Dennis Ford

Create a Workplace Employees Love, Not Leave! The Great Resignation is here, but you can create a company culture that inspires key employees to stay while increasing productivity and revenue.

Expert on

  • Employees / Workforce
  • Business – Culture
  • Best-Selling Author
  • Corporate Culture
  • Leadership – Education

Fee Range

$8,000–$12,500

Travels from

AZ, US

Dennis is Founder and President of Quantum Leap Productions, an innovative and wildly creative corporate messaging company. With over 25 years experience crafting unique corporate messages for live meetings, creating entertaining and compelling videos, and producing myriad original Team Building experiences for over 500,000 corporate employees and Senior Management, he realized there was a common denominator that every leader in every company talked about but very few addressed effectively…their company culture. 

So, after digging into the guts of many Fortune 100 and 500 companies it became his quest to actually solve a problem that every company faces…how to conceive, create, implement, and nurture a truly positive, effective, and joyful corporate culture. And even more important, how to create a truly profitable culture, one that contributes greatly to both productivity and bottom line revenues…at no cost to the company.

Dennis has written a book about creating a positive and profitable culture called “Monetize Your Culture: How to Create a Passionate, Committed Workforce That Actually Increases Your Bottom Line…and Costs You Nothing”. It is a #1 Bestseller on Amazon. Dennis has given Keynote Addresses for both company leadership meetings and Association conferences from coast to coast.

In his first career, Dennis spent nearly 14 years with CB Commercial (now CB Richard Ellis), the largest commercial real estate brokerage in the world. After 7 years in sales, he became Manager of the Phoenix, AZ office, leading it to #1 status among all CB Commercial offices nationwide 5 out of 7 years. He was named Senior Vice President and was the #1 rated sales and negotiating trainer, company wide.

Dennis is also accomplished at flying trapeze and trains, and performs, with a professional team, Ifly Trapeze, based in Scottsdale and Long Island. He trains as a catcher as well as a flier.

CULTURE IN A POST PANDEMIC WORLD - CREATE A WORKPLACE EMPLOYEES LOVE, NOT LEAVE.

The Great Resignation is here, and it’s real – don’t let it cripple your productivity. Make sure you keep your most valuable employees. Data from Forbes, Gallup, and Monster.com states that 75-95% of the American workforce is actively looking for a new job. Be the company employees love, not the one they leave!

It is very costly in both hard dollars and productivity when you have to replace a valuable employee who chooses to leave. Learn how to make sure your most valued employees opt to stay with you. The answer to this staffing crisis will surprise you.

Employees don’t leave you for a modest bump in salary or a dollar more an hour. Find out why they actually leave in this revealing Keynote, and how to make sure your key employees are so engaged and happy they will opt to stay with you even when offered more money. Yes…even when offered a higher-paying job. Find out how to keep the employees you value the most.

This program is perfect for:

  • Leadership Meetings – including C-Suite, Department Heads, Directors, and Managers, (especially if the group they manage is underperforming and turnover is an issue)
  • Franchise Owner
  • Small Business Owners
  • Any attendees/groups that manage employees
  • HR Directors/Conferences

The audience will leave with:

  • The awareness that employee retention is in their wheelhouse and the culture they create will impact whether key employees choose to stay or leave. Employee turnover in ‘The Great Resignation’ costs companies huge amounts of money. Attendees will learn how to keep the turnover of valuable employees down, and retention high.
  • They will learn that happy, engaged employees outperform others by huge margins (40% to 70%) and they will be given the methodology to evaluate what their culture really is and how to envision, design, create, and manifest a truly joyful and more productive company culture. And one employee will not want to leave.
  • Sales quantifiably increase by double-digit percentages in an engaged company culture of appreciation, trust, respect, and joy.
  • The understanding that more than a trillion dollars is left on the table every year in the United States by companies with unhappy, unsatisfied, and unengaged employees. More than a trillion dollars were wasted. This doesn’t have to happen.
  • Any company that makes its employees the priority, and has a culture of appreciation, trust, inclusion, and support, will dramatically increase productivity and revenues. Corporate Culture can be joyful AND profitable, and any company can make it happen.

CREATE A COMPANY CULTURE THAT ACTUALLY INCREASES YOUR BOTTOM LINE

This timely topic, and often ignored source of profound gains in productivity and revenue, is based on my #1 bestselling book, “Monetize Your Culture”. (All attendees get a copy) With stories of successful cultures and also brutal examples of how corporate America all too often misses the culture mark, the audience will be laughing at and stunned by, the status quo of the corporate culture. In the end, I offer simple solutions to the dismal and unhappy state of American business culture and how to realize significant gains in productivity by promoting joy, trust, and respect.

The reality, and data proven results, of creating an intentional culture of trust, respect, and appreciation, will bring a company quantifiable gains in productivity of 40%-70%. Yes…I said “Quantifiable”! And employee retention will soar.

