About
Leonie McKeon is a business speaker for hire in Adelaide, SA.
Leonie McKeon teaches the 36 Strategies, the set of tactics drawn from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and she has built a career on making them usable in an ordinary business day. Negotiation is one of the least taught skills in Western business, and most people avoid it or go into it anxious. That's the gap her work fills. Audiences come away with a framework for thinking strategically at the table, holding their own on price and terms while keeping the relationship intact afterwards. She's an author, keynote speaker, workshop presenter and business consultant based in Adelaide, working online and in person. Keynotes usually run thirty to forty minutes; the negotiation workshops come in half day and full day formats, tailored to the group, capped at twelve online or twenty in the room.
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The show
Leonie teaches the 36 Strategies, drawn from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and the point is to walk out able to hold your own at a negotiating table instead of dreading it. You learn how to move people through a negotiation and get a decent deal without wrecking the relationship on the way. It applies to the small negotiations as much as the big ones, which is the part most people don't expect. She's a lively presenter, so it doesn't feel like a lecture on ancient military theory.
On the day
A lapel microphone, a video screen and a projector. That's it, and all three are standard in most conference rooms. Worth confirming the projector connection with your venue ahead of time so there's no scrambling at the start.
Performance options
Keynotes run around thirty to forty minutes and work online or in person. The negotiation skills workshops come as half day or full day sessions, tailored to who's in the room rather than delivered off the shelf, and numbers are kept sensible: up to twelve online, up to twenty face to face. There's business consulting as well, shaped around what the individual organisation is dealing with.