Marcus Buckingham
- Leading expert on Talent and Employee Engagement
- Former senior scientist at Gallup
Marcus Buckingham Speaker Biography
Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and New York Times bestselling author focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. He is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time, First, Break All the Rules, and Now, Discover Your Strengths, and his tenth book, Love + Work (Harvard Business Review Press) is a WSJ bestseller and has been heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership in 2022.
Marcus is also the author of three of Harvard Business Review’s most circulated, industry-changing cover articles on talent, (Reinventing Performance Rankings, Why Feedback Fails, Designing Work That People Love) and has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, The Today Show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
After spending two decades studying excellence at the Gallup Organization and co-creating the StrengthsFinder tool, he built his own Coaching + Education firm, The Marcus Buckingham Company. As CEO, he quickly turned it into a Human Capital Management company working with some of the world’s largest organizations.
Known as the world’s most prominent researcher on strengths and leadership at work, challenging entrenched preconceptions about achievement to get to the core of what drives success, Marcus’s strengths-based approach is defining the future of work as we know it.
In all of his speeches, Marcus demonstrates the correlation between strengths-driven, engaged employees and business fundamentals such as turnover rates, customer satisfaction, profits, and productivity. Challenging entrenched preconceptions about achievement to get to the core of what drives success, Marcus’s strengths-based approach is a win/win scenario that, without exaggeration, will define the future of work.
LOVE+WORK, is now the core of his mission – people living lovingly, companies doing business lovingly.
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Speech Topics
“Love + Work”: How to find what you love, love what you do, and do it for the rest of your life.
World renowned researcher on leadership and New York Times bestselling author MARCUS BUCKINGHAM demystifies the classic work advice “do what you love” and helps us discover where we’re at our best – both at work and in life – in his new book and keyntoe, Love + Work. Buckingham is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what we love to do and how we contribute it to others, and how we can break free from the pressure to conform that keeps us from living full and meaningful lives. Love + Work is already being heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership in 2022, “to not only help people determine what they love to do, but help them choose roles where they’ll succeed, reshape existing jobs and do work that stands out from the crowd.”
Sponsors rave: “Marcus Buckingham was GREAT! I got a lot of positive feedback from all our company’s participants!” (Masterfoods) “Marcus is the most engaging and useful business speaker working today. His advice is grounded in research and at the same time appeals to common sense.” (The Wharton School) “Our managers ranked Buckingham the #1 speaker of the meeting, topping the perennial favorites – our CEO and president. What impressed us all was how well Marcus had done his homework. This was no generic speech – it related to our business and our people, in a motivating, challenging and useful way” (Walgreens)
Marcus has been profiled in nearly every important publication such as The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. He is frequently in demand for TV appearances, having appeared on The Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show amongst many others. Corporations as diverse as Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Disney employ his ideas and often invite Marcus to speak
Nine Lies about Work
• From Marcus’s newest book, examine the 9 lies that are pervasive in our organizations
• Learn the truths behind them, backed by data and research
• Discover how you can become a Freethinking Leader
Lead From Strength – STRONG YOU: Discover Your Unique Power
When we lose our rituals, our sense of self can vanish. We begin to fear our weaknesses more than we cherish our strengths. And yet for the sake of all those who rely on us, we need to stay precisely focused on the areas we feel strong. We need to find ways to re-anchor who we are, to re0define,what we bring to the world around us. Learn how to find this confidence within you by rediscovering your greatest strength.
For all employees
How to build your personal resilience and connection with others using the StandOut strengths assessment.
Marcus shares:
- The three sources of personal resilience
- How to use StandOut to rediscover and reorient you around your strengths
- How to use StandOut to strengthen your connection with those you care about
Before: Each attendee takes the StandOut assessment (15 mins)
During: 45-minute virtual keynote
After: **Optional Add-ons
- Strong You Series
- One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
- Strong You Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
- Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong You virtual keynote
- 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen an individual’s understanding of their unique contribution to the team
- Strong You Resilience Activity facilitated by an-MB certified coach/facilitator
- Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning
What is the StandOut® Strengths Assessment?
