After decades of standing in the fire with leaders of high-performing organizations, Peter Sheahan has come to believe that an organization will only go commercially where its leaders first go personally.
Having grown his own companies by accelerating the growth and transformation for franchise clients that include: Chick-fil-A, major QSR chains, and multi-location operators — Peter will provoke you to get bigger, by getting better! When franchise leaders are true to their purpose, they gravitate towards building systems that matter and solving the complex challenges of multi-unit growth. The journey to get there requires that they have the courage to tell themselves the truth about their operations, take intelligent risks in new markets, and assume ownership for driving the alignment necessary between corporate vision and franchisee execution.
In being true to his own ambitions and relentless pursuit of growth, Peter has published seven books, built three global companies and delivered more than 2,500 presentations in 40+ countries. Today he is focused exclusively on inspiring leaders to do the hard work required to accelerate growth and transformation.
My expertise is Accelerating Growth through Transformation. I have partnered with the leadership teams of the following companies to accelerate their transformation. Mondelez, DeBeers, Brookfield, HNI Workplace Furnishings, Microsoft, Howard Hughes, Vonco, RSM, AmericanFidelity, Cardinal Health, Cisco, and Equinix. I am currently working on strategic clarity and executive alignment with Cone Health and Zayo, and likely starting another project for a very large hospital system in Q2. After partnering on 45 large and complex transformations, I have come to observe that all executive teams believe they are aligned, and almost none ever actually are. My work is to create the safe space and proven process to surface and resolve the underlying issues that prevent true alignment.
I have founded, led, and since sold 3 global companies.
1. ChangeLabs: Large scale behavior change company delivering community investment programs in schools and universities for companies that included Apple and IBM. My old firm now forms the Community Investment Practice at Ernst & Young.
2. Karrikins Group: Professional services firm focused on organizational wide change and leadership development.
3. EI: AI powered survey instrument used to predict suicide risk in youth, responsible for thousands of early intervention for at-risk kids. Now wholly owned by Family Zone.
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As we continue to navigate supply chain constraints, talent and labor shortages, and the onslaught of technological disruption, now, more than ever, we need to build resilient leaders, agile organizations, and high-performing teams – no matter the uncertainty.
In this hard-hitting and highly directive keynote, your leaders will learn to:
1. Increase agility by telling themselves the truth and take ownership in the new reality. There is no going back and there will be no more certainty.
2. Differentiate between temporary and permanent change and respond accordingly.
3. Turn a burning platform into a burning ambition that inspires people to continue to give their discretionary effort.
4. Accelerate change without burning their teams out by eliminating friction and increasing alignment.
5. Embrace progress over perfection to avoid paralysis as they do their best to manage ambiguity.
To meet growth expectations, we must transform ourselves and our teams at a faster rate than the external environment is changing or else we risk a slow decline into irrelevancy. Given change isn’t slowing down, this is harder to do today than ever before. The path forward is to build organizations and teams capable of risk-taking, letting go of past successes in pursuit of a new, more vibrant future, and successfully navigating the business from one competitive advantage to the next.
In this engaging, case-study rich session, we will unlock the keys to accelerated transformation and growth by helping your leaders understand that:
1. Increasing agility is not about force or more communication, but about compressing the time between awareness of change and acceptance of change.
2. Creating a burning ambition over a burning platform is the key to sustained investment of their teams’ discretionary effort.
3. Successful transformation is not a byproduct of ambition and strategy, but of alignment. Leaders must change first because as goes their behavior so goes the rest of the organization.
4. Culture is a science, not an art and that they must intentionally pull the levers that create a growth-enabled culture defined by innovation, excellence, and accountability.
5. They must create the psychological safety that encourages risk-taking and helps their teams embrace progress over perfection.
As the pace of commoditization accelerates and the emergence of technological disruption threatens our existing business models, we must find ways to remain relevant and differentiated in the hearts and minds of our customers! This inspiring, case-study rich session will show you how to find opportunity in disruption to reverse the downward spiral of commoditization, move beyond the competition, and become the obvious choice for your customers.
This journey will require that you:
1. Move from a mindset of value extraction to one of value creation.
2. Learn at the edge of disruption and embrace the opportunities for differentiation that exist there.
3. Frontrun your customers by beating them to the future in the Five Critical Dimensions that they value most during times of rapid change.
4. Elevate your reputation by competing on expertise and positioning yourself as a trusted adviser for your clients.
5. Act in a way worthy of your desired leadership position rather than race your competitors to the bottom.
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