Will Bowen

Will Bowen handed out 250 purple rubber bracelets in July 2006 with a simple challenge: go 21 consecutive days without complaining. What happened next is one of the most remarkable grassroots movements in the history of personal development. More than 15 million people in 106 countries have since taken the Complaint Free challenge, and Bowen’s book A Complaint Free World has been translated into 35 languages and sold more than three million copies. He speaks on workplace culture, positivity, stress reduction, and the neuroscience of why eliminating complaints drives measurable improvements in morale, productivity, and health.

The World Authority on Complaining
Bowen holds the CSP designation from the National Speakers Association and has keynoted for banks, insurance companies, software firms, automobile manufacturers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies. His clients include Volvo, Kimberly-Clark, and the Million Dollar Roundtable. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC’s Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and ABC World News, and has been profiled in People, Forbes, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal.

Results in the Workplace
Bowen’s Complaint Free Business program has helped organizations reduce turnover, improve communication, and increase profits. His GRIPE framework gives leaders a practical tool for responding to complaint behaviors in a way that redirects energy without dismissing people.

Will Bowen delivers keynotes on workplace positivity, culture transformation, stress management, and the power of complaint-free leadership.

What does Will Bowen speak about?
Will Bowen speaks on positivity, resilience, and how changing your language changes your life and your organization. His keynotes are built around the science of why complaint is so destructive to culture — and the simple practice of eliminating it that has changed millions of lives.

What is Will Bowen’s background?
Bowen is the author of A Complaint Free World and founder of the global movement of the same name, which has reached more than 13 million people in 106 countries through a 21-day challenge to go without complaining.

Who books Will Bowen to speak?
Meeting planners book Will Bowen for healthcare, leadership, and culture-focused corporate audiences where shifting organizational mindset and improving team dynamics are the goals.

Complaint Free Business

Both executives and employees deal with hundreds of complaints on a daily basis — complaining coworkers, complaining customers.

Learn:

• Chronic complaining’s destructive effects on success, health, and relationships
• What is (and isn’t) a complaint? (this will surprise you)
• (5) reasons people complain — as remembered by the acronym G.R.I.P.E.
• How to get other people (and ourselves) to stop complaining
• simple mindfulness tool that will supercharge your life for success

Everyone will leave inspired, mindful of their own complaints, and motivated to approach complaining customers and co-workers with new, simple and effective strategies.

Drop Stress, Increase Focus

A team that is focused and engaged (rather than haggard and stressed) collaborates better, is more loyal, has less absenteeism, and is FAR more successful.

Learn:

The “Focus Secret” used by Google, Apple, and other top companies and how you can use it starting right away

• Practical ways to decrease stress leading to a happier, healthier, more successful life
• Techniques to increase mental clarity fast — whenever and wherever you need it
• Proven methods to relax and focus your mind that take no time out of your day
• Powerful ways to reframe negative problems into positive opportunities

Everyone will be inspired, encouraged, and motivated to make simple and powerful shifts that will reduce stress, improve workplace harmony, productivity, and morale.