ABOUT US

Mission Statement

To empower individuals with the life-changing ability to speak with superior clarity, confidence, and persuasion.

Featuring the leading-edge training and coaching program Speak Up! Stand Out! Compete When You Speak™, Live Information Presentation Systems (LIPS) helps position working men and women to transform their lives with a comprehensive system for achieving success through advanced spoken communications.

Developed over the past decade by a working professional speaker with international experience and unquestionable success, LIPS methods and systems train individuals to exercise the power of the spoken word so that they can win the job interview, close the sale, or deliver world-class presentations that improve bottom line results. In a time of limited attention spans and highly competitive job markets in the global marketplace, LIPS is getting people noticed, helping them be better understood, and changing their lives -- across industries, across cultures, across markets, and across oceans.

Originally founded in 1998, LIPS is made up of a team of dedicated communications professionals who understand the potential and power of the spoken word. LIPS provides corporate speaking services, live marketing, and spoken communications and public speaking training, coaching, and multimedia support to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and thousands of working men and women across four continents. At LIPS, we know how to maximize results in every public speaking opportunity, turning those opportunities into live marketing initiatives that offer substantially increased benefits to the speaker, the intended audience, and the bottom line.

Focusing on clarity, impact, persuasion, and differentiation, LIPS trains people and companies to communicate their messages faster and more effectively to more people in order to return greater value and opportunity. LIPS leverages the convergence of information and entertainment with proven techniques that accelerate the transfer of knowledge, increase content retention, and improve sales. It is a holistic and innovative approach that focuses equally on the development of appropriate content, technique, skill, and the most effective method of delivery.

LIPS programs work because they are the product of real-world marketplace experience. At LIPS, we split time between applying our trade as professional speakers and teaching it to others. From boardrooms to showrooms to schoolrooms to conference rooms everywhere from small markets like Boise, Idaho, to international business centers like Shanghai, Miami, London, Washington, D.C., Paris, Singapore, Toronto, Dallas, Beijing, San Francisco, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Sydney, and New York’s Wall Street, we know from personal hands-on experience what works. This granular knowledge and ongoing marketplace experience gives the team at LIPS a real-world perspective that is unrivaled in the field of spoken communications training.

Derek Johnston, Founder, Lead Trainer, and Coach

For more than fifteen years, Derek Johnston has been an international leader in spoken communications. His clean, impactful delivery, extensive global market knowledge, and proven effectiveness keep him in high demand as a corporate speaker, trainer, motivational speaker, live marketing strategist, and coach.

He has lived and worked in more than 15 countries, including the United States, England, China, Canada, Australia, and Singapore. Satisfied clients include Deutsche Bank, Aberdeen Asset Management, Samsung, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, International Data Corporation (IDC), NEC, LG, Acer, Iomega, Epson, GNC, StarHub, SingTel, Heineken International, Michelin, Ford, General Motors, and Lexus.

Derek travels the world developing and implementing innovative and proprietary live marketing, sales, and training solutions that enhance competitiveness and increase speaker confidence and company revenues. His methods have educated, motivated, and empowered thousands of men and women around the world to speak and present themselves, their ideas, and their products and solutions with greater impact, effectiveness, and confidence than they ever thought possible.

Derek’s methods, embodied in his training system, Speak Up! Stand Out! Compete When You Speak, have given more than 100,000 professionals in highly competitive industries such as finance, commercial real estate, oil and gas, education, automotive, IT, and biomedical the ability to speak their way to greater success. In addition to his live marketing, multimedia production, and training expertise, Derek also provides leadership in marketing strategy, knowledge management, cost optimization, sales, and disciplined process management to organizations in both the public and private sectors.

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