Tammy Levent

Tammy Levent: Keynote Speaker, Business Strategist, World Travel Expert, Best-Selling Author & over 150 TV segments as Traveler Extraordinaire on ABC and NBC!

Tammy Levent, Keynote Speaker and Business Consultant

When an armed robbery and a life-threatening car accident left her in an overwhelming amount of debt, she was able to go from a call-center travel agent to owning one of the most successful travel businesses in the world. When the economy began to sink further and further into recession in 2008, Tammy realized she knew how to work around this. In fact, whatever life threw at Tammy Levent, she was able to take it and turn it into something amazingly wonderful. She is a gifted entrepreneur who has the passion and drive to succeed in both life and business. Tammy has crazy and almost unbelievable stories to tell and real-life experiences to share that make her one of the industry’s top Keynote Speakers.

Tammy has experience building and expanding any business. As a keynote speaker, she’s conducted dozens of workshops and seminars on how to motivate employees, increase sales, generate leads, raise bottom lines, market and brand in today’s world, as well as how to strategically partner with large corporations, small businesses, entrepreneur associations.

With Tammy’s experience as a sales expert and business strategist, she specializes in building brands that can grow businesses from scratch. She shares this vast knowledge at every event she speaks at. She demonstrates that with the right mindset, anyone can achieve anything.

Due to her vast business experience, she can relate to any and all audiences and she delivers an engaging experience, unlike any other keynote speaker. Tammy offers a keynote with an actionable takeaway. She’s a rare gem in an often chaotic and difficult world of business. She will take you by the hand, and teach you her proven ways to success.

When she’s not reaching large audiences with her energetic and humorously motivating messages, she’s busy helping entrepreneurs and business owners start and grow their businesses as a private consultant. She uses her personal Rolodex along with one-on-one coaching to help others create new businesses and new brands that can reach potential multimillionaire clientele within a 6-month time frame.

She’s the Travel Agent’s Agent

Tammy is a travel agent’s agent. She created Elite Travel in the wake of 9/11, during the collapse of the airlines, in the face of natural disasters, the recession, and the onslaught of online booking engines. This is why she knows better than most how to create a successful business in an adverse climate. She understood that the travel industry was in need of help, and she forged ahead to restore dignity to the art of travel. She states, “To win our clients back, we need to change the way we think of travel agents and redefine the business.”

In 2013, she partnered with several top entrepreneurs, including Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank and As Seen on TV. The goal was to develop The Travel Agent’s Success Kit ™ or TASK, to help struggling travel agencies successfully adapt to this new age of travel. Today, travel agents across the globe have access to her informative videos, webinars, and books. She will even provide her own personal mentorship to help others learn the business strategies needed to make them more than travel agents, as her goal is to help them become travel entrepreneurs.

NBC’s Daytime Resident Traveler Extraordinaire

Tammy is now an NBC Daytime traveler extraordinaire. Daytime is an original lifestyle show aimed at providing informative and entertaining content for its viewers. Airing weekly every Wednesday at 10:00 am, Tammy now has the opportunity to share her passion for traveling around the world and speaking on all things travel related to over 30 million national households.

She enjoys sharing the limelight with other special guests and celebrities, as they assist in creating the travel segments that can help travelers fulfill their bucket lists. She happily informs her viewers of some of the most spectacular and unknown places to visit, as well as any accompanying special promotions and rates, found only through her new brand – Just Go Trav with Tammy Levent and its associates. Be sure to tune in to the Just Go Trav weekly segment on NBC’s Daytime for your opportunity to learn more on Tammy and her special, unique travel services offered worldwide.

A Bit More About Tammy

Tammy’s business building experience began at the age of 16 when she drove to New York and found a job working as a secretary for a wholesale appliance store. After one year of learning the business, she contacted the owner of the shipping company they worked with an idea to combine the two businesses into one full-service company. That’s how she became a founding partner of 7 Islands Shipping at the young age of 17, which went on to become a top US company well-known for export shipping to the Mediterranean in the ’80s and ‘90s. This was just the first of many Strategic Partnerships Tammy went on to create, supporting her lifelong philosophy of successful entrepreneurship.

