Marcus Buckingham

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  • New York Times Best-Selling Author, Researcher, and Founder of the Strengths Revolution
  • Author of 2 of the Bestselling Business Books of All Time, 'First, Break All the Rules' & 'Now, Discover Your Strengths'
  • Strengths Assessment has been taken by 10M people worldwide
  • Global Researcher on Strengths, Leadership and High-Performance at Work

Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and New York Times bestselling author focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. He is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time, First, Break All the Rules, and Now, Discover Your Strengths, and his tenth book, Love + Work (Harvard Business Review Press) is a WSJ bestseller and has been heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership. Marcus’ 2019 Harvard Business Review cover article, "The Feedback Fallacy," was selected by HBR as one of the most influential articles of the last 100 years, and Marcus’ strengths assessments have been taken by over 10 million people worldwide.

 



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  • Mortgage Bankers Association
  • Adobe Systems Inc.
  • Coca-Cola North America
  • Trane Technologies
  • Golden Corral
  • The Wharton School
  • Walgreens
  • Masterfoods
  • Reed Elsevier
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Lead From Strength - STRONG LEADER: Build confidence in your followers

As people struggle to make sense of a new and uncertain world, the need for strong leaders is more important than ever. Learn to build clarity and confidence during these extraordinary times an define a new, intelligent, strong way forward. For all leaders of teams, and teams of teams What the most ...

As people struggle to make sense of a new and uncertain world, the need for strong leaders is more important than ever. Learn to build clarity and confidence during these extraordinary times an define a new, intelligent, strong way forward.

For all leaders of teams, and teams of teams

What the most effective senior leaders do to build clarity and confidence during these dynamic and confusing times.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM shares:

  • The most effective way leaders turn anxiety into confidence
  • How to use StandOut to pinpoint precisely what about you others follow
  • The three rituals to build resilience across your organization

Before: Each attendee takes the StandOut strengths assessment (15 mins)

During: 45-minute virtual keynote

After: **Optional Add-ons

  • Strong Leader Series
    • One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
  • Strong Leader Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
    • Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Leader virtual keynote
  • 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a leader’s understanding of their unique and distinct power
  • Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning

What is the StandOut® Strengths Assessment?

REVEAL YOUR TOP 2 STRENGTH ROLES

  • In 2011, Marcus Buckingham created the StandOut® strengths assessment – an online situational judgment test that measures you against 9 “Strength Roles” and reveals your Top 2. These Roles describe your personal edge – those ingrained traits and tendencies that give you a natural advantage. The 14-page detailed report will help you learn your greatest sources of strength and contribution.
  • To date it has been completed by more than 800,000 people and used as the centerpiece for the Talent practices of many thousands of organizations, both in the US and internationally.
  • Marcus used his two decades of research expertise, and learnings from his leading role in the creation of StrengthsFinder, to develop the next-gen strengths assessment StandOut® · In 2015 Harvard Business Review published StandOut 2.0, a book which helps you learn more about your unique strengths profile.

Lead From Strength - STRONG TEAMS: Create connection across your team

84% of employees do most of their work on teams, and 75% of them say they work on more than one team. High-performing, engaged teams are critical to companies successfully making it through challenging times. With more and more teams becoming virtual, mastering a strengths-based approach to teaming ...

84% of employees do most of their work on teams, and 75% of them say they work on more than one team. High-performing, engaged teams are critical to companies successfully making it through challenging times. With more and more teams becoming virtual, mastering a strengths-based approach to teaming will be the ultimate game-changer. Reveal the unique, most powerful parts of each team member, and watch connections deepen and performance soar.

