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Organizations face big challenges: whether it is an accelerated rate of change, the threat of disruption, ambitious targets or aggressive competition. They can only overcome these challenges with exceptional and authentic leadership.
Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is a respected and award-winning visionary when it comes to building high-performing teams and cultures. Organizations such as United Healthcare, Blue Cross and even Harvard have consulted JP and his firm when it comes to building high-performing teams. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When it Matters Most, published in 65 countries and named as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Business Books of the Year.
JP’s works with a who’s who of Fortune 100 companies such as Goldman Sachs, Google, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Salesforce, PepsiCo, and Federal Reserve Bank as well as the US Marines, Olympic athletes and NBA and NFL teams which has provided him with considerable opportunities to test his science-based tools in environments of high pressure.
Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is the perfect balance of inspiring and practical, results-focused and fun. He delivers powerful and actionable keynotes to drive meaningful outcomes for organizations worldwide.
As a culture, leadership, and Emotional Intelligence keynote speaker, JP brings something different than usual: he combines teaching experience at a world class business school (Kellogg), as well as being an award-winning entrepreneur (Profit Magazine’s Fastest growing companies, IHHP). JP blends deep, real-world leadership experience with a powerful stage presence to help people and organizations thrive. JP combines engaging stories and practical techniques that push audiences to think differently as they face the challenges of change, disruption, innovation, the need to engage their teams, build a powerful culture, and the pressure to achieve results.
IHHP surveys over 40,000 people a month and JP uses that capability to bring cutting edge ideas to your program and also, at no added cost, to survey your audience prior to the program and present back results against benchmarks as a way to deliver personalized insight. People walk away remarking how they felt that JP was talking directly to them. JP customizes every keynote to have the biggest possible impact, combining engaging stories and practical techniques that push audiences to think differently as they face the challenge of change, disruption, innovation, the need to engage their teams, build a powerful culture and the pressure to achieve results.
The focus of his work is bringing a research-based approach to understand human performance. He and his team are renowned for naming the gap between what people want to do and what they actually do as The Last 8%. These are the conversations and decisions that don’t happen or that take too long to happen because they are perceived to be too risky. They are at the heart of why some organizations and leaders succeed while others fail.
Best keynote presentation I have been to in years! Very different than the usual: extremely interesting and powerful – yet highly entertaining. It is not often I hear someone who can really ‘put it together’ like him.
“I’ve personally seen team members leverage the EQ strategies in high pressure situations and always set the better example as a result. They are enabled to not to get triggered by people, challenging them to stay calm and come up with innovative solutions more collaboratively.”
“Our CEO and his executive team saw a very clear path between learning the Last 8% skills and driving a high-care and high-accountability culture, key tenets of our Tenneco Way. Once they started working on modelling the culture themselves, it’s raised the bar for rest of the organization to also implement new behaviors through the Sprint process. We are seeing a huge positive impact from the Last 8% Culture system rollout.”
“We’ve seen significant benefits of investing in developing these people skills. The employee populations who experience these programs tend to have higher retention rates, increased performance and even higher promotion rates. A number of program participants have said that the training not only made them a better leader at work but also a better partner/ spouse/parent/friend etc. – more equipped to navigate the world we live in.”
“Our employee retention is significant due to our Last 8% Culture. We’ve gone from a 17.5% turnover rate to an 11% turnover rate in the past year and a half, something like that translates into real dollars. When we talk about that turnover rate and going from a ratio of losing 250 people a year to a third of that or half of that, that can be real money, close to $10 million bucks actually if you really look at it.”
“The IHHP team always have insightful and programs and sessions. We were able to connect them directly to our own behaviors. We really liked the way they had us practice the strategies rather than just telling us about them so we could internalize the behavior. That way, we’ll actually remember it!”
“Since the roll out of their Science of Emotional Intelligence training we have seen a positive impact on our business, including retention, better collaboration and improved engagement. We’ve seen relationships improve. Leaders have become more self-aware of how they impact people and are able to better connect and coach their teams. We also heard many stories of people applying the strategies in their personal lives – that’s when you know people are really engaged in learning!”
Get in touch to learn more about booking JP as a keynote speaker for your next event.
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