International business-inspirational speaker Scott Mautz offers multiple options for a memorable session (see below).  His keynotes are packed with riveting content, are entertaining with a purpose, are inspiring and actionable, and are backed by vast business experience and research. He tailors each talk to his specific audience.

Mental strength has become THE leadership superpower of our times; i.e. the ability to self-regulate your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to achieve exceptional outcomes, despite circumstances. In this compelling keynote, the audience is introduced to this researched-backed insight, and the fact that mental strength is comprised of six “mental muscles,” six areas/tests of leadership that most directly correlate with exceptional achievement. These same areas require self-regulation skills to navigate them effectively:

• Fortitude
• Confidence
• Boldness
• Decision-Making
• Goal-Focus
• Messaging (sending the right messages of positivity/intent)

The audience comes to understand it’s about managing internally, so you can lead externally (professionally and personally), and are emotionally and intellectually engaged in how to do so. Multiple tools are introduced throughout the keynote to inspire and equip the audience to become mentally stronger.

Length: 60-75 minutes

Target audience:  

– Leaders looking to get the “edge” that helps them achieve more, and that can identify with the internal struggles that commonly arise in trying to lead effectively. 
– People looking to have greater control over their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in their work and day-to-day life, for productive outcomes.

The audience walks away with:

• an appreciation for the importance of mental strength
• a sense of community, i.e. that they’re not alone in dealing with how challenging it can be to remain mentally strong, as a leader, and in life
• inspiration, insight, and specific tools to help them become mentally stronger (and a strong desire to apply what they’ve learned)
• a deep sense of personal inspiration/motivation/energy

*Note: Ask about the Becoming Mentally Stronger workshop that can accompany this keynote. Create an even deeper experience for your audience to help them become mentally stronger, lead more effectively, and overcome more challenges, more consistently.

Content/delivery is tailored to the audience according to client needs.

Looking to build a tight-knit, high-achieving, world-class team? It comes down to how membership on that team makes you feel (i.e. the team norms and psychological and behavioral vibe present). In this keynote, the audience learns how they can foster their own super-team by understanding and acting on the 5 most common and powerful sentiments that research shows tight-knit, top-achieving teams feel:

• The ability to make an impact (including clarity of expectations/open communication)
• Comfort with uncertainty/risk-taking (including change)
• No fear of failure (self-confidence flourishes)
• A caring culture
• The will to persevere

The audience becomes aware of these sentiments and well-equipped to foster each one on their own team.

This energizing keynote draws from the highly-acclaimed book, The Mentally Strong Leader. Powerful stories, insightful examples, fascinating research, humor, and compelling oratory are all woven together into a highly memorable talk.

Length: 60-75 minutes

Target audience: Anyone wanting to forge a highly collaborative, tight-knit team that consistently overdelivers.

The audience walks away with:

• awareness of the 5 sentiments that world-class teams foster and
• understanding of how to replicate those feelings on their own team
• a deep sense of inspiration and energy from what they’ve just heard
• a set of practical tools and a desire to use them immediately

*Note: Ask about the companion workshop that accompanies this keynote. Give your audience the opportunity to practice applying how to replicate (on their own team) the 5 sentiments that world-class teams foster.

Content/delivery is tailored to the audience according to client needs.

No group has a bigger impact on transforming an organization than those who must lead from the middle of that organization – those who have a boss and are a boss, who must lead up, down, and across as part of their job. This keynote draws from research with thousands of successful “middle managers” across a wide variety of organizations to give the audience the inspiration, insights, and pragmatic tools they need to truly excel in their vital role.

• The audience learns the SCOPE framework which outlines the unique challenges of those who lead from the messy middle. They learn the key skillset and mindset elements required to succeed in their job, and are moved to take pride in being the backbone of their organization.
• To lead up the organization brilliantly, the audience learns how to build better relationships with their boss, how to get crystal clear on expectations, and more.
• To lead down the organization with excellence, they learn how to pinpoint what an employee needs to improve upon, how to give transformative feedback, and more.
• To lead across the organization with savvy they learn things such as how to deal with difficult co-workers, the key to influencing peers, and more.

This powerful keynote draws from the book Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization. It’s wrapped in passionate oratory with fascinating research and compelling stories that will keep the audience riveted the entire time. A robust toolkit is also provided for the audience so that they can immediately put into practice what they just heard.

Being in the middle doesn’t mean being stuck in the middle. It means a chance to lead– in every direction. It’s a badge of pride. And now your audience will have the tools and inspiration to do it brilliantly.

Length: 60-75 minutes

Target audience: Anyone who has a boss and is a boss (or aspires to be a boss/manager of others someday); anyone who wants to improve their skills at leading from the middle of their organization.