For all team leaders and team members

How to build resilient, high-performing teams using the StandOut strengths assessment.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM shares:

  • The three rituals of the best team leaders
  • What StandOut can reveal about you and each team member
  • How to build resilience, engagement and collaboration across the team

Before: Each attendee takes the StandOut assessment (15 mins)

During: 45-minute virtual keynote

After: **Optional Add-ons

  • Strong Teams Series
    • One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
  • Strong Teams Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
    • Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Teams virtual keynote
  • 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a team member’s understanding of their unique contribution to the team
  • Strong Teams Activity facilitated by an MB-certified coach/facilitator
  • Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning

What is the StandOut® Strengths Assessment?

REVEAL YOUR TOP 2 STRENGTH ROLES

  • In 2011, Marcus Buckingham created the StandOut® strengths assessment – an online situational judgment test that measures you against 9 “Strength Roles” and reveals your Top 2. These Roles describe your personal edge – those ingrained traits and tendencies that give you a natural advantage. The 14-page detailed report will help you learn your greatest sources of strength and contribution.
  • To date it has been completed by more than 800,000 people and used as the centerpiece for the Talent practices of many thousands of organizations, both in the US and internationally.
  • Marcus used his two decades of research expertise, and learnings from his leading role in the creation of StrengthsFinder, to develop the next-gen strengths assessment StandOut® · In 2015 Harvard Business Review published StandOut 2.0, a book which helps you learn more about your unique strengths profile.

Lead From Strength - STRONG YOU: Discover Your Unique Power

When we lose our rituals, our sense of self can vanish. We begin to fear our weaknesses more than we cherish our strengths. And yet for the sake of all those who rely on us, we need to stay precisely focused on the areas we feel strong. We need to find ways to re-anchor who we are, to redefine,what ...

When we lose our rituals, our sense of self can vanish. We begin to fear our weaknesses more than we cherish our strengths. And yet for the sake of all those who rely on us, we need to stay precisely focused on the areas we feel strong. We need to find ways to re-anchor who we are, to redefine,what we bring to the world around us. Learn how to find this confidence within you by rediscovering your greatest strength.

For all employees

How to build your personal resilience and connection with others using the StandOut strengths assessment.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM shares:

  • The three sources of personal resilience
  • How to use StandOut to rediscover and reorient you around your strengths
  • How to use StandOut to strengthen your connection with those you care about

Before: Each attendee takes the StandOut assessment (15 mins)

During: 45-minute virtual keynote

After: **Optional Add-ons

  • Strong You Series
    • One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
  • Strong You Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
    • Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong You virtual keynote
  • 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen an individual’s understanding of their unique contribution to the team
  • Strong You Resilience Activity facilitated by an-MB certified coach/facilitator
  • Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning

What is the StandOut® Strengths Assessment?

REVEAL YOUR TOP 2 STRENGTH ROLES

  • In 2011, Marcus Buckingham created the StandOut® strengths assessment – an online situational judgment test that measures you against 9 “Strength Roles” and reveals your Top 2. These Roles describe your personal edge – those ingrained traits and tendencies that give you a natural advantage. The 14-page detailed report will help you learn your greatest sources of strength and contribution.
  • To date it has been completed by more than 800,000 people and used as the centerpiece for the Talent practices of many thousands of organizations, both in the US and internationally.
  • Marcus used his two decades of research expertise, and learnings from his leading role in the creation of StrengthsFinder, to develop the next-gen strengths assessment StandOut® · In 2015 Harvard Business Review published StandOut 2.0, a book which helps you learn more about your unique strengths profile.

Lead from Strength: Virtual Experiences for Leaders, Teams + Individuals

During this unprecedented time, MARCUS BUCKINGHAM is focusing his virtual presentations on how to use your strengths to build resilience in yourself, connection across your team, and confidence in your followers.  For the first time ever, and in partnership with Harvard Business Review, Marcus is ...

During this unprecedented time, MARCUS BUCKINGHAM is focusing his virtual presentations on how to use your strengths to build resilience in yourself, connection across your team, and confidence in your followers. 

