Achieve Exceptional Results * Reduce Stress * Find Deeper Fulfillment in Your Career
A survey by Gallup in 2017 estimated that employee turnover costs businesses in the United States $1 Trillion dollars annually. Further research by Development Dimensions International in 2019 shows that 57% of employees have left a job specifically because of their manager or poor company leadership. Research in the United Kingdom in 2023 showed that approximately 28% of workers have left a job in the past due to the effects of poor leadership. In essence almost $570 billion Dollars is lost due to the effects of poor leadership in organisations.
Against this backdrop, most executives understand how critical it is to equip young professionals with the right leadership skills to thrive in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable work environment of rapidly changing stakeholder expectations, technological innovations, social upheavals and economic challenge.
Many emerging leaders struggle with common challenges such as difficulty with managing interpersonal relationships, managing stress, building high performance teams, and standing out in a competitive workplace. These issues are often compounded by the fact that many young professionals haven’t been properly equipped with the leadership mindset or skills to effectively navigate today’s landscape. This gap leads to stress, frustration, burnout, and diminished productivity, which in turn impacts overall organizational performance and employee satisfaction.
As a speaker, Yemi offers a proven leadership framework honed through over 3 decades of leadership experience, specifically designed to address these crucial issues. Through engaging, actionable insights, Yemi empowers the audience to discover, develop and maximise key leadership capabilities and provides practical solutions that leave them motivated, confident, and equipped to reduce their stress, expand their influence, drive tangible results for their organisation and enjoy greater personal fulfilment at work.
MY MOST REQUESTED TALKS
I speak on topics related to leadership, personal development, and organisational productivity. I can customize my presentation to meet your organisation’s specific needs. My goal is to contribute effectively to the outcome you want to achieve.
My most requested keynote topics as a speaker include the following. Please keep in mind that I can also deliver these as a workshop where we delve deeper into the core elements shared in the keynote.
LEADERSHIP is D.E.S.T.I.N.Y
Real leadership influence flows from the personal authenticity of a leader. It is a product of cultivating key skills, virtues and knowledge that generate composite capabilities that inspire others to follow them in the pursuit and achievement of worthy objectives.
Such leadership accelerates individual and organisational success both in the short term and in the long term. And when properly understood and deployed, these leadership capabilities enable the young professional in a leadership position to reduce their stress, expand their influence, improve the results for their organisation and enjoy greater personal fulfilment at work.
In this presentation, I share those seven pillars of effective leadership and how to cultivate them.
DELEGATES WILL…
- Understand the seven traits of inspired leadership and how each of these competencies contributes to their personal influence and effectiveness.
- Be inspired to become even more competent leaders, who lead from the heart and produce transformational results for themselves and those they lead.
- Acquire the tools to multiply their personal productivity and interpersonal influence.
- Emerge from the course with practical, actionable steps they can implement immediately.
SCORECARD - EFFECTIVE LIVING PROGRAME
Few people really give thought to designing a plan for their success in life. Most simply allow life to happen to them, stumbling from one circumstance to another, living each day in quiet desperation.
Many people who achieve some success unfortunately find that it comes at the expense of something they hold dear such as their health, relationships, personal fulfilment or spiritual well-being. This happens because few people really give thought to designing a life of success AND balance.
In this presentation, we cover how to develop a life scorecard that aids you in accomplishing success that is balanced, sustainable and personally fulfilling, without sacrificing those life priorities that matter the most to you.
DELEGATES WILL…
- Have an understanding of how to maintain a life scorecard that empowers them to live a life of balance and optimised productivity.
- Develop their own simple but effective framework for designing the life that brings personal fulfilment and sustainable, integrated success.
- Leave with practical, actionable ideas they can apply immediately and get results.
S.P.R.I.N.G - ACCELERATING YOUR ORGANISATIONAL SUCCESS
Business success in today’s hyper-competitive world for many organisations, whether established businesses or emerging entrepreneurial adventures, still depends on having a good leader who understands the fundamentals that many professionals and small business owners ignore at their own peril.
In this keynote presentation, I share six critical business leadership fundamentals that help a small / medium sized business owner or organisational manager to maximize productivity, reduce costs and significantly enhance the chances of growth and enduring success.
DELEGATES WILL…
- Have a framework that will enable them to think strategically about the core foundations for growing their enterprise more successfully.
- Learn how to build their enterprise with less stress, more efficiently and more profitably and be inspired to make it happen.
- Emerge with a practical, immediately implementable game plan.
I look forward to serving you.
ABOUT YEMI
For over 30 years, Yemi Akinsiwaju has shared extensively with thousands of people on the subject of leadership development, personal transformation, and effective organisational management and has come to be known as the Leadership Catalyst.
Yemi is a seasoned Chartered Manager and Fellow of the UK Chartered Management Institute. He serves on the senior management team of a leading UK charity as well as being on the Board of a number of organisations including Young Emerging Leaders (YEL), a Youth Leadership and mentoring organisation and the International Third World Leaders Association (ITWLA), an organisation devoted to training and developing leaders and aspiring leaders in over 80 nations.
As an international speaker, leadership consultant and author, Yemi's focus is on the crucial issues of leadership, personal transformation, organisational effectiveness, social and spiritual development.
He is the author of 4 highly acclaimed books including The Leadership Jigsaw: Transforming Mystery into Mastery , which has been credited with transforming the leadership capabilities of many leaders.
Yemi has had the privilege of addressing audiences from over 50 nations as a conference speaker, seminar facilitator, mentor, trainer, coach and in television and radio appearances.
TESTIMONIALS
What You Can Expect
Here’s what you can expect from me and my team:
- Prompt, professional replies to your phone calls and email messages.
- A personal phone consultation with a member of my team prior to your event, so we can better understand how I can best serve you and your audience.
- An announcement about your event on my blog and social media channels. (This assumes that your event is open to the public and you want additional visibility for it).
- A professionally prepared, dynamically delivered presentation focused on achieving the outcomes you want with your audience.
- A custom resource page, exclusively created for your attendees. It will include materials (such as worksheets) and links to books, articles, and other resources I believe will be helpful.
- A quick follow-up communication after the event with someone on my team, to make sure I met your expectations.
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