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Do you have a demanding audience who deserve to be motivated and inspired, but who have 'heard all the usual stuff' before?
Are you looking for a speaker who won't just trot out well-worn platitudes, but instead will craft a precisely-targeted message, customized to meet your audience's unique needs?
Are you searching for a speaker who will:
- Understand and 'fit' with your corporate culture?
- Confidently engage with, educate, entertain and inspire all levels in your organization - from 'C'-level, senior managers, team leaders and supervisors to front line contributors?
- Take time to blend his 25-years plus experience with your specific needs?
If so, you've found exactly the speaker you're looking for in Les McKeown.
Testimonials Les has a unique ability to lock in to an organizations' needs and deliver precisely-targeted content in a lucid, disarming, entertaining, yet highly content-rich manner. We are a better organization for Les' involvement with us.
[X] is still raving about it and is telling everyone how great and fruitful it was, and this believe me was no small achievement! I appreciated the way you tailored it to our needs and to the personalities involved. Rest assured I shall be contacting you soon...
Les has consistently delivered for us over the past 5 years. He has added value, motivated, challenged and inspired us at every level in our organization: from our Board and senior managers, to our front line contributors. 
-- Al Carlson, PDSN HR Director, Pella Corporation
I have heard nothing but positive response, much of it 'raves' In addition to keeping us engaged (and laughing!), you packed in really good and useful information. We would like to have you back for more.
-- Beth Weisberg, VP Communications, ASTD Silicon Valley
I feel comfortable ranking Les as the very best in the field...
-- Lord Tim Bell, Chairman, Chime Corporation, co-Founder, Saatchi & Saatchi.
Les, I want to thank you for making the session so extremely interesting and productive.
-- Diana Burks-Goodman, Kaiser Permanente
I felt like someone was reading my mind...all my questions/concerns were addressed.
-- Nanci Palladino, John Hancock Company
Les McKeown is renowned as an entertaining, value-added speaker with a highly-interactive, fast-paced style, able to communicate and engage at all levels in your organization, while delivering a career- and culture-defining message that your attendees will (literally) be talking about for years to come.
...a leading thinker and innovator, with a sterling track record of achievement and success. Without question, he ranks at the very top of his profession.
-- Regional Director, tompeterscompany!
Read on for more information about hiring Les as your next keynote speaker (you can use the links below to navigate the page), or click here to contact us directly for more information.
As a direct result of his ability to simultaneously educate and entertain at all levels in the organization, Les is internationally renowned as an exceptional speaker and teacher.
Les presents on average over 75 presentations annually on organizational and personal development. He brings this unparalleled experience to your next event - combining with your understanding of your group's precise needs to craft a customized, content-rich, entertaining keynote that your attendees will (literally) be talking about for years to come
Les' focus is on guiding businesses and organizations of all kinds to the peak of their organizational growth cycle -- a repeatable, sustainable state that Les calls Predictable Success™. Les excels at diagnosing the stages an organization goes through in its development, identifying what he calls "the DNA of business", and showing how these patterns are identified and refined, in order for organizations to experience Predictable Success™.
As well as teaching and coaching, Les is the author of * Retaining Top Employees; * The Complete Guide to Mentoring and Coaching; * The Complete Guide to Orientation & Re-Orientation.
All of Les 's keynotes are customized to fit the specific needs of your organization.
Currently, his most popular offerings have included variations of the following (given as examples only of topics - Les will work with you to create the exact keynote topic best for your audience):
- FOR THE WHOLE ORGANIZATION:Achieving Predictable Success™
Learn to overcome today's most troublesome challenges and attain Predictable Success™.
- FOR YOUR SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM: From Charisma to Authentic Leadership™: Taking Personal Responsibility for Predictable Success™
Motivate your senior management to move from charisma-based leadership to the team-based Authentic Leadership™.
- FOR YOUR MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS: Managing through the Whitewater: The Five Pillars of Predictable Success™
The toolkit that managers need to navigate through Whitewater's self-defeating tendencies.
- FOR FOLLOW-UP:> The Final Step Up: Achieving Sustained Success™
Learn to institutionalize Predictable Success™ and achieve organizational Nirvana: Sustained Success™.
Les' clients include:
- Harvard University
- US Army
- Microsoft
- United Technologies Corporation [UTC]
- Pella Corporation
- Chiron Corporation
- NSA (National Security Agency)
- UK Dept. of Enterprise, Trade & Investment
- Overture Services, Inc. (a Yahoo! company)
- Canadian Defence Department
- MI-SWACO
- St Vincent Health
- KLA-Tencor
- SAIC
- Verisign
- and many, many others.
We're delighted to provide you with details of current references.
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