Breakthroughs! As leaders, we strive
for meaningful breakthroughs that raise the level of performance and achieve
something we are proud of. But things get in the way. Dr. Lance Secretan has
spent his life experiencing and understanding these obstacles and has inspired
countless leaders to focus on the things that really matter, that make people
want to follow, and that makes leadership authentically great.
Lance Secretan built a business from
scratch to 72,000 full- and part-time employees, has consulted with, advised
and coached leaders and their teams globally for 35 years, taught MBA students
and written 21 books about leadership, inspiration and corporate culture.
Along the way, he has increasingly wondered
why leaders continue to adopt and invest in ineffective business practices,
even though there is scant evidence that they work, and plenty of evidence that
they don’t.
His highly anticipated new book, The Bellwether Effect, explores how and why leaders are
attracted to, and seduced by, trendy ideas, and the process by which these
ideas then become mainstream (he calls these originators of these trends
“bellwethers”). He shares eight examples of counterproductive business
practices and proposes novel and inspiring alternatives that could lead to
transformation and to an impassioned culture.
This is not new for Lance. He has built a
reputation as a prestigious leadership coach and incredibly talented
speaker. He is ranked 6th most influential executive coach globally and
guides leadership teams who wish to transform their culture into the
most inspirational in their industries. He has helped 6 companies to be named
to Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For in America list, and 8
others are also his clients, and 30 Secretan Center clients are
on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies list. He is ranked 17th in
the world by Leadership Gurus, and Speakers in America ranks
him among the Top Five Leadership speakers. His firm, The Secretan Center,
Inc., is ranked #1 in the world as an international Leadership
Consulting firm by Leadership Excellence. He is the Chairman of the Pay it
Forward Foundation, former Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Special
Olympics World Winter Games and the winner of many awards, including the
National Caring Award, whose previous recipients include Pope Francis, the
Dalai Lama, President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Desmond Tutu.
If you have never seen Lance speak, you
have missed a truly memorable and moving experience. He has the ability to tap
directly into why we yearn to be relevant, passionate, accomplished and
embraced, and how these are the keys to a higher level of organizational
leadership. He uses his unique abilities as a coach and teacher to share
incredible stories and lessons that penetrate our professional armor and
ignites our desire to be inspiring leaders.