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Greg Bennick Featured Build a Better Now® - TEAM BUILDING keynote speaker, emcee, host

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Build A Better Now - An Inspired Look at Team Building and Focus (Bring your team together and inspire them dynamically)
Build A Better Now - An Inspired Look at Team Building and Focus (Bring your team together and inspire them dynamically)

Team-building keynote speaker Greg Bennick helps teams focus, come together, and grow stronger through keynote presentations and trainings at conferences and association meetings worldwide.

This is a keynote about the team, and how when people focus, they amplify their output.

For the last three decades Greg has traveled the world studying what people want most. He's come to know that people need to matter and to feel that they are part of something meaningful.

“Greg takes big concepts and makes them fun and totally accessible." (Jason Silva, National Geographic’s Brain Games)

When we have a shared sense of purpose and meaning from what we do, and when we know that our work matters, it is like high octane fuel for teamwork.

Some key takeaways from the Build a Better Now® keynote:

Reconnecting to our purpose and reason for doing the work we do

Appreciating the team we’re a part of and celebrating a feeling of shared vision

Realizing that the work we do is meaningful and our contribution to it matters.

When we focus on team building, opportunities are everywhere.
WORKSHOP - Build a Better Now (A fun, engaging, and informative half or full day INTERACTIVE session)

WORKSHOP - Build a Better Now (A fun, engaging, and informative half or full day INTERACTIVE session)

Greg Bennick does workshops both in conjunction with his keynotes and separate from them.

Here is how that looks:

Greg has a system of seven strategies and associated exercises for your team to explore and experience as he delves into the ideas in his book, Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now. The workshops are available as a full day and half day workshop.

The takeaways:

Greg makes connections happen. He builds and strengthens teams. People walk away from his workshops and keynotes inspired and entertained, but also uplifted and ready for action.

Experiences involve a pre-event survey about focus and readiness to change, questions day of with the audience about leadership and communication styles, small group work about values and determination and creativity, and interactive large group learning that gets people laughing.

All modes of learning and experiences are custom tailored to each client and event.
FAIL BETTER: Don't Be Afraid to Drop the Ball! (Lessons in what we learn about success from the process and mistakes we experience together every day)

FAIL BETTER: Don't Be Afraid to Drop the Ball! (Lessons in what we learn about success from the process and mistakes we experience together every day)

Greg is a juggler who is fascinated by gravity as a metaphor: by dropping objects he learns constantly to manage failure. What do we learn about success from seemingly constant failures? The Seattle Times called him “A juggler of objects and concepts” and went on to say, “A juggler and inspirational speaker: it'd be hard for anybody to balance such extremes, but Bennick seems to do it with grace.”

What do you learn about success from a path where the journey is filled with mistakes? For a juggler, there is no escaping gravity. Along the way Greg has learned about focus and creative courage, facing picking objects up and continuing on even when the path doesn’t seem clear. “Fail better,” a phrase often taken from Samuel Beckett’s writings about failing again and again and again, is a great image to use when connected with juggling.

Change is an inevitability, and as long as we are in the right mindset, we will be ready for anything and prepared to take action. As a juggler for almost thirty years, Greg is an expert at change: every ball flies in a different direction. How do we manage change? What perspectives to we need? Using laughter and entertainment as a vehicle, Greg delivers answers to these important questions in his incredible keynote.

Learning points include new perspectives on ‘dropping the ball’™ and failure; how to continue even in the midst of setbacks; and perspectives on the creative process itself and the peaks and valleys it brings.

(Perfect for any group looking to enhance positive mental attitude among their team members)
Changing the World Without Having a Clue (How to find our voice and inspire others to help make the world a better place)

Changing the World Without Having a Clue (How to find our voice and inspire others to help make the world a better place)

Want to change the world in which you work and live but aren’t sure how? Want to transform your workplace environment and implement new ideas? Learn how one line from the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” inspired a lifetime of creativity and action even amidst self-doubt. Learn about failing better, growing together, and making dreams a reality. Let's look at the roadblocks which prevent those things from happening and then blast through them.

This keynote is for those who want to leave the world better than how they found it. Greg follows up his words about WHY and HOW you can get involved with making the world a better place...with solid actions.

He is the founder of One Hundred For Haiti, a humanitarian relief and development organization focusing on supporting Haitian-led development projects around clean water and building houses. In this position he learned that listening creates every possibility for leadership and success.

Greg's ideas and creative work have been seen on ALL seven continents (a claim that very few if any other speakers can make), and in dozens of countries for tens of thousands of people.

His work globally has inspired thousands, and can do the same for your group.

(Perfect for any group with a CSR focus, those interested in change and transformation, for any group inspired to help transform the lives of others for the better, non-profits, corporate social responsibility events...and also for colleges / universities)

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2024 Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now

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Greg Bennick is a team building keynote speaker who brings teams together and offers strategies for juggling a world of distractions to enhance individual performance and drive organizational success.

