Marcus Buckingham

Leadership expert and New York Times bestseller Marcus Buckingham helps us do what we love in his new book

World renowned researcher on leadership and New York Times bestselling author MARCUS BUCKINGHAM demystifies the classic work advice “do what you love” and helps us discover where we’re at our best – both at work and in life – in his new book Love + Work. In his highly anticipated new book, Buckingham is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what we love to do and how we contribute it to others, and how we can break free from the pressure to conform that keeps us from living full and meaningful lives. Love + Work is already being heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership in 2022, “to not only help people determine what they love to do, but help them choose roles where they’ll succeed, reshape existing jobs and do work that stands out from the crowd.”

In this eye-opening and uplifting book, Buckingham asks questions sure to transform our workplaces as well as our personal lives: How do you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you’ll excel? With his trademark analysis and insight, Buckingham aims to elevate the working experience not only of employees, but employers as well – how can companies demonstrate that they deserve the best employees, and what can they leverage to attract and retain the best members for their teams? A highly sought-after speaker, Buckingham engages audiences in powerful questions and offers practical takeaways, lasting inspiration, and always receives rave reviews, such as: "Marcus' energy and enthusiasm was truly contagious! His presentation was very entertaining, and he provided insight surrounding the areas of employee motivation and leadership." (Golden Corral)

Marcus Buckingham reveals the science behind resilience and offers some surprising advice to leaders on how to cultivate it

Bestselling author and leadership and management expert MARCUS BUCKINGHAM demystifies the science behind creating resilient organizations and teams in a piece for Harvard Business Review, “What Really Makes Us Resilient?” Buckingham discusses the findings of his real-world, data driven, global experiments to identify the sources of resilience, how to measure it, and how to cultivate it in yourself and your teams. Here’s what Buckingham advises leaders: 1) Resilience is a reactive state of mind created by exposure to suffering, and 2) The more tangible leaders make the threat, the more resilient people become. Buckingham’s surprising advice to leaders: Don’t sugar-coat harsh reality. Tell people the truth about threats and they will respond with resilience.

Buckingham has been a trusted leadership and management thought-leader and bestselling author for decades. He conducts a tremendous amount of meaningful research on strengths, leadership, and high-performance at work, and synthesizes his findings into useable takeaways regularly in Harvard Business Review. Buckingham is a masterful presenter, in full command of his cutting-edge leadership research, and humanizes the practical process of leading teams to greatness.

Marcus Buckingham is an expert on agile leadership, transforming teams with his ideas about leadership and new ways of working

If you do one thing to improve your organization this year, consider listening to a presentation from MARCUS BUCKINGHAM. Buckingham has been a thought leader on leadership and pioneering how people work for decades, as the New York Times Bestselling author, researcher, and founder of the Strengths Revolution. He brings that knowledge to the stage as he tailors his talks to organizations about agile leadership to improve teams’ effectiveness and focus on what is most important. He stands by the idea that when leaders let people spend time each day doing what they love and are best at, their organizations get their best work. His data-driven research reflects these ideas, and he uses statistics to back everything he shares, following two decades of experience as a Senior Researcher at Gallup Organization. When Buckingham speaks to teams, he completely revolutionizes the way they think about leading a team, being flexible, and new ways of working, with the goal of providing team leaders with the insights and tools they need to turn talent into performance and drive the organization toward greater success and productivity. Buckingham brings his researched talks to organizations to help them improve their speed and quality of work through agile leadership, help employees live out their strengths at work, and make teams as effective as possible. As Coca-Cola North America shared after a presentation by Buckingham, “Marcus Buckingham spoke two weeks ago and there's still so much positive buzz around the office about his presentation. He takes complex things and breaks them down. People said, 'How can I take this and make it happen for me?' People left wanting to do something, wanting to take action.”

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Marcus Buckingham teaches leaders how to create resilient teams, and shows each of us how to stay our course when we get knocked off track

Best-selling author and leadership and management expert MARCUS BUCKINGHAM shows leaders how to create resilient organizations and teams, anchored by his extensive psychometric data-based research and field experience running teams. Hearing him speak synthesizes the lessons from his best-selling books and focuses teams on how to realize the outcomes they want no matter what external curveballs are thrown their way.

Buckingham instructs both the manager and the individual. After all, the collective team is made of individuals, and both serve each other better when each of us can focus on cultivating and leveraging our strengths.  Buckingham gives tactical advice on how to identify our strengths so that we can recover more quickly when surprises throw us off our footing.  To that end, Buckingham has developed the StandOut Strengths Assessment to help each of us discover a life in which we get to express the unique spirit inside us, in the most intelligent, most contributive, most meaningful way possible.

Marcus Buckingham is a master teacher to develop stronger, more resilient and innovative teams.  Credible, data-based and specific, Buckingham electrifies – and honestly, transforms – organizations.

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Marcus Buckingham is an electrifying leadership and strategic management speaker, anchored by his research and real world experience running teams

When best-selling author and researcher MARCUS BUCKINGHAM stopped by our office recently, he held us spellbound. He simultaneously gave a master class on leadership and management while inspiring each of us to tap into our very human, personal needs to love what we do (which is different from doing what we love), find belonging on our teams, and capitalize on our strengths. All in the name of creating more resilient, higher performing teams. His work is not anecdotal or impressionistic, it is squarely and credibly based in the data he generates as the world's most prominent researcher on strengths, leadership, and high performance at work. He also has field experience running productive teams as he built and ran a software company (developing what else but software to build great teams!) which was eventually integrated into the internal systems at WebEx, Cisco, and Microsoft Teams, to name a few. Buckingham often consults and speaks to organizations looking to strengthen their leaders and individual contributors and is praised for his practical, tactical recommendations for increasing productivity, rather than motivation based on rah-rah platitudes.

The leadership and management lessons we all learned from Buckingham during his short time with us, will surely have a lasting impact. We are all inspired to manage our teams better, pay attention to the individual strengths of our team members, and find ways to cultivate those strengths rather than focusing on “areas of development.”  And, we have to admit, each of us felt like he was talking to us one on one. He has that special ability to humanize the real world work we all do. He spoke of our need to identify the “red threads” of satisfaction in the quilt of our daily tasks, and our need to find belonging on our teams, which moves the diversity and inclusion message to a deeper, more essential conversation.

We can’t recommend Marcus Buckingham highly enough as a speaker. The messages he left us with are still reverberating around our office. We’re all thinking in bigger ways about what we do and how we collaborate.