Spencer Horn Speaking Topics

• Stronger Than Your Strengths

  Most leadership programs tell you to lean into your strengths—but what if that’s not enough? What if the true key to sustainable, high-impact leadership is becoming stronger than your strengths?

  In this transformational keynote, you’ll learn why the best leaders—like elite athletes and world-class performers—don’t stop at what they’re naturally good at. Instead, they confront their blind spots, reduce their leadership "drag," and turn weaknesses into non-weaknesses that no longer limit their influence. Because the greatest improvements don’t come from brute force. They come from removing what's slowing you down.

  In this session, you’ll discover how to:

  • Leverage your strengths while expanding your leadership range
  • Identify and refine the flaws that quietly hold you back
  • Overcome rigid thinking and develop flexible authenticity
  • Build resilience by embracing discomfort and growth

  True leadership excellence isn’t just about your strengths—it’s about what you’re willing to improve.

  Are you ready to reduce your drag, refine your flaws, and become stronger than your strengths?

  This program is perfect for:

  • Senior leaders who want to improve their impact
  • Emerging leaders who want to earn respect

  The audience will leave with:

  • Identify your leadership strength and weaknesses

  • Personal plan and strategy to strengthen blind spots and weaknesses

  • Confidence to "show up" for your team in ways they need

  • Improve your reputation and personal brand
  • Breakthrough barriers to growth
  • Breakthrough barriers to rigid thinking
  • Set the stage for team performance and organizational change

  Format: 60 Minute Keynote

• Lead With Impact: There Is An “I” in Team

  Team performance starts when you ask, "How can I take more responsibility for my team’s troubles instead of pointing at others? How can I match my good intentions to my impact so I can be the leader and team member my team deserves?” Only 10% of teams are high performing. Sustainable high performance is possible. The “I” is your impact! There is often a gap between your good intentions and your impact. We will discuss why that happens and how you can close this gap and create the conditions of psychological safety needed to help your team members engage and perform at a higher level. You will improve your ability to solve challenges you face every day and achieve your goals more successfully. There is an “I” in Team will help your ability to think clearly under pressure, manage and motivate people effectively, and to change your approach as necessary. It will help you improve your emotional intelligence and your impact!

  This topic provides you with the skills to recognize how emotions drive behaviors, the difficulty in managing your emotions, and the emotions of those around you. Gain tools to manage interpretation of information and review appropriate levels of reaction. As a leader, you will become more aware of your unconscious behaviors and learn to effectively manage your emotions to make conscious decisions for better outcomes.

  Keynote Benefits

  • Learn how to match your intentions to your impact for
  • Recognize the cycle of how emotions drive behaviors and build habits.
  • Gain tools to build awareness of how you behave in moments of tension and the impact of that behavior on team performance.
  • Learn techniques to interrupt those behavior patterns to be a better “I” in the team.

• Communicate With Impact

  Effective communication is one of the most important factors in the success of any organization or relationship. It is vital to understand how to communicate with members of your team or customers who communicate differently than you. Diversity of behavior and perspective can be a great strength to the team when managed well. When it is not understood or appreciated it can cause dysfunction and reduce productivity and engagement.

  Keynote Benefits

  • Identify your personal communication preferences
  • Understand how to lead, manage, engage, and motivate different styles of communicators.
  • How to most effectively communicate between differing preferences.
  • Identify blocks to effective leadership and communication and what to do about them.
  • Gain tools for managing conflict.

  Surveys must be taken prior to the workshop. (Not necessary for keynote presentation.) We will want to create individual name badges based on survey results for the students so we may begin to easily identify leadership and communication styles.

• The Ownership Factor

  Learn how taking 100% ownership for your current results gives you the power to improve future results. Discover the conditions and behaviors that keep you stuck. Identify and implement the steps to achieve the results you desire in your work and life.

  Spencer Horn uses personal experiences and inspiring stories that help motivate you to take action. Hardships, like many are experiencing right now, can be a catalyst for positive change. You will learn about how to unleash the power to achieve desired change and goals. You will commit to take ownership for the outcomes in your life and decide if you want a job, a career, or calling in your chosen vocation.

  Keynote Benefits

  • This is a “wake-up call” to seasoned leaders to get off “auto pilot” and stop settling for good enough!
  • Learn some ways you prevent others and yourself from making desired changes in your roles and how to eliminate them.
  • Attendees will learn to stop blaming. They will create ownership of results and choose if they want a job, career, or a calling!
  • They will come away with a tangible vision and purpose about what is important to them through creative exercises.
  • Participants will get committed to a plan of action, which will help them have more power over the outcomes in their lives.

• Delegate To Elevate: Effective Delegation & Coaching Skills For Busy Leaders

  Stop the burnout that often comes with leadership. Gain understanding and experience of how to coach and manage direct reports around challenging behavioral issues. Learn the art of giving and receiving feedback for improvement. Participants will learn the responsibility of delegation. Help increase engagement in team members through empowering them to learn and grow in their positions. Avoid taking on the responsibilities of your team and learn why this is a challenge for many leaders. You will have the opportunity to practice these skills in response to common behavioral situations in a safe environment, which will give you the confidence to increase your effectiveness immediately.

  Value to participants

  • Learn how to take charge of your busy day.
  • Understand how our own emotions and the emotions of others affect our decision-making.
  • Develop the listening skills necessary to make better decisions.
  • Learn effective delegation versus abdication or control.
  • Learn conflict management techniques.
  • Begin to learn and practice proven coaching techniques.
  • Understand how your conditioned behavior impacts delegation and what to do about it.

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