Patrick Lencioni Speaker Biography
Author, Business Visionary and Thought Leader
Patrick Lencioni established The Table Group, a company focused on equipping organizations with concepts, tools, and services to enhance teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement, all vital elements of a strong corporate culture. As a leading voice on organizational health, his insights are highly sought after.
Organizational Health
Lencioni’s deep commitment to organizations and effective teams shines through his writing, speaking engagements, and executive consulting work. Indeed, Pat has authored ten best-selling books, collectively selling over four million copies. Remarkably, his seminal work, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, published twelve years ago, consistently appears on national best-seller lists. Furthermore, his latest book, The Advantage, quickly achieved national best-seller status. Pat also developed The Six Types of Working Genius, a highly practical and rapid personality assessment designed to pinpoint individuals’ inherent strengths in a work environment. Consequently, his profound understanding of organizational dynamics has made him a key figure in shaping positive corporate culture.
Leadership
The widespread appeal of Lencioni’s influential leadership models has attracted a diverse range of clients for his speaking and consulting services. This includes a significant number of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, various branches of the military, numerous non-profit entities, educational institutions, and churches. Moreover, his practical and accessible approach resonates across different sectors. Therefore, organizations seeking to cultivate strong leadership and a thriving corporate culture frequently turn to his expertise for guidance.
Keynote Speaker
Each year, Pat delivers impactful presentations to thousands of leaders at prominent global organizations and national conferences. Consistently recognized as a top-rated keynote speaker at major events, Pat effectively conveys his knowledge and inspires his audiences through his approachable demeanor, engaging humor, and compelling storytelling abilities. Additionally, his presentations offer practical strategies for improving workplace dynamics and strengthening corporate culture. Consequently, his reputation as an engaging and insightful speaker makes him a highly sought-after presence at leadership gatherings.
Accolades
Fortune magazine recognized Pat as one of the “ten new gurus you should know,” highlighting his significant influence in the business world. Furthermore, his work has been featured in prominent publications such as USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review, among others. Before founding his successful firm, he gained valuable experience as a corporate executive at Sybase, Oracle, and Bain & Company. Currently, Pat resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their four sons. His prior corporate experience provides a valuable foundation for his insights on building a successful corporate culture.
Patrick Lencioni Speaking Topics
Organizational Health
Pat’s makes an overwhelming case that organizational health will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage. Drawing on his extensive consulting experience and reaffirming many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books, Pat reveals the four actionable steps to achieving long-term, sustainable success. Pat claims there is an untapped gold mine sitting right beneath them. Instead of trying to become smarter, he asserts that leaders and organizations need to shift their focus to becoming healthier, allowing them to tap into the more-than-sufficient intelligence and expertise they already have. He defines a healthy organization as one with minimal politics and confusion, high degrees of morale and productivity, and low turnover among good people.
Teamwork
According to Pat, teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. He makes the point that if you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. Based on his runaway best-seller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Pat uncovers the natural human tendencies that derail teams and lead to politics and confusion in so many organizations. Audience members will walk away with specific advice and practical tools for overcoming the dysfunctions and making their teams more functional and cohesive.
Ideal Team Players
As a follow-up to The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Pat turns his attention to the individual team-member, revealing the three indispensable virtues— humility, hunger and people smarts— that make some people better team players than others. Pat explores the power this combination yields, and illustrates how team members with these traits drastically accelerate the process of building high-performing teams. This approach has served as the basis for hiring and evaluation at his own firm for the past two decades, and now offers an effective method for leaders to identify and cultivate true team players in any organization. Whether you’re a leader striving to bring about a culture of collaboration, a human resources professional looking to recruit real team players, or an employee who simply wants to make yourself a more valuable team-member, this talk will provide insights that can help you change your organization, or your career.
The Six Types of Working Genius
From the best-selling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team comes The Six Types of Working Genius, the fastest and most practical personality assessment for identifying your natural gifts at work. After more than twenty years of working with teams, Pat’s newest model is revolutionizing the way we think about work and providing a whole new framework for tapping into one another’s “Genius”. This simplicity and usability of this model and personality assessment has made The Six Types of Working Genius the fastest and most impactful teamwork tool that has come from The Table Group since The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
Patrick Lencioni Books
The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team
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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
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3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family : A Leadership Fable about Restoring Sanity to the Most Important Organization in Your Life
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The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)
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Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues into Competitors
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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
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The Four Obsessions of An Extraordinary Executive
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The Five Dysfunctions of A Team: A Leadership Fable
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The Five Temptations of A CEO
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Patrick Lencioni Speaker Testimonials
"Pat was a huge hit with our executives. He kept them completely engaged and involved for more than four hours. More importantly, he specifically addressed the issues that we were facing as an organization and made a meaningful contribution in moving us forward."
- | Kenneth E. Sichau, Executive Vice President, AT&T
"Patrick's presentation really addressed the core issues of our high-level audience. As one member succinctly remarked: 'What a great speaker! Entertaining, insightful, fresh view on leadership.'"
- Lisa Napolitano, President and CEO | Strategic Account Management Association
"I can honestly say that Pat was one of the most enjoyable speakers we've had the privilege of hearing at Avnet. He entertained us, he inspired us, and he gave us invaluable insight into ourselves and the way we approach our business."
- | Roy Vallee, Chairman and CEO, Avnet, Inc.
"Bringing any consultant in to work with an executive team of a public company is always a risk. With The Table Group, that risk was rewarded many times over. Their straight forward, substance-over-style approach has made a tremendous difference in our team's effectiveness. These guys are good."
- Southwest Airlines | Jeff Lamb, VP People and Leadership Development
