Kevin O'Connor

A fast-paced program designed to educate, entertain, and inspire action as never before. Mastering the art of leadership can help you influence more people, enjoy more success, and give to others more of what they want and what you have. At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Define their individual leadership style.
• Understand how colleagues interpret their leadership.
• Direct teams with greater efficiency.
• Delegate effectively those things that will enhance the team.
• Discuss leadership demands for the next decade.
• Discover the difference between strong leadership and leadership that is too strong.

An Advanced Seminar on Engaging, Involving and Facilitating Any Audience

No matter what position you hold in an organization, you're always presenting. Your boss and team are watching…even when you give "just" a fifteen-minute update. In this half-day or full-day program, we'll skip past the basics of PowerPoint and storytelling to unpack the tactics to fearlessly engage your next audience from an audience of one to one hundred. At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:

• Engage and sustain the interest of their audience.
• Develop the skill and the strategy to differentiate oneself from lackluster, boring, and non-useful presentations.
• Determine the appropriate mix of lecture, audience interaction, and visual aids with each and every presentation.
• Provide useful, usable information and skills to every audience by focusing first and foremost on the audience.

When to Make Your Move and When To Stay Put

Today's technical professionals always have their eyes open for new career opportunities. Even though transitions are a natural part of life, knowing when and how to move up in an organization or move to a new workplace can make or break how others see you as a professional. At the conclusion of this keynote or half-day workshop attendees will be able to:

• Effectively account for and adapt to different personalities and leadership styles in order to work more effectively with bosses, boards, employees, and contractors.
• Select a time-tested strategy from among a mix of approaches to work and conflict with anyone, regardless of the other's rank or position.
• Develop a personal style built on the encouragement, cooperation, and resilience demonstrated by today's leading directors and executives.
• Assess the best way to approach, work with, and influence others (and react if the situation doesn't turn out as expected).

Break up the program with a presentation style with which we're all familiar, yet it's one that very few organizations implement. As Kevin takes the stage, he asks the audience to envision they're a live studio audience with Larry King on CNN, and the interviewee is someone they know of…but don't know personally. Maybe that's the CEO, the CMO, a national director, or the new team leader. Kevin helps the audience and the interviewee to get to one another on a personal level, to ask one another the hard questions in a friendly environment, and to trust one another on a professional level.