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.
Pricing for keynote presentations starts at $10,000. Nonprofit clients may be eligible for a discount.
- Boundary Spanning Leadership
- Critical Steps for Successful 360-degree Feedback Programs
- Employee Engagement: The Competitive Advantage
- Leading Individuals through Change
- Keys to Successful Mentoring
- Mental Management: Keys to Peak Performance
- Positive Group Dynamics: The Key to Effective Teams
- Preventing Career Derailment
- Retiring the Generation Gap
- The Art of Empowerment
Boundary Spanning Leadership
Catalyze collaboration, drive innovation, transform organizations—Boundary Spanning Leadership can turn today's limiting borders into tomorrow's limitless frontiers.
Boundaries exist. What really matters is how leaders collaborate to bridge these divides and transform wide-ranging talents and knowledge to deliver value. Drawing upon landmark, global research on the importance of spanning boundaries, this presentation will guide your organization in developing new insights and skills to think and act beyond current boundaries to achieve inspiring results.
As a participant, you will:
- Diagnose the five types of boundaries that limit personal and organizational effectiveness.
- Learn to apply the six key boundary spanning practices.
- Leverage tools to transfer your learning back to your organization.
View an excerpt from the Boundary Spanning Leadership presentation.
Critical Steps for Successful 360-degree Feedback Programs
Over the past 20 years, the use of 360-degree assessments within organizations has exploded. When used correctly, these feedback tools are a valuable source of self-awareness for managers and executives, and they help employees set a clearer path for development. Yet with this growing usage has come stories of nearly disastrous results.
This presentation focuses on the key reasons why 360-degree initiatives fail and what organizations can do to greatly improve the odds of a successful implementation.
As a participant, you will:
- Discover the five most common reasons why 360-degree feedback initiatives fail.
- Explore the four decisions organizations must make before deploying a 360 initiative.
- Learn to spot warning signs that your 360 vendor may not suit your needs.
Employee Engagement: The Competitive Advantage
Engaged employees are vital to an organization's long-term success. But how do you cultivate an engaged workforce?
This presentation examines three major trends facing businesses today and the steps management must take to foster competitive advantage.
As a participant, you will:
- Understand the case for employee engagement.
- Identify five essential skills for effective leadership.
- Gain insight into the emotional intelligence competencies necessary for good leadership.
Leading Individuals through Change
The current view of change is the same across many organizations: employees see it as inevitable and constant. And not surprisingly, as explored in CCL's guidebook, Responses to Change: Helping People Manage Transition, people often resist it.
In this presentation, you will gain insight to help your organization successfully embrace, understand and navigate change.
As a participant, you will:
- Identify potential reactions to change and examine the underlying causes for resistant behavior.
- Learn to lessen (or avoid) negative responses to change and productively manage negative reactions if they do occur.
- Leverage the "formula" for successful organizational change.
Keys to Successful Mentoring
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 presentation will give you an understanding of the importance of mentoring and the keys to developing successful mentoring relationships.
As a participant, you will:
- Discuss the seven keys to effective mentoring.
- Uncover your mentoring strengths and challenges.
- Outline a successful mentoring process.
Mental Management: Keys to Peak Performance
By applying the mental models used by elite athletes, leaders can positively and purposefully enhance performance.
This presentation offers a variety of cognitive and behavioral techniques that you can use to cultivate confidence, mental toughness and resilience.
As a participant, you will:
- Learn about "flow" states.
- Develop a mental filter and learn to control self-talk.
- Explore the impact of empowering affirmations.
Positive Group Dynamics: The Key to Effective Teams
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 behavioral assessment, this presentation arms you with information about your needs and preferences — equipping you with knowledge to strengthen your interpersonal, team member and leadership capabilities.
As a participant, you will:
- Complete an assessment of your interpersonal needs.
- Learn how your interpersonal needs can affect others.
- Relate interpersonal needs to leadership and teamwork behaviors.
Preventing Career Derailment
For more than two decades, CCL has studied executive derailment across the globe. 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 you to CCL's findings outlined in the guidebook, Preventing Derailment: What to Do Before It's Too Late, and give you insight on how to keep your career on track.
As a participant, you will:
- Learn about the five derailment factors and CCL's research.
- Assess your risk for derailment and start a plan to prevent derailment during your career.
- Understand how to assist your staff to help keep their careers on tracks, too.
Retiring the Generation Gap
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 importantly, how can you use similarities and differences among the generations to be more effective in your organization?
Drawing upon seven years of research showcased in the book, Retiring the Generation Gap, this presentation reveals the truth about generational conflicts at work — and what you can do about them to work with, work for, attract, manage, retain, and develop leaders of all generations.
As a participant, you will:
- Understand the impact of demographics in the workplace.
- Learn to distinguish between real generational differences and stereotypes.
- Gain insight into how to work more effectively with people of different generations.
CCL's Jennifer Deal discusses the Generation Gap with BigThink.com.
The Art of Empowerment
Empowerment begins with trust. The "trust variable" determines the degree to which you can and should empower others. When trust is high, you 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, attempting to do more of the work yourself.
This presentation will help you understand where you fall on this continuum and where you ought to be.
As a participant, you will:
- Examine the link between trust and empowerment.
- Learn techniques for clear communication of roles and responsibilities.
- Inspire commitment and foster ongoing motivation among staff.
