Keith Ferrazzi

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Expert in Business Relationship Development | Bestselling Author

Keith Ferrazzi holds the secret to creating positive organizational change. By helping global organizations identify and transform behaviours that block them from achieving their goals, Ferrazzi helps create new, more profitable habits throughout every level of the businesses he works with. His direct and dynamic approach challenges audiences to cut down silos, and facilitates the risk-taking needed to ignite the innovation and agility needed for sustained organizational change in today’s radically interdependent world.

Formerly the CMO of Deloitte and Starwood Hotels, Ferrazzi is currently the founder and chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Research Institute, where he is recognized as a global thought leader in the relational and collaborative sciences. He has introduced a new transformational operating system he calls co-elevation that leads to exponential change and value. With the ongoing concerns around the pandemic, Ferrazzi has been coaching executive teams of the world’s largest organizations on how to lead virtually.

Ferrazzi is also a #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who’s Got Your Back, Never Eat Alone, and, most recently, Leading without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration. Ferrazzi also regularly contributes to The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc., Forbes, Fortune, and Fast Company.

Together with former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Groupon’s Brad Keywell, Ferrazzi launched Yoi, a digital onboarding tool that drives transparency, improved coaching, and real-time feedback between busy managers and their new hires. The platform utilizes practice-based learning and quantitative assessments to deliver increased productivity in the workplace.

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Leading Without Authority: The Roadmap for Organizations Going FORWARD – Not Back – to Work

In the past several months, we have seen more disruption, transformation, and innovation than during any other period in history. Businesses are at a tipping point that will determine how they emerge post-pandemic.

Keith Ferrazzi is currently working with 85 CHRO’s, 50 CEO’s, and 45 CMO’s of the largest organizations in the world, along with the former Managing Editor of Forbes and in conjunction with the Harvard Business Review to ensure that we don’t go back to work, but instead go forward to work. They have recognized that the world of work has fundamentally changed and now demands different forms of leadership, transformation, and innovation.

Audiences will learn:

How to lead with influence rather than authority.
How to break down barriers to transformation found in the silos that exist in so many organizations today.
How to lead by adopting a new methodology that Ferrazzi calls Co-Elevation, which shifts the burden from individual leaders to the team itself, moving from “overload” to “shared load.”
How to lead with agility and adaptability to be prepared for a world that will continue to change even beyond this global pandemic.

Leading Exponential Change

Organizations do not change, people do. Each and every one of us have the capacity to be agents of change. Every form of organizational transformation begins at the level of the individual and Keith Ferrazzi’s keynote will ignite the fire within each member of the crowd to be the catalyst for change within their respective organizations, no matter their role.

Creating Teams That Won't Let Each Other Fail

Keith Ferrazzi elegantly outlines the processes by which teams hold each other accountable and take individual ownership of each other’s success in service to the shared mission; ultimately ensuring the team crosses the finish line together.

Growth Through Deeper Sales and Marketing Relationships

Keith Ferrazzi shares his secrets to productivity through developing relationships. His techniques will instantly set prospects at ease and differentiate your organization from your competition.

How to Lead Without Authority

Business today calls for strong leaders with strong leadership qualities to prove it. In this leadership speech by Keith Ferrazzi, you’ll learn why “great businesses require radical interdependency” and how to employ that concept in your business, allowing you to connect to the people involved in it.

Relationship Development for Growth and Success

Introduction to Go Forward to Work

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Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration

When external pressures are mounting, and employees are working from far-flung locations across the globe, we can no longer afford to waste time navigating the complex chains of command or bureaucratic bottlenecks present in most companies. But when we choose the bold new methodology of co-elevation as our operating model, we unlock the potential to boost productivity, deepen commitment and engagement, and create a level of trust, mutual accountability, and purpose that exceeds what could have been accomplished under the status quo.

Keith Ferrazzi draws on over a decade of research and over thirty years helping CEOs and senior leaders drive innovation and build high-performing teams to show how we can all turn our colleagues and partners into teammates and truly reboot the way we work together.

