Greg Bennick

TEAM BUILDING KEYNOTE SPEAKER WHO INSPIRES ACTION BY HELPING GROUPS RECONNECT WITH THEIR GOALS AND REMEMBER THAT WHAT THEY DO MATTERS

Expert on

  • Change
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Teambuilding 
  • Entertainment 
  • Emcee

Fee Range

$10,000–$15,000

Travels from

WA, US

Biography

Team-building keynote speaker Greg Bennick helps teams focus, get inspired together for action, and grow stronger through keynote presentations and trainings at conferences and association meetings worldwide. He reminds people that they matter and that the work they do is meaningful.

Greg Bennick knows about what it means to focus on what matters most, though reading about his life, you wouldn’t know that. He is a best-selling author, a keynote thought leader, a noted rare coin expert, a TEDx speaker and speaking coach, a humanitarian philanthropist, and an influencer devoted to transforming the world by inspiring personal and social change. How’s that for a resumé? 

For the last three decades Greg has traveled the world studying what people want most. He’s come to know that people need to matter and to feel that they are part of something meaningful. When you start from that foundation, you create the base necessary for increased performance, and powerful motivation.

Here’s a little about Greg, and ideas about how he helps organizations like yours find renewed inspiration.

When Greg traces back his own focus and teamwork journey, he realizes that learning to juggle for the first time at twelve years old changed everything for him. It was awesome. It was amazing. And it was a metaphor. He saw that it was a juggler’s ability to FOCUS and keep multiple balls aloft, amidst a world of distractions, that was key to navigating our day-to-day reality. He realized that he gained confidence and learned more with the support of those around him. Those realizations transformed his life, and reminded him that without teamwork, individuals end up adrift and lost. 

Greg started thinking about what gets us back on track. The object in the air is the one that matters most. What is the object for you and your organization? What do we need to focus upon most? When we have a shared sense of meaning from what we do, and when we know that our work matters, it is like high octane fuel for teamwork.

Greg launched his career as a presenter at age thirteen (yes you read that correctly) and saw that capturing the attention of audiences brings people together. He has been known to balance a chair on his face to do just that. Just watch his promo video for proof!

Greg’s new book Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now  is a tool that you can use to inspire your people. Greg trains and consults based off a model of seven strategies. This is an exploration of how to get back on track with what matters most to us and to our team.

 

Praise has been high for the book and the ideas in it:

“A practical guide to getting your ‘now’ back on track, while staying true to yourself.  My favorite chapters dealt with creativity and cultivating a revolutionary mindset, but all seven key strategies provide significant value.”
– Adam Cheyer, co-founder of Siri

“Greg gives you seven strategies but I’m just giving you one: get his book! He’s creative, insightful, and refreshingly honest. You’re welcome.”

– Larry Wilmore, TV writer/producer

“This book is a nonstop life lesson in the business of being human.  Greg has a philosopher’s mind and writes with punk rock energy. Every chapter inspires reflection, inspiration, and action.”
– Andy Hurley, drummer, Fall Out Boy

For the last three decades Greg has traveled the world studying what people want most, and looking at what makes solid teams work together most effectively. He’s come to know that people need to matter and to feel that they are part of something meaningful.  

He can bring that feeling of inspiration to your group so that you can reduce turnover, guard against disruption, and inspire action – all of which translates to success.

Speaker Videos

Build A Better Now - An Inspired Look at Team Building and Focus

Team-building keynote speaker Greg Bennick helps teams focus, come together, and grow stronger through keynote presentations and trainings at conferences and association meetings worldwide.

This is a keynote about the team, and how when people focus, they amplify their output.

For the last three decades Greg has traveled the world studying what people want most. He’s come to know that people need to matter and to feel that they are part of something meaningful. 

When we have a shared sense of purpose and meaning from what we do, and when we know that our work matters, it is like high octane fuel for teamwork.

Some key takeaways from the Build a Better Now® keynote:

  • Reconnecting to our purpose and reason for doing the work we do
  • Appreciating the team we’re a part of and celebrating a feeling of shared vision
  • Realizing that the work we do is meaningful and our contribution to it matters.

 

When we focus on team building, opportunities are everywhere.

FAIL BETTER: Don't Be Afraid to Drop the Ball!

An exploration of confidence, leadership, and motivation

Greg is a juggler who is fascinated by gravity as a metaphor: by dropping objects he learns constantly to manage failure. What do we learn about success from seemingly constant failures? The Seattle Times called him “A juggler of objects and concepts” and went on to say, “A juggler and inspirational speaker: it’d be hard for anybody to balance such extremes, but Bennick seems to do it with grace.”

What do you learn about success from a path where the journey is filled with mistakes? For a juggler, there is no escaping gravity. Along the way Greg has learned about focus and creative courage, facing picking objects up and continuing on even when the path doesn’t seem clear. “Fail better,” a phrase often taken from Samuel Beckett’s writings about failing again and again and again, is a great image to use when connected with juggling.

This is an interactive keynote designed for teams who would love to explore their potential and how their confidence (or lack thereof!) impacts productivity. In this keynote, designed for groups looking to enhance positive mental attitude and confidence among their team members, Greg explores not just juggling for entertainment sake but for the metaphors and life lessons it offers us about confidence, how to push forward into the goals we want to achieve, and how we can do that together.

As is true with all of Greg’s keynotes, he works with you in advance to explore your specific goals, and then customizes what he offers in his keynote to your group. He explores ideas rooted in his book, Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now and makes sure that the takeaways around effective leadership and confidence are solid.