Joseph Grenny

Biography

Over the past twenty years, Joseph Grenny has taught and consulted with over a hundred thousand leaders on every major continent from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. He has advised CEOs and senior executives on more than a dozen major change initiatives - receiving credit from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics` President as a key factor in helping the organization win the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter program.

Bestselling Author
Joseph is coauthor of four New York Times bestsellers with almost three million copies in print: Change Anything, Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, and Influencer.

An expert in topics ranging from influence and leadership to organizational change and effectiveness, Joseph has been cited in every major newspaper including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Joseph also writes The Influential Leader, a regular column on BusinessWeek.com. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs including ABC News, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Today Show.

Dynamic Speaker
Joseph regularly speaks and consults with leaders across the globe from East Asia, to India, to Europe. He has spoken at events such as the HSM World Business Forum and to organizations including NASA, the American Bankers Association, the Supreme Court of California, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the American Public Works Association, and the American Society of Training and Development.

A seasoned executive and business strategy expert, Joseph has addressed executive level teams for clients including Baxter, Yale Medical School, IBM, Progressive Insurance, Sprint, Textron, McGraw-Hill, Allstate, Eli Lilly, Texas Instruments, and Genentech. Whether he`s speaking to an audience of more than ten thousand or to a small executive team, Joseph`s dynamic and captivating style keeps his skills in high demand.

Business Results Expert
Joseph was cofounder and president of California Computer Corporation. In 1990, he cofounded VitalSmarts, which today is one of the most respected corporate training and organizational development companies in the world. VitalSmarts has helped more than three hundred of the Fortune 500 realize significant results using a proven method for driving rapid, sustainable, and measurable change in behaviors.

In 2007, Joseph and his coauthors were named Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year for their work in founding and leading VitalSmarts. Named the 2008 Business of the Year by The Association of Learning Providers, VitalSmarts has also been ranked four times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America. Products resulting from Joseph`s research have been used to train over two million people worldwide.

Publications

Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success

A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one`s working relationship with others, one`s overall health, outlook on life, and so on.

For example, why is it that 95% of all diet attempts fail? Why do New Year`s Resolutions last no more than a few days? Why can`t people with good intentions seem to make consistent and positive strides in the way they want to improve their careers, financial fitness, physical fitness, and so on?

Based upon the latest research in a number of psychological and medical fields, the authors of Change Anything will show that traditional will-power is not necessarily the answer to these strivings, that people are affected in their behaviors by far more subtle influences. Change Anything shows how individuals can come to understand these powerful and influential forces, and how to put these forces to work in a positive manner that brings real and meaningful results.

The authors present an array of everyday examples that will change and truly empower you to reexamine the way you go about your business and life.

Titles

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, Joseph 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, Joseph addresses tools for ensuring accountability.

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. Joseph 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.

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

Financial Agility: The Four Crucial Conversations for Uncertain Economic Times

Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success