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Steve Gutzler

President, Leadership Quest
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • The Self-Aware Leader
  • Bringing Humanity into Leadership
Speaker Fee:
$10,000 - $15,000
Virtual Fee:
$10,000 - $15,000
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Steve Gutzler
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Speaker Fee: $10,000 - $15,000
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Steve Gutzler Speaker Biography

Steve Gutzler has an exceptional ability to communicate clear leadership and business solutions with humor, clarity, and insight. A popular speaker, author, and executive coach, he knows how to deliver proven results and inspire audiences with messages of extraordinary leadership, achievement, success, and significance.

Having coached and trained CEOs, professional athletes, and world-class organizations, Steve has earned a reputation as an authority on high-performance leadership, emotional intelligence, growing leaders at every level, and accelerated sales success.

 

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Lead With No Fear 
7 Shifts for Positive Change 

In this uncertain age of worry, insecurity, and self-doubt, how will you lead and manage change for greater inspiration, clarity, and confidence? In this program, Steve will teach how to unlock 7 Key Leadership Shifts for greater influence and impact. He will illustrate and inspire your audience with real-life case studies of successful leaders and teams navigating the uncertain waters of leadership. Instead of forcing leaders to make drastic changes, Steve will guide the audience into making significant, gradual changes over a 90-day period. 

In this program, your team and audience will learn how to: 
– Shift from Victim to Leader  
– Shift from Unaware to Self-Aware 
– Shift from Black and White to High Definition 
– Shift from Activity to Accomplishment 
– Shift from Smart and Healthy 
– Shift from Fast to Finishing

Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Leadership
The Brain Science of High Performance and Influence

In today’s fast-paced, competitive work environment, with the explosion of our information age and the increased potential of the millennial generation, it has become clear that in order to lead with impact, one has to fully engage the minds, emotions, and spirits of those they lead. While many managers are skilled at presenting team goals and strategies, the skillsets of emotional intelligence and leveraging the brain science of high performance are the new competitive edge. Empowering your team to feel emotionally connected with their own purpose and to one another is imperative. This dynamic and fast-paced presentation will offer you practical tools for professional excellence and high-performance in leadership and life.

• Assess one’s level of emotional intelligence in dealing with relationships with others in business and achieving organizational goals
• Examine strengths and weaknesses for developing emotional intelligence
• Learn the brain science of emotional hijacking moments and strategies for self-regulation
• Develop composure skills and redirecting emotions in order to ensure “win-wins”
• Learn actionable skills for resiliency and stress management
• Demonstrate and increase empathy by acknowledging others’ feelings and perspectives
• Build bonds of connection by nurturing instrumental relationships
• Uphold integrity and increase your persuasive influence and leadership impact
• Build collaborative skills and empower communication
• Recognize the contagious influence of your moods, attitudes, and emotions

Unleash the Leader Inside You
Five Shifts to Become the Leader You Want to be

Great leaders understand that true leadership is not just about a title or position, it’s about being a positive influence, creating positive impact, and inspiring greatness in others.

Through inspiring stories, Steve explains how rapid change impacts the role of leaders, and guides participants through a dynamic process of five shifts to increase their professional skill set and bottom-line influence.

Audience members will leave this motivational experience with actionable takeaways for professional and personal growth, and the knowledge and inspiration to become the leader they want to be.

Learning Objectives:
• Discover the brain science of emotions and how to self-regulate emotional
• hijacking moments
• How to turn the stress hormone, cortisol, into your friend
• Master your emotions, moods, and attitudes for high performance
• How to connect deeper and coach more effectively
• Breakthrough methods for communication, collaboration, and coaching

Full Potential
How to Perform Best Under Pressure

This dynamic keynote addresses the epidemic of stress and pressure. Through inspiring stories and real-life case studies, Steve explains how leaders today need to be both “smart and healthy”. How to avoid self-sabotage and burnout through the science of Emotional Intelligence and stress resiliency tactics. How to continue to operate at optimum levels while facing deadlines and challenging relationships.

Steve will help your team increase performance and provide you with break-through techniques and strategies for self-leadership. Learn how to employ Emotional Intelligence for peak performance. This keynote will provide you with inspiration and actionable tools to get to the next level of performance.

