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These workplace culture speakers can cover such topics and trends as communication, resilience, personal responsibility, accountability, employee engagement, workplace wellness, teamwork and team building, diversity and inclusion, future of work, and more.
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Jenn Lim
Jenn Lim is the founder and CEO of Delivering Happiness, an organization that assists in creating a happy culture within an organization.
She has decades of experience in creating sustainable workplace cultures that support the employees to put in their best work.
Under her, Delivering Happiness was named one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US in the year 2020.
She has collaborated with various organizations like McDonald’s, Facebook, and PayPal. Her best-selling book is titled ‘Beyond Happiness’.
Cheryl Cran
Cheryl Cran is a workplace thought leader and the one who is behind the Next Now podcast that comments on the future of work and leadership strategies.
She has founded the Next Mapping Group, an organization that provides training regarding the future of work. Onalytica cited her as the top future of work influencer.
She has an impressive list of clients including Amazon, Gartner, and Exec Online. She has been featured in publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Fast Company.
Michael Bush
Michael Bush is a business growth specialist who is presently working as the Chief Executive Officer of Great Place to Work Inc., a firm dedicated to research and analytics. He joined the firm in 2015 and presently it spans over 58 countries across the world.
With three decades of experience working in key positions in various corporate firms, he delivers insightful keynote speeches on various platforms globally.
He is also the founder of 8 Factors, an online learning provider, and Mattmar Group, a workplace management consultancy.
Bruce Tulgan
As an internationally recognized business advisor and workplace culture keynote speaker, Bruce Tulgan is a highly in-demand authority on effective leadership and organizational development.
He is the CEO of RainmakerThinking, Inc., a successful management research and training company, as well as the popular online learning platform RainmakerLearning.com.
Bruce is also a best-selling authors whose works include Not Everyone Gets a Trophy (Revised & Updated, 2016), Bridging the Soft Skills Gap (2015), The 27 Challenge Managers Face (2014), It’s Okay to be the Boss (Revised & Updated, 2014), among others.
His latest book, The Art of Being Indispensible at Work can be found on shelves now courtesy of Harvard Business Review Press.
Amy Posey
Amy Posey is a business leader and innovator, who has founded Super Mega Boss, an online platform for management training.
She has been providing insightful speeches and keynote addresses for the last decade and has to her credit, clients like Google, Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft.
She has co-authored a book named ‘Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventure’. In her book, she teaches you how to:
• Identify your purpose as a leader
• Build your resilience and your ability to adapt to change
• Reframe your attitude to optimize your cognitive performance
• Reach your true leadership potential with a growth mindset
David Sarkus
David Sarkus is an expert in teamwork and safety management, who has founded The David Sarkus International, a firm that provides training and consulting regarding organizational safety and efficiency.
He has 30 years of experience as a workplace culture consultant and motivational speaker and his works were featured in publications like Industrial Safety and Hygiene News and Professional Safety Magazine.
His speaking topics include areas like personal responsibility, organizational transformation, and leadership coaching.
Patty McCord
Patty McCord is the former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix from 1998 to 2012. Before joining Netflix, she worked with Pure Software, a product, and services firm.
Post-retirement, she focused more on writing and public speaking. Her book titled ‘Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility’, published in 2018, gained a place among the top 100 business books sold on Amazon. It was cited as one of the “top 10 business and leadership books of 2018” by Business Insider.
In her book, McCord advocates practicing radical honesty in the workplace, saying good-bye to employees who don’t fit the company’s emerging needs, and motivating with challenging work, not promises, perks, and bonus plans.
Daisy Auger-Dominguez
Daisy Auger-Dominguez is the author of a popular self-help book titled ‘Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequality in the Workplace’. She presently works at the Vice Media Group as the Chief People Officer.
She is an expert in workplace management and has founded a workplace consultancy firm named Auger-Dominguez Ventures.
Her major clients include Google and The Walt Disney Company. She was featured in publications and dailies like Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Adweek, and The New York Times.
Curt Coffman
Curt Coffman is the co-founder of the Coffman Organization, which is a top organization that provides workplace consultancy.
Before founding his organization, he gained more than 25 years of experience from Gallup, a management consulting agency, as its Global Practice Leader.
He also works at the University of Denver as an executive fellow. He has co-authored a book named ‘Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch: The Secret of Extraordinary Results’, which was later translated into more than 40 foreign languages.
Jessica Kriegel
Jessica Kriegel is a popular business and workplace consultant who is backed with more than 15 years of experience. She is presently working as the Chief People and Culture Officer at Experience.com, an online platform for experience management.
She is entrusted with the responsibilities of creating an ideal working culture thereby enabling an empowering atmosphere at work.
