Dr. John Izzo

Taking responsibility means stepping up and seeing yourself as the agent of change, whether it is changing your company or changing the world.

Dr. John Izzo shows how “stepping up” creates positive change while improving satisfaction at work and in life. Dr. Izzo’s simple concept, called “100/0” (100% responsibility/zero excuses) can transform a company when we decide to put aside our excuses and take initiative to create change.

Filled with inspiring examples of how people have stepped up to make things better, audiences will leave knowing that the more each of us takes personal accountability the better the workplace, the better our life and the better the world.

This session can be focused on all levels to foster greater ownership or focused for leaders where he also helps leaders discover how to foster a climate of ownership and accountability.

Dr. Izzo shares the following examples from companies he has worked with:
- How a small group of employees got together and transformed service and morale at a large hospital
- How a leader took a dying business unit within a large Telco and got employees to step up creating a “cash cow” for her company
- How a new VP helped drivers take responsibility for the profitability of their individual routes taking his division from worst to first
- How three women with no business experience helped thousands of women get out of poverty in Africa

We all know the future is more uncertain, and that change will be more rapid. Major trends shaping tomorrow include a more diverse high-expectation workforce, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, faster disruptive cycles and converging international crises. While it’s helpful for a futurist to tell us what may be coming, it’s more important for leaders and organizations to be Future Proof– to learn how to anticipate future scenarios themselves and act NOW to be ready when change arrives.

Your audience will discover major trends shaping the future of work, understand why we often miss what’s coming next, hear compelling stories of those who missed what was coming and those who prepared and thrived. You will learn the power of using foresight to identify future possible scenarios, discover why low plausibility outcomes are often the most disruptive and discover the Power of Back Casting to learn how to make changes today ahead of changes coming tomorrow.

Your audience will:

- Discover some of the major trends shaping the future of business & work.
- Understand why we often miss what’s coming next.
- Hear compelling stories of those who missed what was coming and suffered the consequences and those who prepared and thrived.
- Learn the power of using foresight to identify future possible scenarios.
- Discover why low plausibility outcomes are often the most disruptive.
- Gain skill at spotting trends, looking ahead and back casting to plan for what may be ahead.
- Discover the Power of Backcasting to learn how to make changes today ahead of changes coming tomorrow.
- Learn how to think with the future in mind from your customer base and industry to larger trends.
- Discover how Global Leaders prepare for scenarios and how we can put that into practice.

If you really want your people to be engaged and bring their best to work then you need to make sure they have a deep sense of purpose. Research shows that people who see the purpose of their work are more productive, work longer hours and are more engaged. We also know that when people feel

inspired by the purpose of your company or organization they are more deeply committed, more willing to change, and serve customers more powerfully.

Dr. John Izzo first introduced the idea of higher purpose at work in his book, Awakening Corporate Soul, and has been showing leaders for over 20 years how to create a workplace where people are connected to the highest purpose of their work.

In this engaging keynote, John not only shows why purpose is so critical but provides audiences proven methods to drive purpose and the “why” with their teams.

Your leaders at all levels will see:
- WHY purpose matters
- How to drive the WHY on a daily basis in your organization
- Daily and weekly practices that create a culture of purpose that leads to high productivity and great service

This inspiring talk shows what happens when individuals decide to be “agents of change” in both work and society. Pushing beyond limits requires each one of us to step up and be even stronger agents of change in our workplaces, communities and personal lives. Based on his bestselling book, Stepping Up—How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything, Dr. Izzo will challenge each one of to see ourselves as people of influence. Through engaging stories of individuals and groups that created change in business and society, he will help us understand why some people push the limits of their influence and how we can grow ours. He will also show the power of personal responsibility in our personal lives and careers.

Your audience will:
- Hear unique inspiring stories of people who stepped up to create change
- Discover the secrets of people who have great influence and how to become one of those people
- See how personal responsibility can change our personal lives, our relationships and the world

Dr. John Izzo has spent a lifetime researching what separates truly happy, high-engagement teams and leaders from the rest of the pack. Organizations with happy employees perform better, make fewer critical mistakes, make better decisions, are significantly more resilient, and are more successful.

What’s more, happiness is one of the prime life goals for almost all people globally. Yet, few people know anything about the emerging science of happiness that shows how simple habits can raise the sustainable level of happiness we experience.

