Elisabeth Leamy

*************************ABOUT ELISABETH LEAMY *************************

Elisabeth Leamy is best known for her decade as consumer and investigative Correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America. She has interviewed presidents and first ladies, CEOs and celebrities, but is more proud that her stories spurred congressional inquiries, lawsuits, and legislation that helped the underdog. It wasn’t always pretty. Network news is a pressure-cooker world where blunders and bloopers are made on national TV for all to see.

Elisabeth’s own struggle to juggle inspired her to create The TRIoritize Technique, the three-part system she credits with helping her win 13 Emmys and four Edward R. Murrow awards, while also writing two books and a Washington Post column on the side. She survived—and eventually thrived—by using this technique to corral her competing priorities and do quality stories amid the chaos. The surprising secret to doing the best work of your life? Not always trying to do your best. It is this counterintuitive discovery that Elisabeth shares with audiences today.

Before unveiling The TRIoritize Technique, Elisabeth spent years and tapped into her journalism skills to figure out why it works. She unearthed neuroscience that shows why pushing our hardest all the time hurts rather than helps our performance. And she dug up business studies that prove the astonishing power of focusing on just a handful of strategic priorities. Elisabeth is an original thinker who has forged a path of trial-and-error success from on-air to on-stage. Her clear but colorful communication style has been an asset throughout her journey. Today, Elisabeth’s mission as a keynote speaker is to help others who are determined to conquer their competing priorities and accomplish great things at work—and in life.

**************ELISABETH'S KEYNOTE TOPICS AND OUTCOMES*************************

1)

EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE TRIORITIZE™ TECHNIQUE:

Peak performance and productivity expert Elisabeth Leamy helps individuals and organizations struggling with too many competing priorities. It’s a universal problem made even worse by unhealthy perfectionism, information overload, and our always-connected culture. Ironically, the most affected are the best-intentioned. But “when everything’s a priority, nothing’s a priority.” This causes a devastating domino effect for employees, executives, and their companies. Employees who burn out and quit. Leaders who don’t get a chance to lead. And organizations that inadvertently put their core business at risk.

There’s a simple solution to this complicated problem: The TRIoritize Technique, her method for cutting through the clutter to identify your true purpose and top priorities. But you don’t have to take Elisabeth’s word for it. She shares fascinating brain science and riveting business stories that reveal why her system works. Elisabeth’s mission is to help audiences conquer their competing priorities, focus on what really matters and do the best work of their lives.

As a result of this program AUDIENCES will:

• Zoom in on the right priorities using the TRI factors: TALENT, REWARD, IMPACT.
• Pursue those priorities with the right amount of effort—GOOD, BETTER or BEST.
• Minimize busy work, maximize deep work and optimize the most critical work.
• Trade doing more work for more important work.
• Reallocate their existing resources to achieve exceptional results.

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STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP FOR EXECUTIVES WITH THE TRIORITIZE™ TECHNIQUE:

Priority overload prevents leaders from leading. Full stop. There is a tipping point when successful organizations are growing so fast and doing so well that they exuberantly take on too much. Faced with too many strategic priorities, leaders end up spending most of their time putting out fires. They’re robbed of time for planning and strategizing, mentoring and innovating.

This meaty keynote looks at priority overload through a leadership lens. Peak performance and productivity expert Elisabeth shares her 3-step system for prioritizing a portfolio of responsibilities to help executives invest their time wisely. But time management is not enough. Elisabeth argues we must master “effort management” to take our productivity and performance to the next level. She transfers lessons from the fast-paced world of broadcasting to the big-stakes world of business. Veteran executives will leave with a fresh new way of looking at a frustrating old problem.

As a result of this program LEADERS will:

• Flip how they spend their time from mostly reactive to mostly proactive.
• Recognize when to commit their minimum, medium or maximum effort to a project—and when not to do it at all.
• Delegate in a systematic, sensible manner that frees them and gives subordinates opportunities.
• Prioritize by considering: their team’s true TALENTS, where they can reap the richest REWARDS and how they can make a positive IMPACT along the way.
• Inspire their people with an unwavering vision of their organization’s purpose.

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RADICAL PRODUCTIVITY FOR TEAMS WITH THE TRIORITIZE™ TECHNIQUE:

Priority overload makes it difficult for employees to decipher what matters most to their organization. Consequently, well-intentioned teams often devote time to bureaucratic work instead of the brain work they were hired to do. They can also lose sight of how their role connects to the organization’s higher purpose. Disengagement and absenteeism go up. Motivation and performance go down. Soon employees are stressed out, next burned out, then…they leave. It’s a terrible waste of time and talent that costs millions.

In this enlightening yet entertaining talk tailored for employees, peak performance and productivity expert Elisabeth Leamy shares her simple TRI Tool for sifting through competing priorities. She coaches teams to ensure all of their work meets a baseline quality threshold, while redirecting resources to the most important projects to make them shine. The TRIoritize Technique is so clear that employees are already planning how to amp up their productivity and performance before Elisabeth even leaves the stage.

As a result of this program TEAMS will:

• Learn a simple, systematic way of prioritizing their work—and their lives.
• Recognize the difference between tasks that are in-your-face versus important.
• Calibrate the energy and effort they expend depending how consequential the assignment is.
• Ditch pointless perfectionism and embrace pragmatic prioritizing.
• Feel focused instead of frantic, fired up instead of burned out.

4) BEAT BURNOUT with The TRIoritize Technique

This practical yet inspirational keynote shows audiences a totally different way to approach work that is less stressful—and more effective. Peak performance and productivity expert Elisabeth Leamy introduces a contrarian approach that helps audiences carve out space and time they can use to do better work—or to achieve better work-life balance. We have been taught since we were toddlers: “Always do your best.” Elisabeth’s alternative message is that all of our work must be GOOD. Much of it will be BETTER. And that allows us to conserve time and energy to make our BEST exceptional. Hard work alone does not cause burnout. Occupational psychologists have found the recipe is hard work + lack of control + inadequate resources + disappointing results. The TRIoritize Technique addresses all of these morale-killers. Elisabeth’s system gives people control over their level of effort. It reallocates our existing resources so that we invest our BEST in worthy goals that actually matter. And it reframes our results: If we make our less important work “good enough” on purpose instead of by accident, that same exact work is a success instead of a failure!

As a result of this program, AUDIENCES will:

‣ Put an end to indiscriminate overwork and invest their time and talent thoughtfully.

‣ Rethink their expectations of themselves and their colleagues.

‣ Stop feeling depleted all the time and start feeling inspired again.

‣ Regain control over their work, their lives—and their future.

‣ Tap into the power of prioritizing to make all of their work GOOD and their BEST extraordinary.