Brett Hoogeveen

Become part of the BetterCulture Movement! Empower everyone in your organization or association become better leaders, teammates, followers...and more successful and happy human beings.

Expert on

  • Motivation
  • Sales
  • Leadership
  • Decision Making
  • Customer Service
  • Corporate Culture

Fee Range

$5,000–$7,500

Travels from

NE, US

Biography

Brett Hoogeveen is a co-founder of BetterCulture, a product and technology company intently focused on making the world a better place to work. He’s a former engineer, an experienced healthcare executive, business consultant, executive coach, and professional speaker.

Brett holds a degree in civil engineering from the University of Kansas; however, he spent most of his “traditional” career working in the healthcare field. In over a decade at the nationally renowned, Omaha-based rehabilitation provider QLI, Brett helped lead the organization toward national prominence while being recognized five consecutive times as the #1 Best Place to Work in its metropolitan area.

Today, Brett travels nationally as a presenter and with a single focus: providing practical, actionable advice to help organizations build dominantly successful cultures. As Brett and his growing list of clients are keenly aware, better culture = better business.

Brett lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He and his wife Nicole have three delightfully spunky young children. He loves jumping on his trampoline with his kids, is a self-proclaimed personal finance nerd, enjoys working with startup companies as an angel investor, and mows his own lawn. Brett is a professional member of the National Speakers Association.

Speaker Videos

THE BETTER WORKPLACE FORMULA

Format: ​45-90 minute keynote or workshop

 

This program is perfect for:

  • Serior managment
  • Leadership audiences​

 
The audience will leave with:

  • Leaders will have a usable roadmap for how to make fast and steady improvement to thier workplace cultures
  • All audience members will be inspired for how they can lead and behave in a way that makes thier immediate workgroup better, stronger, and more enjoyable.​

 

​Abbreviated description: Every organization wants great company culture. But very fow organizations actually have it.

How can this be? Well, it’s becuase most organizations don’t undertand the foolproof formula for creating better and better company culture – year after year!

STUPID THINGS LEADERS DO

Format: ​60-90 minute keynote (or half day workshop)

 

Summary:  Want to know the first step toward creating a great business culture?  Step 1: Stop being stupid!  No leader is perfect, but far too many leaders today are hamstringing the success of their organizations by thinking and acting in ways that are damaging their culture.  Being a brilliant leader is challenging; but we can learn to stop doing stupid things in an afternoon.  There’s great ROI on the latter, so let’s leave the self-actualization for another day, eat the low-hanging fruit, and watch our work cultures shine!

This program is perfect for:

  • ​Senior managment
  • Any level of leadership
  • People who care about organizational culture

 

The audience will leave with:

  • ​Insights on how to build a dominantly successful culture
  • Tips on attracting, developing, motivating and retaining talent
  • Insights on how to build employee pride
  • Constructs to improve organizational decicion making
  • Tips on making work more fun

 

Additional information:  This keynote and topic is upbeat, humorous, and packed with tangible takaways. 

SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP: THE CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF A FIVE-TIME #1 BEST PLACE TO WORK

Learn the seven founding leadership principles that catapulted a small startup company in 1990 into one of the premier healthcare providers of its kind in the country by 2010.  Brett Hoogeveen had a front-row seat to the founding of this extraordinary company QLI, a specialized rehabilitation provider in Omaha, NE that has been recognized a record five times as the #1 Best Place to Work in its metropolitan area.

Brett knows how to create a winning corporate culture – a culture that gives leaders the tools to attract, build, retain and motivate talented employees. Mastering these Seven Principles of Leadership© will expedite you along the path to ultimate business success!

WHY SMART PEOPLE MAKE STUPID DECISIONS

Few things are more basic to success in life – or in business – than making smart decisions.  Yet, most humans aren’t very good at generating first-rate conclusions.  How can this be?  What is it that great decision makers know?  How do they think?  Perhaps more importantly, how don’t they think?  The answers to these questions are surprisingly simple – and remarkably powerful!

Join us for a lively and lighthearted tour through mathematical probability and the human mind.  And see if you, your colleagues, and your friends can beat the odds!

NEGOTIATING FOR SUCCESS - IN WORK AND IN LIFE

Attend this session to learn over a dozen proven negotiation tactics that will help you be successful at work and in your personal life. We will discuss how and when to negotiate a fair starting salary when you accept a new job, as well as when it is reasonable to attempt to renegotiate compensation within a current job.

The rest of the presentation will focus on negotiation tactics that will help you outside of work to get better deals and keep more of your hard-earned money.