Joseph Grenny

Joseph Grenny's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Over the past twenty years, Joseph Grenny has taught and advised over 100,000 leaders on every major continent, from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Joseph Grenny has advised CEOs and senior executives on more than a dozen major change initiatives—receiving credit from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ President as a key factor in helping the organization win the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter program.

Joseph Grenny is the co-author of three New York Times bestsellers, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations and Bad Behavior.

An expert on topics ranging from influence and leadership to organizational change and effectiveness, Joseph Grenny has been cited in dozens of newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He has also appeared on more than one hundred radio and television programs including ABC News, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Today Show.

A seasoned executive and business strategy expert, Joseph Grenny has addressed executive level teams for clients including: IBM, Progressive Insurance, Sprint, Textron, McGraw-Hill, Texas Instruments and Genentech. Whether he’s speaking to an audience of ten thousand or to a small executive team, Joseph Grenny’s dynamic and captivating style keeps his skills in high demand.

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Having delivered thousands of speeches in his career, Joseph Grenny’s engaging style is a sought-after mix of entertainment, practicality, and foundational research. Traveling across the globe from East Asia, to India, to Europe, Joseph Grenny has spoken to organizations including NASA, the American Bankers Association, the Supreme Court of California, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the American Public Works Association, and the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD).

Formerly, Joseph Grenny was co-founder and president of California Computer Corporation. In 2007, he and his co-authors were named Ernst & Young “Entrepreneurs of the Year” for their work in founding and leading, a top corporate training and organizational development firm, which has helped more than three hundred of the Fortune 500 realize significant results using a proven method for driving rapid, sustainable, and measurable change in behaviors, reaching over two million people worldwide, and has been named the 2008 “Business of the Year” by The Association of Learning Providers.

• Crucial Conversations
  

  Learn the skills that have proven significant improvement on results in areas such as productivity, bottom line, quality, teamwork, safety, and employee satisfaction.

• Crucial Confrontations
  

  Learn to get past performance barriers to your success by holding others accountable to commitments, getting to the root cause of accountability problems, addressing poor performance effectively, and motivating others without using power.

• Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
  

  You will learn to successfully lead change initiatives, diagnose the real causes behind problems and create real solutions, transform corporate culture, and influence behavior across the organization with or without formal authority.

• 10x Your Influence
  

  Leaders who use four or more sources of influence when approaching resistant problems are ten times more likely to succeed. Create a winning strategy with the six sources of Influence outlined in the New York Times bestseller Influencer: The Power to Change Anything.

• The Four Crucial Conversations for Financial Agility
  

  Companies who handled these conversations well accelerated response to downturns, found tens of millions of dollars in additional savings opportunities, and avoided the political and defensive behaviors that held other companies back.

• Silence Fails: The Five Crucial Conversations for Flawless Execution
  

  Hold these five conversations to ensure your project’s success and increase your odds of project success by 50–70%

• Silence Kills: The Seven Crucial Conversations for Healthcare
  

  “Silence Kills” reviews seven categories of conversations that are essential for people in healthcare to master: broken rules, mistakes, lack of support, incompetence, poor teamwork, disrespect, micromanagement.

• Crucial Conversations for Workplace Safety
  

  Prevent “accidents waiting to happen” by learning how to recognize and address these behaviors that put safety at risk.

“These skills don’t only work between managers and employees. Crucial Confrontations works in all directions and that’s what makes it so powerful.”

— Nicole Haydon,
VP Executive Leadership Development, Wachovia

“Crucial Conversations has given our employees comfort and confidence for dealing with difficult situations.”

– Steve Terry, Director
IHC University Intermountain Healthcare

“Crucial Conversations enables people to talk about what they might otherwise feel is politically incorrect, and it has changed our whole culture.”

– Nancy Taylor, Director of
Leadership and Organizational Development