Christopher D. Connors | Leadership speaker, author of The Champion Leader and Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader

Christopher D. Connors

Leadership speaker, author of The Champion Leader and Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader

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Christopher D. Connors
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Christopher D. Connors is a keynote speaker, executive coach and bestselling author of three books on leadership and personal development: The Champion Leader, Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader and The Value of You. He is the creator of the LinkedIn Learning course, Leading with Emotional Intelligence, one of the top leadership courses on the site. Christopher helps leaders, managers, professionals and students increase their emotional intelligence, prioritize results and build thriving organizations. He works with Fortune 500 companies such as Northrop Grumman, McKesson and Apple, and organizations such as the U.S. Army, WME and GitLab. His writing has appeared in World Economic Forum, CNBC, Thrive Global and many educational publications. 

Book Authority ranks Christopher’s book, Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader, #1 on its list of "The Best Emotional Intelligence Books of All Time." Christopher holds a bachelor's degree from Hobart College and a master's degree from the University of Georgia. He lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

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Featured Keynote Programs

Creating a Culture of Connection
How Winning Teams Come Together to Achieve Outstanding Results

Winning teams have a common thread: a culture of camaraderie, connection and belonging. When leaders build trust and champion the growth and wellbeing of their employees, positive results follow. This starts with leadership that inspires, engages and develops its employees.

Bestselling author Christopher D. Connors wanted to know how winning teams create enduring success. Over the past 10 years, Christopher has had thousands of coaching conversations with leaders, managers, and individual contributors. He's interviewed hundreds of global leaders. He found long-term success begins locally. It starts with an intentional, caring focus on your employees that elevates them to be their best. This in turn will create game-changing, enduring relationships with your customers who will want to come back and do business with a world-class organization that treats them with kindness, top-notch service and respect.
 
Christopher uses his proprietary Connection Success Formula to show you how you can create meaningful leadership connection in every conversation and touchpoint. How you communicate, inspire, motivate and build relationships with your employees shapes the future path of your organization. Champion leaders foster connection with their teams at all levels of their organization and create thriving relationships.
 
How you show up, is how they will show up. That is the spirit of transformational leadership. Inspirational, practical and always with some fun & humor mixed in, this keynote will leave your employees inspired and ready to lead with purpose. Based on the research from Christopher's bestselling books, The Champion Leader and Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader, Christopher provides practical leadership tools to help you adapt and lead in the modern workplace.

Live, Lead and Thrive Like a Champion
Unlock Your Full Potential and Become Your Best Self

In this transformative and inspiring keynote, Christopher will reveal the qualities and habits that lead to a fulfilling, successful, and rewarding career and life. Drawing from his acclaimed book, The Champion Leader, Christopher will explore the foundations of self-awareness, an optimistic mindset, motivation and discipline and how adopting an emotionally intelligent approach to life and business can revolutionize the way you live and lead.
 
Using insights gleaned from working with hundreds of the top leaders and organizations in the world, Christopher will show how fulfillment and success begin with YOU—your mindset, motivation, and ability to connect deeply with yourself and others. He’ll offer practical strategies to:
 
* Tap into your untapped potential and transform it into showing up as your best self every day.
* Develop the discipline, consistency, and focus required to achieve your personal and professional goals.
* Develop the emotional intelligence to replenish your energy, increase resilience and how you manage change, and inspire those around you
 
Filled with inspiring stories, motivational techniques and practical step-by-step guidance, this keynote will empower you to lead and live like a true champion. You'll leave with the tools and confidence to evolve into the very best version of yourself, unlocking your true potential and creating a life of abundance, fulfillment, and success.
 
Are you ready to take the first step? Let Christopher guide you on this life-changing journey.

How Modern Leaders Lead with Emotional Intelligence to Build High-Performing Teams
Transform Your Leadership. Elevate Your Team. Achieve Extraordinary Results.

In today's ever-changing business landscape, modern leadership isn’t only about strategy and decision-making—it’s about empathy, influence, and trust. The most successful modern leaders don’t just manage people; they inspire, empower, and elevate them through the power of emotional intelligence (EQ).
 
In this game-changing keynote, bestselling author Christopher D. Connors will reveal how today’s top-performing leaders use emotional intelligence to build resilient, high-performing teams that thrive in any environment. Packed with powerful insights, real-world examples, and actionable strategies, this keynote will challenge conventional leadership thinking and equip attendees with the tools they need to lead with confidence, authenticity, assertiveness and compassion.
 
