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About Patrick Lencioni - Speaker on Leadership and Organizational Health:

Patrick Lencioni is the founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement. The wide-spread appeal of Lencioni’s leadership models and management strategies have yielded a diverse base of speaking and consulting clients, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, non-profits, schools and churches.

Lencioni is the author of eight best-selling books with over 2.5 million copies sold. After six years in print, his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be a fixture on national best-seller lists.

Recently recognized in Fortune as A Top Ten Guru You Should Know, Pat and his work have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY and Harvard Business Review. Pat has also been a featured guest on The Today Show, NBC, Fox News and ESPN.

Prior to founding his firm, he worked as a corporate executive for Sybase, Oracle and Bain & Company. He also served on the National Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.

What Patrick Lencioni Talks About:

New Topic: The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family
Drawing on a few of his most influential and well-received business models, Pat Lencioni has turned his attention to the most important and overlooked organization in society—the Family. In his latest talk, The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family, Pat prescribes some powerfully simple business principles that parents can quickly put into action to bring about more purpose and clarity to their home lives. Using case studies from real families who have successfully implemented Lencioni’s model, Pat will demonstrate how addressing three important questions will help families yield context in which to make daily decisions, reduce distractions and, ultimately, restore sanity to any family.

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
In his latest talk, Patrick addresses one of the most timeless and elusive topic related to work: job misery. Based on his much-anticipated book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, Patrick Lencioni delivers a message that is as revolutionary as it is shockingly simple. Using a mix of humor and poignancy, he dismantles the root causes of frustration and anguish at work: anonymity, irrelevance and immeasurability. In doing so, he provides managers at all levels, as well as employees, with actionable wisdom and advice about how they can bring fulfillment and meaning to any job in any industry. Whether you’re an executive looking to establish a sustainable competitive advantage around culture, a manager trying to engage and retain your people, or an employee who has almost given up on finding meaning and fulfillment in your work, this talk will prove immediately invaluable.

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
Based on his book of the same title, Patrick Lencioni tackles a prominent symptom of corporate frustration: silos, the invisible barriers that separate work teams, departments and divisions, causing people who are supposed to be on the same team to work against one another. According to Pat, silos — and the turf wars they enable — devastate organizations by wasting resources, killing productivity and jeopardizing results. Patrick provides leaders with powerful advice on how to eliminate the structural obstacles that derail organizations. Urging leaders to provide a compelling context for their employees to work together, Pat’s model gives leaders a simple tool for enabling clarity, unity and alignment in their organizations.

Leadership: The Five Temptations of a Leader
A leader’s success hinges on a few simple behaviors -behaviors that are often painfully difficult to master. Based on the model in his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni captures the common pitfalls that all leaders face and suggests practical ways to overcome them.

Organizational Health: The Four Disciplines of a Healthy Organization
According to Patrick Lencioni, organizational health is one of the last competitive advantages for sustainable success. He not only offers actionable advice on how to begin the process of building a healthy organization but also provides key insights on how to minimize confusion and politics and create an atmosphere of maximum clarity, where employee productivity can flourish.

Teams: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Anyone who has ever worked in an organization understands the frustration caused by office politics and dysfunctional teams. Unfortunately, there has never been a full understanding of the underlying reasons for these problems, and certainly no hope for a cure--until now. Patrick Lencioni identifies the five root causes for team dysfunction and provides solutions to help make any team successful.

Confronting the Absurdity of Meetings
In his talk based on his book, Death By Meeting, Patrick Lencioni reveals some surprising truths about why we hate meetings, why we shouldn’t, and how to make them work. He debunks the myth that meetings are inherently bad, and makes the case that they are in fact one of the most critical activities at the heart of a competitive organization.Using pointed and humorous case studies, Pat paints the picture of prototypically bad meetings, and presents a new, radical approach to meetings, one that transforms them from drudgery to focused, relevant and compelling business activities. Finally, Pat makes an intriguing comparison between meetings and movies, and calls upon leaders to borrow a few simple but powerful tools from Hollywood directors to make their meetings as compelling and engaging as they deserve to be.