ABOUT JAY
Jay’s clients include household names in the Fortune 1000 from energy to healthcare to hospitality to retail to technology. He has partnered with hundreds of organizations to design learning experiences that accelerate the development of their leadership talent - from short workshops to multi-year learning journeys. His clients praise his ability to customize content to their unique needs and apply education as a tool to solve real organizational challenges. He can help you design sophisticated and customized development programming for your leaders.
Recognized by business publications for his exceptional executive education skills, Jay’s keynotes and workshops engage audiences to realize their potential as leaders. His presentations are based on insights from his fifteen books on leadership and his experiences as a professor at top ranked schools such as the Harvard Business School, London Business School, INSEAD (France), University of Southern California, McGill University, and Claremont McKenna College. His style of teaching is highly engaging and practical. Deploying memorable stories, personal role modeling and a wide variety of learning experiences, he makes the topic of leadership come alive for audiences.
KEYNOTES/WORKSHOPS
Jay offers presentations and executive education on leadership to businesses, nonprofits, and associations. He has delivered keynotes and seminars to managers and executives from over 90 countries. His audiences range from young high potential managers to seasoned directors to executives. Jay’s compelling storytelling ability and sense of humor disarms even the most cynical and inspires them to become better leaders. As a former manager himself, every learning experience incorporates real world application.
“We have partnered with Jay over the last 5 years to build and deliver our high potential Executive Leadership Program. Jay worked as a true partner, digging deep into our culture to design a best in class program. His outstanding design skills are complemented by his engaging delivery in the seminar room where key leadership lessons become memorable through vivid stories that live long outside of the program. Ultimately the impact can be measured by the deep leadership capability we have built in our next generation of leaders.”
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM DESIGN CONSULTING
Jay will work with you and your organization to design leadership programming customized to meet the strategic and cultural demands of your organization. His client projects include programs for all levels of management from emerging leaders to high potential talent to general managers and newly promoted executives. Programs range from a half day seminar to longer multi-experience journeys. Jay does not use a standard leadership framework or competency model. Rather he believes that each organization has unique leadership requirements. Once these are identified through careful assessments, Jay matches the right learning methods to the leadership capabilities being developed. He has worked with the widest variety of leadership development methodologies and, unlike his peers, he is not beholden to a single approach. With his extensive network, he can assemble top teaching talent for multi-topic programs. Jay repeatedly creates highly engaging, real world, and sticky learning experiences for his clients: this is why his clients have retained him year after year to work with their leaders. Many of his clients have gone on to win industry awards for their development programming.
WRITTEN BY JAY
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