neray founded Portfolios Online, the world’s first online directory of advertising and creative professionals… in 1995!

Today, Michel helps his clients discover, communicate and focus on their greatest value and true competitive advantage — for massive increases in sales, leadership effectiveness and, yes, happiness! It’s what he calls their ‘Essential Message’.

Do you know what your Essential Message is?