Professional Keynote Speaker

Leadership Mindsets That Elevate Performance

Steven brings his audiences expertise in leadership, business growth, marketing, sales, and professional development. 

A highly accomplished platform and virtual speaker, Steven provides Leadership Keynote Speeches globally for public and corporate conferences, association events, off-site meetings, executive leadership retreats, and sales meetings. 

Leadership Thought Leader

Global Top 200 Voices in Leadership

As one of the 2023 Top 200 Global Voices on Leadership, Steven is  recognized worldwide for his thought leadership and writing on leadership, leadership development, employee engagement, and decision-making. 

Award-Winning Author

Top-Selling Author. Industry Recognition.

Steven is the award-winning author of 22 books on leadership, management, business growth, and professional development. Several of his books have received industry awards.

Global Experience

International and Multicultural Perspective

Having lived in the USA for 30+ years, in Singapore for 21 years, in Australia for 12 years, and in Mexico for three years, Steven brings a truly international and multicultural perspective to his keynote presentations and breakout sessions.

Workshop Facilitator

Breakout Sessions and In-House Workshops

Over the past 30 years, Steven has trained, coached, and mentored over 12,000 manages and leaders from every continent and across a wide range of industries, associations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Leadership Mentor and Coach

Practical, Real-World Business Experience

Steven has been a people leader for over 40 years, across numerous industries and geographies. He brings practical, real-world, hands-on business experience that his coaching clients can leverage for their growth and success. 

Signature Programs: Leadership Mindsets That Elevate Performance

In my keynote talks, I show leaders how to overcome the key problems organizations are facing: employee engagement, staff turnover, productivity, low trust levels, and workplace conflict and drama.

My talks are a wake-up call for leaders that changing their mindsets will lead to sustainable results and enhance their leadership legacies.

Here are overviews of my four signature programs. For details on these programs, go to the Signature Programs page.

Build Your Association Through Better Decision Making

It is not WHAT you think, but HOW you think that makes a difference in the outcomes you generate.

Decisions made under emotional duress, stress, anxiety, and pressure tend to be less than optimal.

There are five major mistakes people make when facing hard decisions.

Better decision-making and better thinking — and thus better outcomes — can be yours by understanding how stress and anxiety impacts your decision-making.

Managing People is a 1980s Construct Not Relevant Today

People do not want to be managed. They want to be led, motivated, empowered, trusted, and given opportunities to grow their skills and decision-making capabilities.

Employees want (and need) to be coached, mentored, unshackled from directives, and freed from being told how to accomplish their work.

Leaders who manage people — instead of being people-centric leaders — are the major contributors to the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting trends.

Leaders need to excel at the coaching and people development aspects of leadership. They need to put aside micromanaging and escalate micro-coaching.

Humony Mindset Creates Legacy Leaders

The  global business environment was changing before Covid, but now these changes are happening at warp speed. We are in the throes of a pivotal moment, facing the greatest transformation in how we work and lead since the early days of word processing and the desktop computer.

Work is not working for many people — because of the way they are managed (and not led) — resulting in the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting trends.

Humony Leadership is a better approach. Humony is a created word comprising human, humanity, and harmony to emphasize the leading of people and the need for leaders to create workplaces of wellbeing and harmony.

Leaders must unlearn management, relearn to be human, and learn to be people-centric to drive long-term sustainable success and their leadership legacy.

Leaders: Start All Relationships on Basis of Trust

One lesson from the pandemic: people want greater human connection. Leaders need to excel at the human connection aspect of leadership. That human connection starts with trust.

Research across the globe confirms a lack of trust in the workplace today by managers, leaders, and employees.

The lack of trust by managers and leaders in employees reduces inclusion, productivity, innovation, and results.

The solution: stop telling team members “here’s how to earn your trust.” Start with trust and advise them what it takes to lose your trust.