Uncrapify Your Future presents innovation as a simple process that literally everyone is capable of mastering.  Using examples from a wide variety of businesses (as well as a healthy amount of laugh-out-loud humor), Jeff’s most popular keynote will demonstrate that every innovation in every industry follows the same straightforward pattern. Read More >

Topics Addressed:  Innovation, Creative Problem-Solving

Designed To:  Improve your ability to think creatively, tackle difficult problems, take advantage of potential opportunities, and develop confidence in your skill and expertise as an innovator

Designed For:  All audiences, all ages, all levels. Every business and businessperson has problems that need solving and opportunities worth taking advantage of, and this keynote will help you accomplish that regardless of job description or industry.  It’s that universal.

This keynote is fully customizable and can be combined with elements from Jeff’s other keynotes if desired.

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• Apply the extremely simple three-step process that every innovation in every facet of life follows
• Recognize the most significant barrier to innovative thought, and how to overcome it
• Develop connections between the ways we innovate in our personal lives and how we can do the same in our professional lives

The first of its kind, Unleash Your Inner Tyrant! is a leadership keynote that helps managers and executives become better leaders in part by showing them everything they should avoid. The combination of ‘what you should do’ and ‘what you shouldn’t do’ allows for a hilarious approach to this essential topic that will result in a surprisingly simple method for creating real and lasting engagement in your employees and teams. Read More >

Topics Addressed: Leadership, Employee Engagement

Designed To: Improve leaders’ ability to communicate effectively, manage through change and crisis, build trust with direct reports and across teams, and increase employee engagement

Designed For: Anyone in a leadership capacity, from front-line supervisors up to C-level executives

This keynote is fully customizable and can be combined with elements from Jeff’s other keynotes if desired.

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• Recognize the difference between employee satisfaction and engagement, and put into practice the three key leadership behaviors that drive real engagement
• Offer constructive criticism that will yield actual, demonstrable improvement
• Understand the value of micromanagement (yes, there actually is some!) as well as when to avoid it
• Communicate effectively through times of change or crisis

In this hysterical keynote, you’ll learn that there really aren’t five generations in the workplace and never have been.  Most generational presentations highlight and then exaggerate our subtlest differences; but Us Vs. Them focuses instead on how all of us are at slightly different points on the same journey.  It’s an important distinction that will help you better understand why different workers have different attitudes toward issues like employee loyalty, career advancement, and change adoption, and it will make implementing new solutions easier than you ever thought possible. Read More >

Topics Addressed: Generational issues in the workplace

Designed To: Improve working relationships between managers and employees, or between veteran workers and new hires

Designed For: Large businesses or associations, multi-generational family businesses, and anyone else who works with people at varying levels of age and experience

This keynote is fully customizable and can be combined with elements from Jeff’s other keynotes if desired.

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• Eliminate the idea that a new generation with completely unique goals and needs is being created every 10-15 years
• Inspire a healthier, more robust work ethic and approach to career advancement in your younger employees and colleagues
• Understand the reasons that workers with different levels of experience tend to approach change in very different ways, as well as how to develop strategies to address these differences
• Build processes for addressing issues that focus on your colleagues’ or employees’ age and experience, rather than the year they were born

Designed for anyone who has ever approached an upcoming change with hesitation or dread (which is everyone), Conquering Tomorrow takes audiences on a journey through some of life’s most common “bad” changes – some personal, some professional – to reveal a profound and important truth: that while the process of going through difficult changes may not always be fun, the end result of those changes is usually far better than we’re afraid it will be.  Conquering Tomorrow will leave your people feeling like they can handle anything the world throws at them – even if they weren’t looking for it. Read More >

Topics Addressed: Change Management

Designed To: Provide audiences with a positive perspective on change that will allow them to approach any difficult or unexpected challenges with confidence rather than concern

Designed For: Companies or associations who are coming off of a difficult year, anticipate a difficult year ahead, or who are in the middle of a challenging or unexpected transition

This keynote is fully customizable and can be combined with elements from Jeff’s other keynotes if desired.

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• Recognize the four main reasons we most commonly fear or resist unplanned, unexpected, or unasked-for changes
• Learn to distinguish between the process of change (which is sometimes frustrating) and the result of change (which is usually positive)
• Position our previous successes as a template for turning current challenges into future triumphs