Training

Whether your audience is ten or 10,000, Chad can deliver a customized message of inspiration for your meeting or conference. Chad understands your audience does not want to be “taught” anything, but is rather interested in hearing stories of inspiration, achievement, and real-life people challenging their status quo, confronting their fears, and changing their world.

As a result, Chad’s speaking philosophy is to entertain and inspire your audience with passion and stories proven to help people transform their ordinary lives into extraordinary ones. If you are looking for a memorable speaker who will leave your audience members motivated to take on the challenges facing their organizations, communities, or own lives, book Chad Ellsworth today!

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CHAD’S MOST POPULAR PROGRAMS

Building A Culture of Belonging & Strength

(best CliftonStrengths workshop option for groups and teams that work together)

Each and every person possesses a unique combination of talents, knowledge, and skills that they can use in their day-to-day lives to accomplish their goals and build relationships with the people around them. People who use their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged in their work and three times more likely to say they have an excellent quality of life. The CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) assessment, which has been taken by almost 30 million people worldwide, is a powerful tool that helps individuals identify, understand, and maximize their strengths.

In this highly interactive session, which requires participants to have completed the CliftonStrengths assessment, participants will gain personal, unique insights into their own Top 5 Strengths, explain how they have used those Strengths to be successful in the past, identify opportunities to use their Strengths in their careers and lives, and create short- and long-term strategies to accomplish their goals. Then, in the second half of the session, we will examine individual and team preferences for communication, conflict, and working styles, which can inform ongoing strategies for change management and team development.

It Starts With You: Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Communication

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a person's ability to interact effectively with other humans. EQ delivers IQ. In other words, emotional intelligence is the delivery system by which an individual is able to collaborate with others and contribute to the mission and purpose of a team. In this highly interactive session, participants will learn about the internal and external competencies of emotional intelligence, identify their individual priorities for developing their own emotional intelligence, and create short- and long-term strategies to improve their emotional intelligence.

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Where A Great Culture Starts

Now more than ever, employees take the environment they work in seriously, and they're not fooled by expensive swag or superfluous perks. Psychological safety is what they’re really looking for. As leaders, it is essential that we have a plan to meet this need. As a result of this session, you will be able to understand and explain to others the way psychological safety progresses through four stages, as well as to create and implement a personal action plan to increase psychological safety in your work.

Be Yourself & Become Your Best

What do Carol Danvers, Harry Potter, and Martin Luther King, Jr. have in common? More importantly, what do they have in common with you? We know our heroes’ stories by heart, and we can draw from those stories to make sense of our own leadership journeys, thereby creating enduring, meaningful change not only in our communities, but our own lives. By embracing who we are, including our obstacles and our opportunities, we become our best.

Building Up Through Strengths

(CliftonStrengths workshop alternative for a group of individuals who do not work together)

Each and every person possesses a unique combination of talents, knowledge, and skills that they can use in their day-to-day lives to accomplish their goals and interact with the people around them. People who use their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged in their work and three times more likely to say they have an excellent quality of life. The CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) assessment, which has been taken by more than 20 million people worldwide, is a powerful online tool that helps individuals identify, understand, and maximize their strengths. In this highly interactive session, which requires participants to have completed the CliftonStrengths assessment, participants will describe their Top 5 Strengths, explain how they have used those Strengths to be successful in the past, identify opportunities to use their Strengths in their careers and lives, and create short- and long-term strategies to accomplish their goals.

Cultivating Heroic Leadership

This is not only a critical moment in time in our communities and organizations, but also for all of the individuals who rely on you, from the leaders, managers, and front line personnel to the people in our lives who are counting on you. All of us and all of the people around us are facing an enormous crisis, one that affects half of all people living in the U.S. But, one person can make a difference. This presentation is centered on data-informed and research-driven human and organizational needs, as well as six leadership practices, which I refer to as “Heroic Arts.” For each of the “Heroic Arts,” I provide examples and stories from community, corporate, and sports leaders.

Foes, Fears, & Failures: Confronting the 3 F’s to Change Your World

Do you do what you do best every day? This simple question is the cornerstone to finding fulfillment in your work, one of the Five Elements of Well Being. This interactive and thought-provoking talk will not only bring out your best self, but find opportunities for recharging, rediscovering, and rethinking who you are and what you want from your work and your life.

Building Up Without Tearing Down: Why Hazing Persists & What We Can Do To Stop It

At least one person dies each year from hazing, and the last few years have been among the worst yet. Why does hazing continue to persist? Powerful psychological, situational, and social forces fuel cultures of hazing in all types of organizations. In order to end hazing, we must build people up without tearing them down. In this talk, Chad examines the forces and motivations that drive hazing and explores strategies for empowering people to create positive change in their organizations.

Calling You To Adventure: Embracing The Hero’s Journey As A Developmental Tool

What do Dorothy Gale, Harriet Tubman, and T’Challa Udaku have in common? Each of them traveled the Hero’s Journey. People today know these heroes' stories by heart, and they can draw from mythology and popular culture to provide an accessible framework to make sense of their own journey. We can equip them through the framework of the Hero's Journey to reflect on their experiences and values, and to create meaningful experiences throughout their lives. In this interactive talk, participants will learn about the framework of the Hero's Journey; compare and contrast this framework with psychosocial, racial identity, and self-authorship theories of human development; apply this model to diverse settings and situations; and discuss how this paradigm can help them create meaningful experiences throughout their lives.