Dr.
Lance Secretan, Business Leadership Speaker, is one
of the world's foremost thinkers about leadership
and a renowned pioneer in innovative methods of
inspiring people and organizations. The former CEO
of a Fortune 100 company and an acclaimed business
school professor, Lance Secretan works with a gifted
worldwide faculty changing the lives of people and
transforming companies and revolutionizing the way
they think about leadership.
Thirty of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies, and 11
of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for in America,
are his clients. He is the international
best-selling author of fourteen books on leadership,
an award-winning columnist, teacher, philosopher,
corporate coach and mentor, and one of North
America's most sought-after keynote speakers,
retreat leaders, and business advisors. Voted one of
the nation's top ten speakers, and one of the “top
21 speakers for the 21st century" (Successful
Meetings), he addresses audiences around the world.
Lance was the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the
1997 Special Olympics World Winter Games and former
Ambassador to the United Nations Environment
Program.
In recognition of a lifetime of caring about people
and the planet, Lance was awarded the prestigious
International Caring Award (often referred to as the
US equivalent of the Nobel Prize), whose other
recipients include Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall.
The International Management Council has also
recognized his contribution to leadership with the
McFeely Leadership Award. Lance has several degrees
including a Masters in International Relations from
the University of Southern California (magna cum
laude) and a Ph. D. from the London School of
Economics. An expert skier, he divides his time
between homes in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado,
and Ontario, Canada overlooking a 700-acre
wilderness reserve where he lives with his wife
Tricia.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious
Leadership
A breakthrough philosophy of leadership based on
"ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership"
Six thousand years ago we were one—we shared the
same stories and myths, mysteries and magic. The
classical Greek philosophers began the process of
separate thinking. The great Renaissance thinkers
picked up the pace and the genius of our modern
scientific and technical era has unraveled this
precious human asset. If we continue to separate
ourselves—liberal/conservative, parent/child,
Muslim/Christian, labor/management, black/white,
young/old, rich/poor—we will wither as a society,
perhaps as a species.
Conscious Leadership inspires self and others to
reframe what we see by making the connections
between all the parts—countries as kin, corporations
as communities, employees as whole humans, religions
as partners rather than competitors. In this knowing
we gain a greater understanding of how all our
actions touch and connect with everything else.
!nspire! What Great Leaders Do
Defining your Destiny, Cause and Calling
The foreword of Inspire was written by 15 CEOs who
cannot speak highly enough about how these ideas
changed their lives and organizations. The need to
inspire has never been greater than it is today,
when many people feel afraid, cynical, and resigned.
Inspiring people in the 1990s was an entirely
different proposition; people were lighter, more
optimistic, filled with a sense of abundance. Yet
people yearn to be inspired more than ever; the need
for inspiration has never been greater, especially
at work—but where can you find it? The best that
most companies can do is try to motivate their
people with traditional leadership models. In his
international bestselling book, Inspire! What
Great Leaders Do, Dr. Lance Secretan offers an
inspiring alternative, a tested way to learn how to
inspire from within one’s self and use this
self-knowledge to inspire others. It starts with the
individual and it does transform organizations. This
transformational process is Higher Ground
Leadership®.
The dictionary defines motivation as providing
someone with a motive; to move, impel, induce,
incite. By contrast, to inspire means to infuse with
an encouraging or exalting influence, to animate, to
stimulate by a divinity, a genius, an idea or a
passion. The word is derived from the Latin root
spirare, meaning to breathe, to give life, to
express. Inspiring is other-focused while motivating
is self-focused. Inspiring serves you where
motivating serves me. The difference in
organizations is palpable: inspired people arouse
the hearts of others—employees and colleagues,
customers and suppliers—and this translates directly
into improved business performance.
Inspire! What Great Leaders Do teaches
business leaders how to inspire superior performance
by speaking to the inner lives and deeper needs of
employees and anyone with whom you have a business
relationship, and by aligning their desires with
your organization’s cause—rather than seducing them
with carrots that speak only to their outer lives
and superficial selves. Secretan’s goals are lofty,
but the approach is practical. Inspire! is full of
proven methods for connecting with the soul, the
real self. It provides valuable guidance for
awakening the passion of others and a host of
stories that illustrate how inspiring leaders have
transformed their business environment from places
of fear and resignation to powerhouses of effective
performance.
Values-Centered Leadership®
How to guide organizations and people from a
Values-centered perspective
The key to leadership lies in timeless values that
help us to be of service to others. Think of your
organization as though it were a bicycle with the
back wheel providing the power and the front wheel
providing the direction. From the back wheel, we
derive the life skill Values that are the source of
personal and organizational power.
The New Story of Leadership
Eleven trends that are redefining leadership
An established trend is gathering momentum: the
hunger to experience spirit in the workplace is
gaining the force of a movement. The old story of
leadership will no longer satisfy this hunger.
Followers—employees—are leaving their leaders behind
as more and more of them come to work with a new set
of expectations.
Fortunately, some leaders—like Lance Secretan—are
answering this hunger with a New Story of Leadership
that connects employee fulfillment to the
bottom-line in concrete ways. In this presentation,
Lance proves that the trend is, in fact, mounting,
why it matters, and how you can become a New Story
Leader.
Reclaiming Higher Ground
Leading from the Soul
Based on Lance Secretan’s worldwide bestseller,
Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations
that Inspire the Soul, this presentation
inspires a new way to think about leadership and
work. The vast majority of people are deeply
dissatisfied with their work lives and this affects
the bottom line. Lance Secretan describes how
leaders can serve the needs of their employees and
how this improves performance.
Loyal, productive, creative employees inspire
profits. Employees are eager to bring more than
their bodies to work, and because work and the
company represent such a huge commitment in a
person’s life, they don’t want to bring stress and
unhappiness home. There is a lot of productive
common ground here—Higher Ground, Secretan calls it,
when organizations answer this eagerness and desire
with Higher Ground Leadership®.
He lays out a detailed and pragmatic process for
organizational transformation that goes much deeper
than compensation to address the hearts and minds of
individuals, and their vision and goals for their
organization. He talks about the inner life, trust,
courage, values and community as indispensable to
the health of a business. And he sets the record
straight about competition, profit, teams and
structure in ways that inspire leaders and employees
alike.
BOOKS:
ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious
Leadership
Inspire! What Great Leaders Do
Spirit@Work® Cards: Bringing Spirit and
Values to Work
Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations
that Inspire the Soul
Living the Moment: A Sacred Journey
The Way of the Tiger Gentle Wisdom for Turbulent
Times
