Printable Biography of John Parker Stewart

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John Parker Stewart is an internationally recognized and entertaining speaker, executive coach, leadership consultant, and published writer whose clients include Boeing, Bank of Hawaii, BP Oil, Castrol of Malaysia, Cargill, Citibank, Chevron, General Motors, General Electric, IBM, Kennedy Space Center, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Nestle/Carnation, Pacific Bell, Raytheon, Thiokol, Toshiba, Tyco, U.S. Department of Energy, Waste Management, ViaSat, and Xerox.

After working on his doctorate in organizational behavior at Michigan State University and receiving additional doctoral work on executive performance under Peter Drucker at the Claremont Graduate School of Business, John was corporate manager over human resource development for 86,000 employees at Lockheed. He worked with Lockheed divisions worldwide and initiated, designed and taught the Lockheed Executive Institutes. In 1980, he created his own consulting firm specializing in helping organizations build leadership, teaming, and communication capability.

John’s Major Achievements Include:

Designed and implemented a leadership and team development program at Kennedy Space Center that reduced the cost of launching the shuttle by half—saving hundreds of millions of dollars a year
Using his leadership principles and communication expertise, John has successfully coached corporate proposal teams enabling them to win multi-year contracts worth billions of dollars
Coached hundreds of senior executives in Fortune 500 companies in team leadership, communication, and relationship capability
Led several multi-million dollar change efforts for international corporations in successfully realigning their operations and manufacturing processes leading to on-time performance
United diverse corporate cultures during multi-billion dollar mergers and consolidations leading to significant gains in organizational results
John’s Recognitions Include:
Received the American Society for Training and Development National Trainer of the Year (Trainer's Choice Award) for two consecutive years
Was selected as the keynote speaker for NASA’s Return to Flight celebration banquet following the two-year reconstruction period after the Challenger disaster
Consistently averages a 9.6 out of 10 on client satisfaction evaluations for his keynote presentations
With over 26 years of speaking and consulting experience, John’s remarkable blend of insight, energy, and skill has challenged and inspired leaders everywhere to a greater understanding of people and their impact on workplace performance. His entertaining and informative style, couched in practical, easily-applied principles, captivates his listeners. His audiences particularly value the leadership gems designed for immediate application that John sprinkles throughout his presentations.

Most Requested Topics:

The Real Bottom Line: 10 Laws That Earn the Heart: For the majority of the twentieth century, managers and leaders have assumed that one of their major responsibilities has been to motivate their employees. Ironically, this assumption is not only incorrect but practically impossible to achieve. Lasting and effective motivation only comes from within—only individuals can motivate themselves. This then begs the question: "What can managers or leaders do to unite and instill commitment in their people, if they cannot directly motivate them?" The answer is simple: A leader is to create an environment or culture where people desire to motivate themselves. Achieving an environment of self-motivation is the real challenge in today’s marketplace. It is each organization’s real bottom line. John Parker Stewart explains ten laws that create an environment of self-motivation. Modern organizations and teams are not just economic entities—they are living and changing networks held together by sets of interpersonal relationships. Relationships thrive when each person is valued and understood. John terms this overarching valuing process “Earning the Heart.” Within this framework, he illustrates the ten laws that earn the heart through numerous leadership action gems developed over his twenty-six years of coaching, teambuilding, and consulting experience. Leaders leave this presentation with immediately applicable tools to help employees be more committed. They learn how to effectively value, retain, and develop their people. (This can also be delivered as a one-day workshop.)

The 7 Personal Missions to Achieving Success: Powerful Life Lessons from America’s Astronauts: To be successful, we all have personal missions we must perform. Few of us face the intense pressures and demands for perfection that members of the United States Astronaut Corps face. From this crucible of performance, these exceptional and exclusive explorers consistently climb to the top, even amid the many ups and downs of the mission. The question must be asked: “How do they achieve their missions, both personal and professional, and what can we learn from their amazing experiences?” The factors that determine an astronaut’s success can ease the challenges and inspire the triumphs that each of us must experience to achieve our own life success. Based on scores of interviews and personal encounters with past and current Astronauts over the last twenty-five years, John Parker Stewart, internationally recognized NASA and aerospace consultant and speaker, reveals riveting stories and powerful life lessons from these modern-day heroes. With John’s signature animated and experienced style, he applies these insights to improve our lives at work and at home.As America recovers from the Columbia accident, it is worthy to rekindle our national love for exploration and discovery.This presentation leaves audiences with a sense of awe toward our space program and a strong desire to better their own personal and professional lives. Inspire your people today with this outstanding and interactive keynote address. (It can also be delivered as a one-day workshop.)

Building the Modern Leader: Data-Driven Leadership for the New Century: Leadership is a highly valued asset, yet it is too often in short supply. Efforts to develop leadership are critical for an organization to achieve success. Whether it is considering a new hire, identifying and stretching a high potential individual, or strategizing an enterprise’s future, leadership matters. It not only matters, but it could be the make or break factor of the organization’s future. Delivered with John Parker Stewart’s signature animated and experienced style, this presentation is the result of John’s twenty-five year search for the basic behaviors that comprise superior leadership. After analyzing his leadership assessments from over 10,000 executives, managers, and supervisors, from a host of Fortune 500 companies and government contractors in the aerospace, defense, technology, energy, electronics, software, and communications industries, John has discovered significant trends in what makes great leadership.These trends, like what your boss wants and what your direct reports value most, form the basis of two new leadership models: (1) the Leading By Relationship Model (for building leadership at the individual level); and (2) the GrowingLeaders2 Model (for building leadership at the organizational level). Both models consist of specific, data-backed behaviors that are proven to foster effective leadership—at every level of the organization. Leaders leave with a clear, tailored action plan of how to immediately improve their personal and company leadership performance.

The Top Ten Most Valued Qualities of an Ideal Leader: Based on 360º assessment results from over 10,000 executives, managers, supervisors, and line workers from organizations such as NASA, Pacific Bell, Raytheon, Rockwell, Toshiba, and the U.S. Department of Energy, John Parker Stewart has discovered the Top Ten Most Valued Qualities of an Ideal Leader. Through this interactive and engaging presentation, John paints a vivid picture of what the ideal leader does and how each participant can apply these empirically tested behaviors to improve his or her leadership capability. Each participants leaves with a renewed desire and clear action plan for immediate improvement in his or her ability to lead.