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EQUALLY THOUGHTFUL AND THOUGHT PROVOKING, BRAD DEUTSER CREATES CONNECTIONS INSIDE COMPANIES AND THEIR LEADERS THAT CHANGES FUTURES.

The founder and CEO of Deutser, an award-winning management consulting firm, and the Deutser Clarity Institute, a think tank and learning lab, Brad transforms how leaders build great, highly sustainable companies inside and out — especially in times of transition. His piercing view of “performance inside the box,” unwavering commitment to leading with positivity and innovative way to humanize organizations presents new approaches to leading in complex times.

In his new book, Leading Clarity: The Breakthrough Strategy to Unleash People, Profit and Performance, Brad introduces the process of achieving clarity and changing the trajectory of modern business. His counsel and distinctively creative perspective is sought by CEOs, Board Chairs and top corporate management for high-profile organizations – including Fortune 500 companies and publicly traded companies in the energy, aviation, health and financial services sectors, as well as leading nonprofits, including education, healthcare, literacy, inclusion, among others. His innovative approach to clarity and its connection with people inside organizations has driven business performance across the world.

Brad entertains, challenges and presents fundamentally new concepts to address the daily conundrums that leaders, at all levels, face. He is entertaining, personable and a “master storyteller,” who harkens back to his early days working at Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus and Walt Disney World on Ice for stories and inspiration. Brad presents an entertaining style packed with valuable insights from today’s business insiders representing a range of industries made more valuable with actionable take-a-ways. He is a frequent speaker on Clarity in an Unclear World; Innovating Inside the Box; Humanizing Safety: Good Kills; Stop Communicating: Start Engaging; Leading with Less Than 100% of the Truth; Clarity and the Human Condition; and Leading from the Middle.

Speeches and Programs

Clarity in an Unclear World

“The dynamics of change, chaos, and uncertainty are an integral part of the vitality that is business, and even more so, life.”

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Clarity in an Unclear World

“The dynamics of change, chaos, and uncertainty are an integral part of the vitality that is business, and even more so, life.” Clarity operates on the truth that everything is connected. While traditional business models are often driven by siloed approaches to communication, strategy, culture and innovation, Brad puts forward a new, bold, time tested approach that remakes the essential connections within an organization. Brad will share how clarity becomes the governing force that both aligns and connects dreams, goals, objectives, expectations and outcomes. His replicable, reliable construct can be applied to leaders and businesses of all types, sizes and industries and drives measurable performance, creates happier, more engaged employees and customers, and safer workplaces. His presentation is rich with innovative frameworks and thought-provoking lessons for immediate adoption and implementation.

Target: Leaders, HR, workforce, and anyone looking to make sense of chaos

Innovating Inside the Box

“The question is not whether you are an outside the box thinker; the real question is what does your box even look like?”

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Innovating Inside the Box

“The question is not whether you are an outside the box thinker; the real question is what does your box even look like?” The decades-old belief that creativity, innovation and performance are birthed outside the box have been proven to be invalid in Deutser’s compelling presentation. He shares the science, process and creativity of innovating inside the box along with the impact it has on leadership and the people across every level of the organization. He describes in detail the 6 sides of each organization’s dimensional box. He presents impactful, thought provoking take-a-ways which provide leaders with immediate tools to consider and implement.

Target: Leaders at all levels of the company; managers, individuals aspiring for leadership roles

Clarity and the Human Condition

“The convergence of the chaos, the swirl and the constant transitions we are expected to expertly navigate are impacting…

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Clarity and the Human Condition

“The convergence of the chaos, the swirl and the constant transitions we are expected to expertly navigate are impacting the human condition and the vital connections between people.” Deutser expertly addresses these delicate, yet critical connections between organizations and their employees that are forever changing and continuing to be compromised. He explores how leaders are seeing things manifest themselves in the workplace that present opportunities for growth, connection and renewed commitment. His exploration of the human condition is refreshing in its honesty and understanding of the modern workforce and the drivers that both impede and propel them.

Target: Leaders, safety professionals, non-profits, professionals on the people side of the box

Humanizing Safety: Good Kills

“We have exhausted the technological improvements, refined the systems and processes, addressed the human…

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Humanizing Safety: Good Kills

“We have exhausted the technological improvements, refined the systems and processes, addressed the human factors that each impact safety; yet each year an employee doesn’t go home without serious injury or death.” When asked, a considerable majority of leaders rated their company as “good” or “very good” from a safety perspective. Unfortunately, the safety data from their organizations showed increasing numbers of serious injuries and even deaths, which further validates the phrase that “good kills.” Deutser shares his firm’s inventive approach to safety and to ensuring that every mother, father, spouse, and child go home safely each and every day. Leveraging neuroscience with wildly creative partnerships with thought leaders in academia, the arts, and science, Deutser explores how to humanize safety in ways that employees have never before experienced. His firm’s record in saving lives is the outcome all want to achieve.

Target: Leaders, safety professionals, health professionals, employees in high risk environments

Stop Communicating. Start Engaging.

“Clarity facilitates, encourages, supports and sustains the alignment necessary to achieve real engagement.”

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Stop Communicating. Start Engaging.

