Garrison Wynn

Biography

If you could have no-fluff motivation, high-energy humor, and customized, industry-specific business content delivered in a single program, what value would that have for your organization?

Garrison helps people learn how to make the jump from being great at what they do to understanding and developing the qualities it takes to be chosen for the job. He gets them to understand why their products, services, or leadership styles -- or those of their competitors -- are selected. As he says, "If the world agreed on what`s best, everybody would choose the best and nothing else would be considered. Decision making doesn`t work that way."

As a speaker, advisor, author, and entertainer, Garrison has worked with some of the world`s most effective corporate leaders and business developers, from multibillion-dollar manufacturers to top New York Stock Exchange wire houses. He has a background in manufacturing, entertainment, telecommunications, and financial services. In his teens, Garrison worked with Magnavox and baseball legend Hank Aaron to promote the world`s first video gaming system, and by age 27, he became the youngest department head in a Fortune 500 company`s history. He researched and designed processes for 38 company locations nationwide and developed and marketed products still being sold in 30 countries. An experienced actor in films and a former professional stand-up comedian, Garrison has hosted television specials and national radio programs. His latest top-selling book, published by McGraw-Hill and available in bookstores worldwide, blends a decade of research and Garrison`s candid, laugh-out-loud delivery to finally tell The Real Truth About Success. His additional writing credits include business journal articles, weekly contributions to The Washington Post and a book co-authored with Stephen R. Covey, Ken Blanchard, and Jack Canfield.

Publications

The REAL Truth About Success is the culmination of ten years` worth of interviews with more than 5,000 top performers in their fields. During the process, Wynn discovered that better brains, a positive attitude, and superior all-around quality are not enough to drive true success.

Rather, the most successful people leverage their unique, distinctive qualities -- whatever they may be -- to become anything from an effective team player to an individual phenomenon. In The REAL Truth about Success, Wynn helps you;
Discover (or create) your own personal advantage
Align it with the most appropriate goals
Transition from self-knowledge to repeatable implementation
Relentlessly put your advantage to practical use
Teach people to do the same to maximize their productivity

All of us have a personal advantage we can use to stack the cards in our own favor. What`s yours? Refreshingly (sometimes brutally) honest about what it takes to get to the top, this book helps boost your rate of success using your existing resources and without reinventing yourself.

Titles

Generations Working Better Together
This extremely informative, entertaining, solutions-based session explores why younger and older people don`t see eye to eye and what to do about it in the workplace. From pointers on motivating, managing and retaining younger employees to ways of preventing older managers from losing their minds, this research-based program shows it`s possible for baby boomers and Gen X and Y employees to work well together.

Making The Most of Difficult Situations: Changing Markets, Changing Times
This funny, insightful keynote combines relationship building with no-fluff motivation and change to deliver real solutions in uncertain times. Motivational speaker and business relationship expert, Garrison Wynn, examines the challenges we face and shows how we can laugh at our problems while using them as catalysts for success. This session covers a lot of ground and provides no-cost, easily implemented, proven solutions that your people can use right away.

The Truth About Success: Being The Best vs. Being Consistently ChosenTM
Success is more than being good at what you do; it`s about being consistently chosen to do it. Garrison helps people to understand why their products, services, or leadership styles-or those of their competitors-are selected. People don`t necessarily choose what`s best; they choose what they are most comfortable with, whether it`s the best or not. We`ve all heard the importance of "best practices" and superior knowledge, so why aren`t the smartest people with the most information always in charge or number one in their field? This keynote provides original research on managing expectations and emotions and shows that there really is more to success than being the best.

Getting Great Results: Turning Talent into Performance
In this keynote, results from the largest management survey ever conducted are combined with real-life management and leadership solutions to get the most from your people, regardless of their skill level. Participants learn to manage their ego-driven top producers, how to listen like leaders and make their people feel heard, how to hire for talent and turn it into top performance, how to create a culture of excellence with their most promising people, and how to help their low performers to fight their way to the middle.

Education
What the Most Influential Educators Have in Common: Beyond Knowledge
Give students knowledge and they`ll pass the exam, the course, the grade ... but teach them to think and you`ve equipped them with a powerful tool to carry them through life. The best educators share one strong belief: We don`t want to just transfer our ideas onto students; we want to enable them to generate their own ideas and solutions. This entertaining, insightful research-based keynote examines the need to strike that tricky balance between teaching so students make the grade and teaching so they make it in life. Faculty and administrators must be on the same page regarding what that balance looks like and how it fits into the organization`s mission. To get there, they`ll need the kind of influence it takes to get buy-in from busy peers, as well as the attention of time-pressed, socially stressed students.

Making the Most of Difficult Situations: Changes and Challenges
Sometimes your most headstrong students possess the greatest talent. Sometimes the most demanding organizations to work with provide your greatest source of funding. And sometimes your most difficult colleagues are the least relevant in the classroom but the most significant in academia.

Changes and challenges abound in education today. To survive them, faculty and administrators need influence and unity more than anything else. Without these, you`ll struggle to navigate through difficult situations without compromising the extraordinary education you deliver to students.

With characteristic wit, research and keen insight, Garrison Wynn explains how top educators build their influence so they can create and maintain unity in challenging times. He also offers practical pointers for dealing with the difficult personalities educators must contend with. Wynn`s understanding of how to be influential, especially in tough times, helps your organization move past fractious people and problems to retain unity and focus.