John Chappelear

John Chappelear is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and leadership speaker whose book The Daily Six won the USA Book News Best Book Award and has been adopted into leadership curricula at Jacksonville University and the University of North Florida. His six-step framework built on contemplation, love, forgiveness, service, gratitude, and action has been implemented by Fortune 500 companies and police departments nationwide.

Four Decades of Entrepreneurial Leadership

Chappelear brings over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur who grew businesses into top national producers. He has received a Presidential Letter of Commendation for his work and has dedicated his career to helping individuals and organizations create dynamic positive change through emotional intelligence and intentional leadership practices. His approach is grounded in the belief that personal transformation precedes organizational transformation.

Creating Cultures of Emotional Intelligence and High Performance

Chappelear’s Daily Six framework provides leaders with a daily practice that builds the emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and intentional habits that drive sustained high performance. His keynotes deliver actionable strategies for building emotional intelligence in leaders and teams, creating cultures of accountability and positive change, the six daily practices that drive personal and professional excellence, and transforming organizational performance through intentional leadership.

Strategic Direction 
Set your organization along the path to prosperity with purpose. Strategic Direction aligns the focus of everyone in your organization, concentrating their energy and efforts on attaining your Organizational Vision. Create a Strategic Plan to achieve goals powered by your vision, and then instill Strategic Intent across all levels of your organization, collectively concentrating on the short-term actions needed to achieve your long-term goals. Build and sustain Strategic Momentum that keeps your team of empowered Strategic Thinkers moving your organization forward together, driven by emotion and the desire to achieve a greater good. Start steering your organization to success.

Insightful Leadership 
Capture the hearts of your people. Arouse passion and purpose by leading with knowledge and emotion. Insightful Leaders empower employees, purposefully and intently guiding them toward your organization’s goals. They take up where planning leaves off and focused action takes over, inspiring employees to secure their success by attaining the organization’s vision.

The Daily Six 
John’s signature talk, The Daily Six talk moves beyond the usual “motivational speech”. John discusses the struggles we all face today in trying to create balance for our over extended and over committed lives. John has developed his six simple, seamless steps for attaining greater peace of mind and for developing and setting priorities for work, family, community and self. John connects with and involves the audience with a warm and self-deprecating humor and personal heartfelt stories. John also encourages the audience to examine their lives, change their focus, and to stop waiting for life to get perfect to be happy. Everyone will leave one of John’s keynotes with action steps to help them learn some simple ways to be happy, right now! Wherever you fit within your organization, whether front line worker, manager, or executive, John Chappelear’s upbeat message works for any professional struggling to find the balance between quantity of achievement, and quality of life.

Building Positive, Powerful, Productive and Profitable Organizations
Energize your organization by helping individuals succeed with significance. John changes your organization’s focus, developing self-confidence among your team members, and teaching them to appreciate their co-workers and be grateful for their entire lives.

Strengthening Leadership Individually and Organizationally
John builds emotion into leadership at all levels, capturing the hearts and the energies of people throughout the organization. People exude confidence, knowing that they are keys to your organization’s success and agents of its intended goals.

Improve Communication to Improve Mood, Morale and Results
Given a chance to connect and communicate, people will take it and move your organization forward. John cultivates inclusion — not just vertically within departments or divisions but across the entire organization. See the resulting physical and mental sense of optimism, enthusiasm and community change and grow right before your eyes.

Building Powerful and Productive Teams That Work Better Together and Get More Done
John has improved productivity and performance at universities, hospitals and corporations in the United States and abroad. He eliminates internal competition by focusing both management and staff on resolving the most relevant and pressing issues.

Improve Life and Work – Reduce Stress and Build Balance
John guides people who want to succeed while generating a sense of significance for themselves and their organizations. He brings balance; drawing upon the personal lessons he has learned from being a husband, father and business leader.