Ron McMillan

New York Times Best Selling Author

Expert on

  • Communication
  • Healthcare
  • Difficult People

Fee Range

$20,000–$30,000

Travels from

UT, US

Business Communication Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author

For more than twenty-eight years, Ron McMillan has helped union and first-level managers, CEOs, and corporate executives become measurably more vital by advising them on topics including team development, personal vitality, quality, communication, and results-oriented leadership. Cofounder of VitalSmarts, Ron has researched methods for driving rapid, sustainable, and measurable change in behaviors.

Bestselling Author

Ron is the coauthor of seven books, three of which are The New York Times bestsellers Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. Recognized as a subject-matter expert in interpersonal relationships, corporate culture change, and workplace issues, Ron has been featured widely in the national media including NPR, Inc. magazine, and the New York Times.

Business Consulting Expert

A pioneer in the training industry, Ron cofounded the Covey Leadership Center where he helped to develop numerous training programs including Principle Centered Leadership and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Ron is cofounder of VitalSmarts and currently serves on its board of directors. With award-winning training products based on thirty years of ongoing research, VitalSmarts has helped more than three hundred of the Fortune 500 realize significant results using a proven method for driving rapid, sustainable and measurable change in behaviors. VitalSmarts has been ranked twice by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America and has taught two million people worldwide.

Seasoned Speaker

A gifted speaker, Ron has appeared at hundreds of conferences, conventions and management retreats for associations such as the American Society of Training and Development, Human Resource Development, and Direct Selling Association. Additionally, Ron has appeared before corporate clients including Lockheed Martin, AT&T, Nike, Saturn, Hewlett-Packard, Ford, Lennox, Disney, Harley Davidson, Mayo Clinic, and Intel. Ron’s unrivaled ability to delight a crowd and inspire his audience to improve their personal and professional lives has clients asking for his return again and again.

CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS

A passionate social scientists, Ron McMillan has spent thirty years studying crucial moments that have the potential to change the trajectory of our career, lives, and relationships – moments when what we say and how we say it can mean the difference between success and failure. When the stakes are high, emotions run strong, and opinions differ, masters of crucial conversations create alignment and agreement. They speak up and share their concerns candidly and respectfully regardless of the other person’s level or position. What’s more, in organizations that foster cultures of open dialogue, mistakes are caught more quickly, and decisions are implemented more effectively, and innovation flows more routinely.

INFLUENCER

Every leader wants to be an influencer – to create wide-spread and lasting change. And yet, few leaders possess more than a handful of techniques for getting others to change. What truly influential leaders understand is that influence has little to do with pep talks, bribes or system updates but rather is the capacity to systematically, rapidly, and sustainability change a handful of key behaviors. By drawing from the skills of hundreds of successful leaders, thousands of successful change efforts, and more than six decades of the best social science research, Ron Mcmillan teaches a proven model for leading change.

10X YOUR INFLUENCE

Ron Mcmillan has spent the past 30 years studying effective change agents – leaders who have rapidly and systematically produced widespread change in human behavior. His research, published in the MIT Sloan Management Review and named by MIT as the Change Management Approach of the Year teaches that these effective influencers drive change by relying on six different sources of influence at the same time. Those who succeed predictably and repeatedly don’t differ from others by degrees. They differ exponentially.

CHANGE ANYTHING

Often, we want to make big changes but lack the resolve to see them through. We can’t seem to summon the necessary willpower to take on huge challenges like improving performance at work, earning a promotion or increasing productivity. Ron McMillan studied more than 5,000 people attempting to overcome intrepid personal challenges and uncovered a breakthrough in personal influence. our inability to change is not due to a lack of will, but rather, a lack of skill. With a clearer understanding of six powerful sources of influence that shape our behavior, we can become ten times more successful at changing anything.