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Jon Heymann  

Leadership Speaker, CEO of Heymann Consulting & Author of "Agonizing Peace - Powering Through Traumatic Experiences"

Born in Athens, Greece, Jon was a child victim of a trafficking ring that rendered him a slave of oppressive and brutal traffickers. He eventually made it to an American adoption agency working in Greece, and was lovingly raised by the Heymanns.

Jon's professional background includes 35 years of private ministry to public penitentiaries, to CEO of his own consulting firm. Heymann also created "Elevate Jacksonville," a non-profit whose mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community. Prior to that, Jon was the CEO of the Jacksonville Children's Commission, providing $38 million to support numerous child-serving non-profits.

Heymann holds a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Florida, and has completed graduate work in psychology, and doctoral work at the University of North Florida. In 2012, Clemson University awarded Heymann the Crystal Award for his work in drop-out prevention. Stanford University labeled Heymann a "Transformational Leader."

Speech Topics

Making a Living; Making a Difference

  • Capitalizing on Stress – not all stress is bad.
  • To avoid all pressure: say nothing; do nothing; be nothing

  • Entitlement doesn’t work in sports, and it doesn’t survive in business.

  • Lessons from a basketball, a rear view mirror, and a Peruvian mountaintop.

  • Increasing Pleasure; decreasing Pressure. Writing the next chapter of your life.
  • Leap, don’t limp. -From incremental change to massive positive difference”

Seven Habits of HARDLY Effective People

  • Leadership: Situational/Servant Leadership/Leadership and Power.
  • Developing Dynamic Teams in a Family framework.
  • Awakening the dauntless energy hidden in the yawning workforce.
  • You can’t burn out until you’ve caught on fire.
  • Talent, Skill, Drive.
  • Enthusiasm vs Misery – checking our emotional barometer.
  • The economy of incentives, both internal and external motivators.
  • Rekindling the “New Believer Fever” – the “Why”.
  • Dogs don’t bark at parked cars

Top of Your Game to the Top of Your Mountain

  • How to get to the Top of both your game and your mountain, and remain there.
  • Putting legs to your Mission, your Vision and your Values.
  • Designing a memorable Mission, Vision and Motto worth following.
  • Creating “The P.E.A.C.E. Plan” - preserve, eliminate, avoid, create, evaluate.
  • Answering the crucial question, “What on earth am I doing on the Earth?”
  • Regaining your vision; Maintaining your Momentum.
  • Managing Success.
  • Life favors the Pioneers – those who walk on the edge, the fringe, and blaze new trails.
  • Pioneers expect the unexpected, both good and bad

Grass-Stained Leadership

  • 50/30/20/10 Rule of Management
  • Recapturing your New Believer Fever - avoiding burnout
  • Understanding Socio-Economic dynamics – poverty is not a family value.
  • Dodging and Preventing Leadership Temptations.
  • Increasing the capacity of leaders to blaze new trails rather than following the ruts of others.
  • Making promises; keeping commitments; giving apologies.
  • Managing change before it manages you.
  • Appeal to the public demand for visionary, competent Leadership.

A Culture of Experts, Enthusiasm, and Expectations

  • Skill-based Staffing vs Job descriptions.
  • Creating a culture of adjectives, not nouns.
  • Enhancing Effective Communication – How to take/give criticism. The 58-35-7 rule.
  • Avoiding the “straws” that breaks the camel’s back.
  • Aspirations and Aggravations – we rise no higher than our aspirations and fall no lower than our aggravations.
  • Creating a “Resilient” culture – able to bounce back from a down-turn.
  • Creating ‘Culture’, but what kind? A family? A Team? A little bit of both?
  • Breaking Old Habits and Creating New Muscle Memory to catapult your success.
  • Measuring what matters.
  • Increasing Winners; decreasing Whiners.
  • Want a culture of experts? Discover the 1/1000 of a second advantage.

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