CCL Speakers Bureau

The CCL Speakers Bureau brings top-notch leadership experts directly to you. Combining our latest research with extensive leadership training experience, CCL speakers help prepare you and your organization for success with dynamic and practical perspectives on today's most compelling leadership issues.

Current topics of interest:

Keys to Successful Mentoring

Presented by: Clemson Turregano

Mentoring is a fundamental leadership skill. Good mentors are good leaders because they practice the value of understanding others. Using an interactive, case study based approach this 90-minute presentation and discussion will provide participants with an understanding of the importance of mentoring and the keys to developing successful mentoring relationships.

Participants will:

• Discuss the 7 keys to effective mentoring.
• Uncover their mentoring strengths and challenges.
• Outline a successful mentoring process.

Employee Engagement: The Competitive Advantage

Presented by: Bill Adams

Engaged employees are vital to an organization's long-term success. But how do you cultivate an engaged workforce? This entertaining and thought-provoking presentation examines three major trends facing businesses today and the steps management must take in order to foster their competitive advantage. The speaker presents five essential skills for effective leadership and the "other" executive competencies that lead to employee engagement. Backed up by business research, this is a presentation that is sure to get your management team thinking about changing their leadership in order to change the culture of your organization.

Participants will:

• Analyze three major trends that threaten businesses today.
• Understand the case for employee engagement.
• Identify five essential skills for effective leadership.
• Identify the emotional intelligence competencies behind good leadership.
• Apply the steps you must take in order to cultivate employee engagement.

Retiring the Generation Gap

Presented by: Jennifer Deal

How different are the generations, really? Everybody knows that the "generation gap" between younger and older people causes stress and frustration at work. Are the differences people complain about just a big misunderstanding, or are they real? And most important, how can you use similarities and differences among the generations to be more effective in your organization?  Based on seven years of research on more than 3,000 leaders, Retiring the Generation Gap reveals the truth about generational conflicts at work—and what you can do about them. Applying these principles will help everyone to work with, work for, attract, manage, retain, and develop leaders of all generations.

Participants will:

• Understand the impact of demographics in the workplace.
• Understand how the current economic condition will impact generations at work.
• Be able to distinguish between real generational differences and stereotypes.
• Be able to work more effectively with people of different generations.
• Learn what to focus on to alleviate generational conflict.

Leading Individuals through Change

Presented by: Harold Scharlatt

The current view of change is the same across many organizations: employees see it as inevitable and constant. And not surprisingly, it's often resisted. In order to be successful, organizations and their leaders must learn to embrace, understand and navigate change.

Participants will:

• Learn to identify potential reactions to change
• Examine the underlying causes for resistant behavior
• Identify ways to lessen (or avoid) negative responses to change
• Learn to productively manage negative reactions if they do occur
• Apply a "formula" for successful organizational change

Resiliency and Adaptability: Keys to Weathering the Storm

Presented by: Joan Gurvis

Now more than ever, sharpening your organization's competitive edge matters. It's what sets you apart in the downturn and positions you for success in the upturn. Developing individual and organizational resiliency and an adaptable mindset are essential to ensuring success. This presentation focuses on understanding the connection between resiliency, adaptability and leader effectiveness.

Participants will:

• Learn why adaptability and resiliency are critically important for leaders
• Identify obstacles that may inhibit their effectiveness
• Gain a greater understanding of the cognitive, emotional, and dispositional flexibility required to be successful
• Learn to develop their own adaptability and to foster it in others - leading to greater individual and organizational effectiveness

Preventing Career Derailment

Presented by: Craig Chappelow

For more than two decades, the Center for Creative Leadership has studied executive derailment across North America and Europe. By comparing successful managers to those who derail, CCL has identified five specific factors that increase a leader's odds for derailment. This presentation will introduce participants to CCL's findings and help leaders who are willing to do an honest assessment of their skills keep their careers on track.

