John Spence

One of the Top Business and Leadership Experts in the World.

Expert on

  • Teamwork / Teambuilding
  • Small Business
  • Leadership
  • Customer Service
  • Strategic Planning
  • Business Growth

Fee Range

$12,000–$20,000

Travels from

FL, US

Biography

For more than 28 years I have traveled upwards of 200 days-a-year helping people and businesses be more successful. How have I earned the credibility to do this sort of work? Here is a little bit of my background.

At 26 I was the CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation, overseeing projects in 20 countries. Just two years later Inc. Magazine named me one of America’s Up and Coming Young Business Leaders. I have also been recognized as one of the Top 100 Business Thought Leaders in America, one of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in America, one of the Top 50 Small Business Experts in America and one of the top 500 Leadership Development Experts in the World. The American Management Association named me one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. I was also shortlisted by the highly prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the top eight in the world for their Distinguished Achievement Award.

I have accomplished all of this through my driving passion to be of service to organizations and executives that want to get better and I assist my clients through training, executive coaching and as a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator in the areas of leadership, high-performance teams, organizational culture, and strategic planning. I have worked for numerous Fortune 500 firms, small to medium-sized businesses, and professional associations and have built my entire career on making complex business ideas simple and actionable.

Speaker Videos

ACHIEVING BUSINESS EXCELLENCE

This is John’s most intensive business improvement workshop and was created specifically to help a management team take a hard, honest look at their business and determine exactly where their strengths and weaknesses are, and then create a focused plan for how to succeed at a higher level in the marketplace.  John has presented this program to CEOs and senior managers in more than 200 companies with extremely positive results.

 Some of the key elements of this workshop include:

  • Understanding the importance of creating a clear vision and focused strategy
  • Numerous benchmarking audits against top companies
  • Understanding the four primary and for secondary drivers of business excellence
  • Examining the importance of mastering the organization’s “moments of truth”
  • Why it is critical to own the voice of the customer
  • An in-depth look at how organizations create effective strategies
  • An examination of the nine steps to effective execution
  • How to greatly increase accountability across the organization

At the end of this workshop the team will leave with a much improved understanding of their business and a plan with specific action steps on what needs to be done immediately to improve the revenues, market share and profitability of the organization.

*** As with all of John’s programs — this can be delivered as a keynote, breakout, half-day or full day workshop. All of John Spence’s program are custom tailored to meet the specific needs of the audience and schedule.

 

THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP

Based on the more than five years of intensive research that John carried out to write his book “Excellence By Design: Leadership” as well as his personal experience working with some of the world’s top leaders in business, government, higher education and the non-profit sector – this program will identify the key characteristics of outstanding leaders in a clear, straightforward and practical manner.

Taught as a mixture of lecture, group discussion, individual and group workshops, this program teaches participants the fundamental skills and attitudes necessary to be an effective leader and the tools to implement a successful leadership development action plan for improving those skills

Some of the key elements of this workshop include:

  • Presentation of Global Best Practices in Leadership Development
  • Review of Leading Research on Effective Leadership
  • Understanding the importance of Values-based Leadership
  • Presentation of the Key Characteristics of Outstanding Leaders
  • Leadership Competency Model workshop
  • Understanding the aspects of advanced self-leadership
  • Creation of Personal Leadership Development Plan

*** As with all of John’s programs — this can be delivered as a keynote, breakout, half-day or full day workshop. All of John Spence’s program are custom tailored to meet the specific needs of the audience and schedule.

BUILDING A WINNING CULTURE

Based on the findings of a national Gallup poll, the Great Places to Work Study, the Firms of Endearment Study and John’s personal experience working in some of the top companies in America, this session focuses on what it takes to build and sustain an organizational culture that creates highly satisfied, engaged and loyal employees who possess an “ownership mentality.”  The goal of this program is for attendees to understand the importance of creating and supporting a culture that embraces change, fosters accountability, has a strong sense of urgency and maintains disciplined execution in order to deliver the required business results.

Some of the key elements of this workshop include:

  • A look at the numbers – how culture= cash
  • The key factors that make up a “great place to work”
  • What creates engagement, enthusiasm and loyalty an d employees
  • What the leaders of the organization look for in an outstanding culture
  • Why creating a strong, positive organizational culture should be a key corporate strategy
  • How to initiate and sustain culture change
  • How to help people in the organization deal with change
  • How to greatly increase the level of accountability across the entire organization

A major focus of this workshop is not only helping people clearly understand what it takes to build a winning culture, but giving them the tools, ideas and takeaways that will allow them to go back and immediately begin to shape the culture in a more positive direction.

*** As with all of John’s programs — this can be delivered as a keynote, breakout, half-day or full day workshop. All of John Spence’s program are custom tailored to meet the specific needs of the audience and schedule.

STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

This workshop is what John refers to as, “strategic planning for your life.”  This intensive and highly personal program is designed to help people taking an honest look at where their life currently is and help them create a specific, clear and focused plan to enjoy more happiness, balance and success in their life and career.

Some of the key elements of this workshop include:

  • Understanding your true core values
  • The power of questions
  • Examining who you spend your time with and how you spend your time
  • Understanding what gives you stress and what gives you joy
  • Learning what you can control and how to let go of what you can’t
  • Creating a three-year vision for your ideal life
  • Developing action steps to make your ideal life become reality

During the past 10 years John has taught this class to thousands of people around the world and it has consistently been rated as one of the most meaningful and important programs they have ever attended.

 

*** This class is typically taught as a half-day workshop ***