Attendees will learn:

• How to self-manage those 17% moments when interactions in business become challenging and work more difficult
• How to create stress-resiliency tactics for sustainable success
• How to operate at full-potential and tap into confidence, optimism, resiliency and enthusiasm
• How to remain healthy and recognize exhaustion and burnout is not considered a badge of honor
• How leaders help others manage, energy and emotion when it matters most

17% Moments
Discover the Brain Science of Emotions and High-Performance Leadership

How extraordinary leaders manage moments that define their reputation and drive successful results

Research shows that 83% of the time, people are able to effectively manage their relationships with people and the tasks that need to get done. However, in those 17% moments when interactions become more challenging, and work more difficult, we all find the hard truth: whether or not we are able to continue to operate at our full potential. This is the heart of emotional intelligence and where your reputation is built.

Armed with the most recent research in the field of human behavior, Steve Gutzler will guide your team through the “new rules” of leadership to become more effective and influential. Steve shares stories that will amaze and entertain your team, while delivering the actionable leadership tools they need to soar. These lessons and strategies can be applied immediately in leadership, sales, and personal development. Audiences will walk away feeling inspired, empowered, and equipped to tackle professional must-have goals.

Learning objectives:

• Discover the brain science of emotions and how to self-regulate emotional hijacking moments
• How to turn the stress hormone, cortisol, into your friend
• Master your emotions, moods, and attitudes for high performance
• How to connect deeper and coach more effectively
• The four strategies to mastering the 17% moments
• Breakthrough methods for communication, collaboration, and coaching

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Our entire group enjoyed Steve’s presentation at our annual Manager’s Retreat. It was inspiring and memorable; preparing us for an exciting upcoming year!!! THANKS!

Krazan | February 3, 2020
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“We recently worked with Steve for the first time as the keynote speaker at our annual senior leadership team meeting. Steve’s highly engaging and passionate style kept our team fully engaged and equally important, his relatable and actionable list of key leadership attributes was something our employees could take with them to have an immediate positive impact on their leadership effectiveness. Feedback was very positive and I’d certainly welcome and look for opportunities to work with Steve again.”

President & CEO, Neenah, Inc.

“Steve Gutzler absolutely “Brings It” each and every time he has worked with our team! I’ve had the pleasure of working with Steve since 2002 and in many respects consider him a part of our corporate team in that he was instrumental in the formation of our service vision seven years ago. Steve has been an irrefutable “WOW” during our annual General Managers Conferences, as well as, Leadership Team Advances. He has a unique ability to bring energy, authenticity, and practical takeaways with his enthusiastic keynotes and presentations. The topics that are discussed during Steve’s thought provoking sessions resonate with our team via high-level professionalism, passion, and purpose.

President & CEO, The Hotel Group

“Steve Gutzler is a fantastic keynote speaker and challenges his listeners to move their leadership performance to the next level. Steve is also a great coach and trainer. I have had the pleasure of co- presenting with him on the topic of Emotional Intelligence for High Performing Leaders. His ability to tell stories to reinforce leadership in invaluable – he creates an immediate connection to his audience. As a former owner of a speaker agency, I have seen hundreds of speakers, and Steve is one of the best in the area of leadership!”

Co-Founder of Southwest Institute for Emotional Intelligence, President of EQ Inspirations, LLC

“I am very pleased to say that your presentation exceeded everyone’s expectations and was an absolute home run. Not only were you engaging and attention getting, but most importantly, the material has already made an impact. You certainly “Unleashed the Leaders” within all of us! Leadership Conferences differential advantage is our keynote speakers. It is the foundational success of our events. To have you as the star presenter has set a new bar for us. On behalf of all of the attendees of the Leadership Conference division of CSP Business Media, a heartfelt thank you!”

President Leadership Conferences CSP Business Media, LLC

“Nothing short of fantastic! I would highly recommend Steve Gutzler without reservation. Truly impactful and inspiring. His Keynote on Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Leadership for our annual Summit Conference in Sun Valley was overwhelmingly received! Steve also was instrumental in building/solidifying our company culture early on.”

President, Salt Communication

“I was truly astonished at the deeply personal and overwhelmingly positive response that this presentation generated. I had people come to me for weeks following the presentation of this material to tell me what a big impact it made on not only how they viewed their work life, but their personal lives and relationships as well. One reason this was so successful was the incredible talent and style that Steve used in personally delivering the material. He interacted with the team in a way that caused boundaries to drop, openness to the material to present itself and freedom for individuals to participate with the broader team without feelings of self-consciousness to get in the way.”

Former General Manager, Microsoft