Participants will:

• Learn about the five derailment factors and CCL's research
• Assess their risk for derailment
• Start a plan for preventing derailment in their own career
• Understand how to assist others for whom they have responsibility

The Future of Leadership

Presented by: Katherine Pappa

The terrain of leadership is changing at an unprecedented pace for leaders around the world. What are the forces behind this change? Using popular global trends and current CCL research, this presentation examines the challenges and needs of today's organizations.

Participants will:

• Learn about four trends changing the needs of leadership and leadership development
• Learn how organizations are responding to this new map of leadership
• Explore developmental approaches that will be necessary for the development of tomorrow's leaders

Mental Management: Keys to Peak Performance

Presented by: Bill Adams

By applying the mental models used by elite athletes, leaders can positively and purposefully enhance their performance. This presentation offers a variety of cognitive and behavioral techniques that can be used to cultivate confidence, mental toughness and resilience.

Participants will:

• Learn about "flow" states
• Examine and understand the self-fulfilling prophecy
• Develop a mental filter
• Learn to control self-talk
• Develop and use empowering affirmations

Boundary Spanning Leadership

Presented by: Chris Ernst

Today's contemporary leadership challenges cut across cultural, functional, ideological, organizational and national boundaries, and they require collaborative solutions. Leaders traditionally focus on managing and protecting their boundaries, but in this era of global interconnection, the exact opposite response is required. Leaders must have the ability to bring competing or divided groups together to solve shared problems.

Participants will:

• Examine the critical future trend of boundary spanning leadership
• Map organizational boundaries within their organization or community
• Learn how to apply boundary spanning tools and tactics in the workplace

NOTE: In many cases, the learning objectives of this presentation can be tailored to meet your specific needs or areas of interest. For example:

• Crossing cultures (globalization)
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Leading in a world of difference
• Geographically dispersed teams

The Art of Empowerment

Presented by: Harold Scharlatt

Empowerment begins with trust. The "trust variable" determines the degree to which you can and should empower others. When trust is high, you might feel comfortable delegating, with little need for involvement in day-to-day tasks. Conversely, when trust is low, you may hesitate to put responsibility in the hands of others and attempt to do more of the work yourself. It's important to understand where you fall on this continuum, and if it's where you ought to be.

Participants will:

• Examine the link between trust and empowerment
• Determine when (and to what extent) to empower others
• Learn techniques for clear communication of roles and responsibilities
• Inspire commitment and foster ongoing motivation among staff

Positive Group Dynamics: The Key to Effective Teams

Presented by: Harold Scharlatt

Interpersonal needs and preferences have a direct effect on our behavior and, in turn, our behavior can enhance or detract from our ability to work successfully with others. Through the use of a behavioral assessment, this presentation provides participants with information about their own needs and preferences - equipping them with knowledge that will strengthen their interpersonal, team member and leadership capabilities.

Participants will:

• Complete an assessment of their interpersonal needs
• Learn how their interpersonal needs can affect others
• Relate interpersonal needs to leadership and teamwork behaviors

Critical Steps for Successful 360-degree Feedback Programs

Presented by: Craig Chappelow

Over the past 20 years, the growth of 360-degree assessment within organizations has been explosive. When used correctly, these feedback tools can be a valuable source of self-awareness for managers and executives and help employees set a path for their own development. Yet with this rapid growth have come stories of nearly disastrous results. This presentation will focus on the key reasons that 360-degree initiatives fail and what organizations can to do greatly improve the odds for a successful implementation.

Participants will:

• Learn about the five most common reasons why 360-degree feedback initiatives fail
• Learn about the four decisions organizations must make before deploying a 360
• Understand what they can do to increase the odds of a successful implementation
• Find out about best practices from case examples of a variety of organizations
• Learn to spot warning signs that your 360 vendor may not suit your needs

If you are looking for a topic not listed here, please contact us to learn more about our capabilities.

Pricing for keynotes, presentations, workshops and other events starts at $5,000.

To schedule a speaker or learn more about our capabilities, please contact:

Stephen Martin
Global Public Relations Manager
+1 336 286 4038