You’ll Discover:
 
* The four pillars of emotional intelligence every leader must master
* How self-awareness and empathy drive trust, engagement, and performance
* The keys to inspiring and motivating teams through communication and connection
* How to navigate conflict, change, and uncertainty with emotional agility
* Real-world strategies to build a high-performing, emotionally intelligent culture
 
This isn’t just another leadership talk—it’s an empowering experience that will shift mindsets, spark transformation, and equip every attendee to lead in a way that truly makes an impact.
 
Get ready to unlock the power of Emotional Intelligence and lead your team to extraordinary success!

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Featured Books

Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader: A Guide to Cultivating Effective Leadership and Organizationsby Christopher D. Connors

Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader: A Guide to Cultivating Effective Leadership and Organizations

by Christopher D. Connors

Discover the secret to business success and transform your career―starting today

Success requires more than hard work and good ideas: you need to be able to understand, inspire, and motivate those around you. Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader helps you hone your emotional intelligence (EQ)―the ability to be aware of, control, and express your emotions, as well as handle interpersonal relationships empathetically―and enhance your ability to lead.

Building off proven research, this user-friendly guide teaches you the pillars of high-EQ leadership. Whether it's developing self-awareness or bolstering empathy, discover simple and easy-to-use exercises that you can make use of on your own. You'll even learn about emotionally intelligent leaders and how they've utilized this skill as part of their successes.

Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader includes:

  • Emotionally intelligent leadership―Find out what it means to lead with high EQ and how you can make it part of your organization's culture.
  • Your leadership style―Determine what your professional leadership style is and how that affects the people around you.
  • Growing your emotional intelligence―Take advantage of exercises and self-assessment tools that allow you to effectively and efficiently improve your abilities.

Become the leader you've always wanted to be with this emotional intelligence enhancing guide.

The Champion Leader: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Build High-Performing Teamsby Christopher D. Connors

The Champion Leader: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Build High-Performing Teams

by Christopher D. Connors

Reestablish the connection between your organization’s talent and its leadership

In The Champion Leader: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence to Build High-Performing Teams, bestselling author Christopher D. Connors delivers an invaluable, inspiring discussion of how to adapt to the rapidly changing rules of engagement in the modern workplace. You’ll find out why so many employees feel disconnected from their leaders in today’s remote and hybrid working environments and how to address that disconnect.

Connors explains how to prioritize one-on-one and team conversations focused on understanding employee needs, career development, and wellbeing to help foster a future-focused organization. He also walks you through how to maximize your emotional intelligence and enhance your leadership skills to assist in the development of a high-performing organization that delivers superior results.

The Champion Leader also offers:

  • Ways to build adaptability, assertiveness, and empathy in the pursuit of connection between your organization’s employees and its leadership
  • Strategies for developing self-awareness of how you show up and model leadership for others in your organization
  • Research-backed insights on how to improve your self-confidence to create a culture of camaraderie and connection
  • Techniques for engaging with and supporting people to improve employee retention and recruitment

The Champion Leader is an inspiring and insightful resource for managers, executives, and all business leaders seeking to become more emotionally intelligent for themselves―and to give that gift to everyone in their organization. The Champion Leader is an essential guide to solidifying your leadership foundation.

The Value of You: The Guide to Living Boldly and Joyfully Through the Power of Core Valuesby Christopher D. Connors

The Value of You: The Guide to Living Boldly and Joyfully Through the Power of Core Values

by Christopher D. Connors

Where are you going? Where have you been? What are you doing about it NOW? As you think through these questions, I encourage you to make your move and reclaim the life you’ve always dreamed about. It’s yours if you really want it. But you'll need more than just a burning desire. You'll need a game plan that is built on a rock-solid foundation of core values. Values lead us toward the journey of our destiny. Our generation has lost its way. In the fast-paced, instant-gratification world we live in, we've lost our direction. Values provide us direction, leading us to bold new opportunities and life-changing relationships. Values like confidence, faith, courage and hard work are key to living life on your terms. Know this my friend—it’s not only about the end goal. It’s the journey you take to get there. Because it is the journey that defines us in the end. The Value of You is a journey into the core values that give light to our human experience. Values lead us to interior freedom, peace of mind, happiness and success. Every chapter contains a value that is filled with creative stories of famous people like J.K. Rowling, Simone Biles, Captain Charles "Sully" Sullenberger and Amy Schumer, as well as lesser known, yet remarkable heroes such as Dr. Liviu Librescu, Chris Singleton and Welles Crowther. Each value has a description of its core features, as well as obstacles to living the value, results of living the value and a personal game plan with practical guidance to help you make the value your own. We live in an ever-changing world with adversity and challenges. Values are the constant that position us for happiness and success. Values are a way of life. Start your journey today!

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