Keynotes

Alan's compelling and practical keynote presentations have garnered praise from audiences worldwide. He also customizes presentations to tie his InsideOut coaching process to audiences' most pressing challenges.

His speeches reveal an engaging blend of humor and experience, and a unique understanding of the key principles behind breakthrough performance. Alan leaves audience inspired and intrigued-armed with potent insights and practical tools they can apply immediately in their own organizations.

Increasing Performance from the Inside Out

Alan describes the innovative approach for driving high performance that he has taught executive coaches as well as high-performing professionals and corporate athletes. He shows how the best performers in any endeavor consistently achieve breakthrough results-and how audience members can use these same methods to catalyze unprecedented results in their own teams.

He leads listeners through a clear process that transforms how they view their own natural capacities and how they approach their work. Audience members come away from the presentation with profound new ideas and accessible practices they can apply promptly at work.

As David R. Bradford, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Novell, Inc., put it: "The InsideOut program paid for itself the first time I put it into practice. It turned out to be one of the most powerful teaching moments I have had in my 20 years of corporate life."

Beyond Boundaries: Understanding and Influencing Performance

Alan maintains that breakthrough performance is less about teaching-and more about learning. It's less about knowledge-and more about doing what you know. He believes that:

Everyone has the capacity to perform better. . .
. . . but interference blocks this capacity.
Focus reduces interference . . .
. . . so sharpening focus leads to breakthrough performance.

In this keynote, Alan shares core components of the InsideOut coaching process he has created:

InterFEARence: Alan distinguishes between external interference, which lies outside our ability to control and internal interference, which lies within our control.

Key elements of performance: Alan shows how knowledge alone isn't enough to drive breakthrough performance. He then lays out the three additional forces vital for high performance: Faith (confidence), Fire (thirst for success), and Focus (concentration on high-impact actions).

The G.R.O.W.™ Model: Alan walks audiences through a four-step process-"Goal", "Reality" "Options", and "Way Forward"-for managing coaching conversations. G.R.O.W. sharpens focus in coach and performer-accelerating decision making and enhancing judgment.

"I appreciate the simple, logical, and systematic approach that the G.R.O.W. Process provides" said E.M. Healy, a regional manager at Chevrolet.