He knows about focus, though reading about his life, you wouldn’t know that. He is a best-selling author (Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now), a keynote thought leader, a noted rare coin expert, a TEDx speaker and speaking coach, a humanitarian philanthropist, and an influencer devoted to transforming the world by inspiring personal and social change. How's that for a resumé?

For the last three decades Greg has traveled the world studying what people want most, and looking at what makes solid teams work together most effectively. He's come to know that people need to matter and to feel that they are part of something meaningful.

Here's a little about Greg, and ideas about how he helps organizations like yours find renewed inspiration.

“Greg takes big concepts and makes them fun and totally accessible.” (Jason Silva, National Geographic’s Brain Games)

Employees are overworked, anxious, and stressed out. How does your team maintain and prioritize focus, and what impact could being reinvigorated about your organizations mission and goals have on your productivity?

When Greg traces back his own focus and teamwork journey, he realizes that learning to juggle for the first time at twelve years old changed everything for him. It was awesome. It was amazing. And it was a metaphor.

He saw that a juggler's ability to FOCUS and keep multiple balls aloft, amidst a world of distractions, was key to navigating our day-to-day reality. Greg realized that he gained confidence and learned more with the support of those around him. Those realizations transformed his life, and reminded him that without teamwork, individuals end up adrift and lost. He immediately started connecting with people all over the world.

“We’ve worked with many speakers and entertainers, but never before has someone taken the time and energy you did to get to know our niche industry. I’ve been fielding texts from members all evening. It was exactly what our audience needed.” (Karen Ladany, NAAGL)

Greg started thinking about what gets us back on track. The object in the air is the one that matters most. What is that object for you and your organization? What do you need to focus together upon most? When we have a shared sense of purpose and meaning from what we do, and when we know that our work matters, it is like high octane fuel for teamwork.

He transforms audiences, sharing ideas about focus learned and earned over decades of interaction and engagement with people from all around the world. His core keynote presentation - Build a Better Now® - is fun, insightful, and inspiring. It is available worldwide.

"A highlight of the day was the electrifying keynote presentation by Greg Bennick on 'Build a Better Now.' It was a call to action for all of us to make tangible changes in our communities and professions." (Byron Webster, ICE Imagine Conference)

Greg launched his career as a presenter at age thirteen (yes you read that correctly) and saw that capturing the attention of audiences brings people together. He has been known to balance a chair on his face to do just that. Just watch his promo video for proof!

As a keynote speaker, Greg explores new ideas that help you find solutions for the problems you face around team building. He integrates award-winning comedy, audience interaction, incredible juggling, powerful magic effects, and unbelievable mind reading into his presentations to create a visual display that helps the ideas really sink in.

Greg works with you through preplanning meetings before your event to solidify and customize his messaging to your event goals.

A two-time humorous speaking champion, Greg engages and inspires your audience while making them laugh. He has spent over thirty years on stage and has connected with audiences live in over twenty-five countries, and of course, is also available to do the same through virtual presentations from his multi-camera professional studio in Seattle.

“A fantastic presentation…the agents loved all your takeaways!” (Windermere Real Estate, 50th Anniversary Conference, Seattle WA)

The founder and Executive Director of the international non-profit One Hundred For Haiti, Greg's humanitarian work and philanthropy have led to clean water is available to thousands of people in rural Haiti and the building of countless roofs for families in need, educational opportunities for impoverished youth, and massive food program success from working directly with rural farmers.

More about Greg, beyond the keynotes…

If you’re having Greg Bennick as your keynote speaker, have him do a breakout to reinforce the ideas in his onstage presentations. When he leads groups in instruction on how to juggle, teams come together to overcome challenges. People shift from “I can’t do it” to “I DID IT!!!” and more importantly to WE did it. And they have fun while doing it.

Additionally, if you're having a major event, consider inviting Greg as a dynamic master of ceremonies (emcee) and host to your event. He brings his ideas on teamwork to the stage and can guide your event with impact.

“Your stage presence is unparalleled. We couldn’t have done it without you!” (Adrianne Selvidge, Producer, BHC, on behalf of the United States Department of Health and Human Services)

Note: The ratio of ideas to entertainment in any of Greg’s keynotes is entirely customizable. Inquire to find out more about Greg’s customization process.

Book Greg today and he will get to work customizing a presentation just for your organization.

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Greg Bennick Featured Build a Better Now® - TEAM BUILDING keynote speaker, emcee, host

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Build A Better Now - An Inspired Look at Team Building and Focus (Bring your team together and inspire them dynamically)

WORKSHOP - Build a Better Now (A fun, engaging, and informative half or full day INTERACTIVE session)

FAIL BETTER: Don't Be Afraid to Drop the Ball! (Lessons in what we learn about success from the process and mistakes we experience together every day)

Changing the World Without Having a Clue (How to find our voice and inspire others to help make the world a better place)

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