For the first time ever, and in partnership with Harvard Business Review, Marcus is giving away the StandOut 2.0 Strengths Assessment which will be included in each of the following virtual experiences:

1. Strong LEADER- for all leaders of teams, and teams of teams 

In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares what the most effective senior leaders do to build clarity during these dynamic and confusing times. He shares:

  • The most effective way leaders turn anxiety into confidence
  • How to use StandOut to pinpoint precisely what about you others follow
  • The three rituals to build resilience across your organization

Optional Add-ons for this topic include:

  • Strong Leader Series
    • One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
  • Strong Leader Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
    • Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Leader virtual keynote
  • 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a leader’s understanding of her/his unique and distinct power
  • Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning

2. Strong TEAMS - for all team leaders and team members

In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares how to build resilient, high-performing teams using the StandOut strengths assessment.

Marcus shares:

  • The three rituals of the best team leaders
  • What StandOut can reveal about you and each team member
  • How to build resilience, engagement and collaboration across the team

Optional Add-ons for this topic include:

  • Strong Teams Series
    • One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
  • Strong Teams Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
    • Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Teams virtual keynote
  • 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a team member’s understanding of her/his unique contribution to the team
  • Strong Teams Activity facilitated by an MB-certified coach/facilitator
  • Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning

3. Strong YOU - for all employees

In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares how to build your personal resilience and connection with others using the StandOut strengths assessment.

Marcus shares:

  • The three sources of personal resilience
  • How to use StandOut to rediscover and reorient you around your strengths
  • How to use StandOut to strengthen your connection with those you care about

Optional Add-ons for this topic include:

  • Strong Teams Series
    • One 45-minute session per week for 3 weeks (this series can be customized per client’s request)
  • Strong Teams Q+A with Marcus Buckingham
    • Marcus will conduct a virtual Q&A with all attendees once a month for four months following the Strong Teams virtual keynote
  • 1:1 strengths coaching with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to deepen a team member’s understanding of her/his unique contribution to the team
  • Strong YOU Resilience Activity facilitated by an-MB certified coach/facilitator
  • Virtual deep dive extension sessions with an MB-certified coach/facilitator to expand and reinforce the learning

Author Talk: ‘Love + Work’  

In Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life, global researcher and New York Times bestselling author MARCUS BUCKINGHAM explores how to pursue what engages and makes us thrive. Buckingham walks audiences through the power of love, breaking free fro ...

In Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life, global researcher and New York Times bestselling author MARCUS BUCKINGHAM explores how to pursue what engages and makes us thrive. Buckingham walks audiences through the power of love, breaking free from conformity, and discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others. In this enlightening confrontation of conformity, audiences learn the key tools needed to shift towards love, which – according to Buckingham – is the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence. 

Nine Lies About Work

What the research reveals about the real world of work Examine the 9 lies that are pervasive in our organizations Learn the truths behind them, backed by data and research. Discover how you can become a Freethinking Leader. ...

What the research reveals about the real world of work

  • Examine the 9 lies that are pervasive in our organizations
  • Learn the truths behind them, backed by data and research.
  • Discover how you can become a Freethinking Leader.

High-Performance Leadership

How to build a culture of performance Learn the one thing that sets great leaders apart. Explore the 4 levers that leaders use to create a high-performing culture. Get clear about your organization’s core strengths. ...

How to build a culture of performance

  • Learn the one thing that sets great leaders apart.
  • Explore the 4 levers that leaders use to create a high-performing culture.
  • Get clear about your organization’s core strengths.

Find Your Edge, Win at Work

How to drive personal performance Discover the approach that characterizes the most successful people in the world. Pinpoint your competitive advantage. Learn how to apply your competitive advantage at work.   ...

How to drive personal performance

  • Discover the approach that characterizes the most successful people in the world.
  • Pinpoint your competitive advantage.
  • Learn how to apply your competitive advantage at work.

