Over the past twenty years, Joseph Grenny has taught and advised more than one hundred thousand leaders on every major continent from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. He has advised CEOs and senior executives on more than a dozen major change initiatives—receiving credit from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ President as a key factor in helping the organization win the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter program.
Bestselling Author
Joseph is coauthor and contributor to eight books, including three 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.
An expert in topics ranging from leadership and interpersonal communication to organizational change and effectiveness, Joseph has been cited in dozens of newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has also appeared on more than one hundred radio and television programs including CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Today Show.
Dynamic Speaker
Having delivered more than one thousand speeches in his career, Joseph’s engaging style is a sought-after mix of entertainment, practicality, and foundational research. Traveling across the globe from East Asia, to India, to Europe, Joseph has spoken to associations and organizations including NASA, the American Bankers Association, the Supreme Court of California, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American Public Works Association, and the American Society of Training and Development.
A seasoned executive and business strategy expert, Joseph has addressed executive level teams for clients including IBM, Progressive Insurance, Sprint, Textron, McGraw-Hill, Eli Lilly & Company, Texas Instruments, and Genentech. Whether he’s speaking to an audience of more than ten thousand or to a small executive team, Joseph’s dynamic and captivating style keeps his skills in high demand.
Business Results Expert
Formerly, Joseph was president of California Computer Corporation and an executive for the Covey Leadership Center. Building on his extensive history of entrepreneurial and leadership experience, Joseph co-founded VitalSmarts and currently serves on its board of directors. With award-winning training products based on more than 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.
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Over the past twenty years, Joseph Grenny has taught and advised more than one hundred thousand leaders on every major continent from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. He has advised CEOs and senior executives on more than a dozen major change initiatives—receiving credit from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ President as a key factor in helping the organization win the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter program.
Bestselling Author
Joseph is coauthor and contributor to eight books, including three 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.
An expert in topics ranging from leadership and interpersonal communication to organizational change and effectiveness, Joseph has been cited in dozens of newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has also appeared on more than one hundred radio and television programs including CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Today Show.
Dynamic Speaker
Having delivered more than one thousand speeches in his career, Joseph’s engaging style is a sought-after mix of entertainment, practicality, and foundational research. Traveling across the globe from East Asia, to India, to Europe, Joseph has spoken to associations and organizations including NASA, the American Bankers Association, the Supreme Court of California, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American Public Works Association, and the American Society of Training and Development.
A seasoned executive and business strategy expert, Joseph has addressed executive level teams for clients including IBM, Progressive Insurance, Sprint, Textron, McGraw-Hill, Eli Lilly & Company, Texas Instruments, and Genentech. Whether he’s speaking to an audience of more than ten thousand or to a small executive team, Joseph’s dynamic and captivating style keeps his skills in high demand.
Business Results Expert
Formerly, Joseph was president of California Computer Corporation and an executive for the Covey Leadership Center. Building on his extensive history of entrepreneurial and leadership experience, Joseph co-founded VitalSmarts and currently serves on its board of directors. With award-winning training products based on more than 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.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Whenever you’re not getting the results you’re looking for, it’s likely that a crucial conversation is keeping you stuck. Based on the New York Times bestselling book by the same title, Joseph guides the audience through the skills to get unstuck.
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
Every individual, team, and organization faces disappointment. People make promises and break them-and bad things happen. Based on the New York Times bestselling book by the same title, Joseph addresses tools for ensuring accountability.
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
The most important capacity we hold is the capacity to influence behavior. Based on the New York Times bestseller, Influencer, you will learn strategies to make change inevitable–strategies founded on more than five decades of the best social science research and confirmed in thousands of world-wide change efforts.
Leadership for Maximum Engagement: Crucial Skills for Team and Organizational Performance
What differentiates the best leaders and leadership teams from the rest? The best teams achieve something the rest never attain: 100 percent engagement and absolute intellectual honesty. Joseph explores the crucial conversations skills that will immediately propel your team to maximum engagement.
Silence Kills: The Seven Crucial Conversations in Healthcare
All too often, well-intentioned professionals in healthcare organizations choose not to speak up when they’re concerned with the behavior, decisions, or actions of a colleague.
"100 percent of the session's attendees agreed or strongly agreed in overall satisfaction with the presenter!" — ASTD 2003 International Conference
"Joseph is truly gifted at his craft. I have never been so sure of doing the right thing as I am with our decision to invite Joseph to present to our leadership team. Joseph, his stories, and his brilliant material were a complete hit." — Coordinator of Service Excellence Patient Relations / Service Excellence Banner, Desert Medical Center
"We asked Joseph Grenny to provide a three-hour overview of Crucial Conversations to a global leadership conference of our top one hundred executives. Most were highly skeptical about consultants in general. Joseph delivered an outstanding presentation in the face of these high risk conditions. He moved the audience back and forth between laughing hysterically and thinking deeply about how crucial conversations impact results that really matter. The three hours flew by and the audience was left wanting more." — Director, Organizational Effectiveness, Eli Lilly and Company
"Joseph Grenny has the ability to normalize the challenges we all experience, touch people on an emotional level with his storytelling, and challenge us to move forward and address those 'Crucial Conversations' that are keeping us stuck whether at home or work. In a short time, Joseph Grenny's presentation kept people talking and learning long after he walked off the stage. The concepts resonated with participants." — Performance and Development Manager, City of Eugene