REVEAL YOUR TOP 2 STRENGTH ROLES
- In 2011, Marcus Buckingham created the StandOut® strengths assessment – an online situational judgment test that measures you against 9 “Strength Roles” and reveals your Top 2. These Roles describe your personal edge – those ingrained traits and tendencies that give you a natural advantage. The 14-page detailed report will help you learn your greatest sources of strength and contribution.
- To date it has been completed by more than 800,000 people and used as the centerpiece for the Talent practices of many thousands of organizations, both in the US and internationally.
- Marcus used his two decades of research expertise, and learnings from his leading role in the creation of StrengthsFinder, to develop the next-gen strengths assessment StandOut® · In 2015 Harvard Business Review published StandOut 2.0, a book which helps you learn more about your unique strengths profile.
During this unprecedented time, Marcus Buckingham is focusing his virtual presentations on how to use your strengths to build resilience in yourself, connection across your team, and confidence in your followers.
For the first time ever, and in partnership with Harvard Business Review, Marcus is giving away the StandOut 2.0 Strengths Assessment which will be included in each of the following virtual experiences:
1. Strong LEADER- for all leaders of teams, and teams of teams
In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares what the most effective senior leaders do to build clarity during these dynamic and confusing times. He shares:
- The most effective way leaders turn anxiety into confidence
- How to use StandOut to pinpoint precisely what about you others follow
- The three rituals to build resilience across your organization
Optional Add-ons for this topic include:
- Strong Leader Series
- One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
- Strong Leader Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
- Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Leader virtual keynote
- 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a leader’s understanding of her/his unique and distinct power
- Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning
2. Strong TEAMS – for all team leaders and team members
In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares how to build resilient, high-performing teams using the StandOut strengths assessment.
Marcus shares:
- The three rituals of the best team leaders
- What StandOut can reveal about you and each team member
- How to build resilience, engagement and collaboration across the team
Optional Add-ons for this topic include:
- Strong Teams Series
- One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
- Strong Teams Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
- Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Teams virtual keynote
- 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a team member’s understanding of her/his unique contribution to the team
- Strong Teams Activity facilitated by an MB-certified coach/facilitator
- Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning
3. Strong YOU – for all employees
In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares how to build your personal resilience and connection with others using the StandOut strengths assessment.
Marcus shares:
- The three sources of personal resilience
- How to use StandOut to rediscover and reorient you around your strengths
- How to use StandOut to strengthen your connection with those you care about
Optional Add-ons for this topic include:
- Strong Teams Series
- One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
- Strong Teams Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
- Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Teams virtual keynote
- 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a team member’s understanding of her/his unique contribution to the team
- Strong YOU Resilience Activity facilitated by an-MB certified coach/facilitator
- Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning
What the research reveals about the real world of work
- Examine the 9 lies that are pervasive in our organizations
- Learn the truths behind them, backed by data and research.
- Discover how you can become a Freethinking Leader.
High-Performance Leadership
How to build a culture of performance
- Learn the one thing that sets great leaders apart.
- Explore the 4 levers that leaders use to create a high-performing culture.
- Get clear about your organization’s core strengths.
How to drive personal performance
- Discover the approach that characterizes the most successful people in the world.
- Pinpoint your competitive advantage.
- Learn how to apply your competitive advantage at work
Virtual Programming: If you lead people in these new realities, Marcus Buckingham says every team should do these 5 things
In this dynamic virtual presentation MARCUS BUCKINGHAM helps leaders focus on what’s most important for their team right now. In his talk, If You Lead People Today, Do These 5 Things, Marcus walks teams through what they can do to make their virtual teams the most effective and productive teams possible, even–and especially–during these new realities. Using his two decades of experience as a Senior Researcher at the Gallup Organization and currently, the Head of ADP Research Institute of People and Performance, Marcus’ revolutionary framework for understanding teams combines visionary thinking backed by rigorous research. His work on leveraging the strength of teams and productivity has been memorialized in numerous bestselling books, such as: First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths; The One Thing You Need to Know; Go Put Your Strengths To Work; The Truth About You; Find Your Strongest Life; StandOut 2.0; and Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World.
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