 

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<p><strong>Leadership expert and <em>New York Times</em> bestseller Marcus Buckingham helps us do what we love in his new book</strong></p>

Leadership expert and New York Times bestseller Marcus Buckingham helps us do what we love in his new book

World renowned researcher on leadership and New York Times bestselling author MARCUS BUCKINGHAM demystifies the classic work advice “do what you love” and helps us discover where we’re at our best – both at work and in life – in his new book Love + Work. In his highly anticipated new book, Buckingham is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what we love to do and how we contribute it to others, and how we can break free from the pressure to conform that keeps us from living full and meaningful lives. Love + Work is already being heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership in 2022, “to not only help people determine what they love to do, but help them choose roles where they’ll succeed, reshape existing jobs and do work that stands out from the crowd.”

In this eye-opening and uplifting book, Buckingham asks questions sure to transform our workplaces as well as our personal lives: How do you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you’ll excel? With his trademark analysis and insight, Buckingham aims to elevate the working experience not only of employees, but employers as well – how can companies demonstrate that they deserve the best employees, and what can they leverage to attract and retain the best members for their teams? A highly sought-after speaker, Buckingham engages audiences in powerful questions and offers practical takeaways, lasting inspiration, and always receives rave reviews, such as: "Marcus' energy and enthusiasm was truly contagious! His presentation was very entertaining, and he provided insight surrounding the areas of employee motivation and leadership." (Golden Corral)

<p><strong>Marcus Buckingham reveals the science behind resilience and offers some surprising advice to leaders on how to cultivate it </strong></p>

Marcus Buckingham reveals the science behind resilience and offers some surprising advice to leaders on how to cultivate it

Bestselling author and leadership and management expert MARCUS BUCKINGHAM demystifies the science behind creating resilient organizations and teams in a piece for Harvard Business Review, “What Really Makes Us Resilient?” Buckingham discusses the findings of his real-world, data driven, global experiments to identify the sources of resilience, how to measure it, and how to cultivate it in yourself and your teams. Here’s what Buckingham advises leaders: 1) Resilience is a reactive state of mind created by exposure to suffering, and 2) The more tangible leaders make the threat, the more resilient people become. Buckingham’s surprising advice to leaders: Don’t sugar-coat harsh reality. Tell people the truth about threats and they will respond with resilience.

Buckingham has been a trusted leadership and management thought-leader and bestselling author for decades. He conducts a tremendous amount of meaningful research on strengths, leadership, and high-performance at work, and synthesizes his findings into useable takeaways regularly in Harvard Business Review. Buckingham is a masterful presenter, in full command of his cutting-edge leadership research, and humanizes the practical process of leading teams to greatness.

<p><strong>Marcus Buckingham is an expert on agile leadership, transforming teams with his ideas about leadership and new ways of working</strong></p>

Marcus Buckingham is an expert on agile leadership, transforming teams with his ideas about leadership and new ways of working

If you do one thing to improve your organization this year, consider listening to a presentation from MARCUS BUCKINGHAM. Buckingham has been a thought leader on leadership and pioneering how people work for decades, as the New York Times Bestselling author, researcher, and founder of the Strengths RevolutionHe brings that knowledge to the stage as he tailors his talks to organizations about agile leadership to improve teams’ effectiveness and focus on what is most important. He stands by the idea that when leaders let people spend time each day doing what they love and are best at, their organizations get their best work. His data-driven research reflects these ideas, and he uses statistics to back everything he shares, following two decades of experience as a Senior Researcher at Gallup Organization. When Buckingham speaks to teams, he completely revolutionizes the way they think about leading a team, being flexible, and new ways of working, with the goal of providing team leaders with the insights and tools they need to turn talent into performance and drive the organization toward greater success and productivity. Buckingham brings his researched talks to organizations to help them improve their speed and quality of work through agile leadership, help employees live out their strengths at work, and make teams as effective as possible. As Coca-Cola North America shared after a presentation by Buckingham, “Marcus Buckingham spoke two weeks ago and there's still so much positive buzz around the office about his presentation. He takes complex things and breaks them down. People said, 'How can I take this and make it happen for me?' People left wanting to do something, wanting to take action.

