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#1 Bestselling Author Adrian Gostick provides advice to some of the world’s largest organizations on managing change, driving innovation, and leading high-performance teams. 

Adrian Gostick is a global thought leader in the fields of corporate culture, leadership, and engagement. He is founder of the workplace assessment company FindMojo.com and author of the #1 New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and Anxiety at Work. Adrian Gostick’s award winning books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world. 

Adrian Gostick writes weekly on leadership strategy for Forbes, and his work has been called “fascinating,” by Fortune magazine and “creative and refreshing” by the New York Times. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, CNN, and CNBC, and is often quoted in The Economist, Financial Times, Newsweek, and Wall Street Journal. In 2021, Adrian was ranked as a top 10 Global Guru in Leadership and Organizational Culture. 

As an executive coach, Adrian Gostick is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s MG100 ‘Pay it Forward’ Coaching Cohort. His consulting clients include Danaher, Bank of America, Cisco, Rolls Royce, and Procter & Gamble. 

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All In: How the Best Leaders Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results

In this interactive and engaging session based on the New York Times bestselling business book All In—which includes research from more than 300,000 people in high-performance organizations—Gostick & Elton teach leaders how to Engage, Enable and Energize their workforces.


The presentation outlines how high-performance organizations deliver extraordinary results by creating a vibrant, productive culture where people believe that what they do matters and that they can make a difference. In this presentation, the authors relate stories of leaders in action that vividly depict just how these powerful methods can be implemented.


Key Learnings:

The 3 characteristics of the world’s most profitable, productive organizational and team cultures.

The 7 steps today’s most successful managers use to generate buy-in and belief.

How managers at any level can build a productive workgroup culture of their own–where employees commit to the culture and give that extra push of effort.

Build Resilience & Psychological Safety

50% of workers say anxiety negatively affects their performance.

75% say the most stressful part of their job is their immediate supervisor.

60% of organizations plan to address anxiety & well-being in the next three years.

Even before the pandemic, anxiety was crippling the performance of workers—especially young employees. Today it is affecting productivity and leading to ghosting and burnout.


In their bestselling book from Harper Business, Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done, and in their keynotes/workshops, Gostick & Elton offer 8 tactics for managers to help their employees build resilience.


They Teach Leaders:

How to spot the signs of employees hiding anxiety

Solutions to alleviate stress

Ways to help team members manage uncertainty

How to help people speak up when feeling overwhelmed

Ways to beat perfectionism and get things done

How to instill an ethic of inclusion and support

Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results

In his powerful keynote, the author introduces research that shows how a few vital leadership skills—when done right—can boost employee engagement and reduce turnover. He will also share the fascinating science behind why so many managers resist (aka: suck at) something so seemingly simple as gratitude.


Your Attendees will learn:

How gratitude helps managers understand the value their people are contributing—and what more their team members may have to give

How appreciation of employee efforts can enhance motivation & productivity, especially during times of change—81% of people say they’d work harder if their boss were more grateful

How leaders can master this skill to enhance team performance & trust—introducing the 8 most powerful gratitude practices

The Best Team Wins: 5 Disciplines of the Most Effective Team Leaders

Based on an 850,000-person study of the most profitable, innovative work teams, the authors introduce the new science of teamwork.


Most employees today work collaboratively, but 96% of executives cite poor teamwork as the primary source of workplace failures. Given the volatility and challenges they face today, how can managers better lead teams to improved performance?



Gostick & Elton’s research has shown a set of leadership disciplines that makes the biggest difference in building today’s best teams.


Key Learnings:

Manage to the One—Identify the unique drivers of each team member.

Speed to Productivity—Help new people and teams work faster & smarter.

Challenge Everything—Inspire innovation through healthy discord.

Find Focus—Build bridges across functions, cultures, and distance.

Testimonials

What an extremely engaging and motivating talk for our team and clients in Hong Kong! Most importantly, Adrian tailored the content perfectly to ensure it was relevant to our fast-paced and forever-changing needs.
– Sally WIlliams, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
An impactful, energizing presentation. Our surgeons were all extremely impressed with Adrian’s ability to weave his work with our organizational challenges and provide practical solutions. Absolutely flawless!
– Christopher Sonnenday, Surgical Director of Transplantation, Michigan Medicine
Messages that were right on target and resonated beautifully with all. His wonderful delivery of insightful lessons with great humor captured our minds and hearts. If Adrian had kept going, we’d still be with him.
– Tom Joyce, CEO, Danaher
Absolutely perfect and aligned to what we want—a high performance culture. Feedback from all attendees has been excellent! He left us all with practical tools to improve our leadership and company.
– Sheila Rider, SVP, Human Resources, Hudson's Bay Company

Booksby Adrian Gostick

Anxiety at Work

All In

Leading With Gratitude

The Best Team Wins

What Motivates Me

The Carrot Principle

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