Never Eat Alone

Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps – and inner mindset – he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him. Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. He developed a network of relationships from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum.

Who's Got Your Back

The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” – deep, close relationships with a few key trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and generous mutual support every one of us needs to reach our full potential.

Whether your dream is to lead a company, be a top producer in your field, overcome the self-destructive habits that hold you back, or make a difference in the larger world, Who’s Got Your Back will give you the roadmap you’ve been looking for to achieve the success you deserve.

A speaker’s success is is often judged by the sincerity and passion of the message. A coveted extra is how quickly his message is discussed and implemented. Keith provided our company with both. His messages were quickly implemented by many and still discussed due to his infectious sincerity and passion.

Constellation NewEnergy

Networking is not just trying to get something from someone else, but we often misconstrue that concept. Keith Ferrazzi puts a very refreshing and accurate perspective on networking as more of both personal and business relationship building. This is an invaluable perspective for our students.

Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Keith, you were able to help our students more in one-day than I’ve seen in my 20 years in career services. The tools, motivation and impact you made with our MBA students will help them in their careers and their lives in general.

Penn State University

Keith’s passion and commitment to understanding the human condition and how we all can breakthrough to achieve personal success captivated the audience and had them the entire time. His unique relationship insights and expertise clearly had a powerful impact on our group of highly demanding Harvard MBA alumni.

Harvard Business School

Keith really changed the dynamic of the event and really connected disconnected parts of our team together. We have never seen so much energy in the room between these two internal groups that typically don’t work well with one another.

Fox Films

Your presentation [at the World Business Forum] was more powerful, and helpful to me in my business, than any other speaker I listened to in that conference. It really was. I thought the conference was great and I got a lot out of it, but your message was concise and 100% relevant to me.

DSI Entertainment

Keith, the energy you brought in the hour that you were here is still felt with our team weeks after the event. You gave us a set of principles and strategies has brought a new level of motivation and charge to continue to grow our business nationally. Because of your relationship-building skills, you have helped connect us to many new partnerships in our national expansion. I am deeply grateful.

Insurance Office of America

Keith pushed us to think outside of the box and added more to our wallets! He gave us both motivation and tools to go out and apply his message in our everyday lives, not just with our clients, but with everyone in our lives.

Goldman Sachs International

Keith spoke to a group comprised of the top talent across Deutsche Bank from VPs and directors to mid level executives, discussing the importance of building relationships to engender personal and professional growth. In a short period of time, he provided these folks with the tool sets needed to cultivate and expand their current network relationships along with strategies enabling them to build new meaningful and personable relationships. Success from a corporate standpoint hinges on the efficacy and ability to communicate both within and across all departments. I think Keith was instrumental in addressing our goals as a corporation and we’d love to have him back in the future.

Deutsche Bank

You have a phenomenal message, tremendous business insights and a wonderful understanding of the human condition.

Assante Wealth Management

I truly enjoyed Keith’s presentation. He is a humble man who spoke truth and enlightenment. He made a tremendous impact on our meeting. It was emotional and I knew we had made the right choice by inviting him to speak.

Aramark

The gift of Keith’s message that he gave to our agents was very powerful and left them on their feet at his ability to create a behavior change within the room and all throughout the conference. I am confident that his presentation will become the new standard for relationship building at all of our conferences and I can’t wait to bring him back to our next event!

King Pharmaceuticals

The Global Mentoring event was a huge success and I am glad Keith Ferrazzi was part of it. His energy is contagious. There is no question he is doing exactly what he was put on earth to do. He is amazing.

Merck & Co., Inc.

Keith’s message came at a much needed time. While many of our realtors have adapted and outperformed the current market, their future long term success remains questionable in an industry of constant flux. We are in the business of relationships. Our success hinges on our ability to develop, nurture, and expand meaningful relationships both internally and externally with out clients. Keith has helped us bridge a gap to understanding the added value proposition of building genuine relationships that transcend the current transactional mindset indicative of this industry.

