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Gregory Offner is a multi-talented individual passionate about entertaining and educating others.

His keynotes, workshops, and corporate consulting engagements help the world’s leading organizations create high-performing, highly fulfilled leaders. Before this work, Gregory Offner led global sales and marketing efforts for several Fortune 100 organizations, brokered complex Risk Management and Insurance programs for large commercial organizations, and drove process improvement initiatives as a certified Lean Six Sigma practitioner. But during that time, Greg lived a double life.

By day, he was a suit and tie-wearing professional, but under the cover of night, Gregory Offner was better known as “Junior” – a world-renowned professional dueling pianist. As an entertainer, Greg has performed on stages of every size, for audiences of every size, on five continents. His ability to integrate that fun and energy into his programming (yes, he often uses a piano on stage) transforms his program from a keynote speech into a keynote experience.  Greg’s work as a keynote speaker, coach, and workshop facilitator fills a void that most organizations leave in their training programming: soft skill development. Greg has always been passionate about soft skills, analyzing the onboarding, training, and development programs of 43 companies before the age of 30.  He was fascinated by the performance differences between organizations prioritizing soft skill training and those focusing primarily on hard, job-specific skill development. 

 Most recently, Gregory Offner spent over two months in total silence as a result of multiple surgeries to repair and rebuild his vocal cords… This experience nearly left him mute and ignited the critical spark needed to transform his work from a “personal curiosity” to a “professional mission”—to help individuals and organizations identify the one change that can change everything. 

Through a mix of speaking, audience participation, and a little dueling piano bar magic, Gregory Offner reveals the insights and tools you need to accelerate your growth, amplify creativity, and deliver a performance that leaves your audience (clients, stakeholders, or employees) cheering for an encore. His TED Talk has inspired many.

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The Encore Experience

Reconnecting to Purpose, Performing with Passion, and Delivering More, Together!

When was the last time you went to a concert so good, you found yourself cheering “one more song” at the end? THAT is an Encore experience. Why doesn’t this exist in the workplace?

Imagine a workplace where:
- Your people take personal responsibility for their performance each day
- Work feels fun again
- Positive results accelerate
- Your culture is so good, everyone wants to work there
- Your people are the center of the action. Creating an encore experience with your teams builds a culture that has them excited about coming back every day.

Gregory Offner sets a new standard for how content is brought to the keynote stage, delivering a lively, one-of-a-kind and extremely fun performance; blending the interactive format of a dueling piano stage with high-impact takeaways to help people reimagine their amazing potential and impact in the workplace.

The Encore Experience gets the attendees to own the spotlight in the session, just as you’d want them to in the workplace.

Gregory takes song requests from the audience and weaves their musical ideas into his messaging—backed by scientific data–to help amplify the changes you’re looking to create.

The magic of this experience is that everyone realizes how different an hour of work can feel when you embrace this mindset.

Are YOU ready for an encore?

Tip Jar Culture

FOR LEADERS, OWNERS, AND ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING TO IMPROVE WORKFORCE RETENTION & INCREASE ENGAGEMENT

Today’s leaders face a critical workforce challenge, with employees demanding more for less—more pay, flexibility, and control, with less time spent working. This coincides with historically low engagement and loyalty, affecting not just productivity and profits, but also workplace culture and morale.

Globally, businesses spend 20 billion dollars each year trying to improve employee engagement and retention. Still, less than 30 percent of the workforce is actively engaged and working toward the organizations success. What most leaders see as problems with workforce culture, or the workers themselves, are just symptoms of the real problem: the employment experience.

In this unforgettable keynote former dueling pianist turned award winning speaker Gregory Offner reveals three principles of engaging experiences—used in piano bars—and demonstrates the steps to adapt them for your workforce.

Using these three principles (Take a Sip, Fill Out a Slip, and Leave a Tip) organizations can generate more engagement, deeper commitment, and better performance from their existing workforce. Attendees will leave inspired, entertained, and equipped to put these principles into action, and create a Tip Jar Culture™️ of their own.

Takeaways:
- A framework to create a sustainable engagement strategy that appeals to broad and diverse employee groups.
- Three tools to implement simple, but effective, shifts in the experience of work that eliminate the three major frustrations causing employees to leave.
- Insight into the question that most leaders don’t ask, but all employees wish they would.

Dueling With Disruption

AMPLIFY SUCCESS BY SIMPLIFYING THE SCIENCE OF CHANGE

You may know that 70% of corporate change initiatives fail, but do you know why?

To create sound we only need two elements: a source of agitation and a source of vibration. To create an organizational culture that thrives in and embraces disruption we also need two elements. In this captivating keynote, Greg uses examples from the world of business and music to reveal the key to creating successful disruptions.

Using principles of psychology and behavioural economics, Greg helps the audience explore their own approaches to change, and explains why most attempts to make sustaining changes fall flat.

Takeaways:
- Discover how to ignite the change resilience that lies within, and simplify dealing with disruption.
- Learn the two critical ingredients needed to create and sustain disruption.
- Articulate the definition of disruption, and how it applies to organizational and individual change.

Testimonials

Gregory's presentation is like if Billy Joel and Simon Sinek co-wrote a keynote.
– Audience member
We had Gregory keynote for our Trustees conference, and he gave us a presentation like we’ve never had before. It was fun, but offered a functional message for our attendees. He clearly did his homework, and everyone has told me how much they enjoyed his session. I think you would too!
– Earl Rogers, Executive Director, SHRM: Better Workplaces, Better World
I can take the discussion about people and culture back to work next week and apply the lessons he taught. Gregory delivered a session that was engaging, interesting, and fun. I think the whole audience was into what he had to say, and they’re lessons we can apply every single day.
– Don Avery, CEO, Fairview Park Hospital
We’ve done lots of corporate events, and brought in lots of speakers. I love how everything Gregory does is tangible, and useful for businesses.
– Jeff Stiles, VP of Sales, Sage Surfaces
I’ve had several members approach me and say this is the best keynote they’ve ever seen. We couldn’t have been more impressed. I’m grateful for Gregory’s partnership, professionalism, and would recommend him highly to anyone looking for a keynote speaker.
– Bobby Cornwell, Executive Director, Camp Florida
When the whole world turned virtual, I turned to Gregory. He was able to successfully uplift and close out our first ever virtual annual conference. What a relief to work with a true partner who would help cover the ever-ending list of details for this new platform. He and his team went above and beyond to help pull off an inspiring, virtual keynote program for our members.
– Michelle Smith, Sr. Director of Meetings, Urmia

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