Bill Benjamin
Former tech executive and leadership and culture expert Bill Benjamin speaks on leadership, culture, and the science of performing under pressure.
Bill Benjamin Booking & Availability
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Corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events and virtual programs may be available depending on the engagement.
Bill Benjamin Keynote Topics & Programs
Bill Benjamin speaks on business, change management, corporate culture, growth, leadership and technology through keynote presentations and related programs.
You need to move fast, adapt to a changing environment, and deliver performance, yet your team is moving too slow when it comes to making tough decisions and are avoiding the more challenging conversations that drive results. What is at the heart of high performance is culture. Unfortunately, most leaders misunderstand culture; they believe culture exists across the organization; it doesn’t. It exists primarily on teams.
In this powerful virtual or live keynote, your team will learn the results from our study of 72,000 people that is published in the Harvard Business Review, which puts your managers and people leaders at the center of building your culture. Your people will learn specific tools to own and model the culture on their team in the critical moments, what we call Last 8% moments, that create culture. The Last 8% are those tougher conversations and decisions that many people struggle with and avoid, but are the secret to driving team performance.
In this impactful program, your team will learn:
- What the two pillars of a high performing culture are: High Connection (psychological safety) and High Courage (ability to do hard things skillfully)
- Emotional Intelligence-based tools to be their best in Last 8% Situations
- How to influence & engage others who are at a distance and create the conditions to keep the best and brightest
During times of uncertainty, the human brain defaults to protection and not risk. But taking risks–trying new ways of doing things, naming inconvenient truths, having feedback conversations – is exactly what’s needed during times of change. What does that mean for you as a leader? You—and your organization—must take more risks just to keep up. Every time you back away from a risk you know you should be taking, you slow down your organization and this impairs your ability to adapt to the uncertain, changing environment you face.
In this powerful program, you will learn from our proprietary study of 34,000 people (published in Harvard Business Review) that found a quantifiable gap between the risks people know in their gut they should be taking and the actual risks they take. In other words, people don’t have the full conversation they want to have, or they put off making the hardest decisions. In these and other situations we’ve studied, people always wish they’d acted and taken the risk sooner. This research showed the gap is 7.56%. We named this gap, the Last 8%.
Specifically, you will learn:
- What the norms are on a team that slows down their speed of execution and ability to deal with uncertainty. In a study of 72,000 people, we found 67% of teams do not have a culture that is conducive to the amount of risk required today.
- Concrete tools to manage your brain in Last 8% moments so you can lead more effectively under pressure
- How to create a culture on your team that enables people to operate and execute at the speed required to deal with the challenges and uncertainty you face.
Your people are facing the biggest challenge of their careers, yet most continue to rely on their IQ and technical skills to manage through it all. It’s not enough.
To survive, your organization needs to be agile in the midst of change and challenge, and see opportunities where others do not. Your team needs to learn how to work effectively with others who are, themselves, under pressure.
In this powerful program, your team members will learn:
- Specific tools learned from working with high performers under pressure in the NFL, NBA, Olympic teams, Navy SEALs, Goldman Sachs, Intel, among others, to be more adaptable, resilient, collaborative and opportunistic
- How to manage their brain so they can think, perform and lead effectively under pressure
- The single most important daily habit that increases focus and decreases burnout
- Strategies to help their teams perform in the face of the pressure they face
This program is based on a 12,000-person study conducted for our New York Times best-selling book, Performing Under Pressure, which is available in 65 countries.
This session can be delivered for sales people and sales teams, focusing on helping them harness emotional intelligence to deal with pressure, build stronger relationships with their clients, collaborate internally and deal with the setbacks and uncertainty that sales people must overcome to be successful.
Bill’s research organization surveys over 40,000 people a month and can leverage their proprietary research capability to assess all participants in your keynote prior to the program. This 4-5 minute assessment provides the following benefits:
- Bill will use the data to customize the program for your unique needs.
- By taking the assessment, it prepares the learner’s brain to think about their impact and behavior ahead of time.
- Bill will tailor/customize the keynote with key results from the survey to address what matters most to the participants
- Post program, Bill will share any information we didn’t see fit for a wider audience but believe will help you move forward with building culture and lead your teams more effectively
Bill Benjamin Biography & Credentials
Bill Benjamin is a former tech executive, leadership and culture expert, and a contributor to the New York Times bestseller Performing Under Pressure. With advanced degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science and 25 years of real world business experience as a senior leader, he brings a rare perspective that combines science, practicality, and credibility with analytical audiences.
Bill is a partner at the Institute for Health and Human Potential (IHHP), an international research and culture change company. In his programs, he shares what he learned from struggling early in his own leadership journey under pressure and how the same techniques he teaches helped him become a better leader and build high performing teams and cultures.
Bill Benjamin is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Bill Benjamin’s fees.
Want to book Bill Benjamin for an event?
Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at (215) 995-0905 to book Bill Benjamin for corporate or private events, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, motivational speaking, or virtual appearances. Our agency will work directly with your organization and our keynote speakers to create an unforgettable event.
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A rare mix of business experience and scientific rigor
Bill Benjamin has 25 years of business experience as a senior leader and advanced degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science. He also draws on his background in sales to motivate and inspire audiences, pairing energy and enthusiasm with a clear, structured style that resonates with discerning, analytical groups.
As a partner at IHHP, Bill helps organizations strengthen culture through IHHP’s Last 8% Culture System, which focuses on creating high performance cultures that are both high care and high accountability. IHHP has been named one of the “Fastest Growing Companies” in the “Fast 100” ranking in PROFIT Magazine.
Performing and leading under pressure
Bill is candid about struggling early in his career as a leader under pressure. That lived experience informs his practical and scientific approach to helping people understand how the brain responds under pressure and how leaders can use that understanding to increase leadership and performance. His work has connected with audiences that include surgeons, U.S. Marines, and NASA engineers.
