Cal LeMon

Biography

According to the Society of Human Resources Management, Dr. Cal LeMon has been designated among the "Ten Best Speakers in America."

After an acclaimed career in the ministry which included serving as senior minister of a large, multi-staff parish and a chaplain at Harvard University, Dr. LeMon made a professional shift to become a senior faculty member with National Seminars Group. Cal traveled across the United States, Canada and Europe and quickly became the highest rated (from audience evaluations) male presenter for NSG.

With this professional background, LeMon will walk on stage blending the genuine empathy of a clergyman, the precise skills of a seasoned public speaker, an engaging unrehearsed sense of humor and the business savvy acquired from 25 years of working with his Fortune 500 clients.

Dr. LeMon is the president of Executive Enrichment, Inc., a corporate education and consulting firm. Cal`s client list includes John Deere, Toyota, El Paso Corporation, Gannett Media, AT&T, Caterpillar, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Great Game of Business, US Navy and Harley-Davidson.

You may have already met Dr. LeMon through his writings. Cal`s newspaper columns have appeared regularly on the Opinion Page of USA TODAY and he has been regularly quoted in The New York Times and Entrepreneur Magazine. His articles have been published in HR MAGAZINE and the journal EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS TODAY.

In the last 18 years, Dr. LeMon has built a solid career by providing audiences with content that makes sense and a style that makes listening easy.

* Personally taught all 1400 employees of Tucson Electric Power Company five, core courses on the skills of working in an empowered workplace
* Designed and hosted nationally syndicated video conferences for the American Public Works Association and MCI
* Designed and presented leadership development training for seven Gannett-owned newspapers.
* Wrote and presented managerial training modules for AT&T in six locations through the Midwest.
* For the past nine years has presented concurrent workshops and Mega Sessions at the International Conference for the Society for Human Resources Managers.
* Has presented workshops at the America Legal Administrators Annual Conferences and designed and delivered a national ALA teleconference.
* Is listed as one of only six, featured speakers for The Great Game of Business.
* Designed a state-wide public relations program for the California Association of School Transportation Officials that included the production of an award-winning video, "Stop...In the Name of Love."
* For the past 21 years has written and presented 12 leadership development programs for El Paso Corporation, Houston, Texas. One of these learning modules, "Creativity as a Business Strategy," was disseminated through the company using a video and study guide format. Dr. LeMon also provides an annual leadership enrichment program for El Paso`s office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Presented the two-day Executive Leadership Development Program for the John Deere leadership teams of its largest dealerships in the United States and Canada.

Publications

Loving ... For The Long Run (Nine, defining characteristics of an enduring marriage)

Sometimes it is money. Sometimes it is convenience. Sometimes it is children. And, sometimes it is "love."

The reasons two people stay together for the long run are as different as the people who decide this relationship is a "life commitment." Drs. Cal and Kathy LeMon have written Loving ... For The Long Run to isolate nine defining characteristics of an enduring relationship.

Their 38 years together along with sound research and interviews have enriched the natural humor and insight of Cal and Kathy as they have crafted this book. If you want to know what will keep you and your partner together for the long run, this book is worth your time.

Titles

"When You Make It To The Top, You Are Only Half Way There"
In this just-in-time economy, all organizations have a new threat: instant, astounding success. Here is a keynote address for a group who has skyrocketed into wealth and prestige and wonders what is next. Dr. LeMon will serve up laugh-laced portions of business strategy to move past "success" to "greatness."

"How To Overhaul A Jet Engine ... At 33,000 Feet"
When the whining refrain, "How am I supposed to do one more thing with everything you are expecting me to do?", drones on and on, it is time to challenge a work group with the possibility of the impossible. Leading the listener through a business arcade of astounding successes, Dr. LeMon will illustrate how an organization can make significant changes and, at the same time, not reduce the bottomline.

"Get A Life--Change A Name"
This is a highly inspirational address especially for people who are in a job which requires them to be the "giver." Using the theatrical model of Don Quixote, Dr. LeMon weaves a stirring tale of how to realize self-fulfillment by filling up someone else.

"Killing The Secret To Keep The Dream Alive"
The secret is "control." Buried deep in the neurons of all leaders is the unspoken belief that to be responsible for a group of people means controlling them; controlling their actions, thoughts conflicts and creativity. The dream is walk into a work environment and watch the staff take total responsibility for their own actions and the organization. Killing that secret is the beginning of organizational life.

"How To Find The Top After You Have Hit Bottom"
This address is for organizations and people who have failed. Dr. LeMon will extol the value of falling on your face as the price of success. Failure, the audience will learn, is never a destination; it is a passage. The end result of sitting in this keynote address will be an embrace of the future without the fear of failure.

"Kiss and Sell"
This keynote address is for an audience who have to continuously market a product(s) and get tired: tired of the buyer`s resistance, the competition`s taunting or the boss` hallucinatory quotas. When salespeople need a motivation lobotomy, it is time to kiss and sell.

"In The Morning, Always Put On Clean Underwear"
As children we were taught there are rules to life, which are always true. Dr. LeMon, in this address, reviews the rules for doing business and how they have all changed. With his vivid imagination and creativity, Cal gets the audience to laugh at the stupid rules in the workplace and then suggests some new ones which may not be timeless but will work.

"You Can Have It All"
This is a unique, team-presentation by Drs. Cal and Kathy LeMon. Kathy is a clinical psychologist who often works with Cal in making presentations to working couples. This keynote provides both the framework and motivation for two people to be as much of a success at home as in the workplace.

"Giving God The Business"
Spirituality and success have always been intertwined. Dr. LeMon, with his academic training in theology, leads the audience to a new understanding of bringing one`s spirituality to work when deciding corporate values, responses to diversity issues, compensation levels, customer service obligations and a host of other business practices.