As a workplace consultant and trainer, her client list contains organizations like Canon, Bank of Hawaii, and the United States Federal Reserve System.
Barbara Bartlein
Barbara Bartlein is an expert in workplace culture, who is a clinical Psychotherapist and the former Vice President of Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital.
She has been a professional speaker on workplace culture for more than three decades and her client list contains top companies like Discover Card, Johnson Controls, and Aurora Healthcare. S
he is a certified speaking professional and the author of several books. One of her popular books is titled ‘Energy Suckers: How to Deal with Bullies in the Workplace’.
Shola Richards
Shola Richards is an entrepreneur who has an affinity for organizational transformation and cultural management at the workplace.
He founded the high-performance training consultancy named Together Global in 2016 and has been featured in various media outlets like Forbes, Business Insider, and The Black Enterprise.
His major self-help and leadership development books are titled ” Go Together’ and ‘Making Work Work’. He also runs a blog titled The Positivity Blog.
Scott Hunter
Scott Hunter is a workplace consultant and coach who has already worked with more than hundreds of clients and has delivered thousands of speeches.
He founded The Hunter Partnership Alliance, an organization that aims at developing strategic solutions for real workplace problems.
Although he has been a business owner for more than three decades, he started giving keynote addresses and motivational speeches in the last 20 years.
He also worked at Western State University College of Law as an adjunct professor.
Eric Chester
Eric Chester is a popular workplace consultant who specializes in developing strategies to retain employees in an organization.
He has been getting engaged in the studies and research on workplace culture for the last two decades and has already covered more than three continents as part of his celebrated speaking career.
He has also proven his caliber as an author by writing numerous books and some of his popular titles are ‘Fully Staffed’, and ‘Reviving Work Ethic’.
Shawn Murphy
Shawn Murphy is an optimistic, business consultant, and speaker who was cited by Inc. as one of the top 100 leadership speakers. He is the founder and CEO of WorqIQ, a leadership consulting firm.
He has a solid background of 25 years of experience in the corporate field as a business leadership and organizational transformation consultant. He has a long list of clients including organizations like Luck Companies, George Mason University, and Infusionsoft.
As a workplace motivational speaker, he has spoken on international platforms like the Principled Business Leadership Institute, Totem Summit, and Elevate Summit.
His bestseller book is titled ‘The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone’. In this book, he argues that our best work is the product of a positive environment. Not one of grinding and stress.
Martin Rutte
Martin Rutte is the president of an American management consulting corporation named Livelihood. He is an expert in performance management and effective leadership in the workplace. He has a long list of reputed clients including The World Bank, Sony Pictures, Apple, and Virgin Records.
He has co-authored the very popular book titled ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work’, which was translated into 24 foreign languages owing to the rave reviews that it received.
With more than a decade of experience in helping organizations build a strong workplace culture, he has been featured in various media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, and the South China Morning Post.
Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle is a celebrated corporate culture speaker and writer, who specializes in workplace management.
He is a prolific writer who has written ‘The Culture Code’, a book that won the Best Book of the Year Prize from Bloomberg and Business Insider.
He has provided consultation and advice to both public and private parties like Google, Microsoft, and the Navy SEALs.
Cy Wakeman
Cy Wakeman is a popular workplace culture expert who is the founder of Reality-Based Leadership, a consultancy service.
She was cited as one of the top global leadership gurus for two consecutive years and has worked with Facebook, NBC Universal NASA, and Google form her client list.
One of her major books is titled ‘Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results’. In this book, Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances-one who deals with the facts, clarifies roles, gives clear and direct feedback, and insists that everyone do the same-without drama or defensiveness.
Steve Simpson
Steve Simpson understands the difficulties of implementing new changes in a company. The well-known international corporate culture specialist has been contacted by businesses from all over the world to help management see what’s happening in their work environment and how they can improve conditions for employees, which will overall improve the company’s productivity.
Over the years, Simpson has helped countless companies worldwide transform their workplace cultures. His unique approach and Framework have been utilized by organizations on every continent to achieve the changes they desire.
Steve Simpson is the mastermind behind UGR, which is a specially devised toolset and framework that is used to bring forth positive culture shifts in the workplace.
He is a bestselling author of books like ‘A Culture Turned: Using UGRs to boost performance and culture’ and ‘Cracking the Corporate Code: The Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American Executives’.
Quint Studer
Quint Studer is an entrepreneur and businessman, who is the renowned founder of The Studer Group, a consulting firm for the healthcare industry. In 2015, The Studer Group was acquired by Huron, a management consulting firm in the health care field.
He is a prolific writer too, who has already penned 6 books and the most popular one among them is the ‘Hardwiring Excellence: Purpose, Worthwhile Work, Making a Difference’.
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