Chester Elton – Big Idea Speakers

Leading with Purpose with Chester Elton:

Engage your people Enable your teams and Energize your leaders

The very best leaders want an organization with high levels of engagement and loyalty from their teams; they want to keep their best people.

“The best leaders I’ve ever worked with understood this happens when they develop skills that foster a thriving culture. A culture where people believe what they do matters, that they make a difference, and when it’s noticed, it’s rewarded and celebrated, says Chester Elton.

Chester will provide tools that create high-performing organizational culture. His talks are designed to:

Enhance each participant’s role as a powerful leader, fostering greater collaboration and communication within their teams.
Drive overall employee engagement so leaders understand they are in control of their culture, and they have the most influence to improve employee engagement and build loyalty during rapidly changing times.

Chester’s presentation can be designed using a combination of content from his most requested keynotes summarized below. He can also include concepts using data he’s gathered from more than twenty years researching high performing organizations—including generational differences, diversity, innovation, change management, and more.

Videos

Biography

One of today’s most influential voices in workplace trends, Chester Elton has spent two decades helping clients engage their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values. In his provocative, inspiring and always entertaining talks, #1 bestselling leadership author Chester Elton provides real solutions to leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation, and lead a multi-generational workforce. Elton’s work is supported by research with more than 850,000 working adults, revealing the proven secrets behind high-performance cultures. Called the “Apostle of appreciation” by Canada’s Globe and Mail, “creative and refreshing‚” by the New York Times, Elton is co-author of several enormous leadership bestsellers. All In, The Carrot Principle and What Motivates Me have been New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestsellers and have sold 1.5 million copies worldwide in 30 languages.

Culture Change
All In: How the best leaders develop a culture of belief and drive big results.

Based on the New York Times bestselling business book All In—with research from 300,000 people in high-performance organizations—Chester Elton teaches leaders how to Engage, Enable and Energize their workforces. Especially designed for organizations facing transformation or market change.

Your leaders learn:

The 3 characteristics of the world’s most profitable, productive organizational and team cultures.
The 7 steps today’s most successful managers use to generate buy-in.
How managers at any level can build a productive workgroup culture of their own where employees commit to the culture and give that extra push of effort.

Employee Engagement
The Engagement Effect: How the best managers are engaging employees to meet the needs of a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world

Leadership expert Chester Elton presents findings from 20 years of research, with 850,000-people surveyed, to illustrate the 7 steps today’s most successful managers use to generate superior levels of employee engagement, focus and innovation.

The latest thinking in rewards & recognition
Carrots 2.0: How today’s managers use recognition to engage their people, retain talent, and accelerate performance

Chester Elton’s #1 bestselling book The Carrot Principle has become the preeminent source on employee recognition, and this is Carrots 2.0—the latest research and case studies that show how modern, purpose-based rewards & recognition can produce astonishing increases in operating results, engagement, and retention.

Managing millennials & other generations What Motivates Me?
How to lead and inspire generations in the workplace

Based on Chester Elton’s 850,000-person research study into employee motivation and his bestselling book What Motivates Me, and including his 2016 Primary Research Study of thousands of millennials, he identifies real methods of motivating and engaging today’s young workers to increase engagement, innovation and commitment.

Leadership in the 21st century
Be a Better Manager by Friday: Real skills for inspiring employees, leading a team, and winning in today’s marketplace

In a fresh and thought-provoking keynote presentation, Chester Elton teaches audiences how to lead in such a way that employees will follow—including establishing a clear future vision, enhancing diversity, increasing transparency and trust levels, and developing clear career and development paths.

Testimonials

“Chester was the ‘WOW’ at our conference. His ‘All In’ principles aligned to every aspect of our key messaging and reinforced the effectiveness of our approach. We can’t wait to continue this momentum and enthusiasm!”
Lynn Leblanc, Head of Strategic Planning, Aetna

“Chester was a huge hit and personally inspired me to be a better leader! Not only did he bring relevant, factual data into his presentation about driving business results through engaging the workforce, he used humor and audience participation to keep the team motivated and invested!”
MaryLynn Carver, Chief Communications Officer, General Mills

“Folks at various levels throughout our organization are still raving about Chester’s session. He received the highest marks of any speaker. Not only was he entertaining, but he put time into getting it right and the content really resonated with this group. That says a lot for such a quiet and cynical crowd.”
— Lisa Stornaielo, Vice President Leadership Development, Fidelity

“Chester received a standing ovation. I’d say that it was a grand slam home- run to spearhead a cultural change initiative throughout our region. Chester’s approach to combine strategy and tactics, supported by real- world studies, was instrumental at not only gaining participants buy-in, but at inspiring our leaders and helping us formulate actionable plans to move forward.”
— Glen Stambone, Northern Regional Medical Command, U.S. Army

“Chester knocked it out of the park, helping our leaders understand part of their success in getting maximum results is through creating the right culture! I wish I had counted how many leaders came up to me throughout the week and said how much they enjoyed his session.”

— Jean Burbank, Global Sales Leadership, Veritas