Dr. John Izzo

Tha Habits of Happy People

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to maintain ongoing levels of happiness and optimism greater than others do? Do you realize that research shows us by simply changing a few key habits, we can raise the level of our ongoing happiness?

Happiness is serious business since team members who are happy perform better, make fewer critical mistakes, make better decisions, are significantly more resilient, and are more successful. What’s more, happiness is one of the prime life goals for almost all people globally.

Yet, few people know anything about the emerging science of happiness that shows how simple habits can raise the sustainable level of happiness we experience.

This keynote explores the habits of happy, optimistic people and shows how we can become happier and more optimistic while coaching others to be happier and cultivate positivity in their lives.

Based on solid research, your audience will learn habits that can improve their level of happiness on an ongoing basis. Your audience will also discover how to help their teams become happier and achieve greater levels of success.

Outcomes:

• Discover the research-based habits of happy people.
• Learn simple daily, weekly, and monthly habits that lead to sustainable increases in happiness and resiliency.
• Learn about the Five Core Happiness Habits.
• Discover how to help coach others and teams towards sustainable happiness and resiliency.
• Understand team practices that enhance happiness and resiliency.
• Be inspired to move towards greater happiness.
• Achieve higher levels of performance.

Leading for Empathy & Inclusion

Diverse teams where people experience inclusion have been shown to create higher performance and innovation. It is critical for leaders to apply empathy and customize how they lead different individuals. Research shows leaders who demonstrate empathy and inclusion grow innovation, retain talent and lead more highly engaged teams.

Leaders must create a climate where each person can showcase their unique attributes in a way that brings out their personal best. This inspiring keynote or workshop will help inspire your audience to commit to diversity while giving them practical steps to become more inclusive, empathic leaders.

Participants will understand how to create a winning atmosphere and value the diversity of backgrounds, cultures and experiences, while exploring the negative impacts that exclusion brings to the workplace. Specific skills for demonstrating empathy and increasing team inclusion will be introduced and developed.

Outcomes:

• Help leaders see that diversity with inclusion is the key to high performance – building a place where each team member is themself and where the team benefits from a range of lived experiences.
• Inspire leaders to make inclusion a key focus of their leadership.
• Explore how gearing leadership to individual team members’ values and preferences leads to higher performance.
• Understand intersectionality – how each person is the confluence of multiple rivers that make them who they are. Our goal is to understand their experiences and appreciate all factors of their identity.
• Learn how to demonstrate greater levels of empathy and build trusting relationships while leading diverse teams every day.
• Understand the role of unconscious bias in leading inclusive teams and how we can overcome our privilege and bias.
• Learn what it means to be an ally for those who feel marginalized.
• Gain skill at getting to know team members: their purpose, their lived experience, their engagement language, and how they want to be included.

100% Responsibility 0% Excuses: Creating A Culture of Responsibility

Taking responsibility means “Stepping up” and seeing yourself as the agent of change, whether it is changing your company or changing the world–it starts with you.

In this hard hitting keynote Dr. John Izzo talks about a concept he calls 100-0 (100% Responsibility 0 % Excuses) and how each one of us can take greater accountability when we put our excuses aside by focusing on what we can do and the role we play. He gets leaders from the CEO to the front line thinking about what they can do personally to step up.

Audience takeaways:

• How a small group of employees got together and transformed service and morale at a large hospital.
• How a leader took a dying business unit within a large Telco and got employees to step up creating a “cash cow” for her company.
• How a new VP helped drivers take responsibility for the profitability of their individual routes taking his division from worst to first.
• How three women with no business experience helped thousands of women get out of poverty in Africa.

The Purpose Revolution: Differentiating Your Brand in an Age of Disruption

In this powerful keynote or workshop based on his book The Purpose Revolution (How Leaders Create Engagement & Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social Good), Dr. John Izzo shows your audience what customers want, what converts that desire into loyalty, and how you (and your organization) can connect consumers to your authentic purpose.

Dr. Izzo is a consummate storyteller and will wow your audience with examples of this emerging revolution among consumers and brands. He will share powerful tools to help tell consumers your story while embedding purpose in your company.

Your Audience Will:

• Understand the emerging purpose-driven consumer “who they are and what they want”.
• Discover why most companies fail at purpose & how to succeed.
• See why most consumers are skeptical about company “purpose” and how to tell an authentic story.
• Hear powerful examples of how companies are winning loyalty through social good.
• Learn how to tell your purpose story to consumers and how to make employees ambassadors for your purpose brand.
• Find out how to embed purpose into your brand.
• Discover more purpose in your own work.

