Patrick Lencioni

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Pat Lencioni is the founder and president of a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve leadership, teamwork, clarity and employee engagement.

The wide-spread appeal of Patrick Lencioni's leadership models have yielded a diverse base of speaking and consulting clients, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, non-profits, schools and churches.

Patrick Lencioni’s passion for organizations and teams is reflected in his writing, speaking and executive consulting. Pat is the author of ten best-selling books with over three million copies sold. After ten years in print, his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be a fixture on national best-seller lists. His latest book, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, was released to favorable reviews and became an immediate national best-seller.

Named in Fortune magazine as one of the ‘ten new gurus you should know,’ Pat and his work have been featured in USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review, to name a few.

When Patrick Lencioni is not writing, he consults to CEOs and their executive teams, helping them to become more cohesive within the context of their business strategy.

In addition, Patrick Lencioni speaks to thousands of leaders each year at world-class organizations and national conferences. Consistently the top rated keynote speaker at major events, Pat shares his models and inspires his audiences through his accessibility, humor and story-telling.

• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

  Addressing the model in his book, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, Pat makes the overwhelming case that organizational health "will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage." While too many leaders are still limiting their search for advantage to conventional and largely exhausted areas like marketing, strategy and technology, Pat demonstrates that there is an untapped gold mine sitting right beneath them. Instead of trying to become smarter, he asserts that leaders and organizations need to shift their focus to becoming healthier, allowing them to tap into the more-than-sufficient intelligence and expertise they already have. He defines a healthy organization as one that has minimal politics and confusion, high degrees of morale and productivity, and very low turnover among good employees. Drawing on his work consulting to some of the world's leading teams and reaffirming many of the themes cultivated in his other best-sellers, Pat reveals the four steps to achieving the ultimate competitive advantage.

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

  According to Pat Lencioni, teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. He makes the point that if you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. Based on his runaway best-seller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Pat uncovers the natural human tendencies that derail teams and lead to politics and confusion in so many organizations. Audience members will walk away with specific advice and practical tools for overcoming the dysfunctions and making their teams more functional and cohesive.

• Getting Naked

  Based on the principles in Getting Naked, Pat presents a revolutionary and counterintuitive approach to client service that yields uncommon levels of trust and loyalty. Naked Service, as Lencioni calls it, provokes consultants and service providers to be completely transparent and vulnerable with clients and to avoid the three fears that ultimately sabotage client allegiance. Learn principles like 'enter the danger,' 'tell the kind truth,' and 'always consult instead of sell' that can help you establish a fiercely loyal client base. Whether you are an internal or external consultant, financial advisor or anyone else serving long-term clients—you will glean some powerful tools for overcoming the three fears, and gain a real and lasting competitive edge.

• Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars

  In his talk, Pat tackles a prominent symptom of corporate frustration: silos, the invisible barriers that separate work teams, departments and divisions, causing people who are supposed to be on the same team to work against one another. According to Pat, silos—and the turf wars they enable—devastate organizations by wasting resources, killing productivity and jeopardizing results. Drawing from his book, Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars, Pat provides leaders with powerful advice on how to eliminate the structural obstacles that derail organizations. Urging leaders to provide a compelling context for their employees to work together, Pat's model gives leaders a simple tool for enabling clarity, unity and alignment in their organizations.

• Managing for Employee Engagement

  In this talk, Pat addresses perhaps the most timeless and elusive topic related to work: job misery. Based on his much-anticipated book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, Lencioni delivers a message that is as revolutionary as it is shockingly simple. Using a mix of humor and poignancy, he dismantles the root causes of frustration and anguish at work: anonymity, irrelevance and 'immeasurement.' In doing so, he provides managers at all levels, as well as employees, with actionable wisdom and advice about how they can bring fulfillment and meaning to any job in any industry. Whether you're an executive looking to establish a sustainable competitive advantage around culture, a manager trying to engage and retain your people, or an employee who has almost given up on finding meaning and fulfillment in your work, this talk will prove immediately invaluable.