In this keynote, John shares how to:
- Discover the research-based habits of happy people
- Learn simple daily, weekly, and monthly habits that lead to sustainable increases in happiness and resiliency
- Learn about the Five Core Happiness Habits
- Discover how to help coach others and teams towards sustainable happiness and resiliency
- Understand team practices that enhance happiness and resiliency
- Be inspired to move towards greater happiness
-Achieve higher levels of performance

John has a great track record of getting leaders to become engagement champions. He’ll leave the audience with a leadership checklist that shows leaders the most important things to do every day to drive happiness and performance.

Diverse teams where people experience inclusion have been shown to create higher performance and innovation. Empathy and the ability to customize how we lead to the individuals who work with us are critical skills for leaders to drive engagement. Research shows leaders who demonstrate empathy and inclusion grow innovation, retain talent and lead more highly engaged teams.

Leaders must create a climate where each person can showcase their unique attributes in a way that brings out their personal best. This inspiring keynote or workshop will help inspire your audience to commit to diversity while giving them practical steps to become more inclusive, empathic leaders.

Participants will understand how to create more inclusion and value the diversity of backgrounds, cultures and experiences, while exploring the negative impacts that exclusion brings to the workplace. Specific skills for demonstrating empathy and increasing team inclusion will be introduced and developed.

John will show you how to:
- Help leaders see that diversity with inclusion is the key to high performance – building a place where each team member is themself and where the team benefits from a range of lived experiences
- Inspire leaders to make inclusion a key focus of their leadership
- Explore how gearing leadership to individual team members’ values and preferences leads to higher performance
- Understand intersectionality – how each person is the confluence of multiple rivers that make them who they are. Our goal is to understand their experiences and appreciate all factors of their identity
- Learn how to demonstrate greater levels of empathy and build trusting relationships while leading diverse teams every day
- Understand the role of unconscious bias in leading inclusive teams and how we can overcome our privilege and bias
- Learn what it means to be an ally for those who feel marginalized
- Gain skill at getting to know team members: their purpose, their lived experience, their engagement language, and how they want to be included

Organizations and teams with high levels of employee engagement are significantly more profitable, have much higher customer loyalty, higher productivity, and a better reputation with customers than those with moderate engagement. In fact, the average HIGHLY engaged team member can be up to 40% more
productive than a disengaged performer. But what are the secrets to highly engaged teams and highly engaging leaders? Why do some leaders consistently create highly engaged associates?

In this interactive session, John shares the four keys to creating high
engagement teams and shows why some leaders are consistently able to get high levels of commitment from people. John gives your attendees practices for how leaders can immediately drive engagement for better results.

John will show you how to:
- Learn the five secrets of engaging leaders
- Gain practical, simple to implement tips for becoming a more engaging people
leader RIGHT AWAY
- Find out why some leaders are routinely more admired (and how to become one of them)
- Apply these principles and choose areas for personal improvement
- Learn how to check in every day to be a more engaging people leader

Would you like your people to consistently embrace change and create ongoing
innovation? Almost every organization today is experiencing unprecedented change and also needing to drive innovation and transformation to stay successful.

Dr. John Izzo has spent an entire career helping leaders and organizations not only embrace change but inspiring them for transformational change.

Your audience will discover proven methods for getting others to embrace change. John explains the neuroscience behind change and how to use that knowledge to help others embrace change. The audience will discover the keys to personal resilience and learn how to create a climate for innovation and understand the true source of change resistance and how to overcome it in yourself and your organization.

The new economy is going to be driven by an emerging group of people all over the world who want their employment, investing and buying to shape a better world while meeting their self oriented needs. This book shows how a new driver of choice is happening worldwide whereby consumers, employees and investors are using purpose and community as a major driver of their commitments.

This new driver is present worldwide and cuts across almost all demographic barriers including age, developing/developing world, politics, religious affiliation and income level. Those companies who understand and respond to this Aspirational person will create game changing competitive advantage. Rather than thinking of this person as a consumer, employee or investor we need to begin to realize this is the same person and we need to attract them on all three fronts at once. This new person wants to shop, loves brands, is often active on social media and loves to share stories.

They want to consume but want “consumption without conflict” where they feel they are helping society, planet and themselves. Winning this new rising class of people who want good for self, good for people and good for planet alongside a sense of community/tribe is a spot of true differentiation. These people want doing well and doing good to sit side by side as they live their lives. They simply want it all and if you can give it you will succeed.

Your audience will:
- Understand this rising class and how different they are from every class of buyers, investors and employees that have come before them
- Discover the drivers of their choices
Learn practical ways to grow your market share, brand loyalty and engagement of this new group
- Hear eye popping examples of how companies like yours are already winning these people worldwide and find out how you can do the same
- Discover how to use your own power as an Conflict Free Consumer to change the future
- Customize to your industry and focus