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Chester Elton

Keynote Speaker

Co-founder of The Culture Works; Award-winning Author of Bestselling Books on Leadership, Culture, and Engagement

How do today’s best leaders accelerate business results? By engaging their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values. In his challenging, information-packed, and always entertaining talks, business author Chester Elton provides real solutions on developing robust cultures, increasing employee engagement, and leading high-performance teams.

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Chester Elton'S SPEAKING FEE $25K - $40K

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Chester Elton, affectionately known as the “Apostle of Appreciation,” is an authoritative voice in organizational culture and team building, recognized globally for his engaging and data-driven approach to leadership and motivation.

Elton, co-founder of the global training firm The Culture Works and a best-selling author, has guided executives at Fortune 500 companies to cultivate thriving workplace environments. His expertise centers on identifying and leveraging the essential connections between employee engagement, recognition, and high-performance outcomes. Through his data-driven methods, Elton has revolutionized workplace cultures worldwide, earning him recognition as a trusted consultant for some of the world’s most respected companies.

Elton’s presentations are grounded in extensive research and enriched with insights from over two decades of experience, ensuring that every attendee feels engaged and empowered to act. His work emphasizes the critical role of gratitude and recognition in achieving high performance and sustained business growth.

Elton provides solutions to leaders looking to build a culture of enhanced engagement and respect for the multi-generational workforce. Elton’s practical solutions are tailored to meet the unique challenges of today’s dynamic workplace settings, making him a pivotal resource for companies aiming to excel in a competitive market.

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Chester Elton’s Speech Topics

  • All In: How the Best Leaders Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results

    In this interactive and engaging session based on the New York Times bestselling business book All In—which includes research from more than 300,000 people in high-performance organizations—Gostick & Elton teach leaders how to Engage, Enable and Energize their workforces.


    The presentation outlines how high-performance organizations deliver extraordinary results by creating a vibrant, productive culture where people believe that what they do matters and that they can make a difference. In this presentation, the authors relate stories of leaders in action that vividly depict just how these powerful methods can be implemented.


    Key Learnings

    • The 3 characteristics of the world’s most profitable, productive organizational and team cultures.
    • The 7 steps today’s most successful managers use to generate buy-in and belief.
    • How managers at any level can build a productive workgroup culture of their own–where employees commit to the culture and give that extra push of effort.


  • Build Resilience & Psychological Safety

    • 50% of workers say anxiety negatively affects their performance. 
    • 75% say the most stressful part of their job is their immediate supervisor. 
    • 60% of organizations plan to address anxiety & well-being in the next three years. 


    Even before the pandemic, anxiety was crippling the performance of workers—especially young employees. Today it is affecting productivity and leading to ghosting and burnout.


    In their bestselling book from Harper Business, Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done, and in their keynotes/workshops, Gostick & Elton offer 8 tactics for managers to help their employees build resilience. 


  • Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results

    In his powerful keynote, the author introduces research that shows how a few vital leadership skills—when done right—can boost employee engagement and reduce turnover. He will also share the fascinating science behind why so many managers resist (aka: suck at) something so seemingly simple as gratitude. 


    Your Attendees will learn:

    • How gratitude helps managers understand the value their people are contributing—and what more their team members may have to give
    • How appreciation of employee efforts can enhance motivation & productivity, especially during times of change—81% of people say they’d work harder if their boss were more grateful
    • How leaders can master this skill to enhance team performance & trust—introducing the 8 most powerful gratitude practices


  • The Best Team Wins: 5 Disciplines of the Most Effective Team Leaders

    Based on an 850,000-person study of the most profitable, innovative work teams, the authors introduce the new science of teamwork


    Most employees today work collaboratively, but 96% of executives cite poor teamwork as the primary source of workplace failures. Given the volatility and challenges they face today, how can managers better lead teams to improved performance? 


    Gostick & Elton’s research has shown a set of leadership disciplines that makes the biggest difference in building today’s best teams. 


    Key Learnings 

    • Manage to the One—Identify the unique drivers of each team member.
    • Speed to Productivity—Help new people and teams work faster & smarter.
    • Challenge Everything—Inspire innovation through healthy discord.
    • Find Focus—Build bridges across functions, cultures, and distance.


What other organizations say about Chester Elton

Chester was the ‘WOW’ at our conference. His ‘All In’ principles aligned to every aspect of our key messaging and reinforced the effectiveness of our approach. We can’t wait to continue this momentum and enthusiasm!

Insurance

What other organizations say about Chester Elton

Chester was outstanding and delivered a message that fully aligned with our vision. The audience engagement was off the charts. He incorporated specific Fannie Mae examples into his session to make the menage relevant to our employees. His energy and engagement style elicited many emotions from the audience, but mostly laughter. They are still talking about how motivating Chester was! He was a fantastic ending to our annual conference.

Financial Services

What other organizations say about Chester Elton

Folks at various levels throughout our organization are still raving about Chester’s session. He received the highest marks of any speaker. Not only was he entertaining, but he put time into getting it right and the content really resonated with this group. That says a lot for such a quiet and cynical crowd.

Financial Services

What other organizations say about Chester Elton

Chester received a standing ovation. I’d say that it was a grand slam home- run to spearhead a cultural change initiative throughout our region. Chester’s approach to combine strategy and tactics, supported by real- world studies, was instrumental at not only gaining participants buy-in, but at inspiring our leaders and helping us formulate actionable plans to move forward.

Security

What other organizations say about Chester Elton

Chester knocked it out of the park, helping our leaders understand part of their success in getting maximum results is through creating the right culture! I wish I had counted how many leaders came up to me throughout the week and said how much they enjoyed his session.

Technology

What other organizations say about Chester Elton

Chester was a huge hit and personally inspired me to be a better leader! Not only did he bring relevant, factual data into his presentation about driving business results through engaging the workforce, he used humor and audience participation to keep the team motivated and invested!

Food

What other organizations say about Chester Elton

Chester’s extremely high energy is contagious with audiences and he inspired and motivated our attendees. He really took the time to get to know Golden Corral and customize his remarks to be relevant for our restaurant managers and franchisees. He continues to rank among our best speakers and I highly recommend Chester.

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