Eric Boles
Former NFL Player, Inspiring Leaders And Sales Professionals In Today’s Changing World.
Former NFL player Eric Boles has worked with some of the most respected organizations in the world to improve their function that coincides with their purpose and values. These include Dunkin’ Brands, Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, Aviva, and New Season Markets.
Eric is a highly-acclaimed keynote speaker who has expertise in leadership, managing change, team dynamics, peak performance and cultural transformation. He has spoken to a wide array of industry leaders from healthcare to food service.
Eric learned many of his leadership principles for playing in the NFL. He was coached by some of the best coaches and players in the league. He translates that experience into dynamic keynote speeches to build better business teams.
Eric Boles will weave powerful stories and depth around each of these strategies that will touch the heads and hearts of your people. Plus, he’ll work with you to customize his presentation around your meeting theme, key business issues and goals so you get the results you want. They’ll also receive relevant information that they can put to work immediately both personally and professionally.
Leading Change in the New Reality
Leading and Managing Change has never been easy. But it’s never been more challenging than it is today in this “New Normal” or “New Reality”. The customer has never been more demanding, the competition never stiffer, employees less engaged, and change and technology advances only getting faster. Plus, despite all these demands, many leaders are being asked to accomplish more, faster and remain flexible to marketplace demands and changes.
“Leading Change in the New Reality” by Eric Boles will focus on key strategies and insights to allow you to lead and manage change and even influence change more effectively.
Key Points of this Presentation:
- Leaders becoming “Dealers of Hope”.
- Changing the Momentum.
- Three reasons you may be resisting change.
- Leading to win or not to lose?
- The need to give and receive timely feedback and act on it.
- Overcoming fear and uncertainty and leading more courageously.
- Seeing the potential through all the hazards and noise around you.
- Communicating the “Why” and the “How” to change.
- Having difficult conversations…making tough decisions….taking action.
- No longer allowing good intentions to be a substitute for actual accomplishment.
- Inspiring your people and leading and modeling the change.
- Being at your “best” more of the time.
- The need to be resilient and to bounce back quickly.
- Collapsing time and course correcting quickly
Moving to Great
How do you get to the next level? You may be in a “rut” or you may be doing incredibly, but the pressure from all around you demands that you “up” your game. You can’t rest on your past successes, and the good ole’ days are gone forever. You cannot be left behind. You don’t want to be left behind. Where do you get the energy and the strategies to move to the next level while the competition and the stress increase? Some of the limitations you identify may even be mental and self-imposed. How do you get of your own way and move forward?
Key Points of this Presentation:
- Meeting expectations is another definition of mediocrity
- Stop playing “prevent” defense
- Confronting problems and fears releases potential
- The danger of comparing yourself to the competition
- Whatever your mind dwells on grows
- Truly serving others and the organization
- Accepting responsibility and self-correcting
- Overcoming complacency and managing change
- Returning to your first love and discovering your passion
- Importance of working together and sharing successes
- Looking for the big opportunities and avoiding the big hazards
- Avoiding the “victim” mentality
- Designing your own future
Lead With Purpose
Lead with Purpose (LWP) is a leadership development process designed to help you become more intentional in your leadership development and in the way you develop others to lead. In this highly interactive process you will receive, and experience, practical tools that will allow you to intentionally lead more effectively and meet the challenges of today’s rapidly changing workplace.
By applying the leadership fundamentals found in LWP, participants will achieve increased levels of success and productivity by:
- Building Trust through Personal Integrity
- Influencing Others by Adding Value to Their Lives
- Being more Authentic, Vulnerable, Present, Courageous and Responsible
- Identifying and Solving Problems — and Preventing Their Recurrence
- Truly Serving Others and the Organization
- Prioritizing (working smarter, not harder)
- Developing Future Successors
- Challenging, Coaching, and Inspiring toward results
- Defining and Articulating a Compelling Vision for Your Organization or Team
LWP focuses on two areas that make up the life of a leader:
- Life Below The Waterline speaks to the heart of a leader and focuses on his or her character.
- Life Above The Waterline addresses the mind of the leader, developing the strategies, skills and methods of leadership.
Lead with Purpose focuses on the human side of leader-ship and what is necessary to achieve sustainable long term results from those you lead and influence. This program helps you discover your “Why” for leading and develops your “How” to lead.
More Than Winning
Fearless Leadership
Running Around the Wedge
Courageous Selling
“You did an “AMAZING” job! The halls were buzzing afterwards and you were spot on with your entire message. Your presentation on “Moving to Great” was just what our organization needed.”
Hasbro Toys Training Director
“Thank you for the wonderful job you did speaking with our leadership teams at Nationwide. Your message resonated with our culture and your energy and “real world” examples brought great inspiration, encouragement and motivation to the day to day tasks of leaders throughout our organization.”
Nationwide Financial
“Your presentation was awesome! You did an amazing job! You are the best speaker we’ve ever had at one of our events. I would certainly recommend your services to anyone looking for an inspiring, enthusiastic, energetic, and engaging speaker.”
Verizon Wireless
“I was truly impressed with Eric’s presentation! He was both inspirational and relevant and his presentation was tailored to match our culture and mission of our organization. Eric addressed our leadership in a very unique way, addressing the very human obstacles that we need to overcome in order to achieve our goals. His style, demeanor and message clearly conveyed our theme and we all walked out of the keynote feeling motivated and ready to win.”
Medtronic
“Teamwork, accountability, the ability to manage and lead change and employee morale are improving across all 30,000 Aviva employees. We are getting measurably better results, internally and in the marketplace, than we ever imagined!!! Your ability to connect and bring out the best in our people has made an impact on Aviva that will be felt a long time.”
Aviva
“Your stimulating presentation was the perfect kickoff for our audience of clients from across Europe, Africa and the Middle East along with our Swiss Re colleagues. Your fantastic speech combined with practical tips gave us so much food for thought and raised the energy level for the entire day. And your personal story about fear and danger and how fear can grow was just brilliant!”
Swiss Re Europe
Nordstrom
Dunkin Donuts
Nationwide Financial
Motorola
IBM
Zebra Technologies
John Deere
TD
Ameritrade
Michelin Tires
Alaska Airlines
Verizon Wireless
Starbucks
AVIVA
Barclays Bank
Swiss Re
Starbucks International
Lennox
Hilton
AXA Equitable Financial Services
Campbell’s Soup
Walser Automotive
MOD Pizza
Mid America Apts.
Arch Capital