Steve Gutzler is the President of Leadership Quest, a Seattle-based Leadership Development company. Steve is a dynamic speaker and a recognized authority on Emotional Intelligence, leadership influence, and high-performance teams with a who’s who list of clients including Spotify, Seattle Seahawks, Microsoft, Starbucks, Boeing, Cisco, Starwood Corporation, Smart Choice Agents, Neenah, Inc., American Academy of Family Physicians, and Facebook to name a few.
As a master storyteller, Steve has an unparalleled ability to communicate dynamic business and leadership truths through stories, anecdotes, and humor. He believes every keynote presentation should transform lives, inspire leadership, and fuel teams to perform at their best.
He presents with passion and conviction to groups of 50 to over 5000 intimately in his high-performance Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Leadership and Unleashes the Leader Inside of You keynote programs. He knows how to deliver proven results and has been engaging and inspiring audiences with his messages of extraordinary leadership, achievement, success, and significance for over 26 years.
Having coached and trained CEOs, presidents, professional athletes, and world-class organizations, Steve’s insights have gained a reputation as a trusted authority on high performance leadership, emotional intelligence for exceptional leadership, growing leaders at every level, and accelerated sales success.
A best-selling author on leadership and Emotional Intelligence, Steve is widely read and followed by over 142,000 Twitter followers. He resides near Scottsdale with his wife Julie where they enjoy time with their three adult children and six grandchildren.
Speaking Topics -
Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Leadership
With the explosion of our information age and the increased potential of the millennial generation, it has become clear that to lead with impact, one has to fully engage the minds, emotions, and spirits of those they lead. While many managers today are skilled at presenting team goals and strategies, the skillsets of emotional intelligence and leveraging the brain science of high performance are the new competitive edge. Empowering your team to feel emotionally connected with their purpose and to one another is imperative.
Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Teams
In this interactive keynote program Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Teams, Steve Gutzler will provide breakthrough techniques and strategies to create positive influence, high-performing teams, and proven results that will boost your bottom line.
Recent research has made it clear that increasing your emotional currency and emotional intelligence skillset is the single most important driver of an engaged, results-driven, and highly agile workforce.
Emotional Health and Balance: Strategies to Stress-Proof Your Leaders and Teams
In this interactive program, you’ll discover the same proven and actionable strategies employed by frontline health professionals, SWAT teams, leading corporate executives, and personal leaders. These proven tactics help reset and calibrate emotional wellness to handle stress in these rapid-changing times, resulting in achievable (and sustainable) balance.
Full Potential: How to Perform Best Under Pressure
This dynamic keynote addresses the epidemic of stress and pressure.
Through inspiring stories and real-life case studies, Steve explains how leaders today need to be both “smart and healthy”. How to avoid self-sabotage and burnout through the science of Emotional Intelligence and stress resiliency tactics. How to continue to operate at optimum levels while facing deadlines and challenging relationships.
Lead With No Fear: Based on the International Best-Selling Book
In this program, Steve will teach how to unlock 7 Key Leadership Shifts for greater influence and impact. He will illustrate and inspire your audience with real-life case studies of successful leaders and teams navigating the uncertain waters of leadership.
Instead of forcing leaders to make drastic changes, Steve will guide the audience into making significant, gradual changes over a 90-day period
Unleash the Leader Inside You
Through inspiring stories of untitled leaders, Steve will explain how rapid change has impacted your role as a leader and will guide your audience through the dynamic process of five shifts, to raise your professional game and bottom-line influence. You’ll leave this motivational experience with actionable takeaways for professional and personal growth and the knowledge and inspiration to become the leader you want to be.