The audience walks away with:

• a sense that they are understood and appreciated
• a sense of community in that they’re not alone in dealing with the unique challenges they face
• inspiration, insight, and specific tools to help them lead brilliantly up, down, and across their organization (and a strong desire to apply what they’ve learned)
• a deep sense of personal inspiration/motivation/energy

*Note: Ask about the companion workshop that can accompany this keynote. Create an even deeper experience for your audience to help them build their ability to effectively lead up, down, and across the organization.

Content/delivery is tailored to the audience according to client needs.

The secret to the highest-performing organizations might surprise you – it’s a workforce deeply motivated by leaders adept at fostering meaning both in and at work. Cutting-edge research shows that today’s evolving workforce isn’t as motivated by perks, promotions, or pay, which many leaders still mistakenly believe is the case.

It’s the presence of meaning in one’s work that truly engages, motivates, and retains employees, and it does so on a sustaining basis (unlike other temporary fixes). And groundbreaking research shows that meaning-rich organizations get business results like no other.

The audience is then introduced to “The Markers of Meaning”–specific conditions the leader can foster that create meaning in and at work (shaping work that matters, feeding learning and personal growth, fostering a sense of competency and self-esteem, granting autonomy, and crafting an environment of caring/teamwork/authenticity). Practical, pragmatic tools are provided in the talk (and at the end of the talk) so the audience can immediately put into practice what they just heard.

This powerful keynote draws from the highly acclaimed book, The Mentally Strong Leader. Compelling stories, insightful examples, fascinating research, humor, and compelling oratory are all woven together into a highly memorable talk.

Length: 60-75 minutes

Target audience: Leaders of any kind seeking to unlock employee engagement, meaning, and meaningful achievement (while improving recruitment and retention efforts).

The audience walks away with:

• an understanding of what truly motivates and engages today’s workforce
• knowledge of how to foster the conditions that create meaning, sustained motivation, and peak performance
• a strong sense of enhanced leadership skills
• a set of practical tools and a desire to immediately use them
• a strong desire to apply what they’ve just learned
• a deep sense of personal inspiration/motivation/energy

*Note: Ask about the companion workshop that accompanies this keynote—it’s custom built for members of Leadership Teams. Give your leaders the opportunity to practice applying the Markers of Meaning to motivate their employees over the long haul.

Content/delivery is tailored to the audience according to client needs.

After an extended challenging period for your business and employees, you’re gaining momentum again–and you’d like to keep it that way (and fuel it further). But unbeknownst to you, a specific set of insidious forces can quietly kick in, slowly draining a sense of inspiration from the workforce and causing precious momentum to sneak out the side door. In fact, a stunning 70% of employees have lost that lovin’ feeling and can be coded as disengaged. This epidemic doesn’t have to strike at your workplace.

Dips in feeling inspired are natural, but employee’s passively waiting around for the organization to reignite their sense of inspiration at such times isn’t the answer. Most people try to relight their spark by asking “What inspires me?” (followed by attempts to do more of that), but research shows that doesn’t work. The question to ask is “How did I lose my inspiration in the first place?” And the answer is “The Anti-Muses”: what psychology teaches us are the forces working to quietly sap inspiration from you over time.

The audience then learns of the most common, caustic ways these Anti-Muses combine forces to set traps for us, thus leeching our inspiration away and bringing momentum to a screeching halt. The audience learns to free themselves from:

• Fear of failure and criticism
• Change fatigue
• Perseverance faltering
• Dis-empowering inner-dialogue
• Undervaluing values
• Fostering a callous vs. caring environment

This inspiring keynote draws from the multi-award-winning, bestselling book, Find the Fire, as well as the highly-acclaimed book, The Mentally Strong Leader. Powerful stories, insightful examples, fascinating research, humor, and compelling oratory are all woven together into a highly memorable talk.

Length: 60-75 minutes

Target audience: Anyone wanting to keep the positive momentum going in their organization (and build on it) and not fall prey to the research-proven most common and caustic inspiration drains that can enter the picture.

The audience walks away with:

• an understanding of the most common and caustic ways our inspiration gets drained, and how to prevent those from taking hold
• a deep sense of inspiration from what they’ve just heard
• more energy and motivation
• a set of practical tools and a desire to use them immediately

*Note: Ask about the companion training that accompanies this keynote. Give your audience the opportunity to practice applying what they just learned about overcoming the most common and caustic inspiration drains..

Content/delivery is tailored to the audience according to client needs.

Have you / your audience watched one of Scott’s LinkedIn Learning courses, and would like him to conduct a virtual talk to complement the course-viewing? Just let Scott know which course and what length of time, and he’ll craft a talk accordingly!

Check out the range of leadership and self-leadership courses Scott Mautz offers on LinkedIn Learning.