Steven Rogelberg

Organizational Psychologist, Meeting Improvement Expert, Employee Engagement Speaker and Performance Expert, Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte, Award-Winning Teacher and Bestselling Author

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    English

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    North Carolina, USA

  • Steven Rogelberg Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    North Carolina, USA

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Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings

Would it surprise you to know? Nearly half of 1:1s are rated as being suboptimal That managers believe their 1:1s went better than their direct reports That poorly ...

Would it surprise you to know?

  • Nearly half of 1:1s are rated as being suboptimal
  • That managers believe their 1:1s went better than their direct reports
  • That poorly conducted 1:1s can derail employee engagement, thriving, and inclusion
  • That 1:1s are arguably the most important tool for building genuine connections and retaining employees. This is true especially in hybrid work environments
  • That directs can engage in 5 particular behaviors that can serve to elevate the 1:1
  • Apart from the potential to critically influence productivity, retention, alignment, relationship and development outcomes for directs, successful 1:1s can elevate manager success and allow them to re-capture valuable time
  • There is a robust science to help us navigate key 1:1 decisions around cadence, agenda creation, the types of questions to ask, and what a leader and direct report needs to do assure a constructive and valuable experience.

There are approximately 200 million 1:1 meetings a day around the globe. Yet, the research clearly shows that 1) the effectiveness of these meetings is far from optimal; 2) that when managers self-rate their skills in conducting these meetings, it is inflated and does not align with their directs’ ratings and 3) that directs can, but often fail to, play a key role in assuring success. Hence, an incredible opportunity exists to fill the skills gap and maximize return of a tremendous time investment.

1:1s could be one of the most crucial meeting types for the success of team members, managers, teams, and organizations. The best managers recognize that 1:1s are not an add-on to their role as a manager—conducting 1:1s proficiently IS foundational to being a manager. Equally critical, the most successful employees recognize that they have the ability to shape the 1:1 to assure their work and personal needs are met. When a manager and direct report fully embrace this, the potential of 1:1s for transforming people and teams can be realized. Successful 1:1s positively affect day-to-day activities through discussion of productivity blockers, coordination, and alignment. And, they are also so much more. Namely, these meetings fundamentally influence a direct report’s experience at work, including how they engage and attach to their role, perceive the effectiveness of their manager as a leader, and envision their future at the organization. 1:1s also promote manager success. Specifically, effective 1:1s result in more focused, engaged, aligned, and successful team members. A managers’ success/performance hinges on the achievements of those they lead. 1:1s fill managers’ calendars, but meaningful guidance on how to conduct them effectively is quite sparse. The goal of this session is to encourage you to realize the full potential of every 1:1 meeting, without feeling like you are just wallowing in wasted meeting time. It highlights what managers and direct reports can do to assure success in these critical meetings.

Drawing from over 20 years of research and evidence Dr. Steven Rogelberg collected from leaders, directs, and c-suite leaders in some of the most respected companies in the world, the topics covered in this session include:

  • Why effective 1:1s are critical to your success and the success of your team –contrasting with ad hoc meeting approaches
  • Keys to success and 10 common mistakes to avoid from both the manager and direct report perspective.
  • Messaging and positioning 1:1s for maximum value
  • Finding the correct 1:1 cadence and meeting length to maximize positive impact without over-meeting
  • Managing the intricate balance of productivity-building, relationship-building, and employee development
  • Designing 1:1s with intentionality, from where to conduct the meeting (e.g., virtual) to building agendas to optimize effectiveness
  • How to evaluate if your 1:1s are actually working as hoped.Importantly, while this session focuses on the manager/direct report 1:1, learnings are also highly relevant to 1:1s with peers, customers, and skip-levels.

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Meet with Success: Evidence-Based Ways to Create Effective, Engaging, and Inclusive Meetings

While we often think about meetings as being places of drain, meetings done well can actually be places of personal and team gain. The key, leveraging evidence-based practices to make meetings genuinely engaging and inclusive. You will learn what we know about virtual, hybrid...

While we often think about meetings as being places of drain, meetings done well can actually be places of personal and team gain. The key, leveraging evidence-based practices to make meetings genuinely engaging and inclusive. You will learn what we know about virtual, hybrid, and face-to-face meetings from an evidence-based perspective and gain knowledge and resources on how to effectively lead meetings to promote engagement and inclusion. The goal, better meetings and people leaving your meetings energized and feeling valued, rather than frustrated and suffering from meeting recovery syndrome.

Dr. Steven Rogelberg, a highly decorated and award-winning researcher, speaker, and teacher shares an exciting evidence-based path for organizations, teams, committees, and leaders to realize the true potential of meetings to build genuine inclusion and assure ROI on what is a massive investment of time.  His newest research focusing on maximizing the value of virtual meetings and new approaches to brainstorming will be highlighted.

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Meet with Success: The Essential Role of the Leader in Changing Meeting Culture

This session has the following primary goals: 1. Changing meeting culture starts with each leader running their meetings in the most effective/inclusive manner possible. This is not only key for maximizing productivity but given that leader practices become normative for...

