Speaker Bio
Steve Foran’s dream is one billion happier people.
While not the typical career path of an Electrical Engineer, Steve began exploring the relationship between gratitude and philanthropic giving during my MBA—receiving the Gold Medal for highest academic standing. Since then, he’s been writing and conducting practice-based gratitude research and teaching the habits of gratefulness—more than sixteen years now. What has emerged is our science-based program, Gratitude At Work. It’s a simple, yet innovative approach to thriving leadership and business results.
Steve founded Gratitude at Work in 2006 and started hosting conversations in my community which have since grown into work with leaders around the world, shifting cultures, helping leaders and their teams be happier at work by bringing more gratitude to work each day. While his audiences love the process he uses, business owners love the results delivered.
Steve’s 2019 book, Surviving to Thriving – The 10 Laws of Grateful Leadership, was named 1 of 8 recommended reads by Greater Good Science Center at University of California Berkeley and 1 of 5 positive psychology books for a happier 2019 in inc. Also in 2019, Steve was an inaugural winner of Canada’s CEO Trusted Advisor Awards Program and in 2017, Steve was awarded the gold standard in professional speaking, CSPTM.
Steve is a son, brother, husband, and unapologetically proud father and grandfather. Steve’s kids poke fun at his gratitude work (air quotes) and he is a lifelong resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia and trying to do his part to make my community a better place to live.
Speaker Topics
For more than 16 years, Steve has been speaking with companies, organizations and associations who want to understand and leverage the power of Grateful Leadership in their work and in their day-to-day lives—and get results.
In this session we explore the importance and relevance of gratitude as a foundational mindset and demystify the path to being an effective leader, living a thriving life and personal wellbeing. Participants discover the critical barrier that keeps far too many people stuck struggling with never having enough to lead a thriving, happy, meaningful life—and how this bubbles over into the workplace, stymies us from being our best and leads to feeling overwhelmed, isolated, dissatisfied and working at odds with each other and ultimately—burnout. Unfortunately, it is insufficient to simply know how gratitude works, so participants experientially discover how and why gratitude is a must-have practice for every leader ! Expect to leave feeling inspired and energized with a step-by-step approach to thriving leadership that you can immediately implement to build resilience and feel re-energized, more positive and happier—both at and away from work.
Participants will:
· be able to describe the importance of gratitude as a leadership skill critical to their personal and professional success.
· be able to demonstrate two leadership tools they can immediately implement to help build resilience, maintain a thriving mindset, feel more connected and be more successful.
· feel a renewed sense of hope, optimism and energy—both at and away from work—and knowing how to recreate this feeling at any time.
Customized To You
Over the years, this program has been tailored for clients who want to focus in a specific area. Here is a list of recent Grateful Leadership programs:
· The happiness habits – Finding work-life balance in the midst of chaos
· Thriving leadership – Thriving team: The 4 happiness habits
· The most important 6 minutes in your day
· Finding purpose at work – The mindset of a thriving life
· Grateful leadership for the senior team
· Vital Habit – Making a gratitude list
· Thriving in disruptive times – Strengthening our culture
· Disrupting your workplace with grateful leadership
· The grateful mindset – Your key to resilience
· Goodbye complacency and entitlement – Hello engagement
· Emotional mastery through gratitude
Decades of time and billions have been invested and the needle on employee engagement has barely moved. In fact, complacency and entitlement is costing organizations upwards of $2,600 per employee every single year. In this session, you’ll discover how by nurturing a culture of gratitude you will reduce complacency and entitlement, increase employee engagement and drive a people-first, high-performing workplace.
Participants leave with a new perspective on building an engaged workplace and at least one idea they can confidently implement at work. You’ll also get our DIY Playbook for embedding gratitude into your culture. The Playbook outlines the entire Gratitude at Work framework as well as 15 tactics to successfully build and strengthen a people-first, high performing workplace.
What are you waiting for ? Now is the time to thrive ! In this session we explore the importance and relevance of gratitude in building and maintaining the world-class mindset necessary to thrive at work and at home. We demystify the path to living a thriving life and if you want a simple approach to thrive in all aspects of life, then look no further. Participants discover the critical barrier that keeps far too many people stuck struggling with never having enough to lead a thriving, happy, meaningful life—and how this bubbles over into the workplace and stymies us from being our best and leads to feeling overwhelmed, isolated, dissatisfied and working at odds with each other. Expect to leave feeling inspired and energized with a step-by-step practice you can immediately implement to help you be more resilient, more energized and happier—both at home and work.
Participants will:
* be able to describe the importance of gratitude as a skill critical to their personal and professional success and building a thriving culture
* be able to demonstrate 2 techniques they can immediately implement to help them build resilience, feel more connected and improve well-being
* feel a renewed sense of hope, optimism and energy—both at and away from work—and knowing how to recreate this feeling at any time
Testimonials
Steve had great impact on our partner team and we left his sessions with practical tools we are using for our own personal growth as well as tools to engage with our teams.
When Steve stole the show with his opening keynote at our National Conference I knew I had to bring him in to speak with our team.
The audience loved Steve’s closing keynote – everything from the engaging activities he orchestrated to the simple take-aways he provided.
Our people felt Steve was very relatable, and several even commented that our hybrid virtual event was our best annual team meeting ever.
We were familiar with Steve’s speaking so we felt very comfortable he would deliver as promised—it’s great to know there’s no risk with a keynote speaker. I personally appreciated his simple actionable take-aways.
We deal with some topics that can be very heavy and we needed a message that would leave a positive imprint on our delegates—he closed our event on an energetic, positive, upbeat tone and gave us a few simple tools we could implement right away.
Steve is one of our most popular keynote speakers on Bright. I’ve attended a couple of his talks now and can’t recommend them enough.
There was an immediate strengthening of trust between me and my team as a result of having Steve speak with our group.
I’ve attended continuing education sessions around the world and it’s very rare one gets to experience the calibre of what you do.
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