Kevin Freiberg is the founder and CEO of Freibergs.com, a professional speaking and consulting firm dedicated to equipping leaders for a world of change. He has a global practice working with firms in Europe, Japan, India, Central and South America, as well as companies throughout the United States and Canada. Freibergs.com works with over a hundred different groups a year. Kevin’s constant interaction with business leaders around the world gives him the ability to identify future trends, garner best practices, and help clients discover what works and what doesn’t work.

People learn from concrete examples. When you see an unconventional business strategy succeed in real-life, you know it can be done and you have a roadmap for doing it. You’re inspired to think about implementing your strategy in your own way with what’s right for your particular culture. Kevin’s presentations are loaded with fascinating stories, vivid illustrations and interesting anecdotes. His energy and passion make his examples come alive! His first-hand experience makes them believable.

Kevin is co-author of a compelling new book, GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-as-Usual. GUTS! is an exciting sequel to the Freibergs’ USA Today and Business Week best-seller, NUTS! Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success (over 500,00 copies sold). Kevin holds a doctoral degree in educational leadership from the University of San Diego. He reads voraciously, he networks with leaders around the world, and he listens carefully to what’s being said at the meetings and conferences where he speaks. His deep sense of intellectual curiosity and commitment to lifelong learning make him a premier resource for capturing, analyzing, and sharing business intelligence.

Kevin Freiberg has worked with some of the world’s most admired companies—companies that are on the forefront of a revolution driving the new economy. These industry leaders are literally changing the rules of the game with powerful ideas that work! How are they winning the war for talent? What unleashes the energy, passion, commitment, and creativity of their people? What’s their angle on leveraging the power of technology to create knowledge and deepen customer relationships? Where and how do their employees create the most value for the company and its customers? What are their secrets to making work fun? No 10-step programs! No superficial formulas! With Kevin you get real answers from real people in real organizations.

Gutsy Leadership
Creating a workplace that explodes with Productivity, Passion and Profitability.
The challenges facing companies in a global economy will demand more than conventional thinking and business as usual. The world is not changed by those who are unwilling to take risks. No Wimps! It takes GUTS to move an organization in bold new directions. It takes GUTS to get out on the lunatic fringe where new breakthroughs are found.  It takes GUTS to come down from the Ivory Tower and talk to people in a human voice that’s intimate, inviting and authentic.  It takes GUTS to blow up the old rules and free smart people from dumb processes that limit their potential. It takes GUTS to lead with love and trust rather than manage by abstract authority and fear. It takes GUTS to make work fun and not take yourself too seriously.  It takes GUTS to be accountable.
 
Embrace Change Courageously
Maximize your strength by focusing your power, resources and assets on what is IN your CONTROL.
It used to be the BIG that ate the SMALL. Now it’s the FAST that eat the SLOW. The world has changed—radically. Those who capitalize on the opportunities that come with change will move with speed, agility, and adaptiveness. The winners will be those who learn how to learn faster. But this requires a level of confidence that is foreign to many. This segment is designed to get people to brand themselves as champions of change rather than shrinking from it. 
 
 
Creating a World-Class Workplace 
Build a culture that attracts, recruits and retains loyal employees.
Leaders of the 100 best companies to work for in the U.S. say that the single biggest predictor of overall success is a company’s ability to attract, retain, and motivate world-class people. They went on to say that the most important lever in enhancing this capability is corporate culture.

Every organization has a culture. The question is: Is that culture intentional and purposeful or is it accidental and haphazard—established by default? When it comes to creating the culture, character and personality of the organization, great companies let nothing go to chance.

The question we will address together is: What drives culture? Answer: A community of gutsy leaders who care about the culture enough to protect, promote and reinforce it everyday. But how? Kevin will give you an opportunity to “wrestle” with the strategies employed by Southwest Airlines and other companies for reinforcing corporate culture.

You will discover some fresh ideas for driving culture as well as to affirm and intensify the good things you are already doing. 

Blow the Doors off Business as Usual
Are you worthy of employee and customer loyalty? Discover the GUTSY strategies that create it and sustain it.
Great companies have a “people first” philosophy.  They know that when employees feel honored and served there is a reciprocal effect that causes them to provide extraordinary service to their customers. The message is that you can’t do service well externally unless you first do service well internally. Gusty leaders breed a spirit of service within their cultures because they see themselves as servants of the people they lead. Kevin points out that many of us have a tendency to oversimplify the work of our colleagues. Consequently, he advocates the kind of walk-a-mile activities where people in one functional area develop the empathy to better understand the pressures and complexities of their co-workers in other functional areas. Jettison the kind of silo-building, turf protection, and tribalism that renders an organization sluggish and unresponsive. Trade it in for a spirit of collaboration, teamwork and unity. The result will be a seamless approach to serving your customers.