This session has the following primary goals:
1. Changing meeting culture starts with each leader running their meetings in the most effective/inclusive manner possible. This is not only key for maximizing productivity but given that leader practices become normative for others, it is critical that the practices that cascade informally down the organization are optimal. Leveraging the science of meetings, evidence-based approaches to running meetings, and preventing meeting overload, will be discussed and illustrated.
2. Within every organization, an implicit and explicit meeting ecosystem exists. This ecosystem drives meeting load/demands and meeting practices. To address the importance of examining and altering the ecosystem to support meeting excellence Dr. Steven Rogelberg will:
a. Discuss what leaders can do to implement new standards and approaches to meetings with their teams, designing to maximize meeting quality, but also return time to their teams through decreased meeting activity, decreased meeting sizes, and decreased meeting  ime. Ultimately, leaders need to start having new conversations with their teams. Conversations about priorities, when a meeting is needed or not needed, when to invite and when not to invite, and about creating a new set of norms and standards around meetings to break old cycles and habits. Conversations that move away from the “wallowing in meetings hell” lament, and more into how we can make meetings truly work for us and become a competitive advantage for the team, while elevating employee experience, including work-life balance.
b. Briefly share best practices from other organizations to address the ecosystem.

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About Keynote Speaker Steven Rogelberg

Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, an organizational psychologist, holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions.  He is an award-winning teacher and recipient of the very prestigious Humboldt Award for his research on meetings.  Adam Grant has called Steven the “worlds leading expert on how to fix meetings”.

Dr. Rogelberg’s previous book, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance (Oxford) has been on over 25 “best of” lists including being recognized by the Washington Post as the #1 leadership book to watch for,  His latest book, Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings (January 2024), is already receiving tremendous praise. For example Dan Pink writes: The world’s leading scholar of meetings unpacks the most important meeting of all — direct conversations between managers and team members. Rooted in deep research and replete with actionable takeaways, this book will transform how — and why — you conduct these essential encounters. GLAD WE MET is an urgent read for anyone trying to find their footing on the modern workplace’s new terrain.

Rogelberg has been interviewed or featured on major TV broadcasts (e.g.  CBS This Morning, multiple times on CNN, BBC World), radio (e.g., NPR’s Morning Edition), leading podcasts (e.g., Freakonomics, HBR IdeaCast; Dan Pink, Bloomberg News), and in most major newspapers and magazines (e.g., WSJ, Bloomberg, NY Times, London Guardian, New York Magazine, and National Geographic magazine).

Rogelberg’s keynotes on meetings span the globe and occur at the world’s leading organizations including but not limited to Google, Facebook, Amazon, Pfizer, Cisco, Bank of America, PayPal, Dell, The United Nations, 3M, RAND, The Security Exchange Commission, Corning, Siemens, London Stock Exchange, TIAA, and Warner Brothers.

Rogelberg was invited and testified to the US Congress (2022) on the topic of being successful and engaging others in very difficult working environments – using organizational psychology to elevate members of congress, their staffs, and the institution.

Invited and named to the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches Group, “100 Coaches Community brings together the world’s premier leadership thinkers” to seek ways to advance positive impact and give back to society.

Rogelberg has run three consulting centers, engaged with many Fortune 500 companies, and served on multiple advisory boards.  He founded and currently directs two large outreach initiatives, spanning 8 universities, focusing on nonprofit organization effectiveness. Over 5000 nonprofits have been served.

He was the inaugural winner of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Humanitarian Award and just finished his term as President of SIOP, the largest professional organization in the world for I-O psychology.

He has been a visiting scholar and guest speaker at universities around the world including: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), Peking University (China),  University of Edinburgh (Scotland), Reykjavik  University (Iceland), Hong Kong Baptist University, The University of Sheffield (England), The University of Zurich (Switzerland), The University of Tel Aviv (Israel), Technion University (Israel), Concordia University (Canada), the University of Mannheim (Germany) and Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).

Before completing his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Connecticut in 1994, he received his undergraduate B.Sc. degree from Tufts University in 1989.

Testimonials

Steven is an engaging and energizing speaker who translates what we know from science into what we can do differently to make our workplaces better. He has an approachable style that instantly connects with the audience and catches their attention.

Allan Church

SVP Global Talent Assessment & Development at PepsiCo

Dr. Rogelberg was the highlight of our conference.  Not only was he incredibly engaging, but he was highly entertaining! We came away with practical, real world insights and useful tips, strategies and suggestions.  I still think about his session to this day and how to apply it to my work.

Gabrielle D. Phillips

Senior Corporate Counsel, Syneos Health

Professor Rogelberg delivered two outstanding leadership webinars as part of our company’s internal leadership development series, highlighting his latest research on meeting effectiveness. Virtually delivered programs are always a challenge but Steve connected very well with his audience, using creative engagement strategies such as pre-program surveys in quick polls, while partnering very effectively with our company’s internal leadership development group in designing the learning strategy. The programs saw the highest volume of participants (participation is voluntary) and he received outstanding ratings for both programs. Most important, Steve’s ideas continue to resonate with our leaders as they are continuing to apply his principles for more effective meetings.

Hank Jonas, Ph.D.

Manager Organization Effectiveness, Corning Incorporated

We engaged Dr. Rogelberg to speak at a team offsite for the Cisco Collaboration Group. He was an
extraordinary speaker: illuminating, dynamic, and funny! His expertise in the science behind meetings is
unrivaled, and our team left with many new insights and ideas that will have a material impact on our
collaboration business.

Val Agostino

Senior Director, Product Management, Cisco Collaboration Group

Working with Steven was great from start to finish. His workshop was engaging, informative, and relevant. Participants reported being able to immediately take the concepts back to their work and make improvements based on the lessons Steven shared. I look forward to working with him again.

Holly Whisman

PhD, VP of Grants & Services at the Arts and Sciences Council

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