Jon Gordon

Speech Topics

• The Hard Hat: 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate

  Great teammates don’t just impact you today; they impact you for the rest of your life. The Hard Hat, inspired by an unforgettable true story, is designed to infuse selflessness, loyalty, joy, hard-work, competitiveness, and compassion within every leader and teammate. It will inspire you to be the best teammate you can be and to build a great team. Applications: •Team Building •Leadership Development •Culture Building •Performance •Engagement

• Soup: A Recipe to Create a Culture of Greatness

  In Jon's popular book Soup, get ready to stir the pot and discover a proven recipe to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. In this powerful, nourishing and humorous presentation, Jon Gordon shares the key ingredients to lead, unite, and engage your team. If you are ready to stir the pot, lead by your example, boost morale and create engaged relationships that foster teamwork and enhance performance, then this Soup is for you and your team. Applications: •Positive Leadership •Positive Culture •Sales •Customer Service •Team Work •Employee Engagement •Leadership •Team Development

• The Power of Positive Leadership

  Based on his Wall Street Journal bestselling book The Power of Positive Leadership, Jon Gordon presents how and why positive leaders transform teams and organizations, and change the world. Positive leadership is not about fake positivity. It is the real stuff that makes great leaders great. The research is clear. Being a positive leader is not just a nice way to lead. It's the way to lead if you want to build a great culture, unite your organization in the face of adversity, develop a connected and committed team and achieve excellence and superior results. Discover the Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Leaders Great. Applications: •Leadership and Team development •Positive Culture •Vision •Positive Customer Service •Team Work •Employee Engagement •HR •Training

• The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your LIfe, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

  Based on his international and Wall Street Journal best-selling book The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon presents a powerful roadmap to overcome common life and work obstacles and bring out the best in yourself and your team. Everyone faces challenges and every person, organization, company and team will have to overcome negativity and adversity to define themselves and create their success. Whether you are a leader looking to build a positive culture, a manager trying to energize and engage your team or someone who desires to enhance your productivity and performance, this talk will help you create more success and enjoy the ride of your life. Applications: •Positive Culture •Sales Performance •Positive Customer Service •TeamWork •Employee •Engagement •HR

• The Power of a Positive Team

  Based on his Wall Street Journal bestselling book The Power of a Positive Team, Jon Gordon shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams. This presentation is packed with compelling stories and strategies to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance. • Team development • Culture • Trust • Teamwork • Engagement • Shared Vision • Team alignment

• The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Principles of All

  In his inspirational story The Carpenter, Jon Gordon presents powerful lessons and the greatest success strategies of all to build a better life, career, team and organization. Everyone faces adversity and every person, organization, company and team will have to overcome fear, failure, busyness and stress to stand out, excel and make an impact on your team, customers, and the world. Whether you are looking to enhance your leadership, teamwork, sales performance or customer service Jon Gordon provides the tools you need to create your masterpiece. Let’s get started and begin the building process today. • Leadership • Culture building • Sales performance • Positive custome service • Employee Engagement • HR

• The Training Camp: A Fable About Excellence

  Have you ever wondered what makes someone great in their field of work? Based on his work with professional sports teams, world-class organizations, and interviews with top professionals in a wide variety of fields, Jon Gordon discovered that the best of the best share a number of similar characteristics. There is a formula for success. There are habits that the best do that others don’t and things that they do better than everyone else. There is a way that the best of the best approach their life and work and craft that differentiates themselves from others. This formula is predictable, repeatable and a process anyone can follow. In this inspirational keynote, Jon shares invaluable wisdom, deep insights and proven strategies on what it takes to bring out the best in yourself and your team. Whether you play sports or the piano or work with numbers, a computer or a scalpel, these lessons apply to everyone who must climb the mountain before reaching its peak. • Leadership • Culture building • Sales Performance • Customer service • Employee engagement • HR

• The Energy Bus for Schools: 7 Ways to Improve your School Culture, Remove Negativity, Energize Your Teachers, and Empower Your Students

  Jon discusses takeaways from his book The Energy Bus. In The Energy Bus for Schools: 7 Ways to Improve Your School Culture, Remove Negativity, Energize Your Teachers, and Empower Your Students, bestselling author Jon Gordon and education leader Dr. Jim Van Allan provide concrete strategies and powerful stories to help build a positive school culture. This book shares a unique approach and proven practices for reimagining schools and districts as collaborative places where students and staff create their culture and develop as leaders together. Jon provides the blueprint and framework to create a positive campus culture including: • Thriving during times of change • Communication to strengthen relationships • Proven strategies to empower staff and students • Building a connected team • Developing a positive mindset • Implementing best practices to energize teachers and students • Removing negativity that sabotages morale and culture • Rediscovering the joy and excitement of being in education This book is intended for superintendents, district and school leadership, teachers, counselors, and coaches who are looking to leave a positive legacy and impact everyone on campus. Join the movement with other visionary educators who have already transformed their schools into dynamic centers of learning and growth.

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