Leveraging Change: “How to WIN During Times of Uncertainty”
Insights for Leading Successful Transformations
Over his career, Keith Wyche has built a reputation as the ultimate “Transformation Leader”. In fact, almost every role he has held over his illustrious career has involved helping companies navigate significant transformations:
– In the early 80s, he was a key part of AT&T’s transformation from a sleepy monopoly, into a robust competitive entity.
– During the 90s he was part of the leadership team that transformed IBM from a hardware and software provider, into a services and solutions provider. He did the same as the President of North American Operations for Pitney Bowes in the 2000s.
– Since 2009, Keith has aided traditional “brick and mortar” retailers transform into omni-channel retailers to address changing consumer shopping habits. He led these efforts as President of ACME Markets and Cub Foods, and as Regional VP for Walmart where he oversaw 30,000 workers in New York and Pennsylvania.
Keith has taken the learnings, challenges, and best practices from these and other organizations undergoing significant change and transformation and shares them in this presentation. After hearing Keith speak on this subject, audiences will learn about the challenges and difficulties in leading change, and how to WIN in spite of them.
With an eye on both the clients/customers and internal associates, Keith will share the:
– Relevance and Case for Change
– Readiness for Change
– Robustness for Change
– Responsiveness of Change
To encourage greater engagement, Keith recommends adding a Q&A session after the keynote,
or Fireside Chat conversation to help audiences further embrace these insights.
Transition Resilience
It’s Not Just About Managing Change
Responding to change as it occurs is NOT the answer. Keith Wyche shows you how to build transition resilience and equip your organization to deal with all transformations and transitions. Adapting to change is a minimum requirement in today’s world. Change brings opportunity and responsibilities whatever your job title. For you and your organization to excel, you must be able to lead change and transformation. Leaders who can influence transformation are valued and differentiated. In this session, Keith Wyche draws upon his own experiences, as a change management leader with an exceptional record of turning around underperforming operations and managing in industries undergoing rapid technological or competitive change. As well, he shares real-world case studies to add to the learning experience. This is not Change Management 101. Keith will show you how to lead your people so that they acknowledge change not just in their heads, but also in their hearts. You will have powerful insights needed to successfully transform your organization.
After attending this session, you are able to:
– Understand the psychology of change, and why people resist it.
– Recognize and use the four R’s of change: Relevance, Readiness, Robustness and Responsiveness.
– Overcome the seven stakeholder barriers that can sink a change project.
– Realize how to define and cast your vision so that it engages every level of your organization.
Ideal Audience
Anyone who must lead change initiatives, including mergers, system updates or replacements, and reorganizations.
Good Is Not Enough
And Other Real-World Advice for the Serious Professional
Moving up the ranks of any profession requires much more than having the right degrees and fulfilling your job description. You must know “the unwritten rules” to success. During this session, Keith empowers professionals to see themselves through the same lens from which their stakeholders and executive decision makers view them.
Known for his “straight-shooter” wit, Keith shares anecdotes and insights from his and his colleagues’ journeys up the corporate ladder to provide real-world strategies for career advancement. More than an industry consultant or a coach, Keith Wyche has the perspective of a “boot-strap” corporate executive who worked his way up to the CEO position at a $3 billion grocery chain, where he led 11,000 associates working across 113 grocery stories and pharmacies. The practical advice, tools and tips Keith provides eliminate the maze that can confine you to middle management.
After this session, you will be able to:
– Master the must-have leadership skills to power your performance and deliver results.
– Define and build your personal brand for excellence to break yourself out of the pack.
– More effectively engage with peers and senior management.
– Prove you’re a responsible, accountable professional who is ready to step-up.
– Create an effective Action Plan that works in the real world and keeps you on track to attain your goals and fulfill your potential.
Giving you the real-world rules of corporate life, and equipping you with practical takeaways, Keith will help you achieve the success you want, for both yourself and your organization.
Ideal Audience
– Individuals who have been working for more than five years and are stuck in their current position, or haven’t yet reached their career goals.
– Individuals who have been passed over for promotions and don’t understand why.
Additional Information
This presentation is available as a keynote and/or as a half-day workshop or as a fireside chat. (Workbooks are available for the workshop.)
Corner Office Rules
10 Realities of Executive Life
Are you ready to step up to senior leadership? The realities of executive life can be sobering if you aren’t prepared for them. How you achieve results, how you’re perceived, what’s expected of you, even who your friends are—nothing is the same as when you were in the middle ranks. A 30-year corporate veteran and results-driven CEO, Keith Wyche will open the door to the corner office to introduce you to the previously hidden world of the C-suite, and show you how to master the realities that every top executive must face, including:
– What made you successful before won’t work now. Keith will teach you the skill set every outstanding senior executive needs.
– Constructive conflict isn’t bad, it’s how things get decided. Keith will give you his deep insights into how to work C-suite politics, and effectively channel conflict so that it positions you and your organization for success.
– Tough decisions are a part of an executive’s reality. Keith will show you how to make the hard calls, even when they challenge your personal values or relationships.
Keith shares real-world examples and insights from his own career and others’, in an entertaining, no-nonsense and witty presentation that proves your authentic personality is the best tool you have. This popular new keynote outlines what have always remained unspoken Corner Office Rules and explores practical strategies and solutions you can use to succeed in the most challenging roles of your career.
Ideal Audience
– New executives and experienced senior managers.
– High-potential mid-level managers and others who are being groomed for senior leadership.
Supplementary Material
We recommend that all attendees read Keith’s new book, Corner Office Rules: The 10 Realities of Executive Life. (Discounts are available for bulk orders.)
The 10 Realities of Corporate Life
Do you know and have what it takes to be successful in your job? Did your last review reflect what you believe to be true about your performance and promotability?
In this session, corporate executive Keith Wyche shares the realities of getting ahead in today’s tough corporate environment. You’ll gain “insider information” about what he and his C-Suite colleagues expect from their employees. It is time to realize that life is not fair; you must embrace change and take personal responsibility of your career path.
By attending, you will be able to:
– Track and define your performance as well as practice techniques for gaining exposure and enhancing your perception.
– Model the major success factors you must master for achieving corporate success.
– Create a personal career “blue print” with specific actionable “to do” items.
Ideal Audience
Employees who want to improve their performance, prepare for their next role and take control of their career path.
Fostering an Inclusive Culture That Will Boost Your Bottom Line
Top companies embrace diversity and inclusion in order to drive growth. They have cultures that tap into the unique and diverse backgrounds and experiences of their workforce to drive innovation and bottom line results; they allow everyone to have a voice, share input, ideas, and participate as equals; and value the performance of all employees equally, and provide equal opportunity for growth and advancement.
During this engaging program, Keith Wyche uses compelling data, case studies, best practices, and his years of personal experience to help organizations create a framework for true inclusion.
After attending this program, leaders will have:
– A clearer understanding of inclusion, how it’s good for business, and how to build it into their companies’ culture.
– Enhanced sensitivity to the unique challenges People of Color, Women, and LGBT employees face in business.
– An awareness of unconscious biases and how to overcome them.
– A renewed vision for how to attract, develop, and retain diverse talent.
Ideal Audience
Leaders at all levels of the organization.
