Passionate about the power of the modern workplace, Jeff believes exceptional business outcomes result from creating purpose and opportunity in the work that people do every day.
Turning thinking into action
Most audiences have heard presentations on techniques for better leadership, more effective strategic planning, increasing engagement or inspiring motivation. Often disconnected from the operational world, there’s a sameness to these ideas because they’re built on much of the same research and default thinking. Audience members can often leave these presentations entertained and perhaps inspired, but ill-equipped to apply new thinking to the business environment.
In Jeff’s thoughtful and dynamic keynotes, your audiences will learn how leadership, strategy-making, engagement and motivation interact to shape the nature of the workplace. He’ll show your delegates how, by intentionally layering these qualities, exceptional workplaces can be shaped to create the future that the organisation aspires to. Importantly, he’ll provide actionable thinking on how meeting the strategic needs of the business can drive opportunities for cultural development and increasing leadership impact.
Insights, Education, Motivation.
Whether speaking from the stage, in a workshop or in the boardroom, Jeff delivers insights that are engaging, thought-provoking and emotive. He blends inspiration, education and entertainment to not only capture his audience’s attention, but to give them the tools and motivation to act.
As a strategist, speaker, mentor and the author of PROJECTIFY – How to use projects to engage your people in strategy that evolves your business, Jeff is passionate about helping organisations tap into their true potential by using projects as the bridge between a business and its people.
His innovative approach to business, leadership and strategic development has earned him opportunities to partner with a diverse array of organisations including Shell, Chevron,
PetroChina, CPB Contractors, Downer Utilities, Citipower/Powercor, Sydney Water, and Icon Water.
There is nothing quite like a well-designed event to create the catalyst for exploring new ideas and creating the foundational thinking that establishes a connection between intent and action.
Nobody wants their event to be a dry, stale, predictable affair that’s full of buzzwords and devoid of magic. At the other end of the spectrum, overblown cacophonies filled with fist-pumping hype don’t take your audience on a journey either.
Getting the right mix of relevant, thought provoking content and engaging energy that elicits meaning and possibility is the balance that captures an audience and creates forward momentum.
CREATING AN EXPERIENCE
Jeff believes that as your speaker he has a responsibility to deliver
a multi-layered experience that serves everyone with a stake in your event.
The Audience Experience
Clearly articulated, thoughtful ideas that move people.
Jeff will extract your audience from the familiar, allowing them to step outside their comfort zones and be open to the exploration of new ideas, while keeping them grounded in their operational world. This creates an environment where ideas have context and the possibility of action.
He uses emotion as the adhesive that allows the ideas to stick, creating an experience that gives your audience something worth listening to in a way that earns their attention.
Full of practical takeaways and insights that can be applied immediately, Jeff will make your audience think and feel differently about the relationship between their organisation and its workplace and the role they play in shaping it.
The Organisation Experience
Uniting teams, igniting creativity.
As a business leader, project manager, consultant and speaker, Jeff has spent decades honing his communication, presentation and audience engagement skills in front of hundreds of people. He’s as much at home in a blue-collar work group meeting as he is in a boardroom.
Jeff understands that an event is a significant investment of time, energy and capital. That means delivering an on-time, on-message, high energy presentation that yields a significant return on that investment. Jeff will firmly connect his message – his content – to your organisation’s purpose and aspirations.
More framework than formula, as much mindset as methodology, Jeff eschews ‘proven process’ in favour of creating an immersive learning experience that’s relevant for any industry, any organisation, and any agenda. He’ll empower your business to extract opportunity from complex 21st century challenges.
The Event Planner Experience
Tailored presentations designed to inspire action.
Prior to any engagement, Jeff works with you to make sure the presentation is designed to fit your audience and event theme so it can deliver maximum impact.
Every presentation is customised to include industry-specific statistics and stories to ensure his message is relevant and creates lasting value for your audience.
Jeff knows you’re working diligently to create exceptional experiences for your audience members – one that wows them and creates a catalyst for meaningful change.
With Jeff as your presenter, you’ll have a committed partner in creating an experience that leaves them empowered and keeps them coming back for more.
“Our business asked Jeff to be the guest speaker at our quarterly consultants’ forum to talk about collaboration and how exploring our shared purpose can benefit individuals and the business. We wanted the topic and speaking assignment to resonate with our younger staff members as well as the senior executive management team.
Jeff delivered an articulate and thought-provoking presentation using real life and professional business and project role examples to illustrate the power of creating a shared purpose to drive high performance outcomes. He is a very professional, inspiring and adaptable communicator who is able to reach out to people in a most insightful manner.”
Executive Consultant, ADVISIAN
KEYNOTE TOPICS
All of Jeff’s current keynote topics deliver upon his foundational idea of shaping the future of work through excellence in the modern workplace with the focus shifting from leadership to strategy-making to culture.
