Dr. Gary Bradt is a change and leadership speaker and author who helps organizations turn change and tough times into opportunity. Gary’s twenty-two years of experience in the leadership field makes him uniquely qualified to deliver on this message. He is a clinical psychologist, business owner, leadership consultant, husband and father who has learned to cope with one of the toughest challenges of all, a child’s chronic, life-threatening illness. He has spoken all over the globe for clients like General Electric, American Express, eBay, FedEx, Proctor & Gamble, Fidelity Investments and Bristol-Myers Squibb, to name just a few.

For years Gary teamed with Dr. Spencer Johnson, with Johnson tabbing Gary as the leading speaker worldwide on Johnson's business best seller Who Moved My Cheese? He and Johnson have teamed up again as Gary is now a leading speaker on Johnson's latest bestseller, Peaks & Valleys (see synopsis below). 

Gary is an author as well. Ken Blanchard, author of Leading at a Higher Level, describes Gary’s book on leading change as “Beautifully written and full of wisdom, The Ring in the Rubble is a gem.” Gary draws on all of this experience to offer sharp and penetrating insights into how to lead through tough times and find the opportunity within every change. 

Gary believes it is important to not only inspire each person attending his talks, but also to give them practical strategies and tactics they can immediately implement for the betterment of themselves and the organizations they serve. Therefore, he never gives the same speech twice. He takes care and pride in directly tying his message to each group’s specific change leadership challenges. He arms every member of his audience with new ideas on how they can take on the responsibility of leading change and winning- now.

Speech Synopsis: The Ring in the Rubble: Dig Through Change and Find Your Next Golden Opportunity. (Based on Dr. Bradt’s book of the same name, published by McGraw-Hill). The ring represents the golden opportunity every change creates. The rubble represents the disruption, fear and uncertainty that change often stirs up. Your job as a leader is to find that ring, and lead others to it. In this speech you’ll learn how. Specifically, you’ll be given ten tools, or strategies and tactics for finding opportunity within every change. You will hear inspiring stories and examples of how other leaders have used these tools to turn change and tough times into amazing opportunities. You’ll learn that leadership is an honor and a responsibility to be assumed by each and every member of an organization.  You will leave this presentation challenged, inspired and armed with practical ideas and actions to better yourself, your organization, and all those you have the opportunity to serve and influence.

Speech Synopsis: Leave a Golden Legacy (This speech can be delivered as a follow on to The Ring in the Ruble or as a stand alone presentation).Everyone leaves a legacy. The question is what will your legacy be? In this presentation you will get to actively create your answer to this question. You will be provided specific tools for building your legacy one person, one relationship, and one interaction at a time. You will be challenged and inspired to dream big, to take risks and to reach beyond yourself. You will learn that a leader’s greatest joy comes not from personal triumph, but from inspiring others and leaving them better off for having known you, worked with you or worked for you.  A golden legacy is not defined by how many rings of opportunity you find. It’s defined by how many rings you lead others to. In this presentation you’ll learn how.