Why have Kent keynote your event? Humor. Energy. Passion. Great content. In short, if you want to hire a speaker who is (1) a high performance and productivity expert, (2) that does an outstanding job onstage and offstage, and (3) is the easiest speaker in the world to work with, Kent Julian is your guy.
Going deeper, Kent is passionate about helping you get the best out of yourself and the people around you. He is not your typical peak-performance and productivity expert who focuses on armchair theories, regurgitated advice, or even the latest productivity apps. He won’t talk about Getting Things Done, time management, or to-do lists because high performance is ultimately about the mindset, motivation, and methods that work in real life and in real time. With Kent, you're guaranteed to get simple, actionable content that makes an immediate difference in your organization's productivity and profits.
And forget about the snooze factor. Kent's presentations are hilarious, engaging experiences that get everyone laughing, thinking, and taking action… and isn’t that what peak performance is all about?
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A 10-second glance at Kent's programs...
Outcomes your audience members will experience:
- How to Get the Best Out of Yourself and the People Around You
- Peak Performance and Productivity Strategies that Work in Real Life and in the Real World
- How to be Resilient and Turn Your Greatest Adversities into Your Greatest Advantages
- E+R=O: The Optimal Response to Change and Challenge
- Mindset, Motivation, and Methods for Success
Your group will:
- Laugh until their sides hurt
- Be fully engaged through captivating stories, experiences, and interactions
- Be encouraged and passionately challenged to leap forward in their personal development and leadership
- Walk away with specific, actionable skills to move from DREAM to DO
Keynotes
Show Up and Shine!
How to Get the Best Out of Yourself and the People Around You
Organizations are NOT looking for people who just show up, just do their jobs, and are just satisfied with getting a paycheck. They want leaders and team members who SHOW UP AND SHINE every single day!
Is this a reasonable expectation? Aren’t most people just trying to make it through the day? Can we really expect our people to surprise and delight our customers and the people we serve?
Absolutely! The truth is most people want to SHOW UP AND SHINE, and Kent will show you how you can lead a high-trust, high-performing team that produces results (and how it's easier than you think).
Results & Benefits
The learning objective is to inspire and equip audience members with the mindset, motivation, and methods of high performance such as:
- How to open your eyes and see opportunities that are disguised as obstacles
- How it takes only 5 seconds to use the #1 resiliency and peak-performance tool that everyone has in their toolbox
- How to make big leaps forward by taking the small steps right in front of you
If you are looking for a high-energy, entertaining keynote to open your conference or event that will get your people laughing and engaged, this is it! But it's not just a fluff-and-stuff program. Your people will walk out with actionable content that they can implement immediately in their leadership and with their teams. Perfect for associate meetings and personal/professional development events.
Direction Determines Destiny
How to Move from DREAM to DO
What you believe in is evident by the steps you take, not just by the words you say. This means success in life and business isn’t the result of everything going your way. Instead, true success occurs when you have the ability to turn adversities into advantages. Or to put it another way, in order to win in life or business, you must lead your life instead letting life lead you.
In this inspiring and powerful keynote, Kent shows you how to lead yourself and others in turning your toughest challenges into your best opportunities!
Results & Benefits
The learning objective is to inspire and equip audience members with the resiliency skills necessary to successfully face challenging situations and/or bounce back after tough setbacks:
- How to Fail Up instead of falling down after a setback.
- How to Control Your Spiral — 3 key steps for learning and growing after a mistake or failure.
- Reliable Resiliency — How resilience requires more than just a "suck it up buttercup" mindset
- How to make sure you take a big leap forward after a mistake or failure
This is an excellent program for a closing or mid-conference keynote presentation.
Peak Performance for Real People
How to be a Top Performer in YOUR Real Life and Real World
Have you noticed that many peak-performance experts and productivity speakers live unrealistic lives? The ultra-marathoner who has sponsors so she can train six hours a day, rest-and-recover, and do it all again tomorrow. Or the business executive who has more than a dozen direct reports to whom he delegates all the tasks he doesn’t want to do. How can their strategies connect with people who have real jobs, real schedules, and real work demands?
This inspiring and content-rich presentation empowers real people to become high performers in their real world. By focusing on a principle Kent calls Big is Little and Little is Big, audience members will learn how a handful of doable habits can double, triple, and even quadruple their productivity and results without adding anything extra to their to-do list or adding extra hours to their workweek.
