About the Author and Speaker:
Dr. Mary Lippitt
Dr. Mary Lippitt, founder of Enterprise Management Ltd., is an internationally renowned expert in leadership effectiveness and change management. For over 40 years, she has helped clients identify and capitalize on strategic opportunities to build results, engagement, and the bottom line.
Based on research from 6,000 leaders, Dr. Lippitt’s research introduces a fresh approach to leadership development that enhances situational analysis and clarifies critical business objectives. Her findings contribute to expanding the long-standing focus on leadership styles, competencies, and traits. Her research was published in the Journal of Leadership Studies.
She is the author of the award-winning book The Leadership Spectrum. She has also written Brilliant or Blunder: 6 Ways Leaders Navigate Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Complexity, Situational Mindsets: Business Priorities that Get Results, and Leadersheep: Saving the Herd. A Fable about Successfully Executing Change.
She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration, a Master’s in Public Administration, and a Master’s in Political Science. Dr. Lippitt has also taught at several institutions, including George Washington University, Georgetown University, the University of South Florida, and St. Thomas. University.
Notable Speaking Topics
Transforming Vision Into Results
Only 30% of new projects fully succeed, wasting time, energy, resources, and trust. New research points to weak vision and inattention to execution contributing to these dismal odds. There is a growing danger that vision without execution becomes a mere hallucination. Leaders can employ five key steps to ensure their vision delivers the desired outcomes.
Objectives:- Understand a five-step framework for successfully executing change
- Identify how to leverage intangible incentives to gain support
- Explore the process for building an agile and resilient change culture
- Learn how to handle resistance to change
Tapping into the Secrets of Persuasion
Selling is getting someone to take action to achieve your goals while persuading permits others to act to fulfill their goals. Persuasion changes attitudes and actions without using formal power or duress. Effective persuasion requires knowing what your audience cares about and their fears. Instead of telling a story from your perspective, you listen and address their realities.
Objectives:
- Identify the questions to surface your audience’s concerns
- Listen for the three sources of fear
- Prioritize current concerns based on verbal and non-verbal signals
- Develop creative alternatives to produce win-win solutions
Successfully Beating the Odds
Organizational longevity is shrinking. Standard & Poor 500 companies in 1958 endured for sixty-one years. In 2022, a firm’s life span had shrunk to fifteen to twenty years. In small businesses, the average is eight years, with only thirty percent lasting ten years. In our “Just Do It” culture, the issue of long-term survival seldom attracts attention, even though it is foundational. Built to last, firms benefit from higher customer trust, unique expertise, improved retention, effective fiscal judgment, robust brand power, and a valued culture. Survival must be the ultimate performance measure.
Objectives:
- Learn that a narrow economic focus prematurely perish
- Discover the impact of the fear of missing out and the desire to keep doing what we have always done on longevity
- Value the advantage of balancing tradition and innovation
- Recognize the benefits of solid ties between customers, suppliers, employees, and the community
The Positive Side of Critical Thinking
How did the taxi industry miss Uber? What could your organization be missing now? Conventional thinking cannot cope with increasing complexity. To avoid blind spots, we must see a situation through six perspectives or mindsets. Mastering critical thinking doesn’t require rocket science, nor is it a matter of IQ or style. It is a commitment to thoroughly think through current realities and discover the best
Objectives:
- Identify and evaluate a systematic approach to critical thinking
- Improve scanning skills using the six critical mindsets
- Learn how to blend past, present and future perspectives
- Develop and reward divergent and creative thinking
Transforming Vision Into Results
Only 30% of new projects fully succeed, wasting time, energy, resources, and trust. New research points to weak vision and inattention to execution contributing to these dismal odds. There is a growing danger that vision without execution becomes a mere hallucination. Leaders can employ five key steps to ensure their vision delivers the desired outcomes.
Objectives:
- Understand a five-step framework for successfully executing change
- Identify how to leverage intangible incentives to gain support
- Explore the process for building an agile and resilient change culture
- Learn how to handle resistance to change
Tapping into the Secrets of Persuasion
Selling is getting someone to take action to achieve your goals while persuading permits others to act to fulfill their goals. Persuasion changes attitudes and actions without using formal power or duress. Effective persuasion requires knowing what your audience cares about and their fears. Instead of telling a story from your perspective, you listen and address their realities.
Objectives:
- Identify the questions to surface your audience's concerns
- Listen for the three sources of fear
- Prioritize current concerns based on verbal and non-verbal signals
- Develop creative alternatives to produce win-win solutions
Successfully Beating the Odds
Organizational longevity is shrinking. Standard & Poor 500 companies in 1958 endured for sixty-one years. In 2022, a firm's life span had shrunk to fifteen to twenty years. In small businesses, the average is eight years, with only thirty percent lasting ten years. In our "Just Do It" culture, the issue of long-term survival seldom attracts attention, even though it is foundational. Built to last, firms benefit from higher customer trust, unique expertise, improved retention, effective fiscal judgment, robust brand power, and a valued culture. Survival must be the ultimate performance measure.
Objectives:
- Learn that a narrow economic focus prematurely perish
- Discover the impact of the fear of missing out and the desire to keep doing what we have always done on longevity
- Value the advantage of balancing tradition and innovation
- Recognize the benefits of solid ties between customers, suppliers, employees, and the community
The Positive Side of Critical Thinking
How did the taxi industry miss Uber? What could your organization be missing now? Conventional thinking cannot cope with increasing complexity. To avoid blind spots, we must see a situation through six perspectives or mindsets. Mastering critical thinking doesn't require rocket science, nor is it a matter of IQ or style. It is a commitment to thoroughly think through current realities and discover the best
Objectives:
- Identify and evaluate a systematic approach to critical thinking
- Improve scanning skills using the six critical mindsets
- Learn how to blend past, present and future perspectives
- Develop and reward divergent and creative thinking
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