Lance Secretan
Dr Lance Secretan is one of the world's foremost thinkers about leadership and a renowned pioneer in innovative methods of inspiring people and organisations. The former CEO of a Fortune 100 company and an acclaimed business school professor, Lance Secretan works with a gifted worldwide faculty changing the lives of people and transforming companies and revolutionising the way they think about leadership.
Thirty of Fortune 500s Most Admired Companies, and 11 of Fortune500s Best Companies to Work for in America, are his clients. Current and past clients include: IBM, Microsoft, Deloitte, Cognos, MasterCard, BP, United States Postal Service, and the Society of Financial Service Professionals.
Lance is the international best-selling author of fourteen books on leadership, an award-winning columnist, teacher, philosopher, corporate coach and mentor, and one of North America's most sought-after keynote speakers, retreat leaders, and business advisors. Voted one of the nation's top ten speakers, and one of the top 21 speakers for the 21st century (Successful Meetings), he addresses audiences around the world. Lance was the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the 1997 Special Olympics World Winter Games and former Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program.
In recognition of a lifetime of caring about people and the planet, Lance was awarded the prestigious International Caring Award (often referred to as the US equivalent of the Nobel Prize), whose other recipients include Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall. The International Management Council has also recognised his contribution to leadership with the McFeely Leadership Award. Lance has several degrees including a Masters in International Relations from the University of Southern California (magna cum laude) and a Ph. D. from the London School of Economics.
Leaders have become experts at analysis and rational thinking, making sense of the world through specialisation, micro-management, problem-solving and controlling and motivating the separate parts. But when leaders reframe what they see by making the connections between all the parts – countries as kin, corporations as communities, employees as whole humans – they gain greater understanding of how all their actions touch and connect with everything else. The greatest leaders of history have all been Conscious Leaders – inspiring others in the endeavours and enlisting them in the dreams – seeing the whole, larger picture. The Conscious Leaders are guided by six principals: courage, authenticity, service, truthfulness, love and effectiveness.
Lance Secretan shows us how to inspire others and ourselves. Based on a lifetime of research, Lance takes us on a compelling journey to discover what all great inspiring leaders have known: their Destiny (why I am here on Earth), their Cause (How I will be while I am here and what I will stand for), and their Calling (What I will do and how I will use my talents and gifts to serve). He shows us clearly, using concrete examples of successful leaders he has worked with, how we can do it too.
Lance shows that we can inspire people and show them how to inspire others – thus creating more productive, fulfilling workplaces that encourage engagement and effort from employees.
Lance Secretan will provoke you to ask brave and important questions. He will transform and inspire you, and therefore help you to do the same for others.
Most Requested Topics:
ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership**
Inspire: What Great Leaders Do **
Values-centered Leadership®**
The New Story of Leadership: What the Best Leaders in the World are Working on Next **
Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organisations that Inspire the Soul**
**Books by Lance Secretan Include:
ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership
Inspire! What Great Leaders Do**
Spirit@Work Cards: Bringing Spirit and Values to Work **
Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organisations that Inspire the Soul
Living the Moment: A Sacred Journey
The Way of the Tiger Gentle Wisdom for Turbulent Times
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