Adrian Gostick Speaker Biography
Bestselling Leadership Author and
Organizational Culture Expert
How do todayโs best leaders accelerate business results? By engaging their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values. In his challenging, information-packed talks, #1 bestselling leadership author Adrian Gostick provides real solutions on managing change, driving innovation, and leading high-performance teams.
Books
Gostick is a global workplace expert and thought leader in the fields of corporate culture, leadership, and engagement. He is founder of the training and consulting company The Culture Works and author of the #1 New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers All In,The Carrot Principle and The Best Team Wins. His books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold 1.5 million copies around the world. His latest book is Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done.
Leadership Guru
As a leadership expert, he has been called โfascinating,โ by Fortune magazine and โcreative and refreshingโ by the New York Times. Gostick has appeared on NBCโs Today Show and CNN, and is often quoted in The Economist, Newsweek, and Wall Street Journal. If you Google the 30 Top Leadership Gurus, he is on the list along side Jack Welch and Jim Collins. His consulting clients include Danaher, Bank of America, Rolls Royce, JELD-WEN and California Pizza Kitchen.
Adrian Gostick Speaking Topics
The Best TEAM Wins: The 5 Disciplines of Todayโs Most Effective Team Leaders
The Dilemma: The vast majority of employeesโ days are now spent working collaboratively, but still 96 percent of executives cite poor teamwork as the main source of workplace failures in their organizations. It might be the most-pressing question organizations must address: How can managers lead their teams to improved performance given the volatility and challenges we face today. The Research: Based on an 850,000-person study of the most profitable, innovative work teams, New York Times bestselling authors Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton introduce audiences to the new science of teamworkโhelping leaders deal with the increased speed of change in business, global and remote employees, the rise of the Millennials, the need to work more cross-functionally across departments, and more. The Result: Gostick & Eltonโs research has discovered a set of leadership disciplines that make the biggest difference in building todayโs best teams. They help leaders: โข Manage to the OneโIdentify the drivers of each team member for maximum engagement โข Speed ProductivityโHelp new people and teams work faster & smarter โข Challenge EverythingโInspire greater innovation through healthy debate โข Focus on CustomersโBuild bridges across functions, cultures, and distance The Audience: Designed for senior leaders and managers (although often tailored to include all employees), Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton have presented The Best Team Wins to corporate audiences and association conferences worldwide.
All In - How the best leaders develop a culture of belief & drive big results
The Dilemma: While most leaders understand their most reliable competitive advantage comes from their people, few know how to get their teams โall inโโconvincing employees to buy into the strategy theyโve put forward. If a culture is clear, positive, and strong, then people will believe what they do matters and that they can make a difference. If a culture is dysfunctionalโchaotic, combative or indifferentโemployees will spend more time thinking about why the people sitting next to them should be fired than getting fired up themselves. The Research: Teaming up with research giant Towers Watson, #1 bestselling authorโs Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton present the findings of an unprecedented 300,000-person study conducted in the worst of the recession for their book All In. Based on this breakthrough research and their extensive consulting experience with a whoโs-who of successful organizations, they present a simple roadmap that all managers can follow to create a high-achieving culture in their own teams where employees are engaged, enabled and energized. The Result: Gostick & Elton offer specific how-tos for each step, and tell fascinating stories of leaders in action that vividly depict just how these powerful methods can be implemented. Audiences will learn: the 3 research-based characteristics of the worldโs most profitable, productive organizational and team cultures; the 7 steps todayโs most successful leaders use to generate buy-in; and how managers at any level can build a productive workgroup culture of their own where employees commit to the culture and give an extra push of effort. The Audience: Designed for senior leaders and managers (although sometimes tailored to include all employees), Gostick & Elton have presented โAll Inโ to corporate audiences and association conferences worldwide. The session is typically customized to an organizationโs specific culture challenges.
Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results
In his powerful keynote, the author introduces research that shows how a few vital leadership skillsโwhen done rightโcan boost employee engagement and reduce turnover. He will also share the fascinating science behind why so many managers resist (aka: suck at) something so seemingly simple as gratitude.
The Best Team Wins: 5 Disciplines of the Most Effective Team Leaders
Based on an 850,000-person study of the most profitable, innovative work teams, the authors introduce the new science of teamwork. Most employees today work collaboratively, but 96% of executives cite poor teamwork as the primary source of workplace failures. Given the volatility and challenges they face today, how can managers better lead teams to improved performance? Gostick & Eltonโs research has shown a set of leadership disciplines that makes the biggest difference in building todayโs best teams.
Build Resilience & Psychological Safety
Even before the pandemic, anxiety was crippling the performance of workersโespecially young employees. Today it is affecting productivity and leading to ghosting and burnout. In their bestselling book from Harper Business, Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done, and in their keynotes/workshops, Gostick & Elton offer 8 tactics for managers to help their employees build resilience.
Be a Better Manager by Friday - Real skills for inspiring employees, leading a team, and winning in todayโs transformative marketplace
The Dilemma: For leaders looking to drive innovation, diversity, and inclusion in their teams, many established management practices are doing more harm than good. Too many leaders are dampening their employeesโ exuberance and refreshing diversity with old-school management approaches that are killing their cultures. The Research: Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton have been some of the most influential voices in leadership research and organizational consulting for more than two decades, but itโs their research over the last few years thatโs garnering extra attention. After surveying more than 14,000 working adults in 2015-16 alone, they have found 5 principles of effective leadership that managers in the 21st Century can employ to great effect, and 5 principles that must be avoided. The Result: In a fresh, funny and challenging keynote presentation, Gostick & Elton debunk myths such as The Smartest Person in the Room, Treating Everyone the Same is Fair, Appreciation Comes in a Paycheck, and Weโll Let You Know if You Mess Up. They teach audiences how to lead in such a way that todayโs employees will followโincluding establishing a clear future vision, enhancing diversity, increasing trust levels, and providing opportunity and growth development paths. The Audience: Designed for senior leaders and managers, the authors have presented โBe a Better Manager by Fridayโ to corporate audiences and associations worldwide. The session is typically customized to an organizationโs specific leadership challenges.
Adrian Gostick Books

Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done
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What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work
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All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results
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The 24-Carrot Manager
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Carrot Principle : How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance
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The Invisible Employee : Realizing the Hidden Potential in Everyone
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The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up
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Adrian Gostick Speaker Testimonials
Thanks for a terrific presentation on employee engagement at our leadership meeting. You stimulated a lot of energized discussion, and everyone enjoyed your talk very much. I especially appreciate that you went the extra mile to understand our particular issues and focal points and work them so seamlessly into your presentation.
- GE and GE Capital | Senior Vice President and Treasurer
Not only was the message PERFECT with what we wanted as a team, but your high energy, straightforward and FUN style really kept the team engaged. During our Banquet I was told time and again that the highlight of the day was your message.
- Coffee Bean | Executive Vice President
What can I say Adrian, you were awesome! Thank you for delivery a fantastic message that left our people inspired at our annual GM conference. We will see each other again soon.
- California Pizza Kitchen | President & CEO
You were simply outstanding. Specifically, your suggestions on low-cost-no-cost appreciation were well-worth stealing โ the car wash in particular. Thank you for inspiring us and entertaining us, for making us laugh and for making us sing. We have been talking about how much we thoroughly enjoyed the show, for you are quite a performer - delivering both steak and sizzle. Thank you forever, on behalf of all who were inspired.
- Michigan | Governor