Chris Dyer
#1 Inc Magazine Ranked Leadership Speaker & Best-Selling Author
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Through his research from two best-selling books, Chris Dyer is always engaged with leading companies to help transform their culture, leadership, and flexible work strategies. Chris Dyer inspires audiences with a straightforward delivery, insightful candor, and engaging humor. His talks leave audiences permanently transformed, offering innovative perspectives on leadership to improve company culture, and empower organizations to create a people-centric approach.
Chris Dyer is a recognized performance expert and known leadership speaker, having recently ranked on Inc.’s Leadership Speakers Who Can Transform Your Company Culture list.
Countless companies have unlocked productivity, performance, and profits by implementing the strategies from Chris' talks, webinars, and books. The Power of Company Culture (Forward by Mark Goulston) was a best seller. As a highly sought-after keynote speaker, consultant, and advisor he brings a unique perspective from his expertise in building, leading, and exiting successful organizations.
Constantly intrigued by what makes some businesses and individuals more successful than others, Chris has dedicated years of research to uncover what drives productivity and profits. As a sought-after speaker, consultant, he works with leading organizations to help them transform their cultures to boost performance and gain an even greater edge in the marketplace. Chris is the author of The Power of Company Culture, which was released in 2018.
Chris is also the host of a popular radio show TalentTalk where he has had hundreds of conversations with the world’s best leaders for his audience of over 3 million annual listeners. Currently, he is the Founder of PeopleG2, an Accusource company, with a fully remote organization. PeopleG2 is routinely ranked one of the best places to work and has been listed as one of Inc.'s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies five times.
Chris enjoys contributing to the leadership conversation and has been featured by leading media outlets such as the BBC, Fox Business, NBC, Telegraph, The Sun, INC, and Forbes. He has also delivered keynotes and worked as a consultant for top brands like Johnson & Johnson, Citi, IKEA, Kelly Services, the United States Patent Office, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and their Ministry of Defense, as well other top firms like Farmer’s Insurance and Cornerstone OnDemand. He is listed as a Top 50 Global Thought Leader by PeopleHum, and as a top 40 leadership voice on LeaderHum. Most importantly he married his high school sweetheart and has three adopted children who have finally left the house and one grandson.
Countless companies have unlocked productivity, performance, and profits by implementing the strategies from Chris' talks, webinars, and books. The Power of Company Culture (Forward by Mark Goulston) was a best seller. As a highly sought-after keynote speaker, consultant, and advisor he brings a unique perspective from his expertise in building, leading, and exiting successful organizations.
Constantly intrigued by what makes some businesses and individuals more successful than others, Chris has dedicated years of research to uncover what drives productivity and profits. As a sought-after speaker, consultant, he works with leading organizations to help them transform their cultures to boost performance and gain an even greater edge in the marketplace. Chris is the author of The Power of Company Culture, which was released in 2018.
Chris is also the host of a popular radio show TalentTalk where he has had hundreds of conversations with the world’s best leaders for his audience of over 3 million annual listeners. Currently, he is the Founder of PeopleG2, an Accusource company, with a fully remote organization. PeopleG2 is routinely ranked one of the best places to work and has been listed as one of Inc.'s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies five times.
Chris enjoys contributing to the leadership conversation and has been featured by leading media outlets such as the BBC, Fox Business, NBC, Telegraph, The Sun, INC, and Forbes. He has also delivered keynotes and worked as a consultant for top brands like Johnson & Johnson, Citi, IKEA, Kelly Services, the United States Patent Office, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and their Ministry of Defense, as well other top firms like Farmer’s Insurance and Cornerstone OnDemand. He is listed as a Top 50 Global Thought Leader by PeopleHum, and as a top 40 leadership voice on LeaderHum. Most importantly he married his high school sweetheart and has three adopted children who have finally left the house and one grandson.
Topics:
- Why Failing Doesn’t Suck: How to Rejoice in Your Face-Palm Moments
Mistakes, failures, errors, blunders, and mishaps. Are you feeling uncomfortable yet?
