Lance Secretan

Lance Secretan is a leadership philosopher, bestselling author, and one of the most thought-provoking voices on purpose-driven leadership in the world. His Higher Ground Leadership model challenges leaders to move beyond transactional management and embrace an approach built on inspiration, values, and the belief that work should enrich lives rather than diminish them.

Redefining Leadership for a Higher Purpose

Secretan is the author of more than 20 books on leadership and management, including Inspire! What Great Leaders Do, The Spark the Flame and the Torch, and Reclaiming Higher Ground. He is the founder of the Secretan Center and has advised Fortune 100 companies, government organizations, and nonprofits worldwide. His approach integrates courage, authenticity, and service into a leadership model that rejects fear-based management in favor of inspiring people to do their greatest work.

Inspiring Leaders to Transform Organizations and Lives

Secretan holds an MBA and a PhD and has been recognized as one of the most influential leadership thinkers of our time. His presentations are known for being deeply moving and intellectually rigorous, offering a vision of leadership that transforms organizations and the people who lead them. His keynotes deliver powerful insights on Higher Ground Leadership, inspiring rather than motivating people, creating cultures of purpose and meaning, and building organizations where both performance and humanity thrive.

Creating Organizations That Inspire The Soul

Eighty percent of North Americans do not look forward to going to work on Monday mornings. Surveys suggest the public perception of business leaders, professionals and government employees has never been lower. Now, Dr. Lance H. K. Secretan takes a look at what has gone wrong. He addresses your deeper and unique needs and helps you shift the personal and organizational culture from looking outside for solutions to finding answers from within.

He understands that people everywhere are tired of bringing their exhausted minds to work, while leaving their hearts at home. They are seeking much more from their working lives. In short, it is time for a total quality program for employees that will inspire their souls, and their customers.

You will learn how to meet the needs of your soul as effectively as you are meeting the needs of your personality. He will change the way you think about your life and work.

While discovering the inner attitudes and values of individuals who will pioneer the evolution of organizations into the next century, you’ll get fresh and fascinating ideas that will help you integrate the heart, the mind and the bottom line.

You will get a detailed program that helps you achieve and learn:

New models of organizational culture and values

New awareness of the meaning of your communications, written and verbal, and its effect on others

How to achieve grace with associates, customers and suppliers

How to replace the negative energy of fear, competition and hostility, with compassion, excellence and service

How to romance outstanding performances from colleagues and loyalty from customers and suppliers

How to develop new reward systems for employees and new forms of partnerships with suppliers

New concepts of Decision Making, Employee Equity, Profit, Relationships, Learning, Creativity, Communicating Information, Truth-Telling and Promise-Keeping, and Workplace Design

How to inspire the soul