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Dr. Izzo's Program Descriptions
Dr. Izzo has spoken to
thousands of audiences globally and has shared the
conference stage with Tom Peters, Oprah Winfrey, Ken Blanchard,
Malcolm Gladwell, Laurie Beth Jones, Beverly Kaye and in March of
2007 Dr. Izzo shared the stage with Jane
Fonda and Jane Arden. Dr. Izzo's presentation categories are as
follows:
Leadership
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Creating the
Great Workplace
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Corporate
Culture
(for Leaders,
Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and Conferences)
Workplace Trends
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Generational
Values (for
Leaders, HR Groups, Business
Owners and Conferences)
Sustainability
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Conservation
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Green
Business
(For Leaders,
Business Owners, Front Line Teams and Conferences)
Inspiration
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Motivation
(for Leaders,
Partner/Spouse Combinations, Conferences and Corporate Recognition
and Incentive Events)
Education Specific
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Healthcare Specific
(Healthcare:
Leaders, Administration and Healthcare Delivery Professionals in the
US and Canada. Education: Superintendant, Principle, Teachers
as well as Post Secondary Institutions in the US and Canada
(please scroll down to peruse programs)
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Leadership
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Creating
the Great Workplace
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Corporate
Culture
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Leading In Tough
Times:
Engaging Your
People During Change
How do we keep
people engaged and motivated during tough economic times? What
are the keys to keeping people on side and leading them through
change? This session will explore the keys to leading people
during tough times and engaging them through change. The session
will help leaders understand what people need in changing times
and practical ways to engage people during such times. Filled
with real life examples from working with over 600 companies,
Dr. Izzo will help your leaders learn the secrets to companies
that navigate tough times effectively. Among other things,
leaders will learn: How to keep people focused on the long term?
How to engage people in change so that they help you stay
successful and don’t act like victims? How to keep a climate of
recognition and success even when things are tough? What are the
five things people need from leaders during times of change and
how can leaders deliver it? How to become the employer of choice
when things are tough?
The Buzz Factor:
What Great Workplaces Teach Us &
How to Become One
Some workplaces
have a "buzz," a definable, palpable energy that makes people want
to commit and do their best. Buzz is hard to define but we all know
it when we experience it. It is characterized by high commitment,
passionate belief, deep trust, and a tremendous sense of pride. We
have heard about such workplaces, but what is their secret? Why do
some companies and organizations have what some have called "magic."
In this keynote, Dr. Izzo shares a lifetime of learning from working
with and researching many of these unique places where passionate
commitment reigns as normal everyday reality. He will help leaders
and colleagues understand the key factors that create "buzz," gain
practical ideas on how to create it, and be inspired to strive to
become one of those truly engaging places to work.
Branding from the
Inside-Out
You are wasting your
money if you think a logo is all you need to brand your company. A
brand is created by the daily interaction between your staff and
your customers. Who you hire, how they are treated, whether they
are engaged or not and whether they believe in the services and
products they sell, has everything to do with how the world sees
your brand! In this inspiring and practical program Dr. John Izzo
will help your attendees understand how to create an engaged team
who live the values of the brand every day.
Building Your
Business Through Engaging Your People
The
key to business success and growth is to have engaged people who
will be great ambassadors for your business. In this program Dr.
Izzo focuses on how business owners and leaders can build the
business through highly engaged employees who are passionate about
the business, who know what matters and deliver it to customers and
clients on a consistent basis.
A Company of Owners
Every company wants
their people to act like owners, to care as much about the success
of the company as the CEO. Dr. Izzo has spent a lifetime helping
companies create a place where every person takes 100%
responsibility for the success of the company. Using his experience
as an advisor to some of the most admired and successful companies
in the world, Izzo will help leaders discover the keys to creating a
culture of ownership where every person acts like the own the
business.
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Workplace Trends
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Generational
Values
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Values Shift:
Engaging a Changed Workforce
Worker
motivation and retention now rank evenly with customer service as
the key to holding market edge. Never has it been so important to
see the workplace through employees' eyes, and cater to their
beliefs and needs. This represents nothing short of a sea of change
from values of even ten years ago. This keynote focuses on six major
value shifts in terms of what people expect from work and are
looking for in a company. It offers practical ideas on what
companies and leaders can do to win commitment and increase loyalty
of employees companies, Dr. Izzo will help your people understand
these shifting values and how they differ across generation and
gender. Find out what successful companies are doing in response!
