Marcus Buckingham

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Topics:

• Business
• Leadership
• Motivation & Teamwork
• Peak Performance

A former senior researcher at The Gallup Organisation and best-selling author, Marcus Buckingham has spent years helping clients find and motivate their most talented employees.  He is one of the most thought-provoking and motivational business speakers known and frequently delivers keynote speeches on both sides of the Atlantic

Motivational Speaker

Marcus Buckingham is an exceptionally talented, motivational and challenging speaker.  He is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Yahoo and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and obtain and sustain long-lasting personal success. A wonderful resource for leaders, managers, and educators, Marcus challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between engaged employees and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover.

• Stop trying to change people
• Help people become more of who they are
• Focus on strengths to find the right fit for each individual
• Select staff for talent, not just knowledge and skills
• Solutions to problems normally exist inside your company
• Great people often don't want to be promoted out of what they do best 

Groundbreaking Research

At Gallup, his research (backed by over 80,000 interviews) set out to break through preconceptions about achievements and get to the core of what drives success. The results reveal practices that oppose conventional wisdom when it comes to successful managerial behaviour.

Dare to Lead Differently

Marcus Buckngham’s message is simple yet unconventional - companies that focus on cultivating employees’ strengths rather than simply improving their weaknesses stand to dramatically increase efficiency while allowing for maximum personal growth and success.  If such a theory sounds revolutionary, that’s because it is. Marcus Buckingham calls it the “strengths revolution.”  Marcus touts this strengths revolution as the key to finding the most effective route to personal success - and the missing link to the efficiency, competency, and success for which many companies constantly strive. 

Best-Selling Author

Marcus is the author of four best-selling books, First, Break All the Rules (coauthored with Curt Coffman); Now, Discover Your Strengths (coauthored with Donald O. Clifton); The One Thing You Need to Know and Go Put Your Strengths To Work. The author gives important insights to maximizing strengths, understanding the crucial differences between leadership and management, and fulfilling the quest for long-lasting personal success. In Marcus’ most recent book, he offers way to apply your strengths for maximum success at work.

Media

In his role as author, independent consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

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