Speakers

Are you looking for a high-energy and credible speaker for your next retreat or convention? Or perhaps your leadership team is taking a day to reflect on its future direction and needs a way to think about what it takes to build a Winning Performance Culture™? Backed by interviews with more than 300 CEOs around the world, Dr. Robert Rosen combines style with substance and is a sought-after speaker in many parts of the world.

Sample Topics

Just Enough Anxiety™

Anxiety is the spark that drives the free enterprise system. Businesses vie for profits in a sea of anxiety, as they strive to keep shareholders satisfied, adhere to board directives, achieve the CEO’s vision, engage employees and stay ahead of the competition. This is a great opportunity for executives to reflect on how they manage their personal anxiety levels and create just the right amount of anxiety to drive the business forward.

Building a Winning Performance Culture™

Creating a Winning Performance Culture™ is the job of every leader in your organization. It begins with a shared direction everyone is excited about, processes that support creative execution, and a genuine focus on human capital. Designed for C-level executives, this session addresses the role of CEOs and senior leaders transforming their companies from a good to great, with supporting data and anecdotes from the world’s most admired companies.

What CEOs Do™ and Why CEOs and Their Healthy Companies Win When Others Fail

Through years of proprietary research on hundreds of CEO’s of some of the world’s most successful and admired companies, Healthy Companies International (HCI) has discovered how some CEOs achieve unprecedented success, while others in comparable companies are less competitive performers.

Cracking the Growth Code

Growth is the leading priority among companies these days. But companies struggle to unleash growth from the inside out. Now there’s a solution. Dr. Bob Rosen, in collaboration with the Darden School of Business, has defined how to successfully unleash organic growth. After studying growth leaders in mature companies, they have identified the six lessons of growth – don’t look up at your bosses, look inside yourself; don’t wait for corporate to change the rules, play by a different game; growth is already there, you just need to reframe your perspective; make friends with your customer early on; make small bets fast and lead learning launches; lead your people with guns and roses. These are the secrets to catalyze growth inside your business.

Leading Change in a World of Uncertainty

Leadership used to be about creating certainty. Now its about leading uncertainty. This puts leaders and their companies in a permanent state of transformation. To succeed companies must master two essential elements of change – cognitive and emotional. Leading the cognitive side of change is all about clarifying the vision, strategy, and plans that focus and align people. Leading the emotional side of change involves living in the unknown, inspiring and challenging people to be uncomfortable, building commitment in a world of turbulence. Many companies have mastered the cognitive side of change, but have undervalued, misunderstood, or underinvested in the emotional side of change. The emotional side is the key to leading in a world of uncertainty.

Just Enough Anxiety - The New New Leadership Capability

After 250 CEO interviews in 40 countries, psychologist and businessman Dr. Bob Rosen has discovered the one leadership capability that stands out among the best – their ability to use anxiety as a positive and powerful force in their life. Successful leaders develop four insights that drive their leadership and life success – See change and uncertainty are facts of life; show up for change with an open mind and heart; Use anxiety as a positive and powerful force for growth; live and lead for a world of paradox. By mastering the three paradoxes of realistic optimism, constructive impatience, and confident humility, successful leaders unleash the hidden driver of business success. Are you a just enough anxiety leader?

Leading a Healthy Company

What makes a company healthy? What does a healthy company look like? How do you build a healthy company? These are the questions executives are grappling with these days. The concept of health is now being viewed as the metaphor for rethinking how we build successful businesses. After twenty years of research studying healthy leaders and their companies Dr. Bob Rosen shows us how to build a culture of health and productivity. You will learn about healthy and unhealthy executive mind, the leading indicators that drive long term performance, the beliefs and practices that define health, and the steps to building a winning company.

What You Will Discuss and Discover

• The explicit and measurable approach that only the very best and truly Healthy Companies have for achieving sustainable strategic advantage
• What are the significant strategic and performance differentiators of healthy 21st century companies
• How to unlock your company’s potential for improved performance

For more information on booking Dr. Rosen and HCI Speakers for your next event, and for a list of events already scheduled, please call or write to Aaron Wunder at 01-703-351-9901.