When 7 Islands Shipping was sold, Tammy moved back to Florida with her husband and started a successful jewelry business. Her life was quickly changed though, when in 1994 two armed robbers stole more than 95% of their inventory, forcing the business to close. Tammy quickly took a job as a telemarketer selling timeshare packages and soon became the top salesperson in the company. One year later, she was training new employees on how to do sales calls.

When Tammy’s grandmother died and her two small children were in critical condition after being involved in a car accident, she resigned to care for them while they were in ICU. Who would’ve ever thought a nurse’s question would change the course of her future – “If it had nothing to do with money, what would you do?” one of the nurses asked Tammy one day. She replied, “I would travel the world. “With a family to feed, no assets, and a deficit of $180 thousand dollars, Tammy leveraged strategic partnerships to build Elite Travel, a travel management company.

Since opening in 1996, Elite Travel has gone on to win numerous awards and has become one of the fastest growing, most trusted travel agencies in the nation. The company specializes in corporate incentive travel, luxury travel, destination weddings, and honeymoons. As of today, she has done more than $75 million in travel-related business.

In August of 2013, Elite Travel’s commitment to extraordinary customer service was tested when 89-year-old Dodge Melkonian broke his hip on board a cruise ship in the Black Sea. No one spoke English at the Turkish hospital he and his wife were abandoned. When the Melkonians called their Elite Travel agent for help, they were immediately transported to a better-equipped hospital. A local tour guide acted as a translator and contacted the media and public officials from the Governor of Florida to Senator Bill Nelson to help the Melkonians receive the best possible care. An effort was also made to get their cruise bills paid due to their ineptness. Tammy considers this one of her greatest achievements.

It is a wonder why Tammy Levent’s the Author of a best-selling book?

Tammy’s personal journey of how Elite Travel came into existence is not only inspiring but really showcases how hard work and smart business decisions can lead to a very lucrative and successful life. Much more than a book of inspiration, Tammy Levent’s “Sink or Swim” shows us that all things are possible with conviction and determination. She demonstrates that with the right mindset, anyone can achieve anything. In her book, she shows us how she was able to break free from her past history and reinvent herself, and not just once, but numerous times!

Making it look effortless. Readers will see how Tammy took challenges that would break the average person and did not sink but stayed afloat. The autobiography shows Tammy’s innate sense of humor and lack of bitterness or remorse as she moves through what life has to offer her.

Tammy Levent is also a featured author in the best-selling book, Women Who Mean Business, where she joins a select group of high-powered women to tell her story and reveal her top techniques for creating a business and lifestyle around your passion. Drawing material from a rich background of experience and entrepreneurial spirit, Women Who Mean Business celebrates women entrepreneurs and the achievements that propelled them to where they are today. Through practical, real-world examples from her own life and business, Tammy Levent guides other women to find their courage, declare their goals, and use Strategic Partnerships to make those goals happen.

Tammy Levent’s writings have also been featured in Business Fundamentals 2013, Brides.com, AOL’s Aisle Dash, Peter Greenberg’s travel website, Agent to Agent / Travel Pulse, Panache Vue magazine, Pulse, What’s Hot Tampa Bay, Women’s Day National Magazine, Travel Market Report, TRO, Prestige magazine, and MarvellessMark, Business Observer, Travel Institute among other publications.

