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Mark DeVolder
Global Change Management Expert, Transition & Transformation Thought-Leader, Award Winning Speaker
Dr. Mark DeVolder is a Global Change Management Expert, Transition & Transformation Thought-Leader and Award Winning Speaker. With a vast client list, DeVolder has spoken in over 25 countries on 5 continents to many of the world’s industry-leading companies. His insights and strategies show leaders how to navigate the transitions of disruption. As a pioneer in the field, DeVolder launched a new way to navigate change, empowering leaders to move confidently through change. Highlights include: coaching NASA rocket scientists to re-invent themselves; guiding healthcare professionals through multi-billion-dollar mergers; Transitioning to a safety-first culture in oil industries.
DeVolder’s client list is extensive and diverse, covering many sectors including PwC, GE Digital, Royal Bank of Canada, US Air Force, Omantel and many more.
Partnering with his clients gives DeVolder a laser-focused view into disruptions that are occurring in every industry and organization; With that insight and customized research, Dr. DeVolder teaches the unique strategy of Empowered Change™, equipping leaders to adapt to and embrace their greatest challenges, trends and opportunities, such as mergers, organizational restructure, AI, digital transformation and market disruptions.
As a researcher, consultant and author, DeVolder has written the multi-disciplinary book on managing change, "Perpetual Pivot: How the Best Leaders Adapt to Exponential Change."
Mark DeVolder is an award-winning speaker and recipient of the Top 10 Speaker Award in Change Management four years running. DeVolder is known for his highly engaging presentations: contagious energy, on-target customization, strong actionable takeaways and captivating audience interaction.
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Future Proof: Navigating Change with Confidence and Excitement
Imagine a new way to change: unhurried, composed, and confident instead of the usual frenzy, chaos, and uncertainty. The Empowered Change strategy presented in this high-impact keynote equips participants to transform the pace of change and drive sustainable success by providing a clear roadmap for navigating the stages of change.
This program is perfect for leaders and teams in the midst of constant change who are:
- Going through organizational growth, such as mergers and acquisitions, leadership changes, restructuring, and digital transformation
- Navigating their team members’ reactions to the volatility, complexity, and ambiguity in their work and life (like frustration, anxiety, confusion, and fear)
- Feeling unprepared for their evolving roles and responsibilities or unable to change at the rate and pace needed to keep up with ever-increasing changes
After this intensely practical session, the audience will leave with:
- A Journey-map framework for understanding any change they experience
- A personal plan for confidently navigating the transitions between each stage of change
- The skills and mindset for boldly mobilizing through disruptive change to accomplish their objectives
All Together Now! Elevating Teams through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In this transformative keynote, we explore the remarkable potential of diverse teams.
Rather than being hindered by differences, these teams achieve seemingly paradoxical success by embracing them. When teams rally around a unity of purpose while celebrating individual uniqueness, they ignite a powerful synergy that fosters belonging and empowerment through the whole team; the many become one. Through inclusion, equity, and diversity, those who were once excluded or marginalized can now contribute their distinct skills, abilities, and perspectives. The result? Innovation flourishes, problem-solving abilities soar, and exceptional performance becomes the norm. Ideal for leaders and teams who are:
- Seeking to empower a diverse and cohesive workforce
- Striving to adopt a transformational mindset to tackle modern-day challenges
- Teams facing engagement, collaboration, or well-being hurdles
Key Takeaways:
- Enhanced awareness and appreciation of both unique qualities and shared values among team members
- Empower team transformation by championing diversity, equity, and inclusion through inclusive leadership
- Practical frameworks for collaboratively navigating complex problems and generating creative solutions
Join us on this journey as we explore how embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion can propel your team toward unparalleled success and collective achievement.
Master Your Mind, Master the Chaos: Leadership Secrets for Successfully Navigating Change
Drawing from more than two decades of working with global industry leaders, Mark distills the secrets of effective change leadership into the five essential mindsets demonstrated by top leaders.
This program is perfect for leaders and managers who are:
- Leading significant organizational changes that require alignment, buy-in, and engagement
- Struggling to keep up with the constant evolution of work, including remote/hybrid work, digital transformations, and new business models
- Needing to adapt to, anticipate, and initiate disruption in their industry
During Mark’s high-octane presentation, your audience will learn how to:
- Avoid change-paralysis and develop change-ready thinking and behaviors
- Overcome decision-quicksand and make smart decisions faster
- Develop a leadership mindset for navigating themselves and their team through any change
On Fire! Energized Together Everyone, Every Day
This keynote empowers the audience to eliminate the mindsets and actions that extinguish motivation and enthusiasm and instead create life-giving opportunities to energize everyone every day.
This program is ideal for anyone in the organization who is:
- Navigating multiple changes in the organization, some happening simultaneously
- Experiencing change saturation because of the pace and rate of constant change
- Frustrated and stressed about having to do more with less while contending with unclear direction and communication
The audience will leave with:
- Tools for identifying which of their current behaviors build up and tear down engagement
- Strategies to increase engagement in four key areas: clarity, competence, influence, and appreciation
Unstoppable Resilience: Developing the Mindset of Champions
Resilience is the quintessential element (aka. secret sauce) behind champions and successful teams. This highly actionable keynote teaches the audience how to instill this mindset into the DNA of their culture and team.
This program is perfect for leaders and teams who are:
- Responsible for creating unity, well-being, and engagement in their team
- Tasked with delivering profitability and high performance during organizational change and disruption
- Seeking to create a resilient culture throughout their team and organization
The audience will leave with:
- Strategies for increasing elastic thinking, continuous learning, and unstoppable perseverance
- The motivation and tools to increase innovation, creativity, and risk-taking in their personal and professional lives
- The ability to cultivate a growth mindset of unlimited potential in the face of adversity, stress, and disruption
Getting to Target Zero: Engaging High-Performance Safety
This safety keynote addresses the barriers that cause people to disengage and take shortcuts to safety and empowers them to maintain both high performance and safety.
This program is perfect for leaders and teams:
- Working in a highly regulated environment that is under the pressure of constant change and evolving government regulations
- Dealing with stressful, potentially dangerous, time-sensitive situations and crises
- Pressured to perform professionally and quickly while trying to conform to new, time-intensive safety practices
The audience will leave with:
- A framework to understand and navigate any change they experience through the lens of safety
- Tools to identify current behaviors and practices that build high-performance safety and which practices tear it down
- The education and motivation to take the first step toward high-performance safety
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