Dr. Greg Nelson

Teamwork / Teambuilding Image / Self-Esteem Leadership Motivation Employees / Workforce Wellness

Expert on

  • Teamwork / Teambuilding
  • Image / Self-Esteem
  • Leadership
  • Motivation
  • Employees / Workforce
  • Wellness

Fee Range

$8,000–$10,000

Travels from

CA, US

Biography

If there’s one major temptation for leaders and their organizations, it is to put more emphasis on doing than being. They put more attention on “hard skills” as opposed to “soft skills.” The being side of company life is called “soft skills.” Hard is better than soft, says the practice of many leaders.

But imagine shaping a company by paying more attention to its quality of being. Who do we want to be in this world? What core values do we want to live out? What is our North Star (our unique calling and mission)? How are we keeping our eyes on it? What internal culture do we want to foster? And how do we want to contribute to the world? As our success increases, who do we want to become more of?

With almost 80% of U.S. workers reporting themselves in a state of disengagement from their work, it has never been more vital for leaders to pay attention to these questions.

As a widely requested speaker, Dr. Nelson’s mission is to maximize team and leadership culture by increasing self-awareness, relational empathy, and innovative collaboration.

His talks are delivered in a variety of platforms such as keynote presentations at conferences or company gatherings, off sites, workshops, new hire training & development, executive team retreats, and in-house coaching curriculums for leaders and/or teams.

Audiences: Greg speaks to amazing audiences like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Fitbit, American Express, Amazon, Walmart, Lyft, Applied Materials, Tonal, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, AdventhHealth, the American Physical Therapy Association national conference, and Golden Gate University. He has been the featured speaker to a convocation of 15,000 pastors and leaders in Toronto, as well as to congregations, conferences, association meetings, retreats, and company off-sites.

Writing: Nelson is a published author of three books, his latest just having been published and released: The Strategic Stop: Taking Back Your Life in a World Obsessed with Busyness .

Speaker Videos

THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS TO DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE & CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT

It’s a counter-intuitive truth: surrounding yourself with like-minded people doesn’t make you stronger, it makes you less effective. What brings the greatest amount of innovation and energizing engagement is when your team is comprised of people vastly different from you. Learn the four most important strategies to ensuring that everyone is motivated to be fully engaged to thrive and fully energized to succeed. You will learn the secret of building in everyone a sense of Competency, Authenticity/Autonomy, Connectedness, and Psychological Safety & Trust. No individual or team can thrive without paying attention to these four vital factors.

HOW DEEP IS YOUR BALLAST? WHAT YOU NEED WHEN THE WINDS OF CRISIS ARE FIERCE

Crisis always reveals the true character of leaders. Do you and everyone else in your organization know the Why that drives what you do-your true motivations and mission? Are you developing the character traits that enhance integrity and trust among the people you work with? Learn the five ways to stop drifting in the chaotic winds of market fluctuations and uncertainty and instead to staying focused and grounded on your authentic mission driven by the deep character you possess that successfully achieves your mission. 

WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A WORLD-CHANGING LEADER OF INFLUENCE

There is huge pressure in our culture to conform to one style of leadership-it’s typically the Type A aggressive, uberconfident, omnicompetent, commander-in-the-field, take-charge-and-motivate-the-troops kind of person. And in this warrior culture, many other styles of leaders go unnoticed or unrecognized or disempowered.

So people who aspire to leadership either try to squeeze into that mold or simply give up trying.

But research about today’s most successful leaders shows that there is no one cookie-cutter style. In fact, the distinguishing characteristic of successful leaders is a clear self-awareness of their top strengths and knowing how to leverage their unique style into being a force of transformational influence in every setting.

Knowing and living your unique Who really does matter. Find out the specifics of why and how in this presentation that will empower, inspire, and motivate your leaders in new ways.

THE SECRET SAUCE OF HIGH PERFORMING & TRUSTWORTHY LEADERS

Discover the latest research showing the three non-negotiable elements that determine the potential of all leaders and how their people respond to them. The most effective leaders are those that intentionalize their capacity for increasing self awareness / reflection, relational empathy, and creative collaboration. Without these ingredients, leaders remain mediocre at best and a dysfunctional influence at worst.