Jeff Butler

Jeff Butler Speaking Topics

• AI: Overcoming the Hype and Discovering the Opportunity

  n 1954, a Georgetown-IBM team predicted that language translation programs would be perfected within five years. Sixty years later, we’re still working on it. In 1965, Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon claimed that machines would soon handle any work a person could do within twenty years. These ambitious predictions highlight the enormous promise of artificial intelligence—often oversold, rarely fully realized, fueling the inevitable AI hype. Delve into the dynamic landscape of Artificial Intelligence as we navigate through the buzz and uncover the legitimate opportunities.

  • Clarity Amidst the Hype: Gain a clear understanding of the current state of AI by learning about the ‘Hype Curve’ and distinguish between exaggerated claims and genuine opportunities, empowering you to make informed decisions for your business.
  • Future-Proofing Strategies: Identify key technological milestones essential for unlocking AI's potential, positioning your organization for long-term success amid constant technological disruption.
  • Strategic Insights: Acquire strategic insights into up-to-date AI case studies and how they can be practically applied to enhance business processes, drive innovation, and gain a competitive edge in your industry.

  Available as a 45-90 minute keynote, 90 minute workshop, or 60 minute virtual engagement.

• The Heart of Connection: Unleashing the Power of Human Relationships in a Digital World

  In his presentation, Jeff Butler unravels which technological changes to anticipate and how their integration impacts the workforce; not only from a business perspective but sociological, psychological, and existential as well. How might this wave of change affect industries—and us as the people that work for them—faster than experts originally anticipated? While inevitable, one of the most important things that people can do now is learn what areas still continue to have that desire for human connection.

  • Discover the Power of Human Connection: Learn which parts of the workforce and our day to day work lives that cannot be replaced through new technology and artificial intelligence breakthroughs.

  • Future-Proofing Strategies: Identify key areas where human connection needs to be incorporate in order to drive effective human connection from team building to customer interaction.

  • Strategic Insights: Acquire strategic insights into up-to-date AI case studies and how they are not meeting the expectations of human interactions. These case studies can range from customer serice, to one-on-one relationship building.

  Available as a 45-90 minute keynote, 90 minute workshop, or 60 minute virtual engagement.

Leading in Times of Uncertainty

Benjamin Franklin in the late 17th century famously that “the only two things certain in life are death and taxes” satirically, yet truthfully implying that uncertainty is here to stay. Beyond just the recent pandemic, various industries continuously face changing times, and the unfortunate inevitably remaining that those that don’t change eventually become obsolete. Hence, how do leaders adapt to changing times and ensure that they are not only doing what they need to adapt, but do so in a way that doesn’t create setbacks?

• Discover the How the Human Psyche Handles Change: Uncover the paradoxical hurdle that every leader faces when confronted with uncertainty and how they can pragmatically regain psychological control.
• Team-Fortifying Strategies: Identify thought distortions and how to systematically guide a team through uncertainty in order to regain team harmony and strengthen rather than weaken team connections.
• Strategic Insights: Discover strategies that leaders from various industries and levels use to create buy in during times of drastic change.

Available as a 45-90 minute keynote, 45-240 minute workshop, or 60 minute virtual engagement.

Redefining the Leader’s Role: Driving Growth in a Rapidly Changing World

Have you ever wondered why some employees continue to underperform while others become rock stars? Or better yet, is it possible to turn new hires into a team linchpins consistently? Imagine being able to lay out a roadmap for employees so that they are able to maximize their leadership ability without having to micro manage them. A path where employees feel empowered and want to contribute versus being obliged to by their over bearing boss. In this program, Jeff Butler reveals the roadmap that the most disruptive companies in the world are leveraging to maximize their employees leadership abilities. More specifically, how to create a team where leadership is encouraged and cultivated to the point where an entire organization benefits. Some strategies are commonplace like instantiating strong management systems, but others are obscure requiring a leader to truly understand how the mind works in order to unlock their employee’s potential.

• Discover the How the Human Psyche Handles Change: The mental traps that hold back high performing employees when moving into leadership positions.
• Conflict-Proofing Strategies: Discover the 3 employee levels- passenger, driver and navigator and how to help employees climb the performance ladder.
• Strategic Insights: Discover strategies such as employing intrinsic motivation in order to maximize their leadership ability.

Available as a 45-90 minute keynote, 45-240 minute workshop, or 60 minute virtual engagement.

Building an Effective Multi-Generational Workplace

This program focuses on managing four different generations in the workplace where author and practitioner Jeff Butler, backed by a decade of psychological research, shares insights about motivations, differences, and communication styles of these four generations. You will learn how organizations across various industries are thriving with a multigenerational workforce and how yours can too. Through this program you’ll find specific actionable strategies to manage your cross-generational challenges and turn your multigenerational workforce into a competitive advantage.

• Learn the Organization Psychology Principles that Drive Cohesion: Discover potential points of generational conflict and tactics to handle them in order to build seemless cultural integration.
• Conflict-Proofing Strategies: Learn how to strengthen cross-generational communication to foster company wide ideation.
• Strategic Insights: Obtain specific strategies to leverage multi generational differences like optimizing recruitment and retention.

Available as a 45-90 minute keynote, 45-240 minute workshop, or 60 minute virtual engagement.

Winning the Talent War

Have you ever struggled to recruit the right person for your team? And if you were able to find them, was it even more difficult to keep them? More than ever before, talent is in peak demand and companies are having to completely change the way they view human capital in order to stay competitive. In this program, you will hear up-to-the-minute data and case studies presented by author Jeff Butler on how organizations are winning the war for talent. Jeff has helped dozens of companies on winning the war for talent and has seen unusual and ground breaking ways to attract talent that some many employers are chasing after.

• Uncover What Separates Typical vs Top Talent: Explore the data behind what different copy and value propositions attract in potential candidates.
• Interview Data that Everyone Needs to Know: Find out imperative recruitment data such as how effective are behavioral interviews to how many candidates should you interview before providing an offer.
• Strategic Insights: Obtain specific strategies to leverage video in recruitment in order to portray an organization as authentic.

Available as a 45-90 minute keynote, 45-120 minute workshop, or 60 minute virtual engagement.