Gordon, Jon
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About Jon Gordon
Jon Gordon’s best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous Fortune 500 companies, professional and college sports teams, school districts, hospitals, and non-profits.
He is the author of 18 books including multiple best-sellers: The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, You Win in the Locker Room First, The Power of Positive Leadership, and The Power of a Positive Team. His latest book is The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change. Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, The Golf Channel, Fox and Friends, and in numerous magazines and newspapers.
His clients include The Los Angeles Dodgers & Rams, The Atlanta Falcons, Campbell Soup, Dell, Snapchat, Publix, Southwest Airlines, AT&T, LA Clippers, Miami Heat, Pittsburgh Pirates, Bank of America, BB&T Bank, Clemson Football, Northwestern Mutual, Bayer, West Point Academy and more.
Jon is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in Teaching from Emory University. He and his training/consulting company are passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations and teams. His Power of Positive Leadership training program conducted by certified trainers around the world.
Jon has been listed as one of the world’s top 50 speakers (#11) by Real Leaders magazine. When he’s not running through airports or speaking, you can find him playing tennis or lacrosse with his wife and two teenage children.
How to Thrive During Change
Now more than ever change and uncertainty are a part of daily work and life. During changing times, it’s easy to worry, give up, and let fear paralyze you. However, you and your team have more control than you think you do, and how you handle change is your choice—the only choice that matters. You can allow the waves of change to crush you or you can learn to ride them to a successful future. Based on his book, The Shark and the Goldfish, Jon presents a proven 4 step model packed with tips and strategies to help you and your team thrive during waves change.
The Power of a Positive Team
Based on his international best-selling book, The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon presents a powerful roadmap to overcome common life and work obstacles and bring out the best in yourself and your team. Everyone faces challenges and every person, organization, company and team will have to overcome negativity and adversity to define themselves and create their success. Whether you are a leader looking to build a positive culture, a manager trying to energize and engage your team, or someone who desires to enhance your productivity and performance this talk will help you create more success and enjoy the ride of your life.
The Energy Bus: The Power of Positive Leadership
In this inspiring and timely talk Jon reveals a powerful way to tackle the biggest problem in business and life today… negativity. It costs organizations billions of dollars and impacts the morale, productivity and health of individuals and teams. Based on an actual company that created and implemented The No Complaining Rule, Jon shares innovative ideas and practical strategies to develop positive leaders, organizations and teams. For managers, team leaders or anyone looking to turn negative energy into positive solutions, Jon shares powerful principles and an actionable plan to win the battle against individual and organizational negativity. When you implement The No Complaining Rule you’ll spend less time and energy on problems and more time focused on solutions.
Culture of Greatness
Based on his best-selling books, personal experience as a teacher and his work with countless principals and school districts, Jon Gordon presents a proven road-map filled with essential strategies to create a positive school and build a culture of greatness. At a time when many educators are experiencing change and challenges Jon shares inspirational stories, innovative ideas and practical strategies for positive leadership, winning teamwork and inspired teaching.
The 7 C’s to Build a Winning Team
Get ready to stir the pot and discover a proven recipe to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. In this powerful, nourishing and humorous presentation Jon Gordon shares the key ingredients to lead, unite, and engage your team. If you are ready to stir the pot, lead by your example, boost morale and create engaged relationships that foster teamwork and enhance performance then this Soup is for you and your team.
What the Best do Better
In the spirit of his international bestseller, The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon returns with another inspirational fable filled with invaluable lessons and insights on bringing out the best in yourself and your team.
Based on his work with professional sports teams, world-class organizations, and interviews with top professionals in a wide variety of fields, Gordon reveals the deep truths and proven strategies that take the very best to the top. Training Camp reveals that the best performers-in a variety of fields-all share the same qualities. Among other traits, the best of the best are able to maintain a big-picture vision while taking zoom focused action, they are mentally stronger, they seize the moment and they inspire excellence in the people around them. But these aren’t inborn traits; the great news is that there are skills and attitudes that can be learned and applied by all. If you want to be your best-Training Camp offers an inspirational story and real-world wisdom on what it takes to reach true excellence and how you and your team (your work team, school team, church team and family team) can achieve it.
“Jon Gordon’s presentation on The Energy Bus to our U.S. sales organization was top notch. He quickly engaged the group with his “high energy” style and provided everyone in the audience with a powerful and memorable user-friendly framework for taking their own energy management to a new level. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, we will work with him again.”
– Douglas R. Conant, President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company
“Jon Gordon is THE Authority on positive leadership in organizations today. We had Jon join us in collaborating with our physician leaders, department directors, and senior management at the beginning of the year as we developed a direction for our organization that encouraged principles espoused in both “The Energy Bus” and “The Power of Positive Leadership.” After Jon’s motivating and energetic presentation, our organization took a major step forward. This year, on two key surveys, we have had the highest physician engagement in over ten years, and the highest employee engagement in over five years!”
– Bradley Talbert, President & CEO, Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, FL
“Your presentation was by far one of the highlights of our meeting – the ratings on your talk were off the chartsThank you so much for taking the time to learn about our strategy, the messaging we wanted to convey and wrapping it all up into a fantastic presentation about Grit and Caring for our Team Members and Customers. ”
– Kim Cupelli, Tyson, Vice President of Marketing
“From our first read of The Energy Bus, we were hooked. Jon Gordon has now been an integral part of how our business and leaders have built a culture of positivity and genuine teamwork. Our partnership with Jon has expanded from intimate team building to large-scale speaking engagements that have inspired our executives, managers, teams in the field and even our customers. Even more powerful is how easily his contagious messages will improve your life in and out of the office.”
– Jeff Braun, Vice President I.C. Field Sales, DEWALT Industrial Tool Company
“Jon Gordon energized and captivated our clients, prospects and staff. His enthusiasm and passion for helping others to succeed were extremely evident. Many attendees said he was the best speaker they’ve seen! I would highly recommend Jon for organizations looking to spark a renewed sense of positivity.”
– Bill Bohn, CEO and President Associated Financial Group