Joseph Grenny

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Joseph's experience and research into the best practices of leaders and influencers has made him a leading industry expert in communication, behavior, organizational effectiveness, and corporate culture.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Whenever you're not getting the results you're looking for, it's likely that a crucial conversation is keeping you stuck. Based on the New York Times bestselling book by the same title, Joseph guides the audience through the skills to get unstuck.

Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
Every individual, team, and organization faces disappointment. People make promises and break them-and bad things happen. Based on the New York Times bestselling book by the same title, Joseph addresses tools for ensuring accountability.

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
The most important capacity we hold is the capacity to influence behavior. Based on the New York Times bestseller, Influencer, you will learn strategies to make change inevitable--strategies founded on more than five decades of the best social science research and confirmed in thousands of world-wide change efforts.

Leadership for Maximum Engagement: Crucial Skills for Team and Organizational Performance
What differentiates the best leaders and leadership teams from the rest? The best teams achieve something the rest never attain: 100 percent engagement and absolute intellectual honesty. Joseph explores the crucial conversations skills that will immediately propel your team to maximum engagement.

Silence Fails: The Five Crucial Conversations for Flawless Execution
Success is determined by how well an organization executes high-stakes projects and programs. And yet, 83% of employees say the projects they are working on will fail. Leaders can increase their odds of successful project execution by 50 to 80% when they skillfully hold five crucial conversations.

Silence Kills: The Seven Crucial Conversation in Health care
All too often, well-intentioned professionals in health care organizations choose not to speak up when they're concerned with the behavior, decisions, or actions of a colleague.

Summary Profile

Business Communication Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author

Joseph Grenny has consulted with thousands of leaders on every major continent from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Over the past twenty years, he has advised CEOs and senior executives on more than a dozen major change initiatives. Joseph was formerly president of California Computer Corporation and an executive for the Covey Leadership Center.

Joseph is coauthor and contributor to eight books, including three New York Times bestsellers, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. An expert in topics ranging from leadership and interpersonal communication to organizational change and effectiveness, Joseph has been cited in dozens of newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has also appeared on more than one hundred radio and television programs including CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Today Show.

Joseph is President of VitalSmarts, L.C., an innovator in best practice training and consulting research, that delivers significant improvements to the results companies care about most. For more than twenty-five years, company principals have researched methods for bringing about systematic and lasting change. Based on this ongoing research, VitalSmarts has helped thousands of organizations, including more than three hundred of the Fortune 500, realize quick, hard-hitting results through its award-winning training programs using a method that no other training company yet offers.

VitalSmarts currently has two training initiatives: Crucial Conversations® and Crucial Confrontations™. Each delivers a powerful set of influence tools that builds teams, enriches relationships and improves end results. VitalSmarts also offers keynote speaking, on-site consulting, customized development, and executive mastery retreats.

SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

MIT Sloan named Influencer the Change Management Approach of the Year.

Human Resource Executive Magazine named Influencer the Top Training Product of the Year.

Soundview Executive Summaries names Influencer the 2008 Business Book of the Year.

Workforce Vitality at Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin’s CEO credited Joseph's work with enabling their winning of the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter contract by improving behaviors critical to winning the program. Research conducted on site showed not only substantial changes in behavior, but improvements in quality and productivity linked to the change.

Culture Transformation at Sprint
With Joseph’s help, the IT organization of Sprint successfully brought about significant improvements in trust and employee engagement within nine months. Research demonstrated dramatic behavior changes with significant impact in improving quality, productivity, and application availability.

Leadership Development at IBM
Joseph developed, piloted, and implemented a four-day leadership development program for executives and managers of IBM. The course was IBM’s highest rated training program in years, and leaders reported that their increased skills translated to significant improvements in manufacturing efficiency, innovation, and interorganizational cooperation.

Leadership and Executive Coaching
Joseph has been a personal coach to the presidents and senior executives of dozens of organizations. His services have helped these leaders identify and improve key areas that many credit with significantly advancing in their careers.