Are you interested in hiring Michael Abrashoff to speak at your event, conference, trade show, meeting, or convention?
As a keynote speaker, he knows how to command a stage where he can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
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Mike Abrashoff is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as leadership, employee engagement, safety, diversity, cooperation, innovation, accountability, and responsibility. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and education.
Mike Abrashoff is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He was the youngest officer in the Pacific Fleet when he took charge of the ship that was almost the worst in the fleet. The USS Benfold became the most powerful ship in the Navy a year later, with the same crew. From the story of that amazing change, every company can learn that culture and leadership are very important. His first book, It’s Your Ship, has sold more than a million copies. Mike has written three books so far. His Leadership Roadmap shows specific, tried-and-true ways to lead. Mike shows workers at every level of the company how to get involved and make small changes that can have a big impact on the workplace. Mike is direct, “My crew, not I, turned the ship around. I created a place where people could feel safe, strong, and cared for. This opens up a lot of possibilities.”
Mike has put together a list of guidelines for management for the Leadership Roadmap. His leadership style at Benfold was based on replacing command and control with commitment and unity and winning the hearts, minds, and loyalty of workers through conviction and humility. “The most important thing a captain can do is see the ship through the eyes of the crew, and the goal is to make everyone feel like they have a part in making something great.”The Spokane Trophy was given to the Benfold because it was the readiest for battle in the Pacific Fleet. The same team that had done so badly a few months earlier did an amazing about-face.
Mike has written three novels. It’s Your Ship; his first book has a timeless theme: Take charge of the things you can change, and amazing things will happen. Don’t use problems caused by outside forces as an excuse. In his later books, It’s Our Ship and Gets Your Ship Together, he showed how business leaders in their own companies had used similar ideas.
Mike is a popular featured speaker for companies that want to improve the performance of their organizations. He has talked to everyone from board retreats to front-line workers, sales groups to schools, and Fortune 500 companies to new businesses. His messages focus on engagement, execution, transformation, safety, diversity, leadership, cooperation, innovation, accountability, and responsibility. He tells the group to rethink what they think they know about leadership and company culture. Before taking charge of the USS Benfold, Mike was William J. Perry’s military assistant. In 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, he helped devise a plan to protect naval forces in the Persian Gulf from air attacks. He was also the executive officer of the cruiser Shiloh, which he took to the Persian Gulf to help enforce UN sanctions against Iraq.
Mike Abrashoff started Aegis Performance Group, which helps company executives deal with issues related to leadership, talent, and performance. Mike and his coworkers try to get leaders at all levels to rethink how they lead and develop new ways to improve the performance of the employee, the team, and the organization.
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