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Greg P. Smith

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Helping leaders and teams overcome setbacks and build a stronger future.  

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Motivational Leadership Speaker

Greg’s Keynotes 

Fish on Fridays: Leading Through Uncertainty and Change

In a world where change is constant and uncertainty can challenge even the strongest leaders, Greg Smith brings a powerful and deeply personal message about resilience, adaptability, and purpose. Drawing from his experiences as a business consultant, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, cancer survivor, and author of Fish on Fridays, Greg shares how life’s unexpected setbacks can either define us or strengthen us. Through honest storytelling, practical lessons, humor, and real-world insight, audiences learn how to navigate difficult transitions, lead with authenticity, and remain grounded during times of disruption. This keynote inspires individuals and organizations to move beyond fear, embrace change, and rediscover purpose even in life’s most uncertain moments.

Employee Engagement Strategies that Boost Performance

When individuals lose their motivation, organizations lose their ability to attract, retain, and engage their workforce. This predicament has a major impact on profitability, productivity, and the reputation of the company. Successful organizations realize employee engagement is critical in sustaining their leadership and growth in the marketplace.  In Greg’s workshop, you will learn how to keep yourself engaged as well as specific techniques managers can use to help reignite employees’ passion for their jobs. Discover how to design peer recognition programs and no-cost incentive programs.  Learn how to organize and run Idea Campaigns, “Shining Stars,” Idea Olympics, and Vampire Extermination Expeditions—programs making work efficient, fun, and productive.  Learn from the expert on how these programs can improve retention, reduce turnover, and have a major impact on job satisfaction and employee engagement.

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Leading Your Organization to Achieve Exceptional Results

Every organization today must achieve higher levels of performance. Success depends on your ability to manage change, improve financial results, build customer loyalty, and motivate your workforce from the bottom to the top. This session will help you design a road map and a long-term strategy that gets your business heading in the right direction and each person performing at a higher level—achieving peak performance.  Learn dozens of ideas and strategies on improving performance, motivating your people to new levels, and innovative ways to grow your business.

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The key to success for any organization is the ability to attract and retain skilled and talented people. Good organizations make employee retention a core element of their talent management and organizational development strategy. Those that fail to make it a priority risk losing their top talented people to the competition. This session shows you how to design an effective talent management strategy that provides a comprehensive roadmap for not only attracting and keeping talented employees but also motivating and engaging them to achieve a higher level of performance and productivity. This session is jam packed with tips, practical ideas, and easy-to-implement advice for creating a motivating, high-retention culture.

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Transformational Leadership for a Changing World

The actions taken by the leader are the driving force in building effective teams, improving performance, and engaging and retaining a talented and skilled workforce. This session will provide attendees with key strategies that drive performance and inspire and motivate people to go above and beyond. You will learn how to reward, motivate, engage, make accountable, and coach people toward higher performance. By building confidence in your abilities you will be able to handle leadership challenges and guide your people to sustained high performance. You will gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be implemented immediately.

Fast, Focused and Friendly: The Key Essentials of Great Customer Service

Learn to create a powerful culture of exceptional customer service that permeates and drives the actions of the entire organization. This program will help you create a five-step service quality process that develops the right attitudes and behaviors and emotionally connects with your customers. Discover how to hire, manage, and reward your employees so they act quickly, take responsibility, and deliver a high level of service. Learn how to train your employees to become your ambassadors that will keep your customers pleased and coming back. This session provides dozens of tips and strategies that can be implemented immediately.

Emotional Intelligence & DISC Training Programs

Individual behavior styles and our emotional intelligence (soft skills) have a direct impact on our interpersonal relationships in the workplace.  Individuals differ from each other in fundamental ways, including their values, behaviors, talents, temperaments, wants, and beliefs.  Our workshop will help individuals understand each other better and appreciate the unique strengths and differences each person brings to the office. As a result, you will become a better leader, communicator, and team member and gain key strategies to create highly effective working relationships. The workshop incorporates a personalized behavior assessment to give a more complete understanding of yourself and others.

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Testimonials

“A powerful, honest, and unforgettable memoir. From heartbreaking sadness to gut-busting humor, Greg shares stories you will find yourself sharing with friends. Greg Smith takes readers through the triumphs, heartbreaks, humor, and hard lessons of a remarkable life. Funny, moving, and filled with lessons worth remembering, Fish on Fridays is a story you’ll enjoy reading—and find yourself thinking about long after you turn the final page.”

–Terry Little

“Greg has a remarkable talent for storytelling. He brings his personal experiences with adversity and life’s challenges to life in a way that is both engaging and inspiring. His honest, creative writing draws you in and keeps you turning the pages, eager to see what comes next. I found Fish on Fridays to be both inspiring and entertaining, and I look forward to reading more. Well done, Greg, and congratulations on your new book!”

–Steve Mallin

“Fish on Fridays will make you laugh, move you to tears, and leave you inspired. Greg P. Smith shares his remarkable journey with honesty and humility, offering a candid look at military life, family, faith, and resilience.

What stands out most is his unwavering commitment to service and the strength he drew from his values, even through life’s greatest challenges. Mostly, it’s important to understand the camaraderie he found despite all the obstacles and how he relied on his faith and values to get through it all. This is more than a memoir—it’s a powerful story of perseverance, camaraderie, and hope.”

Maria Lewytzkyj-Milligan

“Fish on Fridays is the kind of memoir that stays with you long after the final page. Greg P. Smith shares an honest and inspiring journey from a shy, introverted boy to a man who served his country for more than twenty years, survived cancer, overcame serious mobility challenges, and found strength through faith, family, and perseverance.

What makes this memoir memorable isn’t just the obstacles Smith faced, but the humility, warmth, and honesty with which he tells his story. Fish on Fridays is a moving reminder that our greatest challenges can become our greatest teachers.”

Roberta Morris

“I attended one of Greg’s leadership training seminars and it was engaging, insightful, educational and even FUN. Greg is a talented management consultant that knows how to get results!”

Cheryl Earls
Director, Quality Resource Management
Kaiser Permanente

“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.”

Melodi Szymczak
Director
Vital Learning

“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.’”

– Dave Dibble, Director of Marketing, Sunshine Companies

“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.”

Rolando Marchis, President, Odyssey Transformational Strategies

“Your motivational message was not only insightful and thought provoking, it was also delightfully entertaining…You were super!”

Rebecca J. Froboese
Executive Director
The Alamo Federal Executive Board

“Your presentation was perfect for our audience and rated as one of the highest during the entire conference. Your style and the content of your program generated many enthusiastic comments. Your valuable experience and background provided us some valuable information.”

Barbara Hampton
President SNET Real Estate

“Your insights were very informative and it was very helpful having a motivational leadership speaker who brought such a broad level of experience from many different backgrounds. Not only were you entertaining to listen to, but everyone appreciated the fact that they were able to take back many new ideas they can implement immediately.”

Laura Leeds
VP Continuing Care and Workforce
New York State Healthcare Association

“Greg provides a comprehensive road map for not only attracting and keeping talented employees, but for motivating them to achieve a higher level of performance.”

David Shadovitz
Editor-in-Chief
Human Resource Executive Magazine

“You are blessed with the unique talent to deliver a great message and your presentation received excellent comments.”

Nancy Hendershot
Alabama Restaurant Association

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