Doug Keeley, The Mark of a Leader

Topics

Presentations

The Mark of a Leader
The core program is based on the belief that leadership is everyone’s job in an organization today, and that there is no “secret sauce” to leadership. Our principle called Five Level Leadership, explores how, when human beings are fully engaged on all five of our levels (Spirit, Imagination, Intellect, Heart, Hands), there is virtually nothing we cannot do. The program can be used to create an unforgettable keynote, or Doug can facilitate/MC an event, interspersing the amazing stories throughout and customizing the messages to any audience and theme.

Five-Level Leadership
This hands on workshop takes the basic messages of Five Level Leadership and shows how they have been implemented by successful companies around the world. We then challenge and work with audiences to discuss how they can better bring these ideas to life in their environment. Like all of our sessions, this workshop uses video examples extensively, and is a mix of leader-led presentation and audience interaction.

The Art of Business
In this session, Doug and a team of experienced artists teaches the audience the basics of visual expression and gets them to create theme-based art works in teams. Typically they are asked to create works expressing ideas about their market, challenges or opportunities, competitive pressures, the future, and so on. This session gets participants outside their comfort zones by challenging them to create art, to work as teams, and to communicate abstract ideas. It is an incredibly powerful, hands on session which produces powerful insights into your business and how your people work together.

Comedy Improv
One of our most beloved leadership stories is Second City, the most successful training ground in the world for young comics. In this workshop we tell the hilarious story of Second City’s success, highlighting many of the communication and leadership skills which they employ. We then lead the audience through a basic comedy improv exercise which dramatically (and hysterically) illustrates the challenges of day-to-day communication, and provides insights into being better listeners and communicators.

Summary Profile

Doug Keeley, CEO and Chief Storyteller of The Mark of a Leader, is one of North America’s leading communicators, a serial entrepreneur, and a self-professed “leadership junkie”. He is an acknowledged expert at creating cultures of leadership at every level of organizations.

Doug started his first business in 1977, and quickly became a pioneer in the global marketing and communications industry, particularly in multimedia, live events, television, and the Internet. His companies have become creative powerhouses, and he has traveled the globe working with many of the world’s top corporations and executives.

Today Doug is one of the most sought-after speakers in North America with a unique, story-based presentation format that combines mesmerizing video and music, making the experience unforgettable! His amazing story vignettes feature great leaders and brands from the world of arts, entertainment, sports, politics, business, and philanthropy. They range from Oprah to The Beatles, Lance Armstrong to Sir Winston Churchill, Cirque du Soleil to Starbucks, and dozens more.

The program is unlike anything else in the market as it can be used as a keynote, as interstitials throughout a conference, or as the base on which to build workshops.  His incredible blue chip client list includes ADP, Bank of America, Coca Cola, Disney, FritoLay, General Mills, HP, Lego, Microsoft, Pepsi-QTG, Scotiabank, Starbucks, Universal Studios, Xerox, and many other leading corporations, associations, and schools. Most of them have used The Mark of a Leader several times.

He has a book of inspiring stories, has authored many magazine features and columns, has appeared as a subject expert in several books on creativity and corporate culture, and been interviewed many times on radio and television on the subjects of leadership and innovation.

If you are looking for something totally different and incredibly powerful for your next conference, The Mark of a Leader is the anwer.