Talent on Fire

Talent on Fire: Igniting a Culture
of Sustainable Innovation
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“Will, you are a truly motivating speaker. Both your inspiring and compelling message as well as your delivery has amazed me. You always demonstrate a unique ability to quickly assimilate and incorporate the highly technical nature of our business into your presentations. Your performance in front of key groups of our partners and professionals has been a series of ‘home runs’.”

- Douglas J. Green, National Partner in Charge Tax Products & Solutions, KPMG

• Are your employees out of new ideas for new products and services?
• Are your employees no longer inspired?
• Are your employees asking, “Will my job be safe?”
• Are leaders frustrated by a lack of employee commitment to business goals?
• Do you need to create motivating workplaces where employees can thrive?

Companies today have missed the point of employee motivation by trying to create “great places to work” instead of igniting motivation from the inside-out. Today, the corporation is undergoing a revolutionary change.  Employees cannot be harnessed like horses to pull a strategy forward quickly enough to compete for a “warm barn and a bale of hay.”  21st century leadership requires leaders to train and focus employees innate motivations to continuously innovate.  This builds world-class business cultures and creates a continuous stream of unique value propositions.

For over two decades Will has seen that when even the best companies are assaulted by the business threats of economic turndowns and disruptive competition, things get rough on employees.  Layoffs, shrinking benefits and brutal work hours generate cynicism, deflate initiative, and suffocate innovation.  This results in a culture of helplessness and a path to decline.

New research from his own American Dream Project as well as ground-breaking studies funded by fifty global companies reveals that now all workers, from Gen Y (20-32) to Boomers (50+), overwhelmingly need the same things to be fully committed to their employer’s goals.  Talent on Fire reveals this research and confirms the connection between these personal values and work generates the fiercest loyalty, creativity and collaboration.  Will’s direct experience with companies like Sea World, FedEx, KPMG, as well as mid-sized enterprises and micro-credit non-profits, forged his Sustainable Innovation Process for developing self-motivating cultures.

Talent on Fire is THE topic of our age.  Those who master the challenge of talent and innovation will have unprecedented success.  But igniting your company talent pool requires more than inspiration.  Simply turning your employees loose to do random acts of innovation is not productive.  Sustainable Innovation requires a new systematic process that focuses latent creative energy into a strategic value creation process that will yield new products, new services, and add new customers.

THE AUDIENCE WILL LEARN:

• How the only real path to creating a self-motivated workforce is to train employees to take responsibility to express their highest values in their work.
• How to focus employees through the Sustainable Innovation Process that generates new high margin offerings.
• How to lower costs and INVITE more customers to experience your brand.
• How to INVENT new solutions to un-addressed problems and unseen opportunities.
• How to IDEALIZE your processes and products to eliminate their most costly and obnoxious elements.
• How to ignite breakthroughs from individuals by making leadership choices that eliminate any personal barriers to success.
• How to innovate solutions that identify new profit sources and provide sustainable abundance.
• How to engage customers by leveraging their unique value.

Testimonials

“I have to tell you that the team was very enthusiastic about your presentation. Everyone commented to me that they learned some things they can start to apply in their lives immediately. That was certainly my take away. Your teachings are both immensely valuable, as well as practical. You also have a very engaging delivery that connects you with the audience from the get go. I hope to do another session with you sometime in the near future.”

- Joe Monahan, VP Sales, Nike

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“Will Marré has a vision of a better world, and Will is as good as it gets in having vision and inspiring others to achieve and sustain that vision.”

– Lex Watterson, President
Mountain West Capital Network

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“Your work with us has been vital in melding two major health care organizations of equal size and complexity into one of the largest health care organizations in the United States. Your ability to speak to large and small groups and capture the issues has been invaluable in helping us move this organization forward in complex and difficult times.”

- Van Johnson, CEO, Sutter Health