Prudential Fox & Roach

I am pleased to have worked with Keith Ferrazzi. Keith and the team at Ferrazzi Greenlight took the time to understand our business and more importantly issues we needed to address head-on in order to launch a significant change initiative aimed at our top clients. The program they designed helped us break down silos and achieved buy-in we hoped for. We moved from confusion and uncertainty to clarity. The methodology has enabled us to be more transparent with one another and helped our senior people focus on what they need to get done to drive our business.

CB Richard Ellis

The speech [Keith] delivered was one of the best I’ve heard in years at this conference. I knew that the brokers took more from both your presentations than any other speaker we’ve brought to our event in the years that I’ve been year. The feedback on your presentations was outstanding. You do a great job.

Coldwell Banker

Keith, your presentation was a real hit with the young professionals. They are a group that is not easily impressed and you certainly did that and brought real life lessos and value for the group to apply.

Executives Club of Chicago

Keith Ferrazzi is not a typical keynote speaker. He began his presentation off stage, down in the middle aisle near the audience, speaking directly to the attendees. Keith was engaging, candid and inspiring. Choosing him as our speaker for this first time event was an excellent decision that created a buzz during and after the event. Keith challenged attendees to go beyond networking, stop focusing on themselves and get out there and create meaningful relationships that will help take their business and personal life to the next level.

Detroit Regional Chamber

Keith Ferrazzi’s keynote on -Unleashing the Power of Your Event – was the best session of our conference and I wish he could have continued longer. I wish he could have spoken all day.

Council of Protocol Executives (COPE)

Keith spoke at our Conference Kick Off last Tuesday with some of the greatest feedback we’ve seen at this conference’s history! We’re looking at working together again soon.

Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario (HRPAO)

You ABSOLUTELY triumphed as chairman. You brought an energy and excitement that was not only enjoyable – it added value to the experience and left people truly inspired. Many people can carry the role of chair – but you really soared. You are obviously very skilled and extraordinarily talented in pushing people beyond!

Institute of International Research (IIR)

We could not have chose a better way to kick off our conference than opening with Keith. He energized the audience, increased the level of engagement and connection among attendees, and provided important learnings that carried over through the balance of the conference. In fact, a number of other keynote and workshop speakers referred back to Keith’s presentation. The feedback we have received since the conference has been outstanding, with Keith and his plenary noted as highlights.

Boyden Global Executive Search

Your speech was by and large the most discussed event at our conference! Your zeal and your enthusiasm was not only seen but felt throughout the entire audience. Your insight on how to turn an ordinary conference, a meeting, or any other type of corporate event into an opportunity to foster deep personal relationships provided our members with a refreshing new outlook that will forever change the way they conduct business. Your concepts of transparency and vulnerability allowed our members to immediately connect and interact with one another a level I thought was never possible. I still am receiving emails to this day recognizing the impact Keith’s message has had on both their professional and personal lives!

Meeting Professionals International (MPI)

Keith’s message was extremely empowering and insightful. He’s ability to clearly communicate the strategies and practices critical for building deeper, more personal relationships provided our members a roadmap that will allow them develop meaningful relationships long after the conference. His messages on personal branding and individual currency helped our members shift their current perceptions about their profession on both a micro and macro level.

Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals (SOCAP)

Keith was the perfect opening keynote speaker at our conference. His energy woke up the room and got the Summit off to a sizzling start. You could see the audience perk up and hang on Keith’s every word. His anecdotes from his years as chief marketing officer really resonated with this particular audience. People were inspired and energized by Keith’s presentation. In fact, I had several attendees ask for Keith’s contact information to secure him for their future sales and marketing meetings. In a day which also featured keynotes from Mark Cuban and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Keith was the conference’s most talked about speaker.

CNN International

Wow! I was amazed by the impact that Keith had on our group at our annual meeting. He was able to take a group of already tight-knit individuals and help them to better the relationships that they have with one another. I have already seen our members start to apply Keith’ s principles in with their teams and clients.

Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA)

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Keith Ferrazzi

Expert in Business Relationship Development | Bestselling Author

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