Crucial Learning Speaker
Joseph Grenny
Speaking Fee: $30,000 to $50,000
Travels From: TLV - Tel Aviv
Primary Topic Category: Leadership and Management
Secondary Topic Category: Business & Entrepreneurship
Joseph Grenny At A Glance:
Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including the communication classic, Crucial Conversations. His work has been used by nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 and has helped millions of people achieve better relationships and results. He cofounded Crucial Learning (formerly VitalSmarts), one of the world’s most respected learning and organization development firms, offering courses in communication, performance, and leadership.
Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author, including the leadership and communication classics Crucial Conversations, Influencer, Crucial Accountability, and Change Anything. The impact of his work is seen and felt around the world. His books have sold more than 5 million copies, more than 3 million people have been trained in the award-winning courses based on his books, and more than half of the Forbes Global 2000 have implemented the principles and skills he teaches into their organizations. Joseph cofounded Crucial Learning, one of the world’s most respected learning and organization development firms, offering courses in communication, performance, and leadership.
In addition to his professional career, Joseph is the cofounder and current board chair of Unitus Labs, an international nonprofit that has helped more than 50 million people increase their self-reliance. Unitus Labs has been instrumental in launching some of the most successful impact investment and related firms in the world, including Unitus Seed Fund (now Capria), Unitus Equity Fund, Unitus Ventures (now Patamar), and Unitus Capital. Unitus Capital has provided capital arrangement services of over $2 billion to some of the world’s most successful socially oriented ventures.
In 2015, Joseph cofounded The Other Side Academy (TOSA), a two-year residential school for people with histories of crime, addiction, and homelessness. In addition to learning life skills such as communication and self-discipline, TOSA students run some of the most highly rated businesses in Utah, including The Other Side Movers, The Other Side Thrift Boutiques and The Other Side Builders. In 2021, Joseph and TOSA leaders announced the launch of The Other Side Village, a 500-home community for the chronically homeless.
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Crucial Conversations for Today's Communication Challenges
Crucial Learning research shows 9 out of 10 people have felt emotionally or physically
unsafe to speak their mind more than once in the past 18 months – not surprising when
the topics of today are volatile, divisive, and controversial. Too often, people feel they can be honest or respectful, but not both. Yet respectfully speaking up AND maintaining
our personal and professional relationships is possible – and absolutely crucial! In this
presentation, attendees will learn research-backed skills for speaking up to anyone
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Crucial Influence: A Leadership Model for Changing Behavior
Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference,
you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not
impossible. We learn to cope rather than learning to influence. You'll be taught each
and every step of the influence process including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world. You'll learn how to: identify high leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change, apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions, and marshal six sources of influence to make change inevitable. You'll discover breakthrough ways of changing the key behaviors that lead to greater safety, productivity, quality, and customer service. -
How to Turn Expectations Into Reality With an Accountability Culture
The speed with which norms change is the speed with which it becomes normal to give correction. Said another way, organizations innovate and execute to the degree that their people hold one another accountable. Accountability is particularly critical today as organizations around the world continue to adapt to a hybrid workforce demanding more flexibility. Yet, flexibility without accountability often leads to low performance. But when employees are given flexibility with standards (and accountability to those standards), it creates high performance and high growth. It is
this combination that leaders must make the norm if they hope to build organizations that execute efficiently and innovate rapidly. In this session I'll highlight multiple case studies that demonstrate the importance of accountability in organizational performance, and I'll outline the steps organizational leaders can take to build cultures of accountability. When accountability is the norm, high performance follows -
Silence Kills: The Seven Crucial Conversations to Prevent Medical Mistakes and Save Lives
Each year, one in twenty in-patients at hospitals will be given a wrong medication, 3.5
million will get an infection from someone who didn’t wash his or her hands or take
other appropriate precautions, and 195,000 will die because of mistakes made while
they’re in the hospital. Though hospitals are going to great lengths to reduce these
errors, research shows that there is much room for improvement. Learn seven crucial
areas where healthcare professionals can make the most dramatic and immediate improvement to healthcare safety—and equip attendees with the tools to meet the
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Costly Conversations: How Speaking Up Strengthens Relationships and Saves Your Bottom Line
In 2016, Crucial Learning found that every conversation failure costs an organization an average of $7,500 and more than seven workdays. In 2021, conversations are just as costly and we are wasting even more time. According to our latest study of 1,100 respondents, 10% more people waste more than 2 weeks avoiding Crucial Conversations than they did five years ago. And nearly everyone (96%) estimates that there is a cost to silence. A startling one in five (19%) say the organizational cost of unresolved Crucial Conversations is more than $50,000. The paradox is that our cultures are more supportive of speaking up, and yet we still resort to unhealthy behaviors rather than voice concerns. And our silence isn’t just impacting the bottom-line, it has other serious consequences, including factors that have led to the Great Resignation. Join Scott to learn more about the crucial conversations that are wrecking your organization and how to promote a healthy culture of open dialogue.