“Clarity facilitates, encourages, supports and sustains the alignment necessary to achieve real engagement.” In our “tell me more” world, we have all become overly dependent on communications – from the internet, social media, new outlets, and everyday communications tactics. Leaders are not exempt. The workforce is more demanding of information, yet responding less and less to PowerPoints, memos, emails and texts. Increasingly, leaders are turning to the one-dimensional solution of communications, or often over-communicating, and mistaking it for engagement. In fact, organizations are creating flawed engagement platforms instead of a more connected, holistic approach to engaging its most important people, its workforce. Leveraging the science of the Clarity Performance Index, Deutser explores the connectivity required across the organization to achieve meaningful and intentional engagement. This presentation offers a compelling view of connectivity in the workforce and the tools necessary to drive true engagement.

Target: Leaders at all levels of the organization, HR, managers, customer service professionals

Leading from the Middle

“It is no longer safe to live, much less lead from the middle in a society that values extremes.”

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Leading from the Middle

“It is no longer safe to live, much less lead from the middle in a society that values extremes.” We live in a polarized world with the loudest voices often coming from either extreme. This societal polarity demands that leaders actually lead with clarity from the middle of the organization. This is not about middle management, which in most companies requires fundamental redesign; rather, it is about top leadership. This new leadership approach places emphasis on identity, connectivity, and engagement from the center of the organization. It takes into consideration the complexity of the environments around us and the changing political, technological, and societal landscape and demands clarity. In this presentation, participants are presented with a set of tools and approaches to immediately impact their leadership capacity.

Target: Leaders, Managers, and Individuals aspiring to be leaders

Leading with Less than 100% of the Truth

“Most of us are operating with less than 50% of the truth, rather than being able to have constructive, respectful dialog…

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Leading with Less than 100% of the Truth

“Most of us are operating with less than 50% of the truth, rather than being able to have constructive, respectful dialog with 100% of the truth.” In our “tell me what I want to hear,” overly sensitive society, leaders have been forced to lead with less than the full complement of information at their disposal. The result is incomplete information from which to lead and incorrect assumptions being accepted for their veracity or wholeness. This also elevates the uncomfortable conversation of the limits and impact of political correctness inside today’s companies. When leaders operate with less than 100% of the truth, for whatever reason, it unintentionally forces the organization onto an accidental path — creating unnecessary detours which influence its people and affects its bottom line. Deutser’s construct for clarity allows and ensures 100% of the truth, creating a culture that embraces psychological safety, uncovering masqueraders in the organization and pushing unhealthy factors to the fringes.

Target: Leaders, Managers, Individuals inside and outside organizations

Testimonials

Dave Cook

Director, Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Houston

“Brad Deutser is a gifted presenter, an engaging speaker and an master storyteller. His stories range from rich personal experiences in the circus, to advertising, to academia, to the halls of corporate America…

Dave Cook

Director, Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Houston

“Brad Deutser is a gifted presenter, an engaging speaker and an master storyteller. His stories range from rich personal experiences in the circus, to advertising, to academia, to the halls of corporate America. We have had hundreds of speakers present at the Wolff Center and our students rate Brad as the best lecturer of their college experience. His message is inspiring, memorable and filled with positive direction. His audiences are left with a rich experience on their road to clarity.”

Leisa Holland-Nelson

Partner, Vice President/CMO, ASTOUNDZ

“I have seen and benefitted from Brad Deutser’s presentations many times. He is enlightening, entertaining, a great storyteller and never fails to leave me wanting more of his valuable information or just more of him…

Leisa Holland-Nelson

Partner, Vice President/CMO, ASTOUNDZ

“I have seen and benefitted from Brad Deutser’s presentations many times. He is enlightening, entertaining, a great storyteller and never fails to leave me wanting more of his valuable information or just more of him. His presence is electric. I know I speak for many of us who use him and his knowledge to better our environments…at work and at home.”

Suzan Deison

Founder, President and CEO, Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce

“Brad Deutser spoke at our 2018 Women’s Conference for the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the feedback was all positive. He got excellent ratings across the board…

Suzan Deison

Founder, President and CEO, Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce

“Brad Deutser spoke at our 2018 Women’s Conference for the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the feedback was all positive. He got excellent ratings across the board and many of our enterprise level companies were reaching out to him to work with him for their own conferences and meetings. Brad is a great speaker, he keeps the audience in mind at all times, engages them, and never leaves them without major take- aways. We look forward to having him back in 2019!”

Julie Baker Finck

Ph.D., President, Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation

“Brad is a very passionate, articulate and knowledgeable presenter. In just one hour, attendees at a recent event hosted by the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation gained a fresh perspective on how organizations…

Julie Baker Finck

Ph.D., President, Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation

“Brad is a very passionate, articulate and knowledgeable presenter. In just one hour, attendees at a recent event hosted by the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation gained a fresh perspective on how organizations seek clarity around their mission, purpose and work. Attendees also garnered practical strategies to navigate the ambiguity and complexity of their own organizations. The feedback from our attendees was overwhelmingly positive.”

Dan Baime

Agent, Motion Picture Productions, ICM Partners

“Too many people focus on living outside of the box. After hearing Brad Deutser speak, I feel the confidence and security to create my own box. Brad gives you the tools to live more successfully…

Dan Baime

Agent, Motion Picture Productions, ICM Partners

“Too many people focus on living outside of the box. After hearing Brad Deutser speak, I feel the confidence and security to create my own box. Brad gives you the tools to live more successfully in business and apply the same lessons at home. I am deeply grateful.”

Jason Siegel

Managing Director, Head of Alternative Investments, Brookfield Asset Management

“Brad Deutser’s energy is contagious. He’s able to motivate, challenge, inspire… His self-depricating charm won over the crowd.”

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