Mark Murphy, Chairman & CEO of Leadership IQ, Inc., is an internationally-recognized expert on leadership. Mark is co-author of the #1 bestseller "Leading on the Edge of Chaos: The 10 Critical Elements for Success in Volatile Times." He was a 2003 & 2004 nominee for Modern Healthcare's "Most Powerful People in Healthcare." He was also featured in the best-selling Harvard Management Update article "Building the Buy-In: Setting the Stage for Change." He is also the author of the landmark study "Why CEO''s Get Fired," which has appeared in BusinessWeek.

Mark has published extensively and his work has appeared in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and INSEAD Quarterly, among others. He has lectured at Yale University, the University of Miami, and Tufts University and has been the featured speaker for hundreds of groups. His clients have included such organizations as DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Kemper Insurance Companies, Blockbuster Video, Yale New Haven Hospital, and the Surgeon General. Previously, Mark was President of a joint venture with Mercer Human Resources Consulting. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester.

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What Great Managers Do Differently (2 Days)
What separates the greatest managers from average managers? Can average managers become great and if so, how? This seminar is based on a twenty year study of 100,000 managers and will teach you exactly what the greatest managers do, and how you can replicate their success.

Hiring IQ: The Science of Hiring High Performers (1 Day)
If you want to take your organization from good to great, you must hire high performers. But 84% of leaders have hired someone they thought was a star, only to realize later that they were really a low performer. This seminar gives you the tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples to consistently identify and hire high performers.

Team IQ: The Science of High Performing Teams (1 Day)
Teams are the foundation of every organization. But how many leaders have had a course in running an effective team? This seminar gives you the tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples to make every team successful, from executive teams to task forces to work groups to project teams.

Why CEOs Get Fired (1 Day)
Based on the landmark study reported in Business Week, Forbes and Executive Excellence. In this seminar, you'll get an "early warning system" to spot CEOs headed for failure, even when the company's results look fine. You'll also learn to avoid the missteps of failed CEOs and five strategies that ensure your career success.

Coaching Talent on the Bubble (2 Days)
If every employee with talent had a great attitude to match, life would be easy. But too often, talented people have difficult personalities. These "talent on the bubble" personalities present one of the toughest challenges for leaders. They have considerable talent, and often political support, but their attitude is draining and their behavior is risky. This seminar will teach you to manage and coach them off the bubble and into high performers.

Consulting
For live events like retreats, conferences, conventions, and in-house trainings, the Mark and his senior faculty of Leadership IQ can make any leadership topic a transformative experience. They have presented at thousands of meetings and can work with you to create the perfect event from 1-hour to several days.

Mark also provides comprehensive leadership development solutions. You can begin by selecting any Leadership IQ training programs or topics of your choosing. Any of his programs can be modified to meet your particular needs or create entirely new programs from scratch. Using a formal development process, we will Assess your organization's leadership development needs, Diagnose leaders' current effectiveness, Develop a formal training program (including leadership coaching and mentoring), Deliver the programs at times, dates and frequency of your choosing, and Evaluate the results.

Finally, only Mark and his company provides you with the option of turning every live meeting into a recorded webinar for participants to view on-demand for reinforcement and continued learning.