Lee Ellis
Featured Keynote Programs

Leading with Honor™

Lee shares his story of being captured and held as a POW in Vietnam for over five years and the leadership principles that helped him and his comrades return home with honor.

Using the POW story as a vehicle, Lee adapts his message to the needs of the client/audience. Recurring themes in all of his presentations are courage, character, communications, and knowing yourself to be authentic. Typically, he will highlight two or three of the lessons from the fourteen described in his award-winning book, Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton to fit the client’s desires.

The fourteen lessons/chapters in his book are shown here.

Leading Yourself
• Know Yourself
• Guard Your Character
• Stay Positive
• Confront Your Doubts and Fears
• Fight to Win
• Bounce Back—Be resilient
Leading Others
• Clarify the Culture
• Over-Communicate the Message
• Develop Your People
• Balance Mission and People
• Build Cohesive Teams
• Exploit Creativity
• Treasure Your Trials and Celebrate Your Successes
• Free the Captives

Workshops and Full-Day Programs

Because of Lee’s extensive work as an educator and business owner in human behavior, human performance, and behavioral assessments, he has created several workshop topics to advance the organizational and development initiatives of his clients.

The following topics are available either as individual workshops, half-day, or whole day programs. Each session is specifically customized for the client’s needs, and they can be added as a breakout training event before or after a keynote presentation.

Workshop Topics

Understanding Human Behavior to Lead Self and Others
- Gain an Objective View of Self.
- Leading with Honor using the online Leadership Behavior DNA™ Assessment taken before the event. Review, discuss results, and answer questions.

Results and Relationships
- Understand the issue of leadership balance with staff and patients, and identify your natural tilt toward results or relationships.
- Identify one or two developmental areas to bring you to a better balance.
- Small Group Activity

Understanding and Using Emotional (Social) Intelligence
- Understand the differences in emotional and cognitive responses in healthcare scenarios.
- Understand the power of emotions and their impact on leadership, team dynamics, and patient care.
- Understand the four factor model of emotional intelligence, and how to use it in everyday life.

Effective Teams & Courageous Conflict (Judicious Debate)
- Define Healthy vs. Unhealthy Teams.
- Courageous Conflict - What is it? What does it look like? What is the value of it?
o What has been your tendency to engage in Courageous Conflict with colleagues and patients? How can you engage more effectively?
- Small Group Activity

The Leadership Engagement Model
- Understanding the model: Withdraw – Engage – Dominate
o Understanding the impact of negative emotions, and power of trust, confidence and positive emotions on leadership.
- Small Group Activity

Accountability – Helping Self and Others Succeed
- A True Definition / Why it’s important / How to do it effectively
- Small Group Activity

Workshop Topics

Understanding Human Behavior to Lead Self and Others
- Gain an Objective View of Self.
- Leading with Honor using the online Leadership Behavior DNA™ Assessment taken before the event. Review, discuss results, and answer questions.

Results and Relationships
- Understand the issue of leadership balance with staff and patients, and identify your natural tilt toward results or relationships.
- Identify one or two developmental areas to bring you to a better balance.
- Small Group Activity

Understanding and Using Emotional (Social) Intelligence
- Understand the differences in emotional and cognitive responses in healthcare scenarios.
- Understand the power of emotions and their impact on leadership, team dynamics, and patient care.
- Understand the four factor model of emotional intelligence, and how to use it in everyday life.

Effective Teams & Courageous Conflict (Judicious Debate)
- Define Healthy vs. Unhealthy Teams.
- Courageous Conflict - What is it? What does it look like? What is the value of it?
o What has been your tendency to engage in Courageous Conflict with colleagues and patients? How can you engage more effectively?
- Small Group Activity

The Leadership Engagement Model
- Understanding the model: Withdraw – Engage – Dominate
o Understanding the impact of negative emotions, and power of trust, confidence and positive emotions on leadership.
- Small Group Activity

Accountability – Helping Self and Others Succeed
- A True Definition / Why it’s important / How to do it effectively
- Small Group Activity

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