Mike Horne translates experience and insight into inspiring, meaningful, relevant, and practical keynotes and presentations. Mike's combination of substance and style wins praise from boardroom meetings to large events around the globe. Mike provides outstanding service to ensure that your event is successful. Please speak with Mike before you decide. All audiences and programs differ based on the goals and results you require. Mike will invest his energy to understand your goals to deliver an outstanding presentation to your audience.

Mike's tailors his keynotes and programs to your needs. Mike can help you to:

• set a tone for your meeting or event
• focus on values and relationships
• invigorate your audience
• renew passion and commitment in your audience
• help people through change
• instill and renew purpose
• link values to behavior
• help people to understand and to change organizational cultures

Mike delivers value and clients regularly ask Mike to return on multiple occasions in the same year. Mike looks forward to partnering with you! Presentations will vary depending on audience size, length, and format.

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Presentation Topics:

• Developing Others: Self, Others, and Organization in Perspective
• Inspiring Others: Change Yourself, Change the World
• Integrity at Work: Developing Leadership Capacity
• From Results to Outcomes: Culture for Competitive Advantage
• Poisoned Cultures: Are there Antidotes?
• Climbing and Falling or Learning to Use Your Talents
• In the Service of Others
• Hi-Octane Blends for Work and Life

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Developing Others: Self, Others, and Organization in Perspective

Leaders discover enormous personal satisfaction in developing others. In today's environment, developing others can be particularly challenging. Professionals at all levels need to consider a broad range of issues, including organizational culture, diversity, and leadership. Developing talent yield and additional obligation - retention! In this presentation, the audience discovers the elements that help to cultivate personal and organizational talent. You'll begin to put these ideas and skills to use in your organization immediately after the presentation. We'll consider:

• discovering sources of talent in others
• contemporary issues in talent development and valuing diversity
• digging in for the long haul to produce timely performance
• getting out of the way of talent - and staying involved with them
• nurturing others: different views
• and, why development is today's primary organization culture challenges

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Inspiring Others: Change Yourself, Change the World

Motivating others begins with an understanding of personal biases and drives. In this fast paced presentation, the audience is introduced to key motivational concepts. From there, audience members learn to inspire others to improved performance and culture. Importantly, we bridge this topic to talent management and succession. This topic consistently enriches those who begin to apply inspirational principles in their personal and professional lives. Mike breaks this topic down, so that audience members can leverage it across their organizations. We'll consider:

• discovering sources of inspiration
• identifying de-motivators to performance
• moving beyond carrots and sticks to develop talent
• pools and slates for cultural change
• distinguishing between recognition and appreciation
• appreciating diversity and culture in designing systems
• and, why inspiration is essential to talent development and building high-performing cultures

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Integrity at Work: Developing Leadership Capacity

Integrity is one of the most discussed and least understood topics in leadership and organizational effectiveness. Acts of integrity create loyalty among followers and customers. This presentation illustrates factors that promote and impede leadership integrity across diverse organizations with distinct cultures. If you've ever wondered how to develop integrity so that you and your organization can live out their vision, this seminar provides many insights. We'll consider:

• profiling the current leadership crisis of integrity: its impact on talent development and retention
• assigning integrity as a performance dimension for succession planning
• creating a relationship between integrity and organizational success
• integrity across diverse cultures and organizations
• fostering integrity in followers: culture and leadership
• and, why all leaders are called to integrity

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From Results to Outcomes: Culture for Competitive Advantage

In the course of our work, we've met few professionals who aren't concerned about the outcomes and results of their work. In the world of constant demands, where the workday literally never ends, the quest for meaningful results is often elusive. Despite elusive results, the outcomes of leadership development work are profound on organizational culture. Partnerships in the organization are central to the creation of positive individual, organizational, and social outcomes. We focus on these objectives:

• understanding what matters to organizational stakeholders
• deepening the results of culture development through selective approaches
• fostering the intersection of leadership development and culture
• finding a place for "yourself" in leadership development and culture
• and, measuring the value of organizational culture

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Poisoned Cultures: Are there Antidotes?

Today, we are hearing and learning more about the topic of "toxic" leaders and toxic leadership. The number of new book titles, articles, and speeches on this topic is increasing. Despite our enduring fascination with leaders and leadership development, the topic of culture "poison" has never been featured as prominently as it is today. What's going on? Does it have something to do with new and emerging organizational forms or increasingly long workdays? We've moved beyond the ideas of "good" and "bad" leaders and cultures to exploring in deeper ways the pathologies of leaders in organizational environments. We'll consider five topics in this session:

• distinguish and overview characteristics of toxic cultures
• search for examples and evidence of toxic leaders in organizational experience
• consider the consequences for leader and leadership development
• assess approaches and solutions for the issues of poisoned cultures
• and, selecting strategies to build healthy leaders and cultures

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Climbing and Falling or Learning to Use Your Talents

Have you ever heard or experienced a "climber?" These individuals seek to advance and to acquire additional power, prestige, and reference in organizations. Some perpetually climb, others fail in their pursuits, and still others arrive in significant organizational leadership positions. In leadership development and in organizational culture, robust systems develop talent. The consequences for groups and organizations on developing or on failing to development is significant.. This lively session engages your consideration of values in practice, as we consider these items:

• diagnosing leadership development issues and categorizing talent opportunity
• engaging the "climber" in leadership development to create opportunity
• distinguishing mistakes and failures
• energizing cultural development efforts by blending talent pools
• learning from climbers and the impact on leadership development
• and, assessing the crossroads of ambition and expression

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In the Service of Others

Did you ever work in a group that lost its focus because it was so busy trying to discover its purpose? Mike spent years with executives and other groups pulling his hair out of his head as they struggled for perfect word. It wasn't that the struggles weren't heroic, they were - but in the end did the task to choose "a" over "the" really make a difference? Teams the focus on the service of others, and choose service to others over self-interest, have compelling stories. In this action packed seminar, we trace highs and lows of group experiences in developing sustainable performance cultures. Among the items considered:

• choosing to lead and to act authentically, throughout an organization
• acknowledging deception as an obstacle to leading
• creating value through service by listening to customers
• clarifying values that make others commit to purpose
• and, moving from the short-term to greatness

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Hi-Octane Blends for Work and Life

Mike Horne writes extensively on blending life and work, winning praise from audiences for his clear and to the heart messages that inspire change. Working with the concept that individuals are the chief executives of their lives, Mike encourages others to work and to live courageously. Consider the impact of roles and relationships on group and organizational performance. Learn the six key strategies for growing an organizational culture that effectively blends work and life. In this presentation, audience members actively engage in these topics:

• awakening work and life
• learning to blend life and work for results and for outcomes that matter
• how to use proven techniques to cope and to lead
• growing life-friendly organizational cultures without sacrificing productivity
• and, extending the influence of individual lives into caring organizations and communities

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