Are you looking for a speaker who can help your meeting attendees get charged up every day? A speaker who can help your people focus more sharply than before? A speaker who can offer practical steps to greater health, balance and happiness? Consider Dr. Gregg Steinberg.

Dr. Steinberg – or Dr. Gregg, as he prefers – is a sports psychologist and world-renowned expert on human performance. He has appeared as a commentator for the hit show, Dancing with the Stars, as a sport psychology commentator for Fox News Channel during the 2008 Olympics, and as a guest commentator on The Golf Channel and CNN. Golf Digest magazine hails him as one of golf’s great masterminds. Also, Dr. Gregg has authored books on topics from golf psychology to parenting, and his newly released (June 2009) Full Throttle illustrates 122 ways to supercharge your energy and performance at work in the midst of life’s challenges.

Facing a continual barrage of tasks coupled with a tough economy, many people feel completely drained by day’s end. To stay ahead of the game, you need to capitalize on your energy so go full throttle when needed – not all the time, which is a surefire way to burn out. Based upon his years of research as well as his coaching experiences with professional athletes and top executives, Dr. Gregg has developed an energy management system comprised of six key emotional strengths. Individuals who learn to master these strengths will thrive on the inside, regardless of what is happening on the outside.

In his “Full Throttle” keynote presentation, Dr. Gregg focuses on five of the six key emotional strengths:

• Emotional Awareness: Learn how to go full throttle, then rethrottle, then full throttle, then rethrottle, etc.
• Emotional Bravado: Learn how to turn pressure into pleasure
• Emotional Connectedness: Learn how to “connect” with every moment and avoid distraction
• Emotional Preparedness: Learn how to go with your flow and identify your “signature strength”
• Emotional Balance: Understand why finding meaning and purpose boosts energy and happiness

Dr. Gregg shares examples of how high-caliber athletes and business professionals have improved performance through mastery of the five emotional strengths, and provides attendees with practical exercises to help them master their own emotions to:

• Get Focused for every meeting
• Develop greater balance in life
• Become more productive with less work
• Plug up all the energy drains
• Discover their inner flame of excellence
• Be able to overcome obstacles and adversity
• Be happier in their moments

Watch a video with excerpts of Dr. Gregg’s keynotes and media appearances on his profile page here.

Use the “Book a Speaker” form to learn more about booking Dr. Gregg for your next event.

Posted under Book Review, Motivational Speakers, Sales Management

The new Leadership Development Carnival is up and running at Great Leadership, hosted by Dan McCarthy. With a focus on content related to leadership, management, and executive development, this month’s Carnival is a collection of advice and commentary from over 30 leadership pundits. We appreciate Dan including TSG Speakers Bureau Blog’s review of Pete Luongo’s 10 Truths About Leadership.

This is the first edition of the Leadership Development Carnival, with new installments coming every month. Look for “episode two” on August 2.

Posted under Book Review, Leadership Development, Organizational Excellence

Representing the leading thinkers in sales, marketing, management, etc. for speaking engagements is, in some ways, like having a life-long pass to the world’s best business school. “Best practices” teaching from the likes of Marcus Buckingham, Pat Lencioni, Kevin and Jackie Freiberg, Keith Ferrazzi, Ken Blanchard, and many more is constantly flowing through our office. Most recently, I’ve learned some brilliantly simple lessons from Pete Luongo, former President and CEO of The Berry Company and author of 10 Truths About Leadership.

Published last summer, 10 Truths is a little book packed with lessons Pete learned during his 33-year career at The Berry Company (and the great teacher called “life”) such as:

“The people who care about us the most are those who stand shoulder to shoulder with us during our most difficult times.”

“Finding and keeping good people must be the number one priority for all organizations!”

“Rules are for the weak. Uncompromised Standards of Excellence are for the strong.”

“Winners do things they don’t like to do. Average people follow their natural likes and preferences.”

“As leaders, we’ve got to give employees a sense of purpose, a set of principles, a vision, a dream, and most importantly, an environment where they can get what they want.”

The message is so simple, yet so desperately needed. There is a flood of new paradigms, new laws, new formulas, etc. coming our way every day. Yet here is a guy who has been at the top, who has achieved great success – he led The Berry Company through a period of record sales growth and established the organization as an industry leader and “a great place to work” – and he’s reminding us that the true key to organizational and personal success is… people.

What about the bottom line? What about marketing strategy? What about meeting quotas? All important, no question. Here’s what Pete says: “My belief is that, beneath the spreadsheets, strategies and psychological tests, the truths really are pretty straightforward. This book is about the ten truths leaders understand will lead to success, time and again.” It’s a focus on people that is key; not a focus on Wall Street.

And for those who still need to see the hard data, Pete wants you to know, “I’m extremely proud to share with you that in every case, the data backs up what my intuition was telling me all along.”

If you’re looking for a good read on management and leadership, I encourage you to check out this book. I can’t recommend it highly enough. And if you do pick it up, come back and share your feedback.

– Shawn Ellis, Founder and President, The Speakers Group

Posted under Book Review, Organizational Excellence