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Joseph Grenny

Joseph Grenny

New York Times Best Selling Author- Influencer named the Change Management Approach of the Year by MIT Sloan, the Business Book of the year in 2008 by Soundview , and the Top Training Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive Magazine.

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  • About

    Business Communication Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author

    The Social Scientist for Business Performance
    Joseph Grenny is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, dynamic keynote speaker, and leading social scientist for business performance. For thirty years, Joseph has delivered engaging keynotes at major conferences including the HSM World Business Forum at Radio City Music Hall. Joseph’s work has been translated into 28 languages, is available in 36 countries, and has generated results for 300 of the Fortune 500.

    Dynamic Keynote Speaker
    Joseph has shared the stage with General Colin Powell, Jack Welch, Jim Collins, Daniel Pink, and Brené Brown at some of the world’s premier leadership conferences and organizations including:

    • HSM World Business Forum

    • Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit

    • American Society of Training and Development

    • American Bankers Association

    Bestselling Author
    Joseph is the coauthor of four immediate New York Times bestsellers with more than three million copies in print: Crucial Conversations, Influencer, Crucial Accountability, and Change Anything.

    He has contributed regularly to BusinessWeek and Forbes; appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Bloomberg, and Fox Business News; and been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post.

    Business Social Scientist
    For the past thirty years, Joseph has conducted social science research with the goal to help leaders and organizations achieve new levels of performance. Specifically, he has focused on human behavior—the underlying written and unwritten rules that shape what employees do every day.

    A protégé of Albert Bandura, the world’s most influential and greatest living psychologist, Joseph’s internationally published research led to the development of his four books as well as four award-winning training solutions of the same titles, which have helped more than one million people and 300 of the Fortune 500 companies in 36 countries change human behavior.

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    Keynote | Educational | Inspirational

    A passionate social scientist, Joseph Grenny has spent thirty years studying crucial moments that have the potential to change the trajectory of our career, lives, and relationships—moments when what we say and how we say it can mean the difference between success and failure.

    When the stakes are high, emotions run strong, and opinions differ, masters of crucial conversations create alignment and agreement. They speak up and share their concerns candidly and respectfully regardless of the other person’s level or position. 

    What’s more, in organizations that foster cultures of open dialogue, mistakes are caught more quickly, decisions are implemented more effectively, and innovation flows more routinely.

    Keynote

    Joseph Grenny has spent thirty years studying cultures of dialogue and accountability. When others let us down, break rules, fail to deliver on their promises, or behave badly, what do we do?

    Unfortunately, most people choose to say nothing because when accountability is void, they assume they don’t have the power or authority to raise a concern. In fact, Joseph’s research shows people waste $1,500 and an 8-hour workday every time they avoid an accountability conversation. 

    However, in organizations that build cultures of accountability, people raise concerns with those beside, above, and below them on the organizational chart. As a result, problems are solved routinely and quickly and a pervasive sense of empowerment and responsibility for results prevails.

    Keynote

    Every leader wants to be an influencer—to create wide-spread and lasting change. And yet, few leaders possess more than a handful of techniques for getting others to change. What truly influential leaders understand is that influence has little to do with pep talks, bribes or system updates but rather is the capacity to systematically, rapidly, and sustainably change a handful of key behaviors.

    By drawing from the skills of hundreds of successful leaders, thousands of successful change efforts, and more than six decades of the best social science research, Joseph teaches a proven model for leading change—a model that was named the Change Management Approach of the Year by MIT’s Sloan Management Review.

    Keynote

    Joseph Grenny has spent the past thirty years studying effective change agents—leaders who have rapidly and systematically produced widespread change in human behavior.

    His research, published in the MIT Sloan Management Review and named by MIT as the Change Management Approach of the Year teaches that these effective influencers drive change by relying on six different sources of influence at the same time. Those who succeed predictably and repeatedly don’t differ from others by degrees. They differ exponentially. Joseph’s research reveals that leaders who understand how to combine all Six Sources of Influence™ are ten times more successful at producing substantial and sustainable change.

     

    Keynote

    Often, we want to make big changes but lack the resolve to see them through. We can’t seem to summon the necessary willpower to take on huge challenges like improving performance, earning a promotion or increasing productivity.

    Joseph Grenny studied more than 5,000 people attempting to overcome entrenched personal challenges and uncovered a breakthrough in personal influence: our inability to change is not due to a lack of will, but rather, a lack of skill. With a clearer understanding of six powerful sources of influence that shape our behavior, we can become ten times more successful at changing anything.

    Keynote

    After studying a worldwide sample of more than 11,000 managers and employees, Joseph Grenny and his colleagues uncovered a formula for maximizing the hidden potential of an organization’s human system—the employees. Leaders who develop four competencies characteristic of a high-performance culture are 104% better at executing and 98% better at innovating than organizations that don’t succeed in these competencies.

    Those competencies are: self-directed change, open dialogue, universal accountability, and influential leadership. Leaders who strategically invest in building these four competencies into their human system leverage what research shows is the most potent predictor of sustained value for customers, employees, and shareholders—a high-performance culture.

    Keynote

    For the past thirty years, Joseph Grenny has conducted social science research to help leaders and organizations achieve new levels of performance. Specifically, he has focused on human behavior—the underlying written and unwritten rules that shape what employees do every day.

    A protégé of Albert Bandura, the world’s greatest living psychologist, Joseph’s internationally published research has been distilled into applicable skills leaders can implement to increase their personal influence, improve strategic relationships, and change behavior in their organization. He’ll share his latest insights on the intersection between social science and leadership.

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    “Joseph Grenny was great to work with, He delivered a fantastic presentation. He incorporated some stories from the Dealer meetings he participated in. Very impressive!”

    John Deere Brian K
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    “I have never received so many words of praise for any speaker I have brought to this group as I have for Joseph Grenny. I think his style, the content, and the subject itself was timely and had much take-home value.”

    Child Health Corporation of America Melinda M.
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    “Joseph Grenny’s engaging presentation captivated the audience, exceeded expectations, and fit perfectly with the mission of the Better Business Bureau. Months after the event, people are still talking about the impact of the evening, the lessons learned, and new tools implemented in influencing change.”

    Better Business Bureau Dale D.
I have never received so many words of praise for any speaker I have brought to this group as I have for Joseph Grenny. I think his style, the content, and the subject itself was timely and had much take-home value.
Child Health Corporation of America Melinda M.