Graeme Cowan
How Future Ready Leaders Build Resilient Team
Graeme Cowan's Team Resilience Speaker Sizzle Reel May 2020
Graeme Cowan helps future-ready leaders build more caring and resilient teams, who enjoy growing together. He loves being a professional speaker because sharing ideas can lead to conversations, and conversations can lead to action and change. As a Board Director of R U OK?, he has watched this simplGraeme Cowan helps future-ready leaders build more caring and resilient teams, who enjoy growing together.
He loves being a professional speaker because sharing ideas can lead to conversations, and conversations can lead to action and change. As a Board Director of R U OK?, he has watched this simple idea lead to massive change.
Audiences around the world frequently describe his style as authentic, relevant, compelling, and thought-provoking.
In his earlier career, he worked in senior leadership positions with Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and AT Kearney. In 2000 he went through a 5-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated.
He emerged from this crisis with a different view about how we can increase our resilience, mood, and performance. He is described by the Australian Financial Review as a resilience expert.
He is the author of 5 books, including the internationally acclaimed BACK FROM THE BRINK, which has a testimonial from the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and which has become a best seller in China.
Resilience for moments that matter
In times of change and frantic activity, it can be easy to forget self-care. Adopting tiny habits can help you enjoy the direct link between self-care, resilience, and growth. These small steps are the secret to being prepared for moments that matter at home and at work. You will learn:
- How to identify your mood vampires through Graeme’s science-based 15-point Self-care Snapshot
- How to embed ONE new small habit to boost your mood, influence, and productivity
- 3 ways to bounce back faster from set-backs
How Future Ready Leaders Build Resilient Teams
Are we connected? Do we have a shared future? Are we safe? These 3 qualities are central to better team performance in a volatile world. A future ready leader’s #1 priority is to build more caring and resilient teams, who enjoy growing together. You will gain simple, actionable steps, including:
- 3 ways to build a more caring, trusting, and connected team
- How inspire team psychological safety (#1 of predictor of team innovation)
- How to embed a growth mindset and reduce risk
Building an R U OK? 365 Culture
The CSIRO has identified rising work stress as a mega risk to productivity. Setbacks can happen any day, so having a sustainable and caring culture is critical. You will learn how conversations are the key to:
- Identifying and supporting someone who is struggling
- The 3 elements of a high impact R U OK?365 launch
- Australian workplaces embedding an R U OK? culture every day
Graeme is at the forefront of research around what is needed to thrive in therapidly changing world of work. Our clients often engage Graeme beyond the event.
Peter Jack, Founder
EMG events
Graeme is a passionate presenter with an inspiring personal story, who backs up with facts, figures and evidence to appeal to the heart and the head of diverse audiences.
Melissa Reynolds, Former Chief Customer Officer
AGL
Graeme was a keynote speaker at a recent series of team forums we held around the country with great feedback from the team. Two quotes… “Very inspiring, and a good reminder of what makes work and life great.” “Powerful story, with great reflection points.
Tim Steele, EGM
MLC
Your presentation was very interactive, thought provoking, and well received. the practical tips on how to improve our mood were of great value. I am delighted that you will be able to assist us in our remaining 4 conferences.
L&D Director
Department of Immigration and Border Protection
The rate of change is accelerating, and people are struggling more than ever with the uncertainty and volatility of these times. The riskiest thing to do right now is what we have always done. The present calls for a new way of thinking, and a re-invention of the old ways.
The Transform and Thrive Online Speaker Showcase aims to ignite the spark for change. Eight speakers will share how we can focus on what we can control to transform our behaviours and methods – and provide you with the tools to tackle the new business world head-on.
This showcase is made up of industry experts and speakers who will unlock the small changes we can all make each day to thrive in these challenging times.
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