Duncan Stevens Speaking Topics

• Leading With Confidence Under Pressure

  Every organization has leaders who are capable of more than they consistently deliver. This keynote explores the human gap between potential and performance, using the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ and the 8 Pillars of High Performance Culture™ to help leaders strengthen mindset, decision making, ownership and the conditions they create for others. It is interactive, practical and built to help leaders think clearly under pressure, influence effectively and lead with greater confidence when it matters most.

  Best suited to: Leadership conferences, senior leadership teams, high-potential programs and organizations going through growth or significant change.

• Alignment, Accountability & Execution

  Talent alone does not predict team performance. Behavior does. This keynote helps teams understand the habits that separate a collection of capable individuals from a genuinely high-performing unit. Drawing on the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ and the 8 Pillars of High Performance Culture™, Duncan explores how teams communicate under pressure, create role clarity, hold each other to standards, share information proactively and build the trust needed to execute consistently when conditions are difficult or changing.

  Best suited to: Team conferences, sales and functional teams, leadership offsites, newly formed teams and organizations looking to improve accountability and execution.

• The 8 Pillars of High-Performing Cultures

  Culture is not the perks an organization offers. It is how people feel when they get up to come to work on a Monday morning. This keynote introduces Duncan's 8 Pillars of High Performance Culture™, the conditions that help people make progress, feel appropriately challenged, take ownership, feel recognized, connect with worthwhile purpose, co-create, care and enjoy the people they work with. It gives leaders and teams a practical shared language for creating an environment where high performance becomes the natural response.

  Best suited to: Culture programs, leadership events, employee engagement conferences, post-merger teams and organizations focused on performance, retention or behavioral change.

• Navigate the 4 Human Barriers To Change

  It is often not change itself that catches organizations out, but the pace of change and the human response to it. This keynote helps people understand the four human barriers that can turn uncertainty into resistance, then gives them practical ways to interpret change more constructively, communicate with greater clarity and focus on what they can influence. The aim is to help leaders and teams reduce friction, increase buy-in and maintain performance while systems, expectations or priorities are shifting.

  Best suited to: Transformation programm, restructures, mergers, leadership conferences and organizations dealing with rapid strategic, cultural or technological change.

• Collaborate More Effectively

  It is no longer organization versus organization. It is network versus network. Beyond Collaboration™ moves the conversation beyond simply working well together and asks how organizations can deliberately build stronger internal relationships, external partnerships and client networks. Duncan explores curiosity, empathy, courage and co-creation, helping audiences move from cooperation to genuine collaboration and from transactional relationships to partnerships that multiply intelligence, creativity and performance.

  Best suited to: Cross-functional teams, partnership events, client-facing teams, sales conferences and organizations looking to break down silos or improve internal and external collaboration.

  This topic can also be woven into the leadership, teams or change keynotes when collaboration is an important secondary objective.

• The 3% Rule - Unlocking High Performance Leadership

  Helping to Create High Performing Leaders Through An Interactive Keynote Full of Powerful Insights and Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways

  Why is it that some leaders are more influential, effective, and successful than others? Often it is the result of attitude and mindset and constantly adapting and evolving their leadership skills.

  Designed to inspire, motivate and educate leadership teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bite-size strategies, techniques and habits that leaders can employ immediately to create more collaborative, purpose-driven, innovative teams and the mind-set and habits that are guaranteed to have a positive impact on your bottom line.

  BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

  • Use Duncan’s High Performance Model to transform yourself and your teams.
  • Learn the mind-sets and attitudes of high performing leaders.
  • Reframe what it is to be a leader and not just a manager to enhance collaboration.
  • Learn a proven empowerment strategy to drive commitment over compliance.
  • Learn the psychology of leadership and how accountability and response-ability are the cornerstone to success.
  • Learn how to build and create an innovative culture and creative teams.
  • Understand what drives engagement and motivation in a workplace to overcome silos
  • Leave with actionable, practical strategies you can apply immediately.

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