No one is perfect, but we all hope for a perfect performance at work. Guess what? It’s not going to happen! In this refreshing keynote, Chris Dyer shows how constantly trying to avoid mistakes can be even more detrimental than the occasional slip-up.
With today’s changing business landscape, innovation is everything. But to drive innovation, employees can’t be paralyzed by self-doubt or the fear of failure. Chris will show how accepting (and expecting) to fail from wrong decisions or poor outcomes is actually a hallmark of good culture. Audience members will learn how to make more room for creativity and healthy risk taking when it matters most.
Making mistakes doesn’t have to be painful. From minor errors to epic failures, come learn how your face-palm moments can lead to colossal business success.
Learning Objectives:
Understanding the difference between mistakes and errors, and communicating what’s acceptable
Managing mistakes with empathy, transparency, and fairness
Following mistakes toward improvements
Understanding Mistakes from Errors - Mastering Tough Conversations
What conversations have you been avoiding?
Just the thought of broaching certain topics can be enough to bring on a spontaneous stomach ache and palms so sweaty you’ll be glad shaking hands went out of style.
Sometimes saying what’s on your mind is easier said than done. Where do you start, and what direction should you take the conversation? How do you prepare, and how do you know when you’ve gone too far?
In this poignant keynote, organizational communication expert Chris Dyer will help audience members understand how to take on tough conversations with skill, tact, and grace. He breaks down key strategies for leading different types of discussions, while also providing powerful tactics for quelling confrontation avoidance.
Having purposeful conversations, no matter the topic, is the ultimate weapon for building an extraordinary culture. This keynote is sure to impact your team for years to come!
Learning Objectives:
Identifying when tough conversations need to happen
Identifying cognitive biases that impact how information is perceived
Knowing how and when to end a conversation
Identifying personality types and leveraging the best strategy - Another %@*#ing Meeting!?
You spend so much time in meetings that you hardly have time left to do actual work?
You’re not alone! The average employee spends about six hours per week in scheduled meetings, while senior leaders suffer through 23 hours a week—roughly half their working hours! Of course open communication is necessary for collaboration and teamwork, but considering 71% of employees think meetings at their company are largely unproductive, it’s time to set a higher bar. Chris Dyer has run over 100,000 virtual meetings and been recognized by Inc. as an expert in effective group communication. In this session, he shares his secrets to reducing time spent in unproductive meetings, while keeping employees informed and engaged. He presents practical strategies for keeping dispersed teams connected, including several innovative types of check-in meetings that will transform productivity.
Great meetings are possible! Learn how.
Learning Objectives:
Understanding cognitive biases in group communication
Identifying the do’s and don’ts of great meeting types
Learning how meetings feed your culture
Curating meetings employees will want to attend - Pants Optional: The Five Secrets to Remote Success
Work used to be something done in offices. Now it’s being done on couches, at kitchen tables, and in bedrooms across the globe. While organizations have been leaning toward remote work for years, the events of 2020 accelerated that transition, sending many workers to their home offices permanently with little to no preparation. Employees and organizations alike have been forced to quickly adapt to this new environment, and they are often learning lessons the hard way.
As the CEO of a workforce that has been fully remote for over 10 years, leadership and culture expert Chris Dyer was managing remote teams before it was the norm. In fact, he’s run over 100,000 virtual meetings. (Yep, you read that right!)
As a “remote-native” leader, Chris has spent years uncovering the secrets every organization should know to be successful in a remote-first world. In this timely keynote, he’ll share his top five lessons so you can learn from his mistakes. You’ll leave with a roadmap for creating a high-performance culture where employees thrive—no matter where they work.
You won’t want to miss this keynote aimed at helping you thrive virtually—pants optional!
Learning Objectives:
Developing a familial remote culture where employees feel emotionally connected and invested, despite the distance
Supporting team chemistry and capitalizing on “water cooler magic” from afar
Discovering the most essential communication and productivity tools for remote teams
Note: This keynote can be adapted to meet you where you are. Whether your organization is new to having a fully remote team, you have a hybrid model with only some employees working remotely, or you’re experienced with virtual work and want to take your success to the next level, Chris will customize the five key lessons so they align with your needs.
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