But these are simply a starting point. Jeff’s expertise and experience is in constant evolution and he will always tailor his presentation to the context of your audience and event.
Diversify
USE THE POWER OF DIFFERENCE TO CREATE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS…AND ITS PEOPLE
#diversity #inclusion #culture #engagement #opportunity
The real solution to creating a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
Much of the discussion around diversity centres on the statistics – the demographics of an organisation, its management team or its board.
This rapidly growing data set is useful for understanding the problem. However, the value of a more diverse and inclusive workforce lies in actively pursuing the power of difference. This means leveraging the ‘psychographics’ of the people in an organisation – the insight and perspective that comes from a unique set of skills, values, beliefs, and experiences.
In this Keynote
In this keynote, Jeff discusses how you can drive the opportunities that diversity creates when you truly value it and actively use it to drive business outcomes.
He explains how being intentional about bringing together a meaningful cross-section of diverse perspectives and worldviews maximises the opportunity for creative development and innovation, while at the same time, increases the opportunity for everyone in your organisation to make a meaningful and fulfilling contribution.
Audiences will learn how to
- Recognise and tap into the diversity that already exists within their organisation or team.
- Create opportunities for all employees to contribute to the business as well as the workplace that shapes that business – not just those that aspire to senior positions.
- Lead an organisation that actively seeks to leverage the full depth and breadth of its capabilities.
- Attract and retain a diverse pool of talent through broadened aspiration and a more positive inner work-life experience.
Projectify
USE THE POWER OF STRATEGIC PROJECTS TO BECOME THE ORGANISATION YOU ASPIRE TO BE
#strategymaking #adaptability #nimble #engagement #disruption
We’re entering an era where exceptional businesses will be the product of exceptional workplaces.
These exceptional workplaces will be driven by the effectiveness with which leaders engage and motivate their people.
In this Keynote
In this keynote, Jeff will show you how strategic projects are your best opportunity to create engagement and motivation because they give people motivation through meaningful work and a higher purpose.
He discusses how traditional business strategy has evolved to become a very static, analytical discipline that lacks life and is often a manifesto for doing what you’ve always done. Jeff will explain how to employ a project mindset that gives your strategy forward momentum and allows an organisation to thrive in the shifting business landscape.
Audiences will discover
- Consistently and persistently adapt to the uncertainty and change that is endemic in your business environment.
- Be intentional about turning your strategic goals into implementation activity.
- Tap into the knowledge and expertise of the people that are on the frontlines of creating business value to determine where the greatest strategic opportunities might lie.
- Meaningfully connect your business purpose to the work your people do every day.
Greatness Lives Here
ORGANISATIONAL EXCELLENCE COMES FROM A CONSTANT SEARCH FOR GREATNESS
#leadership #impact #engagement #innovation
Organisations often overlook the value of bringing out the greatness in their people.
Instead they choose to focus on the flaws and shortcomings that need to be corrected. At the heart of this mindset is the belief that you can manage your way to becoming a high performance organisation. That you can simply measure your way to success, that greater control is synonymous with better results and that high-performance thinking is separate to doing the work of the business.
This might well have been true in the predictable world of the post-industrial revolution, but in our highly dynamic 21st century environment, business excellence comes from tapping into the best of your organisation’s knowledge, experience and thinking – its greatness.
In this Keynote
In this keynote, Jeff talks about how the essence of transformational leadership – leadership that is leveraged across the entire organisation – is inspiring and amplifying the greatness that is innate within a business.
He discusses how to make greatness a quality in your enterprise and increase its frequency by instilling a leadership mindset that permeates your organisation. Where leadership is not seen as a position or a title but where your people are motivated to lead with their skills, with their principles and values, with their determination and commitment or by supporting others and helping them to be their very best.
Audiences will discover
- What greatness lives here?
- How can I help to bring that greatness to bear on our most pressing problems and greatest opportunities?
- What might be possible if I facilitate greatness in the people around me?
Jeff’s participation really added to the quality of the conference and to the satisfaction of our delegates at the end of the event.
He was one of the highest rated speakers at the conference and we received written comments from the delegates that included:
- Very good strategy discussion
- Extensively useful and informative
- Great assessment of the risk process; very unique take on managing risk
- Articulate and compelling presentation
Conference Producer,
ALLIANCE CONTRACTING EXCELLENCE SUMMIT
CONTACT
Do you want to discuss your upcoming event?
✉️ info@jeffschwisow.com
📞 1300 232 141
Please provide details of your event, including the date, destination, conference theme and estimated numbers.
If the timing and our interests align we’ll book a time to chat and get the ball rolling toward creating an exceptional conference or event experience.
It doesn’t matter what stage of planning you’re at, it pays to check availability and start the presentation design sooner rather than later.