Watch him speak on 5 Things All Leaders Should be Doing Today >>

Watch his Lead from Strength Virtual Series, which dives into how individuals and teams can use their strengths to build resilience, connection and confidence >>

<p>Marcus Buckingham teaches leaders how to create resilient teams, and shows each of us how to stay our course when we get knocked off track</p>

Marcus Buckingham teaches leaders how to create resilient teams, and shows each of us how to stay our course when we get knocked off track

Best-selling author and leadership and management expert MARCUS BUCKINGHAM shows leaders how to create resilient organizations and teams, anchored by his extensive psychometric data-based research and field experience running teams. Hearing him speak synthesizes the lessons from his best-selling books and focuses teams on how to realize the outcomes they want no matter what external curveballs are thrown their way.

Buckingham instructs both the manager and the individual. After all, the collective team is made of individuals, and both serve each other better when each of us can focus on cultivating and leveraging our strengths.  Buckingham gives tactical advice on how to identify our strengths so that we can recover more quickly when surprises throw us off our footing.  To that end, Buckingham has developed the StandOut Strengths Assessment to help each of us discover a life in which we get to express the unique spirit inside us, in the most intelligent, most contributive, most meaningful way possible.

Marcus Buckingham is a master teacher to develop stronger, more resilient and innovative teams.  Credible, data-based and specific, Buckingham electrifies – and honestly, transforms – organizations.

Take Buckingham’s StandOut Strengths Assessment here>>

<p>Marcus Buckingham is an electrifying leadership and strategic management speaker, anchored by his research and real world experience running teams</p>

Marcus Buckingham is an electrifying leadership and strategic management speaker, anchored by his research and real world experience running teams

When best-selling author and researcher MARCUS BUCKINGHAM stopped by our office recently, he held us spellbound. He simultaneously gave a master class on leadership and management while inspiring each of us to tap into our very human, personal needs to love what we do (which is different from doing what we love), find belonging on our teams, and capitalize on our strengths. All in the name of creating more resilient, higher performing teams. His work is not anecdotal or impressionistic, it is squarely and credibly based in the data he generates as the world's most prominent researcher on strengths, leadership, and high performance at work. He also has field experience running productive teams as he built and ran a software company (developing what else but software to build great teams!) which was eventually integrated into the internal systems at WebEx, Cisco, and Microsoft Teams, to name a few. Buckingham often consults and speaks to organizations looking to strengthen their leaders and individual contributors and is praised for his practical, tactical recommendations for increasing productivity, rather than motivation based on rah-rah platitudes.

The leadership and management lessons we all learned from Buckingham during his short time with us, will surely have a lasting impact. We are all inspired to manage our teams better, pay attention to the individual strengths of our team members, and find ways to cultivate those strengths rather than focusing on “areas of development.”  And, we have to admit, each of us felt like he was talking to us one on one. He has that special ability to humanize the real world work we all do. He spoke of our need to identify the “red threads” of satisfaction in the quilt of our daily tasks, and our need to find belonging on our teams, which moves the diversity and inclusion message to a deeper, more essential conversation.

We can’t recommend Marcus Buckingham highly enough as a speaker. The messages he left us with are still reverberating around our office. We’re all thinking in bigger ways about what we do and how we collaborate. 

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Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and New York Times best-selling author focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. He is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time, First, Break All the Rules, and Now, Discover Your Strengths, and his tenth book, Love + Work (Harvard Business Review Press) is a WSJ bestseller and has been heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership. Marcus’ 2019 Harvard Business Review cover article, "The Feedback Fallacy," was selected by HBR as one of the most influential articles of the last 100 years, and Marcus’ strengths assessments have been taken by over 10 million people worldwide.