(Based on His book, VALUES SHIFT: The New Work Ethic & What it Means
for Business)
Key points:
• Understand the six major value shifts
• Learn what this means for retention of employees
• Learn what leading-edge companies are doing to respond to these
shifts
• Understand how these shifts differ across generations and gender
• Gain practical ideas on how organizations and leaders can respond
to these shifts and win commitment from their people.
Four Generations - One Workplace:
How
to Bridge the Gaps & Thrive in the Future
Winning and keeping
talented people has become one of the top concerns of today's
managers and business owners who are determined to weather the
turmoil and emerge with the strength to dominate their industry.
How can organizations create high levels of commitment and
engagement? With employees' values shifting, how must leaders shift
their thinking and behavior? This program offers powerful and
practical ideas on what managers can do to increase employee loyalty
while responding to changing expectations. By defining the new work
ethic and what it means for business, this visionary expert on
engagement, retention and corporate culture will help you
understand:
• Why Pre-boomers, baby boomers,
generation X-ers and the net generation view work differently, and
how new leadership strategies can bring out the best in all three
groups
• The fastest, most effective ways to encourage employee loyalty at
every level
• How to attract and keep the most talented employees by meeting the
six major expectations of the workforce
• How to build the bridges that will be crucial to your organization
in difficult times
• How to sustain employee engagement by making work more than just a
way to make a living
• How to develop trust through open communication.
Spirited Teamwork:
Everyone is Responsible
Successful teams and
successful organizations are places where every associate is
responsible for creating a great place to work where excellence and
high morale drive success. But what are the keys to spirited
teamwork? How does each team member create a place of truly spirited
teamwork? Dr. Izzo shares insights and practical ideas on how each
person can become responsible for a great workplace. This program
has been successfully given to entire companies, large divisions and
associates at many levels in a wide variety of industries. Clients
often speak about how associates come back on “fire” for their role
in creating a better team and a better workplace.
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Sustainability
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Conservation
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Green Business
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A Sustainable
Future: The Challenge of Our
Generation
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Sustainability has become one
of the emerging global issues of our time. From melting Arctic Ice
to disappearing forests, there are signs everywhere that we must
meet this challenge. Dr. Izzo shows how sustainability is not one
challenge among many but THE challenge of our generation akin to the
war the last generation fought to free the world from tyranny. Many
talks on sustainability leave attendees discouraged but this program
will leave your people inspired, challenged and stepping up to make
a difference. This program helps individuals find the truth amidst
all the noise about the challenges that we face and leaves everyone
knowing how we can meet the challenge ahead. Using beautiful images,
startling facts and inspiring examples of how we are already
stepping up to meet the challenge of our generation, this program
works for every level of the organization or for clients.
The Green Advantage:
Making Your Business a
Sustainable Leaders***
Surveys show that an increasing
number of consumers and employees rank the environment and
sustainability near the top of their list. What’s more, companies
that take the “green challenge” can save costs while gaining a real
advantage in the marketplace. But how does a company go “green” and
become a sustainability leader? Dr. Izzo brings twenty-five years of
experience helping companies to help your organization understand
the advantages of sustainability while implementing practical steps
to become a sustainability leader in your industry.
Business & the Green
Challenge: How Business Will
Save The Planet
If you are tired of “green
talks” that beat up on business, this talk is for you. Business is
often blamed for damaging the environment but in this program Dr.
John Izzo shows that business is and must lead the way to meet the
challenge of sustainability. He shows how individuals cannot do
enough alone and why government is important but unable to meet the
challenge. Through inspiring examples, startling facts, personal
stories and practical ideas, your audience will leave seeing the
important role businesses and corporate leaders will play in meeting
the sustainability challenge.
