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Phillip Van Hooser, MBA, CSP, CPAE | Leadership Keynote Speaker

Guiding Leaders to Build Engaged Employee Relationships That Get Better Results

A Leadership Keynote Speaker & A Trusted Advisor on a Mission to Help Organizations Improve Business Results

A leadership keynote speaker for 30+ years, Phil Van Hooser’s driving mission has been to show leaders and managers why and how to build authentic, productive relationships with those who work for them.

Using relevant, engaging illustrations and time-tested, commonsense practices, Phil Van Hooser has helped 1000+ organizations improve their business results through better leader employee relationships.

Two-thirds of those clients trust Phil so much they have used him repeatedly.

Phil is the leadership keynote speaker with the knowledge, practical experience, and presentation expertise to help your leaders, managers and supervisors:

Win respect and credibility
Forge integrity-based employee relationships
Communicate to diffuse conflict and tension
Engage the untapped creativity of their teams and
Commit to a culture of teamwork and trust with your most valuable asset — your employees!

When companies and organizations find their leaders and employees on opposing teams — struggling with issues like internal conflict, lost time and money, and unengaged staff — Phillip Van Hooser is the guide they turn to.

Knowing the Costs of Poor Leadership & Communication

Phil understands the frustration and financial costs that occur when leaders and employees don’t respect, trust or value the other — he’s been there. His management experience in Human Resources and Employee Relations roles in FORTUNE 500 gave him a front row seat to the very real problems a lack of leader / employee communication and connection creates.

HRDQ reports that a business with 100 employees spends an average downtime of 17 hours a week clarifying communication, translating to an annual cost of over $528,000. 70% of small to mid-size businesses claim that ineffective communication is their primary problem.

Bearing the costs of managers and supervisors with poor leadership and communication skills can kill even a good business.

To avoid losses like this… And to build a culture of teamwork that builds the bottom line…

You want someone you can trust.
Someone who’s been there and knows how to fix the problem.
Someone who can guide and inspire leaders.
Someone with a track record of demonstrated performance.

When you can only trust your event to a leadership keynote speaker with proven experience — don’t settle. Call Phil Van Hooser now.

Inspiring Presentations for Corporate Meetings & Association Keynotes

Leadership

Ground Rules for Leaders

“Power in an unprepared manager’s hand is like giving him or her a scalpel and saying, ‘Do surgery on your people.’ Risky.”

Are your leaders feeling the pressure to perform? New managers, emerging leaders, mid level managers and executives need to know the essentials for building engaged, cohesive leadership relationships.

This keynote, drawn from Phil’s popular book, Leaders Ought to Know: 11 Ground Rules for Common Sense Leadership, reveals strategies to inspire leadership performance. Propel new managers, even senior leaders into respected, integrity-based leaders! Leaders with staying power. Leaders who can perform at ever increasing levels of responsibility!

When these leadership strategies are practiced consistently, leaders learn how to:

Motivate — not manipulate — to get results
Communicate with honesty, integrity and confidentiality
Earn the respect of those you lead
Manage fear and control emotions
Take responsibility and be accountable

This program is perfect for:

New managers, emerging leaders and high potentials transitioning to leadership
Managers struggling with soft skills
Leadership teams preparing for succession or culture change
Millennials and Gen Z leading those senior to them

Communication

We Need to Talk: Building Trust When Communicating Gets Critical

“Leaders who find it hard to listen, often find it hardest to lead.”

From the frontline to the C-suite, communication impacts all facets of business operations. Bottom line results like sales, customer and employee relationships, productivity, cost reduction and profitability can all be improved with better communication!

This presentation is for anyone needing help with their communication skills. Based on Phil’s book by the same title, this keynote presents six commonsense strategies that will immediately improve communication results.

And when applied to their own enterprises, business owners, managers and front line staff understand how to:

Improve business relationships through listening skills
Rein in “brutal honesty,” and deliver difficult, sensitive messages with tact
Rebuild believability when truthfulness hasn’t always been practiced
Reduce conflict, build trust and improve team and customer relations

This program is perfect for:

All staff levels
New managers, emerging leaders and high potentials transitioning to leadership
Managers and teams struggling with conflict or confrontation issues
Customer service teams

Motivation

Motivating Managers, Millennials & Misfits

Funny title, but it’s a serious topic. More than any other issue, leaders struggle with how to motivate employee performance. Yes, the performance of younger generation employees, but also the performance of all employee groups.

Whether you’re working with Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen X, or up-and-coming Gen Z, Phillip Van Hooser’s approach will help you motivate individual employee performance long-term.

Learn the communication secrets that work with Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials or Gen Z
Learn two motivational truths that apply to all generational groups
Identify five clues to any employee’s level of motivation
Explore methods to discover what really motivates each employee

This program is perfect for:

All organizational levels
Those managing and leading Millennial and Gen Z
New manages, emerging leaders and those leading employees senior to them
Leaders and managers of organizations implementing transition and succession plans

Service & Professionalism

Professionalism Is a Choice

“Successful people choose to do the things unsuccessful people could have done — should have done — but consciously chose not to do.”

Each day employees, managers, executives and leaders make choices that speak volumes about their commitment to service and professionalism. Choices and actions that either say, “I am a professional” or “I think I am good enough to get by.”

Is the “good enough” mentality is costing your organization money, market share and reputation? This presentation offers solid practices that will set your team apart from the competition!

Set your organization ahead of the competition by learning:

How to solve problems rather than assign blame
Why integrity and reputation cannot be compromised and how to protect them
How to reverse the negative behaviors of whining and whispering
12 practical choices that build professional image and impact the bottom line

This program is perfect for:

Leaders at all organizational levels
New managers, emerging leaders and high potentials transitioning to leadership
Sales and customer service teams

Change

Don’t Hold Your Breath: Keys to Lead Change, Transition and Transformation

“Trying not to change is like trying not to breathe — if you succeed, you die.”

Leaders at every organizational level know change is inevitable and never-ending. It’s an all-encompassing reality that doesn’t go away. For those leading the charge, future success rides on a sound approach to embrace change, guide transition and energize transformation.

For organizations seeking the best outcome, this keynote is a realistic look at successfully managing change. It is drawn from Phil’s professional experiences spanning four decades of work with hundreds of organizations, large and small. And thousands of leaders — prepared and struggling — during extended periods of change, transition and transformation — including his own!

For leaders, this presentation will reveal the real world lessons for successful change, transition and transformation including:

The characteristics of change that impact your organization
4 truths impacting change for your people
The relationship between change and transition
Key steps to successfully lead transformation

This program is perfect for:

All staff levels
Leaders charged with guiding people, projects and processes through organizational change

Decision Making

It’s Your Call: Tools & Rules for Big League Decision Making

“When the vision is clear, decisions are always easier.”

Leaders don’t generally intend to make poor decisions. Leaders struggle with decision making for one primary reason — they’ve never learned a solid process for smart decision making. It’s Your Call: Tools & Rules for Big League Decision Making will show you and your team how to take the lead in making smart decisions.

From Phil’s training at Wendelstedt’s Professional Umpire School, his work in Employee Relations, Human Resources / Safety, and his experience as a leadership training expert for top U.S. companies, you will:

Discover the importance of having the necessary – but seldom taught — tools for decision making
Get tips for avoiding “heat of the moment,” disastrous decisions
Assess your understanding of the written — and unwritten — rules for smart decisions
Learn a step-by-step process for making better decisions
Understand the factors affecting how and when to make “the call”

This program is perfect for:

New managers, emerging leaders and high potentials transitioning into leadership
Leaders and managers in safety / security roles
Decision makers at all organizational levels