Results & Benefits
The learning objective is to inspire and equip audience members with doable, game-changing productivity strategies powerful such as:
- How to dump your To-Do List and replace it with something that is simpler and guaranteed to help you focus on what matter most
- How to double, triple, or even quadruple your productivity and results without adding anything to your to-do list or adding extra hours to your workweek
- How to use the 3-20 Rule to consistently accomplish your most important goals
Excellent program for a closing or mid-conference keynote presentation. Also works well as a breakout or workshop.
Breakouts/Workshops
From DREAM to DO
Measuring Performance and Productivity with a Better Yardstick
It’s time to redefine high performance and productivity. Both are usually measured by work rate, output, and yield, which means the focus is on how much is produced. However, if effectiveness is your organization's goal, the yardstick should not only measure how much gets done, but also what gets done. The superiority of a task is as important, if not more important, than the speed.
In this engaging and dynamic workshop, Kent helps you move the performance yardstick from speed to superiority as you discover how to move a high-potential team to a high-performance team.
Results & Benefits
The learning outcome is to engage and equip participants with productivity strategies that are easy to understand and can be apply in real-work situations such as:
- How to determine the superiority of a task
- How to double, triple, or even quadruple your productivity and results without adding by anything to your to-do list or adding extra hours to your workweek
- How to use the Reverse Pareto Principle, your 1% Advantage, and the 3-20 rule to plan your week, quarter, and year
Excellent program for breakouts, half-day, or full-day training.
Stop the Drama
Understanding Yourself and the People Around You
Poor communication creates chaos in many organizations, but you don't have to tolerate the drama any longer. In this interactive workshop, audience members will learn about their personality strengths, weaknesses, stress triggers, and communication styles. They will also learn two simple questions they can ask themselves to quickly recognize the personality tendencies in others.
This fun and engaging team-building workshop is guaranteed to put smiles on participants' faces while taking the drama out of your team.
Results & Benefits
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify the 4 personality styles
- Identify their own style(s) so that they can play to their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses
- Identify the "drama-triggers" in their personality styles and what they can do to be a drama-free person
- Ask 2 simple questions to quickly identify other people's personality tendencies
- Encourage and build others up in their personality strengths
Excellent program for breakouts, half-day, or full-day training.
“Kent Julian was outstanding! The number of positive comments we received about his keynote was more than any other speaker we have ever used in the past.”
—Walt Roetter, Texas-Oklahoma Kiwanis Administrator
"Kent Julian knocked it out of the park with our team, which isn’t always easy to do. He was really funny, his stories were extremely engaging, and he was motivational without being corny. But most of all, Kent was real and what he had to say really hit home with our employees. We’ve had so many great comments!"
—Mike Jennings, Sherwin Williams
“Kent Julian keynote at our Annual Leadership Conference was exceptional! In our business, we spend a lot of time training our team in just how important the little things are when it comes to performance, productivity, and customer service. Kent's ideas on "BIG is Little and Little is BIG" and how to move from "DREAM to DO" were spot on and helped us drive home what matters most in how we serve our customers.
—Bill Sinclair, President, Pioneer College Caterers
“Kent Julian is high energy, he engages with his audience, and he’s hilarious. He’s also very professional and easy to work with. Our conference attendees loved his keynote and workshops, especially because he showed our members how to take control of their RESPONSE to every event they face in life or work so that they can positively determine each outcome. He even put it in an equation for us so that we never forget: E+R=O!”
—Christine Phipps, New Mexico Business Professionals of America
"Kent Julian is a dynamic, engaging speaker who we have used multiple times to keynote at our 48 Days leadership and entrepreneurial events. His ability to take his audience on a journey of laughter and learning is second to none. He’s funny, he’s genuine, he's moving, and his content on personal performance and productivity is outstanding. Do what I’ve done multiple times… if you want team members to boast their productivity and stay focused on what matters most, book Kent Julian for your next event!"
—Dan Miller, NYT Best Selling Author and President of 48 Days
“We thoroughly enjoyed having Kent Julian as our opening keynoter for our state leadership conference. He was authentic, personable, and enthusiastic both onstage and offstage. Onstage, Kent was funny and entertaining, he continually interacted with audience members, and he equipped us for success with his memorable E+R=O strategy. Offstage he talked extensively with attendees who had questions, took dozens and dozens of pictures with people, signed books, and much more!”
—Stacie Elwood, South Carolina HOSA (Future Health Professionals)
Your keynote was GREAT. Seriously... #RockStar performance!!
—Ray Edwards, Ray Edwards International Inc.
Rider
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