Accolades

Tammy Levent’s Achievements:

2019 TASK Prep Launches
2019 Executive Educator for Travel Entrepreneurs
2019 Dottie Berger MacKinnon Women of Influence Award
2019 Tammy attends award winning Bill Gove Speech Workshop
2018 Keynote Speaker at Power Solutions CCRA National Tour
2018 Just Go Trav National Travel Segment on NBC’s Daytime launched
2017 Winner Travvy Award – Most Innovative Travel Agent
2017 Travel Segment on ABC’s Morning Blend launched
2016 Winner Travel Weekly Magellan Award
2015 Travvy Award for the Most Innovative Travel Agent
2015 Travel Weekly Gold Magellan Awards Excelling in Innovation Elite Travel Overall
2015 Travel Weekly Silver Magellan Awards Not Just a Training Program TASK
2014 Travel Weekly Silver Magellan Award Aid to All Elite Travel Overall
2014 Saint Lucia’s Top Producing Travel Agents for the 2014 Piton Awards Program
2014 Mentor BizWomen Mentoring Monday
2013 to Present Member of The Travel Institute’s Professional Educators Program
2013 Debuting The TravelAgent’sSuccessKit™, partnering with Kevin Harrington and GoGo
2013 Featured in the ebook The Little Giant: Small Business is the New Big
2012 Author of the #1 National Best Selling book Women Who Mean Business
2012 Named Ambassador/Strategic Partner for Business Women Connect
2012 Winner of the Editors choice awards for Women Who Mean Business
2011 Featured in The Crave Book
Advisory board for the Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Alliance at the University of South Florida
2011 Inducted and honoree in the World’s Who’s Who
2010 Made it to a Million Award – National E Women Network
2011 Speaker & Sponsor, 1st Tampa Bay’s Women’s Conference
2011 Women Extraordinaire Award
NSA – National Speakers Association member
Member: CLIA, IATAN, Tahiti Tiare Certified agency, Certified Destination Wedding Specialists
Gourmet Inclusive Vacation Consultant for El Dorado Spa Resorts & Hotels as well as Azul Hotels by Karisma Elite Award Winner “Top 10 Selling Agency for El Dorado Royal”
Official Travel Sponsor, Tampa PWG show sponsors, Elite Events in Atlanta
Contributing Writer & Guest Expert: The Perfect Wedding Guide, Bride’s Magazine, Modern Bride, Florida Bride, For the Bride, The Robb Report, Conde Nast Traveler, Weddzilla.com, Tampa Style, Panache Vue, Pulse, Lady Angler, Travel Agent, PeterGreenberg.com, Orlando Style, Travel Weekly Spotlights, Tampa Bay Parenting, Applause, Choice Lifestyle
Platinum Preferred Agency Couples Resorts 14 years in a row
Master Agent with AM Resorts
Travel Impressions/American Express Vacations Global Award worldwide Best of the Best Agency 16 years straight
Best of the Best Sandals Agency
2005, 2006, 2007 Fast 50 top growing companies in Tampa Bay (Only business to win 3 years in a row)
2011 National Diversity Council -Finalist Glass Ceiling Award
2002, 2008 & 2012 Business Woman of the Year awards
2008 Finalist TBBJ Ultimate CEO of the Year
NBC Travel Show -Destination Wedding & Honeymoon Seminar presented by Tammy Levent
Featured on NBC’s Hollywood’s Extra!
2001 to present Top 25 Women Owned Business, in the Tampa Bay Business Journal Book of Lists

When you are looking for a speaker, you want one that will show you the best in culture, overall growth and who has succumbed to the greatest challenges to create changes that are worth hearing about. You want to hear from those who are running successful organizations, leading teams, called upon for their expertise and spending their careers at the top of their game. You want to hear why they did it, and how they did it. Tammy Levent is a top keynote speaker and one of the world’s highest authorities in her niche. When she speaks, she doesn’t just take the podium; she becomes one with the audience, engaging them with her humor, thoughts, and conversations. She’s an awesome presenter that shakes hands, takes selfies, make moments that become engraved in your memories, and most of all, changes lives.

