Bill Treasurer
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) at Giant Leap Consulting, Inc., a courage building company that exists to help people and organizations be more courageous.
Bill is the originator of the new organizational development practice of courage-building. Bill's first book, Right Risk is about how to take smart risks, and draws on Treasurer's experiences as both an organizational development professional and as a daredevil athlete.
He is also the author of Courage Goes to Work, an internationally bestselling book about how to inspire more courageous behavior in workplace settings and Leaders Open Doors which focuses on the essential role that leaders have for creating growth opportunities for the people they lead. He is also the author of the off-the-shelf facilitator training program, Courageous Leadership. The program, published by Wiley Learning Solutions, has been taught to thousands of executives around the world.
Bill's newest book A Leadership Kick in the Ass: How to Learn from Rough Landings, Blunders, and Missteps focuses on how most of the best leaders—start out as decidedly bad ones. And sooner or later they reach a moment of reckoning that Bill calls the leadership kick in the ass. When it happens, it feels like it's all over. With the right attitude, that kick can be a new beginning that defines your leadership career.
Bill travels the world speaking on courage, opportunity, and leadership. Renowned leadership author Jim Kouzes says, "After his keynote at our annual The Leadership Challenge Forum, delegates came up to me and said things like: 'That was fabulous,' 'The best speech I've heard in a long time,' 'Very inspiring,' and 'You made a great choice.' - It's no wonder that there was a spontaneous standing ovation at the end."
Bill's insights about courage and risk-taking have been featured in over 100 newspapers, including The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Boston Herald, and Investor's Business Daily. Bill's insights have also appeared in such magazines as Woman's Day, Business-to-Business, Redbook, Fitness, and The Harvard Management Update.
Bill Treasurer is also the editor of POSITIVELY M.A.D. (Making A Difference). The book is a compilation of stories, from world- renowned experts, that aims to inspire readers to make a difference in their organizations. Gannett newspapers calls it "required reading for all employees contemplating putting a co-worker's tie through the shredder -- with the co-worker still attached."
Bill is a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team. For seven years he traveled throughout the world performing with a team of high performing athletes. During that time, Bill did over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet...sometimes on fire!
Since 1993 Bill has conducted over 500 corporate workshops designed to strengthen people's leadership skills, improve team performance, accelerate innovation, and help executives behave more courageously. Among others, Bill has led workshops for NASA, Accenture, Saks Fifth Avenue, CNN, Hugo Boss, The Home Depot, SPANX, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bill serves as the board chair of Leadership Asheville, a community-based leadership program, and is on the board of his local YMCA. Bill lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife Shannon, and their three children, Bina, Alex, and Ian.
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) at Giant Leap Consulting, Inc., a courage building company that exists to help people and organizations be more courageous.
Bill is the originator of the new organizational development practice of courage-building. Bill's first book, Right Risk is about how to take smart risks, and draws on Treasurer's experiences as both an organizational development professional and as a daredevil athlete.
He is also the author of Courage Goes to Work, an internationally bestselling book about how to inspire more courageous behavior in workplace settings and Leaders Open Doors which focuses on the essential role that leaders have for creating growth opportunities for the people they lead. He is also the author of the off-the-shelf facilitator training program, Courageous Leadership. The program, published by Wiley Learning Solutions, has been taught to thousands of executives around the world.
Bill's newest book A Leadership Kick in the Ass: How to Learn from Rough Landings, Blunders, and Missteps focuses on how most of the best leaders—start out as decidedly bad ones. And sooner or later they reach a moment of reckoning that Bill calls the leadership kick in the ass. When it happens, it feels like it's all over. With the right attitude, that kick can be a new beginning that defines your leadership career.
Bill travels the world speaking on courage, opportunity, and leadership. Renowned leadership author Jim Kouzes says, "After his keynote at our annual The Leadership Challenge Forum, delegates came up to me and said things like: 'That was fabulous,' 'The best speech I've heard in a long time,' 'Very inspiring,' and 'You made a great choice.' - It's no wonder that there was a spontaneous standing ovation at the end."
Bill's insights about courage and risk-taking have been featured in over 100 newspapers, including The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Boston Herald, and Investor's Business Daily. Bill's insights have also appeared in such magazines as Woman's Day, Business-to-Business, Redbook, Fitness, and The Harvard Management Update.
Bill Treasurer is also the editor of POSITIVELY M.A.D. (Making A Difference). The book is a compilation of stories, from world- renowned experts, that aims to inspire readers to make a difference in their organizations. Gannett newspapers calls it "required reading for all employees contemplating putting a co-worker's tie through the shredder -- with the co-worker still attached."
Bill is a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team. For seven years he traveled throughout the world performing with a team of high performing athletes. During that time, Bill did over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet...sometimes on fire!
Since 1993 Bill has conducted over 500 corporate workshops designed to strengthen people's leadership skills, improve team performance, accelerate innovation, and help executives behave more courageously. Among others, Bill has led workshops for NASA, Accenture, Saks Fifth Avenue, CNN, Hugo Boss, The Home Depot, SPANX, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bill serves as the board chair of Leadership Asheville, a community-based leadership program, and is on the board of his local YMCA. Bill lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife Shannon, and their three children, Bina, Alex, and Ian.
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