Michael Bungay Stanier - Professional Keynote Speaker, Author and Coach

An internationally-acclaimed professional keynote speaker, Michael Bungay Stanier is an expert at getting teams and organizations to do less Good Work and more Great Work.

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Michael brings together his practical experience as a consultant, innovator and The 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year to help Great Work flourish at an individual, team and enterprise level.

His keynote speeches and training workshops infuse audiences with enthusiasm and excitement for what's possible, helps them get unstuck and gets them going on the work that matters.

Michael is the author of Get Unstuck & Get Going ...on the stuff that matters a coaching program and tool that has been enthusiastically endorsed by leading business thinkers such as Peter Block, Anita Roddick, and Seth Godin, and embraced by users around the world.

Michael is on the faculty of the Innovation Igniter, a program designed to establish innovation as a competence within organizations.

He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and holds an M.Phil, a law degree, and a BA with highest honors.

As a professional keynote speaker, Michael has shared his gift for provocative ideas, practical tools, and ways of creating positive behavior change with audiences on four continents.

Box of Crayons

Michael's company Box of Crayons supports organizations to do less Good Work and more Great Work. Using the technologies of coaching, innovation and change management, they help their clients do the work that matters.

Box of Crayons has particular expertise in the pharmaceutical, professional service and consumer goods sectors.

In the pharmaceutical sector Box of Crayons has worked with GlaxoSmithKline (where Michael wrote the global vision), AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis.

Other recent Box of Crayons clients include: American Express, British Gas, Kraft, Nestlé, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Bank of Canada and Xerox.

Michael's Keynote Topics

Less Good Work. More Great Work!

Organizations say they want more Great Work - work which is rooted in strategic difference, innovation and long-term growth.

However, they're set up to deliver Good Work - the solid, reliable, efficient work that delivers next quarter's numbers.

In this keynote speech or training workshop, Michael establishes what Great Work means for everyone in the room, looks at the key barriers to achieving Great Work, and opens up new possibilities. In addition, Michael asks the question - and helps envision the impact - of what would be possible if each participant doubled the amount of Great Work they did. Book Michael for this topic as your professional keynote speaker now.

Get Unstuck & Get Going on the Stuff That Matters

Based on his award-winning coaching programs and tools, this keynote session combines the key principles of innovation and coaching to share a process for driving individual and team effectiveness.

In this interactive speech or workshop, Michael shows participants how to focus on what's important, how to generate new possibilities, and how to create an action plan that works. Book Michael for this topic as your professional keynote speaker now.

The Possibility Virus

Spreading the art of possibility throughout an organization is not only about having great ideas. It's also about individuals and teams assuming responsibility for an organizations' success.

Whether a keynote speech or training workshop, Michael explores the powerful forces of possibility - and shows participants how they can generate focused action at all levels of their organization. Book Michael for this topic as your professional keynote speaker now.

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

Michael expounds upon the Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun - from the internet movie seen in 145 countries - and shows audience participants how they can bring these principles into they way they work and live.

This isn't about being zany. The Eight Principles are about working in a creative and focused way to do the stuff that matters most. Book Michael for this topic as your professional keynote speaker now.

Practical Innovation

This day-long process takes a team through a rapid innovation process, from defining the challenges, generating possibilities, crafting a solution and designing a plan to put it into action. Fast-moving and fun, this is practical innovation at its best. Book Michael for this topic as your professional keynote speaker now.

The Dozen Drivers of Difference

If you're an entrepreneur, executive or sales and marketing manager, you must be different to survive. In a crowded field, you (and most of your competition) probably come across as a lot of white noise to your customers.

In this keynote speech or workshop, Michael speaks about the Dozen Drivers by which you can make your business stand out from the crowd (and make money at the same time). Book Michael for this topic as your professional keynote speaker now.

Custom Designed Keynote Speaking

While all of the above topics are customized to the needs of the audience and event, Michael can also gladly create other keynote topics tailored to your needs and interests. An expert in innovation, creativity, branding and how to do Great Work, Michael Bungay Stanier can deliver a professional keynote speech to fit the needs of your team, organization or event. Book Michael as your professional keynote speaker now.

Contact us to get more information about any of these keynote speeches, or book Michael as your keynote speaker today.

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Comments from audiences

"Michael is an engaging and dynamic keynote speaker. Not only is he fun to listen to, but his tools are easy to work with and extremely useful. Our group is a tough audience but everyone was blown away. In fact, several of our team members actually used the tools in brainstorm sessions the very next day. I would not hesitate to recommend Michael to anyone looking to add fresh, innovative thinking into their company."

Pfizer Canada

"Michael's approach to getting us moving out of a place of stuckness and to a place of action is profound but simple ... Its effect is awesome."

John Deere

"Michael's way of connecting with others is really unique. There's virtually no way to finish a session without learning something new and exciting."

Institute for Communications and Advertising

"Feedback from our participants was extremely positive. Many commented on how inspired (and unstuck) they felt afterwards."

TriFit

"Our ability to lead depends on a strong inner foundation and an even stronger backbone. Michael is a chiropractor for our leadership: he quickly finds the knots we tie ourselves in and ... helps us stand for all we can be."

AstraZeneca

"Exuberant and positive."

Bethany Care Society

"Michael did an amazing job partnering with us for our Senior Leader Seminar. Our people found the short, sharp sessions extremely valuable. He hit just the right balance of stimulus, depth, practicality and entertainment! Already, many of the ideas are in the language across Centrica and we are starting to see some real results."

British Gas and Centrica

"Michael is an astounding breath of fresh air for coaches who are serious about expanding their impact as "entrepreneurs who coach". Michael's keynote speech at our third annual conference was enlivening, provocative and most of all "truth telling" to those who might otherwise become complacent with the status quo of coaching as we know it today."

David Chinsky & Associates

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