Thursday Keynote Speaker: Marcus Buckingham, Bestselling Author

Marcus Buckingham
Bestselling Business Author
Thursday, Nov. 6, 8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Marcus Buckingham has dedicated himself to understanding what makes world-class managers tick. In fact, The New York Times best-selling author has bottled it up and made a successful career out of sharing it with the world.

Buckingham first landed on the bestseller list in 1999 with “First, Break All the Rules,” a plea for managers to break from tradition. In the book, he argues that rules must be broken and discarded because they stifle the originality and uniqueness — strengths — that can enable all of us to achieve our highest performance.

Following up on his debut book, Marcus continued to spread the message that people’s unique personal strengths are the key to unlocking their potential as co-author of “Now, Discover Your Strengths.” In this book he helped create “StrengthFinder,” a personal assessment tool that gives individuals a new vocabulary to describe their ingrained talents. The book also added the phrase “Top 5” to the lexicon of managers and business people — futuristic, context, focus, ideation and intellection.

In 2007 he founded The Marcus Buckingham Company to create tools and training that would help managers and organizations access the untapped potential of their employees’ strengths.
His latest book, “StandOut,” has launched a productivity platform based on new research methodology to reveal the top two "Strength Roles" — areas of comparative advantage. “StandOut” gives people practical innovations that fit their strengths, and provides managers and leaders with quick insights on how to get the best from each member of their team.

Buckingham has worked with the world's most prestigious companies, including Coca-Cola, Disney, Microsoft, Facebook, Toyota, and Wells Fargo, to name a few. His message has also drawn attention from numerous media outlets such as "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Larry King Live," "The Today Show," "Good Morning America" and "The View."

Buckingham’s strengths message that he’ll share at ISSA/INTERCLEAN is based on rigorous data collection and analysis. He spent nearly two decades as a Senior Researcher at the Gallup organization studying the world's best managers and companies. A devoted statistician and researcher, Buckingham has continued to explore the data behind great performances throughout his career. He’ll share a simple and easy-to-remember technique to identify each staff member’s unique combination of strengths, as well as how to put these strengths to use.

posted on 9/2/2014