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As a keynote speaker, Frank Guglielmo is dedicated to igniting passion in the hearts of audiences, sparking innovative ideas, and providing actionable tools and tips that enable growth and meaningful transformation.
Each of the keynotes can also be adapted into workshop formats.
Delivering Results Beyond Results
Achieving results-beyond-results means hitting immediate targets like KPIs, OKRs, AOI, and NPS while simultaneously accomplishing critical outcomes beyond specific business goals:
Followership: Building a direction and momentum that inspire others to follow, adopt goals, and share a vision.
Sustainability: Creating value in ways that outpace resource consumption and continuously exploring innovative future-building methods.
Humanocity: Integrating human creativity with technological efficiency to create meaningful experiences in an increasingly digital world.
Delivering these results requires leaders to practice Honest Engagement, Address Reality, and Adaptive Impact – profound commitments to interacting with the world. Targeted goals are critical, but so are those that are hard to quantify. As Einstein noted, “everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”
Achieving results-beyond-results is a daily endeavor, not just a big event or initiative. Your leadership legacy is shaped now, in the moments you live, not in some distant future.
For decades, VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) has shaped leadership discourse, emphasizing agility and resilience. While this approach equips leaders to manage crises, it often fosters a reactive stance, leaving them less prepared to proactively shape the future. This keynote addresses the need to evolve from a VUCA mindset to a more proactive and holistic leadership model which emphasizes leadership with agency, vision, and personal commitment.
In a world reshaped by digitalization, environmental challenges, and societal polarizations, leaders must learn to influence events actively rather than merely react to them. To achieve that modern leaders need to adopt new core practices such as honest engagement, addressing reality, and adaptive impact.
This keynote inspires current and future leaders to embrace intentionality, courage, and a deep sense of agency in shaping the future, transforming the reactive VUCA mindset into proactive leadership agency.
Beyond Agility: Responding to complexity with agency
Redefining Development: The Heroes Journey
In this keynote we explore the transformative path of leadership development through the lens of the classic hero’s journey.
Every leader embarks on a journey fraught with challenges, growth, and transformation. This journey mirrors the hero’s quest, where trials and triumphs lead to profound personal and professional evolution. Understanding this narrative framework helps leaders navigate their own paths with greater clarity and purpose.
For leaders, crafting a compelling personal narrative is crucial. It provides direction, instills confidence, and inspires others. By seeing their leadership journey as a story, leaders can better connect with their values, set meaningful goals, and motivate their teams.
A key theme of this keynote is the distinction between being the author of your story and being a character in it. As the author, a leader takes control, making deliberate choices that shape their destiny. They actively create their path, rather than passively experiencing events.
Discover how to narrate your story with purpose, become the architect of your leadership destiny, and inspire those around you with a compelling vision of the future.
In this keynote, based on Frank Guglielmo’s groundbreaking book, we explore the transformative shift in leadership styles necessitated by our constantly connected world. This keynote redefines what it means to lead in the age of social media, sharing, and mass collaboration, emphasizing the transition from traditional top-down leadership to a more inclusive and networked approach.
The role of a leader has evolved. No longer a solitary general commanding from the top, the modern leader is more akin to a mayor, fostering community, collaboration, and engagement. This shift demands a new set of skills focused on building relationships, facilitating dialogue, and nurturing a shared vision.
Leaders must embrace the power of collective intelligence, leveraging the diverse talents and ideas of their communities. This involves fostering an environment where knowledge sharing is encouraged, and collaborative efforts are valued and rewarded.
Transitioning from authoritative leadership to a community-centric approach, where leaders act as facilitators and connectors, requires authentic engagement, utilizing social media transparently and drawing on the collective intelligence of your team to drive innovation and success.