Tammy is one of the most creative entrepreneurs in her industry. From her mere start-up position as a travel agent, she has grown her business to a multimillion-dollar status and is now an internationally known name within the travel industry. Her proven techniques and strategies have helped her cross over to numerous other mediums such as a keynote speaker, business consultant, best selling author, and she is currently NBC’s travel extraordinaire on their daytime weekly morning show. Her expertise has gotten her on Global News, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSN, NBC, HLN, Travel Weekly, Extra, Travel Agent Magazine, Fox News, US News, Bay News 9 and many more. She is a 3-time recipient of Business Journal’s Fast 50, Top 30 List of Women-Owned Businesses for 16 years in a row, winner of the Best of the Best American Express Global award for 6 years straight, and multiple Magellan and Travvy Awards for most Innovative Travel Agency.

Tammy’s stories aren’t all about success. When she speaks she shares all the lows she’s succumbed to in her life that show a humbleness and a reality that leaves the audience in awe. Her powerful story-telling and real-life examples set the stage for a connection that her audience can understand and relate to. Tammy’s one of those people who have something to share. From a rough childhood, to surviving a violent robbery that forced her business to close, and shortly after that losing her grandmother in a car accident that left Tammy’s two young children with severe injuries and mounting debt, she’s had to dig deep into her soul to find an inner strength to go on. You’ll want to hear her story. She’s written about it, she’s been televised on it, and now she’s available to tell it to you live. Hear how she not only survived but thrived. Tammy built a multimillion-dollar business from scratch with nothing but love for life, ambition and passion.

But she is not just here to motivate you with positivity. What sets her apart from other keynote speakers is that along with being inspired to create successful goals, you will be taught just how to do it. Every speaker will tell you the same thing: live your dreams, reach for the stars, and aim high! But few speakers will give you the applicable tools that enable you to create that business you want and make that dream a reality. Even fewer speakers will send you out the door with a strategic partner to help you get started. Tammy gives you the tools you need to succeed. This is a keynote with an actionable takeaway. She’s a rare gem in an often chaotic and difficult world of business. She will take you by the hand, and teach you herproven ways to success.

Tammy’s a high energy, one-of-a-kind presenter that will leave your group happier, smiling and motivated to live their lives to the fullest. She is so full of enthusiasm for success and life in general that everyone will leave feeling better than when they entered the room. She gives each group she meets with the practical steps needed for both leaders and team members to take their lives to new levels.

Every keynote speech is uniquely created to meet the needs and goals of the conference or business in which she is addressing, whether it’s to increase your sales numbers as an employer motivating their employees, train individuals to grow their businesses as entrepreneurs, offer workshops on start-up companies or an organization needing some true inspiration, the powerhouse entrepreneur and stellar saleswoman, Tammy Levent will develop innovative ways to increase or build revenues at every speaking venue.

Tammy specializes in:

Public Speaking
Keynote Speaking
Motivational Speaking
Women’s groups
Travel Industry Conferences

Some of her favorite topics to speak on are:

Closing the Sale and Keeping Your Clients
Lead Generation for Building your Business and Sustaining Clients for Years
Representing Your Company & Yourself Using Strategic Partnerships, Branding and Marketing
Doing Well by Doing Good: Building Your Brand with Your Community

With Tammy’s experience as a sales expert and business strategist, she specializes in building brands that can grow businesses from scratch. She shares this vast knowledge at every event she speaks at. Due to her vast business experience, she can relate to any and all audiences. She will meet, match and engage her viewers for an experience, unlike any other keynote speaker.

The best speakers are the ones who’ve struggled for every dollar they earned, and have almost drowned in the vast ocean of life before they learned to swim. The ones who hit rock bottom and lived to tell about it. Those are the ones you want to hear and learn from. They’re real. They’re impressive, and they’re where true inspiration begins.

Tammy Levent with original Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington

“It was wonderful to have Tammy Levent speak at our conference. Her story was intriguing, vivacious, but most importantly REAL. Everyone loved hearing how she created her multimillion dollar company and the steps she took in getting there. Not only did we hear an amazing story but learned that strategic partnerships are an important way to move your business forward. Tammy was very inspiring and I feel more inspired each time I hear her!” Hilal Ozkaya, Managing Partner & Event Management Specialist, Plan Ahead Events Central Tampa