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“It’s Not Easy Being Green”

Award winning writer, Biography Channel host and Leadership advisor Dr. John Izzo discusses the challenges faced by companies today as they continue to stay competitive, work hard to be profitable and successful, learn new and advanced market needs and stay up to date on technologies and trends, deal with a never ending labor shortages and look ahead to the pressing environmental issues in front of them. How do we as leaders keep all these important balls in the game when each one depends on the other? Dr. John Izzo presents on the values that are shaping the work world but with some added flavor…the road to retention, business success and profitability lies in embracing the current green trends. It isn’t easy being green today – but this same issue “being green” will attract the conscious workers who care about the world and your industry’s contribution to those solutions. In true Izzo fashion, this program is complete with stories of real people and real companies who are changing how we think about to color green.

Creating a Workplace that Works: How to Create a Climate of Excellence & Purpose

Leadership Values Shift: Engaging the New Work Force

Renewing the Heart of Healthcare: Conversations that Awaken the Mind and Soul

Second Innocence: Rediscovering the Joy and Wonder of Work

The Buzz Factor: What Great Workplaces Teach Us & How to Become One

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before you Die

What are the keys to a purposeful, successful, and fulfilling life? What must we discover about life before it is too late? Dr. John Izzo interviewed over 200 people from the age of 60-106 and asked them to reflect back on their lives. What did they learn? What would they do differently? What brought the greatest happiness and meaning? What were the important crossroads and the decisions they made and wha did they regret? In this inspiring, entertaining and thought provoking program, Dr. Izzo shares the five themes which emerged from this research-Reflect More, Risk More, Love More, Enjoy More and Return More. In this program Dr. Izzo will also feature segments from interviews with wise elders as they talk about their lives and what they learned. This program is based on Dr. Izzo’s five hour series for the Biography Channel and is book, The Five Things You Must Discover Before You Die. The interviewees ranged from successful business leaders and actors to town barbers, from Holocaust survivors and veterans, to teachers and aboriginal elders. Across cultures, he discovered the secrets to a life worth living.

Four Generations - One Workplace:Bridging the Gaps in order to Suceed in the Future

Winning and keeping talented people has become one of the top concerns of today's managers and business owners who are determined to weather the turmoil and emerge with the strength to dominate their industry.

How can organizations create high levels of commitment and engagement? With employees' values shifting, how must leaders shift their thinking and behavior? This program offers powerful and practical ideas on what managers can do to increase employee loyalty while responding to changing expectations. By defining the new work ethic and what it means for business, this visionary expert on engagement, retention and corporate culture will help you understand:

• Why Pre-boomers, baby boomers, generation X-ers and the net generation view work differently, and how new leadership strategies can bring out the best in all three groups
• The fastest, most effective ways to encourage employee loyalty at every level
• How to attract and keep the most talented employees by meeting the six major expectations of the workforce
• How to build the bridges that will be crucial to your organization in difficult times
• How to sustain employee engagement by making work more than just a way to make a living
• How to develop trust through open communication.