Nick Friedman Omar Soliman Speech Sizzle Reel Visionary Entrepreneurship Synapse at Amalie Arena
Nick Friedman
- Grew College HUNKS from a college business to over 250 franchises and $300 million in annual sales
- 2018 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner and co-author of best-selling business book, Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions
- TV personality appearing twice on the Oprah Winfrey Show, on the very first episode of ABC’s Shark Tank, Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker, and CBS's Undercover Boss
- Shares his expertise on franchising, branding, principles for success, and creating a purpose-driven, customer-centric organization
- 2023 Entrepreneurs of the Year by International Franchise Association
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Nick Friedman is co-founder & visionary of College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving, the largest and fastest-growing junk removal and local moving franchise opportunity in North America. Friedman started the business in college with his childhood best friend Omar Soliman in a beat-up cargo van, and it has grown to more than 250 franchises and $300 Million annual sales. He was named among the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30” by INC Magazine and was on the same list as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell in a Newsweek article entitled “College Kid to Millionaire.” Friedman is a three-time Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist, and he won the prestigious award in 2018. In 2023, he and College H.U.N.K.S. co-founder Omar Soliman were named Entrepreneurs of the Year by Tampa Bay Business & Wealth. He has been featured in numerous business books and textbooks, as well as Forbes, Fortune, and many other notable publications. Friedman’s company has appeared every year in the INC. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies and has appeared twice on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Friedman is also a TV personality, having appeared as a guest on shows, including the first episode of ABC’s Shark Tank, Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker, CNBC’s BlueCollar Millionaires, and CBS’s Undercover Boss. He also produced and acted in the biopic Bezos: The Beginning. Additionally, Nick is a Board Member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). As an author, Nick co-wrote a bestselling book entitled Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions.
Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Friedman chronicles his personal leadership journey from van to franchise empire, while also motivating and advising audiences to do the same in their respective roles or organizations. Through lessons-learned from his monumental business growth, he discusses what it means to create a purpose-driven, customer-centric organization, while also sharing his secrets to success: patience, persistence, and standing out in a crowded landscape. Building his company around visionary leadership, Friedman showcases how to craft a world-class organization by developing an entrepreneurial culture of performance-focused, values-based teams.
Becoming & Building Better Leaders. Great leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. If you can't develop great leaders in your organization, you become a bottleneck to the explosive growth potential of your company. In this speech, Nick reveals that it all starts with becoming a Level-5 leader yourself, leading your team with humility and vision. Groups will learn how to get to the next level of leadership and improve their communication to, in turn, build better leaders. He discusses how they have perfected this process at their multimillion dollar national franchise, using College Hunk’s success to showcase the effectiveness of their leadership system. Sharing lessons-learned, Nick provides actionable takeaways for other organizations get to this next level of success as well.
Find Your Why: Creating Purpose and Values in your Organization. Without a WHY, your business is a ship without a sail, floating in the wind. From an organizational level to an individual level, purpose and values build loyalty, longevity, create a community, and are necessary to achieve your long-term vision. And they’re good for impacting your bank account, too! But how do you go about discovering your purpose? In this speech, audiences will learn how the turning point for College Hunks Hauling Junk's success was when it defined its own purpose: to “Move the World.” Nick shares a framework for discovering one’s own purpose and values, as well as how to ingrain them into any organization or personal path to success.
Leading a Diverse & Multigenerational Workforce. College Hunks Hauling Junk is one of the largest employers and franchisors in the country and has even been featured on MTV's hit show, Job's That Don't Suck and CBS's Undercover Boss. In this talk, Nick will discuss how to better understand and communicate with all the different generations represented within your team and unlock their potential – maximizing their talent, work ethic, and creativity in the workforce. He’ll share tried-and-true strategies to leverage the talents of diverse generations, while removing uncertainty and frustration, and enhancing the traits that lead to sustained high performance and productivity.
Breakthrough Branding & Publicity. College Hunks Hauling Junk has appeared on more reality TV shows than the Kardashians, has been featured in every major media publication including two appearances on Oprah, and has become a household brand in a crowded industry. How did they do it? In this talk, Nick will reveal the three simple steps to generating more brand awareness and media exposure, as well as how to leverage it for business growth. When it comes to becoming a top-of-mind brand, audiences will learn from an entrepreneur who has mastered the art.
Generating Loyalty with WOW Service. In the old days, a happy customer told one person and an unhappy customer told 10. Today, with social media, an unhappy customer has the ability to tell thousands. Now, more than ever, the client experience is the most important key to business growth and sustainability. It's easy to create one-off instances of WOW service in your company, but how can you make every customer's experience just as incredible? College Hunks Hauling Junk founder and president Nick Friedman shares how they have leveraged the customer service experience to exponentially grow their business, receiving world-class reviews that have compared their moving services to a "Disney-like" experience.
Audiences will learn:
- How to hire and train a customer-focused team
- The best service-recovery process for unhappy customers (it's not what you think)
- How to systemize each customer touch point to ensure every customer has a unique WOW experience.
- How to manage, protect, and leverage your online reputation
Recipe for Success = Capacity + Motivation + Information – Interference. According to one of Nick Friedman’s mentors, “You’re never going to be a success unless you admit to yourself that you already are.” And although we are successful, we must always have the ambition and desire to improve upon it. In this talk, Friedman provides audiences with the proven success formula he’s built at College Hunks Hauling Junk – Capacity + Motivation + Information – breaking down how to leverage each of these elements for greater performance and results. He also discusses the missing ingredient, interference, and how eliminating the things that get in our way is the key to achieving higher levels of results.
From Van to Franchise: A Hunk’s Entrepreneurial Journey. Over a decade ago, Nick Freidman was just twenty-two when he co-founded the junk removal company College Hunks Hauling Junk with childhood friend Omar Soliman. In this talk, the he tells the story of how they transformed a college summer gig (hauling junk with his Omar’s mom’s van) into a multimillion-dollar, national franchise with more than 250 locations. Committed to helping more people become entrepreneurs, he provides lessons-learned from being president during College Hunks’ monumental business growth and shares an actionable framework for how groups can launch and grow a successful company through patience, persistence, and consistency.
From Van to Franchise: A Hunk’s Entrepreneurial Journey. Over a decade ago, Nick Freidman was just twenty-two when he co-founded the junk removal company College Hunks Hauling Junk with childhood friend Omar Soliman. In this talk, the he tells the story of how they transformed a college summer gig (hauling junk with his Omar’s mom’s van) into a multimillion-dollar, national franchise with more than 250 locations. Committed to helping more people become entrepreneurs, he provides lessons-learned from being president during College Hunks’ monumental business growth and shares an actionable framework for how groups can launch and grow a successful company through patience, persistence, and consistency.
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