World Champion Boxer Gets Confidence Boost from Professional Speaker - Bernie De Souza

World champion boxer Ernie Shavers reckons he could have floored Mohammad Ali at Madison Square Garden if he had had the benefit of confidence training from professional speaker Bernie De Souza at the time of his famous title fight.

They were to meet many years later and have become sparring partners in a battle of words which has given the boxer confidence that he could only ever dream about, even in the boxing ring where he earned a name as a hard man to beat.

This sort of case is typical of the help that the noted speaker and motivational coach comes across since he became a professional speaker and set up a specialist consultancy aimed at individuals and businesses.

Bernie himself needed to boost his own confidence in the early days growing up without much prospects in a council house. But these humble beginnings spurred him on and he gained in stature after receiving excellent training in the RAF where he was a PT instructor. .

Here, he came across a multitude of aspiring sportsmen who went on to achieve Olympic greatness with confidence boosting from Bernie and his colleagues. They were determined to show that self discipline, strong will and determination works wonders – traits that helped Bernie build up a fortune later when he ran a massive sales empire.

Bernie was always a good sportsman himself and built up a following who watched his rise in cricket and football. Apart from working with the MCC in recent years he can often be found motivating and advising fellow sportsmen and women in this sport and many others at the highest levels.

It wasn't long before he found himself having to motivate and inspire huge groups of people – so many in fact that he regularly booked huge auditoriums seating thousands such as the famous NEC and NIA in Birmingham as well as London Docklands to cater for the people needing his confidence boosting and sales advice.

He regularly shared top billing with other people motivators such as Allan Pease, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Rugby ace Will Carling, billionaire businessman Robert Kiyosaki and BBC presenter and football personality Alan Hansen.

Naturally, Bernie listens carefully to what they have to say and is thrilled when they give him personal advice. Now, as a professional public speaker registered with the professional speakers association, he is sought after by audiences keen for him to tell his own secrets of success.

Today he speaks around the world and advises businesses and individuals seeking his special brand of motivational and sales magic, based on his personal experiences in top level sport, business and the military.

The fact that he added personal profiling to his skills has been an added boon for the speaker who is so good at people assessment that he can tell at a glance what type of person he is dealing with and how best to handle conversations and communications with them. He can even tell what they are like from the way they speak on the telephone. These are brilliant in the sales arena where he excels and is a noted and sought after speaker.