David Irvine – The Leaders’ Navigator

The Leader’s Navigator™

David Irvine David is a connector and a communicator. He has dedicated his life to building productive, engaging and vital cultures through authentic leadership. He has a unique ability to create a trusting learning environment through the power of his authentic presence. David inspires and guides leaders in all walks of life to connect with their authentic self, so they may, in turn, inspire and guide those they serve and love to find their authentic voice, thus enabling greatness within the culture around them.

David is an international authority on the human dynamics of business leadership. He tackles the toughest problems today’s leaders face, proposing unique strategies to:

Build trust
Sustain high performance
Engage people in meaningful ways
Build loyalty and morale
Deal with change
Develop leadership capacity
Implement accountability
Find personal balance

HOW TO LEAD IN A DISRUPTIVE WORLD: AN ONLINE PRESENTATION

This online session will give you practical insights and strategies to create clarity, trust, engagement, and accountability under these new circumstances – and in a virtual environment.

All of David’s presentations can be customized to a virtual delivery.

David Irvine is sought after internationally as a speaker, author, and mentor. His work has contributed to the building of accountable, vital and engaged organizations across North America. David Irvine is the President of Irvine & Associates Inc., an international speaking and consulting firm dedicated to building authentic, accountable organizational cultures that unleash greatness.

David has advanced degrees in human development, science, and social work. With more than thirty years of experience as an entrepreneur, workshop facilitator, psychotherapist, professional speaker, and advisor to executives, David has developed a unique, personal, and practical approach to transforming leaders. Every year, thousands of people attend David’s inspiring and thought-provoking programs on authentic leading and living, culture alignment, and accountability.

As one of Canada’s most respected voices on leadership and organizational culture, David has authored five best-selling books and has taught courses at three universities and the Banff School of Management.

David consults with and presents to thousands of people each year across North America in a wide range of venues — from huge conventions to small retreats. He has worked with CEOs and senior executives, as well as all levels of management, front-line service providers, salespeople, educators, and health care professionals. His approach is down-to-earth, simple and powerful. He not only moves you but gets you moving. The results for his audiences are organizations and lives that are more connected, more accountable, and more real.

He connects and interacts; he listens before he talks. David clarifies complex issues and offers pragmatic solutions. He brings an authentic experience that will renew and rekindle the vitality of your organization, your work, and yourself.

On a personal note, David is a formerly nationally ranked distance runner and trained with the US Olympic team, but today exercises more slowly. He is a father of three and husband of one. David lives with his wife and family in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Calgary, Alberta.

Programs

David’s presentations and workshops provide inspiring, engaging, and results-based learning experiences. The topics can be adapted to a keynote address, a three-hour seminar, a one-day session, or a three- to five-day retreat.

Every event is tailored to the audience. This flexibility means a customized, life-changing development experience that goes beyond traditional “leadership training.”

You’ll always end up with an event that is relevant, meaningful, practical, impactful, and engaging.

Some of his popular topics include:

Authentic Leadership

True leadership comes from the identity and integrity of the leader. It’s about who you are and how you live. It’s about PRESENCE, not position.

Now more than ever, the world needs leaders who are committed to substance over the superficial, character over charisma, and service over self-interest. We need authentic leaders – people whose inner compass guides their daily actions and who inspire trust by being honest and real.

You’ll leave this thought-provoking, inspiring session with practical insights and strategies for developing leadership in all areas of your life. Based on my book The Other Everest: Navigating the Pathway to Authentic Leadership, it won’t just move you – it will get you moving.

You will:

Gain a new perspective on leadership that can be applied to all aspects of your life, particularly as you get more confident in your abilities.

Discover the true source of leadership power – your authentic presence. Learn how to make a more significant impact by connecting more deeply with your authentic self.

Understand how a strong leadership presence can inspire trust and loyalty, engage people, end entitlement, and create sustainable results.

Increase your ability to achieve the four fundamental leadership tasks:

building trust
enrolling people in a compelling vision
engaging talent
achieving results through those you serve

The Missing Accountability Factor

Accountability can sometimes be seen as a negative, but it’s at the heart of every great organization. Be inspired and learn a new approach to accountability with this session.

Gain a positive perspective on accountability and what it means to keep our agreements with each other consistently.
Leave with practical tools to build a sense of accountability throughout your team.
Understand how to transform blame, entitlement, and fear into courage, personal responsibility, and commitment through the power of agreement.
Discover how to make conflict constructive. You’ll learn how to close the gap between intention and success, which leads to sustainable results.
Inspire your employees to think like owners and foster accountability at every level of your organization.

Create a High-Engagement Culture

Operational excellence is built on the foundation of a strong, healthy organizational culture. It’s the greatest advantage any company can achieve. Tending to your culture is about intentional actions, daily disciplines, and defined habits. Clarifying your cultural attributes is the crucial first step. Then identified behaviors need to actually be put into practice every single day. Without a clearly defined process for accountability and action, cultural attributes become rhetoric and can breed skepticism and disengagement.

Caring is Everything

We all recognize and understand the power of caring. But caring – to be sustainable – must come from overflow, not emptiness. In this inspiring, thought-provoking session, you will:

Understand why caring needs to be examined through the lens of accountability so that it sustains, supports, and renews the human spirit.
Discover why it’s vital to make the shift to principle-centered caring – and how to make this real in your organization and personal life.
Learn the true work of caring: to empower those you care about in a way that’s sustainable for everyone in your organization and life.
Get to the root of caring in your life and ways to care that support and sustain your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of those you love and serve.

The Possibilities of Change

Building resilience, capacity, and accountability amid constant change – while keeping people engaged – is now a fundamental requirement for leadership. But where’s your road map? What are your strategies? Where are your tools?

To thrive, you must use change productively. This session, based on David’s most recent book, The Other Everest: Navigating the Pathway to Authentic Leadership, will help you:

Learn to embrace and lead change with greater clarity and resilience.
Develop the necessary self-awareness to use change productively.
Create a roadmap for change that builds clarity, confidence, and compassion, enabling you to lead those you serve through the stages of change.
Understand how to make change inspiring, productive, and creative.

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