Anne Loehr

Future leadership is imperative to consider now. As an avalanche of change comes to the workplace, leaders must look—and behave—differently.

Work environments, organizational structures and the motivations behind work have transformed. Historically, organizations were often centralized, with a clear hierarchy. Many decisions followed a linear journey of permission before anything could be decided (cue red tape).

An organization’s success was often black and white—more specifically, the black and white number on the bottom of a Profit & Loss statement.

The future of work will be stripped of centralization. Instead of ladders and chains of command, the future organization will function like an ecosystem?—?a community of interconnected organisms that all work in conjunction with each other in a complex environment, where members play many roles.

Instead of a centralized company, we will have a holacracy, where authority and decision-making doesn’t travel from top to bottom. Instead, governance will come from self-organizing teams. We’re talking no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy, and most importantly?—?no need to ask permission from a higher-up. In the future, career movement doesn’t even have an “up.

What Will Future Leadership Look Like?

In this keynote, you will learn:

• How the leaders of the future will look and act very differently than what we are historically used to.
• How hierarchy, centralization, and the definition of success will function in organizations of the future.
• The five imperative qualities and skills leaders of the future must have.

What is EQ? EQ is similar to IQ; IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient whereas EQ stands for Emotional Intelligence Quotient. EQ is a measure of your ability to monitor, identify, understand and use emotional information, whether it comes from you or from somebody else. Those with a higher EQ are able to manage feelings like anger, happiness, insecurity, or fear in order to “respond” to situations rather than “react” to situations. Studies show that up to 80% of the average person’s personal and career success can be attributed to their level of EQ. The good news is, EQ can be increased with practice.

In this session, you will learn:

• How EQ affects personal relationships
• How to assess your EQ
• Three steps to improve active listening skills (a key skill for emotional intelligence)
• How to amp up your EQ

There are big changes coming to the American workforce. In order to survive and thrive in the very different workplace of tomorrow, organizations need to know, plan and stay in front of these changes.

This keynote will help you lead through these changes, including the four biggest trends:

• Demographic tsunami of retiring workers.
• Women leaving the corporate world.
• The old diversity minority is the new majority.
• Temporary worker demand is rising with predictions that 40 percent of the workforce will be contingent workers by 2020.

Your job is to help get ready for these changes, and my job is to help you do that with my blogs and keynote. Through me, you will be able to answer:

• How will I retain my organizational knowledge before the demographic tsunami hits?
• How will I win the war for top talent?
• How will I help grow an organization with the newest generation of leaders?

How many of the following statements apply to your life?

1. I often feel overwhelmed
2. I usually feel that I don’t have enough time in the day
3. I struggle with being present, or in the moment
4. I struggle to prioritize self-care (e.g., exercise, eating well, etc.)
5. I’m tired of being tired
6. I often struggle with being fresh and creative

You’re not alone. Such is the state of the modern world. Yet human energy is a critical resource. The strategies used to improve athletic performance can also be applied to managing energy in our personal lives. Learn how to train like an athlete to manage your energy physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

In this session, you will learn:

• Tips to manage physical energy: nutrition, exercise, sleep
• Tips to manage emotional energy: focus
• Tips to manage mental energy: gratitude and happiness
• Tips to manage spiritual energy: core values

One of the major workforce trends significantly impacting organizations today is the fact that women are leaving the workforce in droves. Studies show that more than half of women who start out in Fortune 500s have left before they reach the executive level. Where do they go and why does it matter?

Women who leave your organization either join your competitors or become your competitors by launching their own businesses. In fact, as of 2010, there were more than 8 million woman-owned businesses in the U.S. and their numbers are growing 50% faster than start-ups headed by men.

One reason this matters to your organization is purely economical. Two recent, high profile studies have found that having even one woman on a company’s board correlates with significantly better performance.

Female Leadership is a must-have for companies to survive and thrive. And yet very few companies have been able to move that bar. You need an action plan to bring women into the top ranks of your company and keep them there.

Leaders will benefit from the Attract, Develop and Retain Female Talent by learning:

• The business case for women in the workforce.
• What women bring to the workplace: creativity, better decision making, more social responsibility, more business success.
• Factors that signal second-generation bias at the company level and six ways to fight it.
• An action plan for developing and retaining women leaders.

“Future Focused Leaders Create Cultures of Purpose,” examines the rampant absence of purpose people feel in today’s workplace and the extreme lack of engagement that results. This lack of engagement is not only bad for organizations; it’s bad for people, their families, and their communities, too. I explain how it’s absolutely imperative for leaders to create purpose in their organizations and for their employees. The first step in doing so is identifying individual and then organizational values. I provide a roadmap for identifying those values and implementing them.

In this talk, leaders will learn:

• How to define purpose.
• How to use purpose to boost employee engagement
• What is needed to create a purpose-driven DNA.
• How your own leadership values will add depth to work.