Recognized as
a leading authority and a dynamic keynote speaker on talent management, change management, leadership
development
and employee retention. As an
leadership keynote speaker, change management speaker and business
author, Smith has delivered keynote speeches and addressed organizations
in over 26 countries. He has spoken to hundreds of associations, human
resource associations, healthcare organizations and businesses.
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Keynote topics
include how to:
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Manage change in the workplace
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Create best places to work
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Business transformation
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Build strong leaders
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Deliver outstanding customer service
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Attract, retain and engage your
workforce
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Develop organizational change management
plans
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Grow your business and increase sales
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Design talent management strategies
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Smith’s
keynote speeches and motivational speaking presentations are inspirational, informative and entertaining with a
highly interactive style that connects with audiences. He combines story
and strategy to teach audiences how to create
high performance
organizations that manage change in the workplace, develop
leaders and increase innovation.
As the
founder and Lead Navigator of Chart Your Course International
Inc., Smith keynotes conferences and helps executives and business owners
manage organizational change and create great places to work. He helps design change management strategies and processes to
grow organizations and implements leadership development programs and
strategic planning initiatives creating clearer
direction, increased profitability, stronger executive teams, improved
communication and happier and more productive employees.
Clients
include Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winners and Fortune
magazine's “Top 100 Best Places to Work.” Smith has also designed
leadership development programs for national and international
organizations including Yamaha, Ace Hardware, Cisco, AFLAC, Hallmark Cards,
Sony, Deloitte, Bobcat, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Turner Broadcasting,
Delta Airlines and Honda.
Prior to
starting his own company, Smith worked for the
Army Surgeon General as a senior organizational change consultant responsible for quality
management, innovation and strategic planning for the U.S. Army Medical
Department. In addition, he served on the Board of Examiners for the
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for
business excellence presented by the President of the United States.
Smith has
written and published over 350 articles and 9 books including his
latest, Fired Up! Leading Your Organization to Achieve Exceptional
Results. He has been featured in hundreds of magazines and trade
journals and appeared on numerous television and radio programs,
including Bloomberg Business News and PBS television.
Smith
served on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award, the nation's highes
t honor for business excellence. He
has received many awards and honors including being listed in Harvard
University's Profiles in Business and Management: An International
Directory of Scholars and Their Research. Human Resource Executive
magazine selected him as one of the nation’s top 10 "Rising Stars" in
Human Resource Management.
Recognized as
a popular motivational speaker, conference keynote speaker and a
organizational change consultant, he designs leadership
development
programs and helps clients lead change and with business transformation. Smith teaches people how to
build a high energy workplaces that accelerate performance,
generate more profits, increases sales and provide outstanding
customer service. As an
professional motivational keynote speaker and business author, Smith's
motivational and inspirational presentations have been heard by
audiences in
over 26 countries. He has spoken to hundreds of business associations, human
resource associations, healthcare organizations and businesses.
Greg lives in Atlanta, GA and travels internationally.
Most Popular Conference Keynote Speaker Programs
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Fired Up!
Leading Your Organization to Achieve Exceptional Results
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What Good Organizations Do to Achieve Extraordinary Results
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Here Today or Gone Tomorrow:
Proven Ways to Attract, Retain and Motivate Your Workforce
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Managing Change in Turbulent Times: Keeping Your Employees Engaged, Motivated and Heading in the Right
Direction
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Gladiator
Leadership: What Leaders Do To Accelerate Performance and Generate
Bottom-Line Results
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Hire
the Best, Forget the Rest!
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Reward and Recognition Strategies to Boost Performance
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Fast, Focused and Friendly:
The Essentials of Great Customer Service
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Dynamic Teambuilding:
How to Enhance Communication and Build Effective Teams
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Conference keynote speaker program outlines
Publications
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The
Navigator Newsletter,
Publisher (over 25,000 subscribers)
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The New
Leader: Bringing Creativity and Innovation to the Workplace
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TNT for
Teams: Dynamic Ways to Reward, Energize and Motivate Your
Teams
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Here Today,
Here Tomorrow: Transforming Your Workforce from
High-Turnover to High-Retention
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Icebreakers
and Teambuilding Exercises
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Supervisor’s
Passport to Success: A Quick and Easy Guide for Managing
People
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401 Proven
Ways to Retain Your Best Employees
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Fired Up!
Leading Your Organization to Achieve Exceptional Results
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Talent
Relationship Management: Competing Through Talent,
Contributing Author
Features
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USA Today
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HR Magazine
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Business
Week
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Christian
Science Monitor
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President &
CEO
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Boston Globe
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Kiplinger’s
Personal Finance
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Investor’s
Business Daily
Honors &
Awards
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Member of
Georgia Toastmaster’s Hall of Fame
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Board of
Examiners, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
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Legion of Merit
and the Order of Military Medical Merit, U.S. Army Surgeon
General
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Harvard
University’s International Directory of Management Scholars
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Who’s Who of
Professional Speaking
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One of the
nation’s Top-Ten “Rising Stars” in human resource management,
Human Resource Executive magazine
Testimonials
Melodi Szymczak,
Director, Vital Learning
“Greg is a creative genius. He
is laser-focused on providing his clients with solutions in talent
management, leadership development and customer service. He gets the
job done and will produce the results you need.”
Dave Dibble,
Director of Marketing, Sunshine Companies
“Four hours of my time in your
seminar has resulted in a 51% improvement of our revenues during the
first quarter of the year. We should reach $450-500 million easily.
Our teams work smart as well as hard and each member is having a lot
more fun working together. You are the ‘Deal of the Century.’”
Rolando Marchis,
President, Odyssey Transformational Strategies
“Greg’s insights into
determining issues, problems and opportunities inside any company
are among the best I have seen. He can literally walk into a company
or organization, and just by observing people work and communicate
and asking a number of key questions, he can … understand why the
company is not advancing the progress on its own and what it needs
to do to move forward. If you want problems identified and solutions
provided and implemented, Greg is one of the best I have seen. You
will go ‘right’ by working with Greg.”
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