Todd King comes to the VitalSmarts (home of Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, and Influencer) faculty with a wealth of experience and diversity garnered from his twenty-four years in the training and consulting industry. Throughout his long career, effective communication has been a favorite topic and an integral part of his repertoire. Consequently, Crucial Conversations(R) training programs and content are a perfect fit in his line-up of course offerings.
Whether conducting a training session or delivering a speech, Todd’s personality and flair lend to meaningful and hard-hitting content that can be tailored to assist organizations mired in a whole host of business challenges.
Captivating Speaker
A highly sought-after speaker, Todd has been invited to share the stage with world renowned speakers including Colin Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, Elizabeth Dole, Dr. Stephen R. Covey, and Steadman Graham.
Todd has delivered keynotes and workshops to executives and employees from major corporations across the United States on topics ranging from culture change, to leadership, to team building, to achieving results, to organizational performance. Clients include: Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Ritz Carlton, Snap-On Tools, Texaco, IBM, Coca-Cola, General Motors, General Electric, Visa, McDonald’s, Merck Pharmaceutical, the United States Army, the Texas State Government, and many other organizations.
Whether speaking to a large crowd or addressing a small executive event, Todd repeatedly inspires his participants to proactively create results in their lives using the skills and content of Crucial Conversations(R).
Seasoned Consultant
After receiving his MBA in 1981, Todd began his career-long focus of helping people and organizations create results with confidence and purpose.
Beginning his career as a senior consultant at Franklin Covey, Todd designed and delivered leadership and team building programs for thousands of senior executives, and individually coached hundreds more. Consulting clients include S.C. Johnson Wax, John Hancock, ABB/ Combustion Engineering, and international clients such as Tubacero S.A. and Tivoli Software.
Currently, Todd serves as an active member of the 2006 VitalSmarts Facilitator Faculty. A champion of Crucial Conversations content, Todd facilitates training workshops and delivers speeches tailored to the Crucial Conversations program at workshops and corporate events across the nation.
Healthcare Expert
With a rich background in the healthcare industry, Todd has helped leading healthcare organizations achieve breakthrough results in areas such as change management, communication, and leadership development. Todd’s healthcare expertise is largely attributed to his tenure as Vice President of Human Resources at HostMasters, a long-term healthcare company with more than sixteen facilities across Southern California. Todd’s role included leading organization-wide training and performance improvements. Additional healthcare clients include King’s Daughters Medical Center, Memorial Hospital, Mercy Health Partners, Illinois Health Association, Catholic Healthcare West, Riverside Health, and Intermountain Healthcare among others.
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• Learn how mastery of Crucial Conversations skills can turn diverse thought into synergy and synergy into results
• Learn to professionally discuss issues in a way that makes it safe for everyone to speak
• Learn how top-rated leaders step up to problems, solve them, and improve relationships - all in one healthy confrontation
• Journey from San Francisco to Thailand and meet influence masters who have made change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable
• For healthcare: discover how creating a culture where healthcare workers speak up before problems occur is a vital part of the solutions to avoidable medical errors
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Todd King comes to the VitalSmarts (home of Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, and Influencer) faculty with a wealth of experience and diversity garnered from his twenty-four years in the training and consulting industry. Throughout his long career, effective communication has been a favorite topic and an integral part of his repertoire. Consequently, Crucial Conversations(R) training programs and content are a perfect fit in his line-up of course offerings.
Whether conducting a training session or delivering a speech, Todd’s personality and flair lend to meaningful and hard-hitting content that can be tailored to assist organizations mired in a whole host of business challenges.
Captivating Speaker
A highly sought-after speaker, Todd has been invited to share the stage with world renowned speakers including Colin Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, Elizabeth Dole, Dr. Stephen R. Covey, and Steadman Graham.
Todd has delivered keynotes and workshops to executives and employees from major corporations across the United States on topics ranging from culture change, to leadership, to team building, to achieving results, to organizational performance. Clients include: Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Ritz Carlton, Snap-On Tools, Texaco, IBM, Coca-Cola, General Motors, General Electric, Visa, McDonald’s, Merck Pharmaceutical, the United States Army, the Texas State Government, and many other organizations.
Whether speaking to a large crowd or addressing a small executive event, Todd repeatedly inspires his participants to proactively create results in their lives using the skills and content of Crucial Conversations(R).
Seasoned Consultant
After receiving his MBA in 1981, Todd began his career-long focus of helping people and organizations create results with confidence and purpose.
Beginning his career as a senior consultant at Franklin Covey, Todd designed and delivered leadership and team building programs for thousands of senior executives, and individually coached hundreds more. Consulting clients include S.C. Johnson Wax, John Hancock, ABB/ Combustion Engineering, and international clients such as Tubacero S.A. and Tivoli Software.
Currently, Todd serves as an active member of the 2006 VitalSmarts Facilitator Faculty. A champion of Crucial Conversations content, Todd facilitates training workshops and delivers speeches tailored to the Crucial Conversations program at workshops and corporate events across the nation.
Healthcare Expert
With a rich background in the healthcare industry, Todd has helped leading healthcare organizations achieve breakthrough results in areas such as change management, communication, and leadership development. Todd’s healthcare expertise is largely attributed to his tenure as Vice President of Human Resources at HostMasters, a long-term healthcare company with more than sixteen facilities across Southern California. Todd’s role included leading organization-wide training and performance improvements. Additional healthcare clients include King’s Daughters Medical Center, Memorial Hospital, Mercy Health Partners, Illinois Health Association, Catholic Healthcare West, Riverside Health, and Intermountain Healthcare among others.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Whenever you’re not getting the results you’re looking for, it’s likely that a crucial conversation is keeping you stuck. Based on the New York Times bestselling book by the same title, Todd guides the audience through the skills to get unstuck.
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
Every individual, team, and organization faces disappointment. People make promises and break them-and bad things happen. Based on the New York Times bestselling book by the same title, Todd addresses tools for ensuring accountability.
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
The most important capacity we hold is the capacity to influence behavior. Based on the New York Times bestseller, Influencer, you will learn strategies to make change inevitable–strategies founded on more than five decades of the best social science research and confirmed in thousands of world-wide change efforts.
Leadership for Maximum Engagement: Crucial Skills for Team and Organizational Performance
What differentiates the best leaders and leadership teams from the rest? The best teams achieve something the rest never attain: 100 percent engagement and absolute intellectual honesty. Todd explores the crucial conversations skills that will immediately propel your team to maximum engagement.
Silence Kills: The Seven Crucial Conversations in Healthcare
All too often, well-intentioned professionals in healthcare organizations choose not to speak up when they’re concerned with the behavior, decisions, or actions of a colleague.