Leading for Purpose: Working From Purpose

If you really want your people to be engaged and bring their best to work then you need to make sure they have a deep sense of purpose. Research shows that people who see the purpose of their work are more productive, put in more effort, provide better service, and are more engaged.

Dr. John Izzo first introduced the idea of higher purpose at work in his book, Awakening Corporate Soul and has been helping leaders and team members harness the power of purpose for over 25 years. In 2018, his groundbreaking book The Purpose Revolution showed how the emerging desire for purpose is reshaping the world of work.

In this engaging session John explains WHY purpose matters and drives home how to lead for purpose on a daily basis in your organization. Leaders will leave with tangible actions to get the most out of their teams.

By going through this program, you will:

• Identify personal purpose.
• Discover how to stay focused on purpose every day.
• Learn how to help team members find purpose.
• Gain the keys to coaching purpose.
• Discover how leaders drive purpose with teams.

There are two versions of this program with one aimed at individual performers and the second focused on people leaders.

Stepping Up: How taking Responsibility Changes Everything

Have you ever wondered why some people step up and create positive change in the world and in business?

Dr. John Izzo inspires audiences how “stepping up” creates positive change while improving satisfaction at work and in life. Based on his bestselling book Stepping Up, John motivates people about important principles such as:

• Why only naïve people ever change the world.
• The way each of us can step up every day in our lives to make a bigger difference.
• Show how leadership is not a position but a decision to lead.

Filled with inspiring examples of how people have stepped up to make things better, audiences will leave feeling inspired that their individual actions can make a difference in the workplace, our lives and the for the Greater Good of the world.

People will leave feeling motivated to take action immediately by focusing on what they can do personally to drive change rather than to rely on others.

The Secret of Highly Engaging People Leaders

Organizations and teams with high levels of employee engagement are significantly more profitable, have much higher customer loyalty, higher productivity, and a better reputation with customers than those with moderate engagement. In fact, the average HIGHLY engaged team member can be up to 40% more productive than a disengaged performer. But what are the secrets to highly engaged teams and highly engaging leaders? Why do some leaders consistently create highly engaged associates?

Dr. John Izzo has spent a lifetime researching what separates truly passionate, high engagement teams and leaders from the rest of the pack. In this interactive session, John shares the four keys to creating high engagement teams and shows why some leaders are consistently able to get high levels of commitment from people. John gives your attendees practices for how leaders can immediately drive engagement for better results.

Based on his work with many of the best workplaces in the world, John shows leaders how to implement simple disciplines and routines guaranteed to create highly engaged teams.

Your leaders will not only see their role in driving engagement but will leave with ideas they can implement right away that will lead to significantly higher engagement. John has a great track record of getting leaders to become engagement champions.

Outcomes include:

• Learn the five secrets of engaging leaders.
• Gain practical, simple to implement tips for becoming a more engaging people leader RIGHT AWAY.
• Find out why some leaders are routinely more admired (and how to become one of them).
• Apply these principles and choose areas for personal improvement.
• Learn how to check in every day to be a more engaging people leader.

Champions of Accountability: Creating a Culture of Responsibility

Accountability is a major part of every formal leader’s role. Accountability is greatly misunderstood and often perceived negatively both by managers and team members. Done well, the goal of accountability is to inspire and enable people to achieve greater levels of skill, performance, and effectiveness thereby maximizing their potential.

Most leaders have had little training on both how to Lead Accountability in a Positive Way and the keys to helping people change their habits and move performance to higher levels.

This session helps leaders gain new skill at leading for greater accountability while learning the key principles and practices that facilitate sustainable changes in behavior and attitude in those we lead.

In this session your leaders will:

• Discover how to frame accountability positively for self and team members.
• Learn the four biggest mistakes leaders make in leading for accountability.
• Understand how to determine if you need to coach motivation or skill (and how to coach each).
• Find evidence-based practices to help yourself and others create sustainable behavioral change.
• Discover how to help people take 100% responsibility for their own growth.
• Apply these principals to real life cases of leadership situations.
• Apply the learning and identify action plans.
• Conduct an Accountability self-assessment to identify areas for growth.