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Marcus Buckingham
Transform workplace performance with Marcus Buckingham, speaker and strengths-based leadership expert. Marcus helps organizations boost productivity and engagement through talent optimization, delivering data-driven insights from his New York Times bestsellers and Harvard Business Review research.
Marcus Buckingham is the world’s authority on what the most influential leaders and highest-performing people do differently. He is the New York Times best-selling author of two of the most popular business books ever. He has two of Harvard Business Review’s most circulated, industry-changing cover articles, and his strengths assessments have been taken by over 10 million people worldwide.
Building on nearly two decades of experience as a Senior Researcher at The Gallup Organization, he brought his data-based discoveries to build a $100 million tech company focused on helping people find and leverage their strengths at work. As a global researcher on people + performance, he sits on Harvard Business Review’s editorial advisory board.
As all revolutions start, His Strengths Revolution started with the simplest of insights: that when people spend the majority of each day on the job using their greatest talents and engaged in their favourite tasks, doing exactly what they want to do, both they and their organizations will win.
In other words, companies that focus on cultivating employees’ strengths rather than simply improving on people’s weaknesses stand to dramatically increase efficiency and productivity while allowing for maximum personal growth.
In his speeches, Marcus demonstrates the correlation between strengths-driven, engaged employees and business fundamentals such as turnover rates, customer satisfaction, profits, resiliency, and productivity. Challenging entrenched preconceptions about achievement to get to the core of what drives success, Marcus’s strengths-based approach is a win/win scenario that, without exaggeration, will define the future of work.
Topics, sessions and talks
How to drive personal performance — Discover the approach that characterizes the most successful people in the world. — Pinpoint your competitive advantage. — Learn how to apply your competitive advantage at work.
Amid challenging times, Marcus shares insights from the largest global resilience study. Discover the three key sources of resilience, along with ten questions to measure it. Attendees will learn effective techniques to cultivate resilience in themselves, their organizations, and those they lead.
Global researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham explores how to pursue what engages and makes us thrive. Buckingham walks audiences through the power of love, breaking free from conformity, and discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others. In this enlightening confrontation of conformity, audiences learn the key tools needed to shift towards love, which – according to Buckingham – is the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence.
In his talk, Marcus Buckingham reveals the key to building a culture of performance by identifying the one trait that distinguishes great leaders. He explores four essential levers that leaders can utilize to foster a high-performing culture while helping attendees clarify their organization’s core strengths. Participants will leave with actionable insights on enhancing leadership effectiveness and driving organizational success.
What the research reveals about the real world of work — Examine the 9 lies that are pervasive in our organizations — Learn the truths behind them, backed by data and research. — Discover how you can become a Freethinking Leader.
Marcus brings unparalleled insights into maximizing team performance and individual strengths, drawing from his extensive research and successful methodologies. Booking him as a speaker will provide your team or business with transformative strategies for enhancing workplace culture and driving success. His engaging approach will inspire and equip your organization to thrive in the future of work.
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To book Marcus Buckingham, email marcus.buckingham@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Marcus' availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Marcus Buckingham draws on data from large-scale global research studies — including what he describes as the largest global resilience study — to present findings through a structured framework format, typically delivering numbered tools or questions (such as ten resilience measures) alongside strengths-based assessments that have been taken by over ten million people worldwide.
Marcus Buckingham speaks on personal performance and competitive advantage, resilience and its measurement, and finding meaning and engagement at work. He is a New York Times bestselling author and former Senior Researcher at The Gallup Organisation whose strengths assessments have been taken by over 10 million people worldwide.
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