This program is perfect for:

  • Leadership Meetings, including C-Suite, Department Heads, Directors, and Managers, especially if the group they manage is underperforming.
  • Franchise Owners
  • Small Business Owners
  • Any attendees/groups that manage employees
  • HR Directors/Conferences

The audience will leave with:

  • The awareness that happy, engaged employees outperform others by huge margins (40% to 70%) and   they will learn the methodology to evaluate what their culture really is and how to envision, design, create,  manifest a truly positive and more productive company culture.
  • Sales quantifiably increase by double-digit percentages in an engaged company culture of appreciation,     trust, respect, and joy.
  • The understanding is that more than a trillion dollars are left on the table every year in the United States by companies with unhappy, unsatisfied, and unengaged employees. More than a trillion dollars lost from the bottom line of American companies. This doesn’t have to happen.
  • Any company that makes its employees the priority, and has a culture of appreciation, trust, and inclusion, will dramatically increase productivity and revenues. Corporate Culture can be joyful AND profitable, and any company can make it happen.

CREATE A MORE PROFITABLE AND VERY PRODUCTIVE COMPANY CULTURE

87% of employees in the U.S. are unengaged and unhappy…87%! And that’s not good. Every year a trillion dollars is lost due to employee’s lack of engagement… a trillion dollars, simply because employees are not happy and engaged in their workplace. According to the Harvard Business Review, companies with happy employees will have nearly 40% higher sales, 40% to 70%  higher productivity, and a swing of over 60% in earnings growth. So, where do these happy, engaged, productive employees come from? A respectful, joyful, appreciative, and supportive company culture. 

After 25 years of sitting in on hundreds of high level company leadership meetings, Dennis had an epiphany. That American business culture, in general, was in a dismal, even tragic, state; but it doesn’t have to be this way. That’s why he wrote the book Monetize Your Culture: Create A Passionate, Committed Workforce That Actually Increases Your Bottom Line. It hit #1 bestseller on Amazon in Business Ethics, which tells us corporate leadership in the United States is ready to address the shortcomings, and unfulfilled growth potential, of business culture.

This program is perfect for:

  • Leadership Meetings – including C-Suite, Department Heads, Directors, and Managers, (especially if the group they manage is underperforming and turnover is an issue)
  • Franchise Owner
  • Small Business Owners
  • Any attendees/groups that manage employees
  • HR Directors/Conferences

The audience will leave with:

  • They will learn that happy, engaged employees outperform others by huge margins (40% to 70%) and they will be given the methodology to evaluate what their culture really is and how to envision, design, create, and manifest a truly joyful and more productive company culture. And one that employees will not want to leave.
  • Sales quantifiably increase by double-digit percentages in an engaged company culture of appreciation, trust, respect, and joy.
  • The understanding that more than a trillion dollars is left on the table every year in the United States by companies with unhappy, unsatisfied, and unengaged employees. More than a trillion dollars were wasted. This doesn’t have to happen.
  • Any company that makes its employees the priority, and has a culture of appreciation, trust, inclusion, and support, will dramatically increase productivity and revenues. Corporate Culture can be joyful AND profitable, and any company can make it happen.
  • The awareness that employee retention is in their wheelhouse and the culture they create will impact whether key employees choose to stay or leave. Employee turnover in ‘The Great Resignation’ costs companies huge amounts of money. Attendees will learn how to keep the turnover of valuable employees down, and retention high.

ABOVE AND BEYOND EMPLOYEE EFFORT VS. "I WON'T GET FIRED TODAY"

Every employee, in every company, every day, arrives at their workplace and they have the same choice. 165,000,000 American employees…and they have the same choice every day. That choice…”How much effort am I going to put in today?”

The reality is that there is no set of metrics, measurements, tracking, nor methodology, to actually know how much effort an employee gives nor, far more importantly, how much more effort they are capable of. Only we know this of ourselves, and therein lies a a huge untapped potential in most every company in America today. 

Imagine creating an environment, and culture, where employees CHOOSE to give “Above and Beyond” effort instead of just enough to get by and not get fired. And according to data derived from Harvard Business Review and Gallup, the difference between these two levels of effort, Above and Beyond vs. “I won’t get fired today”, is 40% to 70%. Imagine what would happen to your company if your employees, across the board, came to work and gave you 40% to 70% more effort. Their choice.    

This program is perfect for:

  • Leadership Meetings – including C-Suite, Department Heads, Directors, and Managers, (especially if the group they manage is underperforming and turnover is an issue)
  • Franchise Owner
  • Small Business Owners
  • Any attendees/groups that manage employees
  • HR Directors/Conferences

The audience will leave with:

  • Hard data that proves the reality of the vast variance in employee effort, and how to motivate employees to give exceptional effort every day. And realize huge gains in both productivity and revenue.  
  • They will learn that happy, engaged employees outperform others by huge margins (40% to 70%) and they will be given the methodology to evaluate what their culture really is and how to envision, design, create, and manifest a truly joyful and more productive company culture. And one employee will not want to leave.
  • Sales quantifiably increase by double-digit percentages in an engaged company culture of appreciation, trust, respect, and joy.
  • The understanding that more than a trillion dollars is left on the table every year in the United States by companies with unhappy, unsatisfied, and unengaged employees. More than a trillion dollars were wasted. This doesn’t have to happen.
  • Any company that makes its employees the priority, and has a culture of appreciation, trust, inclusion, and support, will dramatically increase productivity and revenues. Corporate Culture can be joyful AND profitable, and any company can make it happen.
  • The awareness that employee retention is in their wheelhouse and the culture they create will impact whether key employees choose to stay or leave. Employee turnover in ‘The Great Resignation’ costs companies huge amounts of money. Attendees will learn how to keep the turnover of valuable employees down, and retention high.