It's Not Easy Being
Green***
Award
winning writer, Biography Channel host and Leadership advisor Dr. John
Izzo discusses the challenges faced by companies today as they continue
to stay competitive, work hard to be profitable and successful, learn
new and advanced market needs and stay up to date on technologies and
trends, deal with a never ending labor shortages and look ahead to the
pressing environmental issues in front of them. How do we as leaders
keep all these important balls in the game when each one depends on the
other? Dr. John Izzo presents on the values that are shaping the work
world but with some added flavor…the road to retention, business success
and profitability lies in embracing the current green trends. It isn’t
easy being green today – but this same issue “being green” will attract
the conscious workers who care about the world and this industry’s
contribution to solutions. In true Izzo fashion, this program will be
complete with stories of real people and real companies who are changing
how we think about green.
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Inspiration
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Motivation
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Based on Dr.
Izzo’s PBS series and new book
The Five Secrets You
Must Discover Before You Die***
What are the keys to a purposeful,
successful, and fulfilling life? What must we discover about life
before it is too late? Dr. John Izzo interviewed over 200 people
from the age of 60-106 and asked them to reflect back on their
lives. What did they learn? What would they do differently? What
brought the greatest happiness and meaning? What were the important
crossroads and the decisions they made and what did they regret?
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Healthcare Specific
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Renewing the Heart of Healthcare***
Health care is a
unique "business" where a deep sense of mission is both the driver
of passion and the best predictor of success. Yet many health care
organizations are experiencing a loss of soul and purpose, while
people take sides in a "we vs. they" mindset (management vs.
clinical people, corporate vs. field, doctors vs. everybody). Dr.
John Izzo has worked with over 300 health care organizations across
North America and Western Europe.
In this powerful program, he will help your group understand the
keys to renewing the heart health care, how leaders at all
levels-from CEO's to the front line-can take responsibility for
re-igniting passion and purpose at work. His work in health care
renewal has been featured by Nurse Week, the American Medical
Journal, Health Care Finance and many other publications. His talks
ARE both practical and inspiring, and will challenge our audience to
take personal responsibility for putting heart back in health care
delivery.
Creating the
Passionate Workplace:
Over the last several years, an increasing number of organizations
and leaders have become interested in creating more spirited, soulful
workplaces. Indeed, the deepest commitment comes from those who
experience work as more than a way to make a living but as an expression
of their values and desires to contribute. In this keynote, Dr. Izzo
will explore four paths to finding more purpose and success and will
help leaders at all levels discover practical ways to create more spirit
for themselves and their teams. Based on his groundbreaking book
Awakening Corporate Soul: Four Paths to Unleash the Power of People at
Work. (FairWinds Press 1997)
Sacred
Service:
Beyond Customer Service to Compassionate Care
Almost every
health care organization is trying to provide great customer service
to patients and clients but many traditional methods fail to inspire
truly compassionate care.
In this program,
Dr. Izzo uses two decades of experience advising health organizations to
show the path to truly compassionate care-to where every patient feels
loved and cared for deeply. Through compelling stories and real life
examples, this program can be focused on formal leaders or to front-line
clinicians. Whatever the audience: From nurse leaders to front line
nurses, from physicians and to other care
providers, this program will show how to get beyond customer service
to compassionate care.
The Teacher’s
Heart:
Rediscovering the Joy & Wonder of Teaching
Teaching a great
profession and also one where teacher burnout is an ongoing
challenge. Research shows that teachers who maintain passion and
enthusiasm are more successful with students and have more career
satisfaction. But how do teachers keep joy and wonder in their work?
What are the keys to ongoing teacher vitality? Dr. Izzo explores the
concept of the teacher’s heart, and ways teachers keep a sense of
purpose and wonder in their work and the classroom. Rooted in his
own life as a teacher, Dr. Izzo will touch the heart, challenge the
mind, and leave teachers with valuable methods for renewing their
work as teachers.
Awakening the
Spirit of Education
Amidst all the tasks
at work, we often forget that creating joyful, purposeful workplaces
is a central role for leaders in education. When the soul is awake
and joy is present, many of the most challenging outcomes we
seek-better student scores, teacher engagement and school
morale-become attainable. But how do we awaken the spirit amidst the
many challenges facing educators today? In this session, Dr. Izzo
will inspire your heart, challenge your mind, and bring fresh ideas
on creating soul at work
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