Edward Sullivan
Transform workplace performance with Edward Sullivan, speaker and leadership coach. Edward works with CEOs and organizations to build psychological safety, foster authentic conversations, and drive team results, delivering insights from his bestselling book "Leading with Heart."
New York, United States
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With a 15-year career coaching CEOs and political figures globally, he encourages his audiences to let go of the need to have all the answers and instead have real, honest conversations that unlock creativity, purpose, and results.
His best-selling book, Leading with Heart, has been praised as the antidote to the Great Resignation and one of the best leadership books of 2022.
Edward and his coauthor John Baird provide a fresh perspective that helps leaders get more results from their teams by having emotionally connected conversations, moving away from outdated leadership styles.
Edward's talks, which he calls "keynote workshops," use humor, personal stories, and thought-provoking questions to open up his audience and foster deeper connections among them. Audiences leave feeling inspired, energized, and more connected.
Edward covers various topics, including Leading with Heart, using psychological safety to drive performance, and the contrast between fear-led and heart-led organizations, using relatable stories and audience engagement.
His book, Leading with Heart, explores five conversations that unlock creativity, purpose, and results.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
In this talk, Edward helps his audience understand what motivated the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting movements and gives leaders tools to use psychological safety to retain and motivate their top talent. Edward introduces his listeners to simple frameworks that will help them make their teams feel seen and appreciated and gives them opportunities to practice new skills with each other.
In this talk, Edward drills down into the differences in business outcomes between heart-led and fear-led organizations, and frames the contrast with a endearing and universally relatable story about his own experience as a child playing football for two very different coaches. Edward asks the audience to explore with each other their own stories of working in fear-led and heart-led organizations to help ground the material in their own lived experience.
This talk or workshop covers the core material from Edward Sullivan’s best-selling book Leading with Heart. Edward engages his audience with the material and with each other by asking them to engage in a series of conversation about what they need to be at their best, what fears are holding them back, what their gifts are, and more. Even the most cynical participants can’t help but relax and open up to each other due to Edward’s disarming stories and common-sense insights.
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