Sample topics - each can be tailored from one to four hours
Leadership Secrets: Ten Important Questions and Answers
- Why are there so few good leaders?
- How do we unleash the power in employee’s brains?
- Are leaders born or made?
Barriers to Employee Performance and What to Do About Them
- Three employee inhibitors and one crusher
- What motivates employees to higher performance?
- Three major boss blind spots
Essential for Great Executives
- Three employee inhibitors and one crusher
- What motivates employees to higher performance?
- Three major boss blind spots
A sought-after speaker, he is an acknowledged expert in applied leadership and organizational change and transformation.
He combines leadership research with rich, relevant stories and a dash of humor to supply imaginative ways to increase employee satisfaction and organizational performance.
In addition to consulting, Mike teaches or lectures on leadership at the National Intelligence University, Georgetown, the University of Salzburg, Notre Dame, and the University of Maryland.
Mike Mears gives an engaging series of talks on the topics of modern leadership, with an empathetic and rational approach that based on modern scientific findings. Mike know of what he speaks, having been:
- Chief of Human Capital, CIA – Founding the CIA’s Leadership Academy
- Turnaround specialist for GE
- President of a well known Fast Food company
- Senior VP GE Investments
- Started up 11 companies
- A General’s aid, combat commander, and decorated Vietnam veteran
- Consultant to Intelligence Community senior leaders, and executives around the world.
Mike applies his training from West Point and Harvard Business School together with his years of real world experience to provide dynamic and entertaining public speeches and invaluable organizational training.
Mike often speaks and offers training internationally and nationally to audiences of all sizes, including top executives, and management teams. Mike Mears gives over thirty keynote speeches and seminars every year. His clients include:
His topics tie in with the latest in leadership research. In the last five years, we have learned more about leadership than in any other period in history. And just in time!
Neuroscience, advanced polling, positive psychology, and academia have made significant breakthroughs in understanding the nature of leadership and why great leadership energizes organizations and people.
