Marcus Buckingham
About
Marcus Buckingham: Strengths Researcher | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Leadership, Engagement and Performance
Why Book Marcus Buckingham?
Marcus Buckingham helps leaders understand what enables people to do their best work. Known for his strengths research and books including First, Break All the Rules, he challenges management habits that overlook individual talent.
His current work also explores how leaders can build love into work and the experiences they create for employees and customers. With research, stories and practical examples, Marcus gives audiences a fresh way to examine performance, creativity and commitment.
Why Is Marcus Buckingham Right for Your Audience?
Marcus is a strong fit for executive conferences, leadership development programs, HR events and manager meetings. Consider him when an organization wants to improve engagement by changing how managers understand and support their people.
Book Marcus when your audience needs to:
- Recognize the strengths of individual team members
- Create work that people find meaningful
- Improve everyday coaching and management
- Question assumptions about performance
- Connect employee experience with customer experience
- Build teams where different talents can contribute
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on how individual strengths influence performance
- Better prepared to discuss what energizes people at work
- Ready to examine management practices that limit contribution
- More aware of the link between meaningful work and engagement
- Equipped with ideas for improving team and customer experiences
Keynote Programs
How to Unleash the Most Powerful Force in Business
Marcus examines how to design love into work, leadership and customer experiences. Ideal for leaders exploring performance, creativity, wellbeing and advocacy.
What the World’s Best Managers Do Differently
Marcus explores how managers turn talent into performance through role selection, expectations, attention and development. Ideal for manager and leadership audiences.
Strengths-Driven Performance
Marcus shows how people can make greater use of their strengths at work and how organizations can support that contribution. Ideal for talent development and employee events.
Is Marcus Buckingham Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your leaders, the employee experience you want to improve and the performance challenges you want to address. We can help select Marcus’s most relevant program, discuss customization and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
Topics and Audience Takeaways
Recent Publications
On a scale from 1 to 10, Marcus was a "10". Marcus was excellent. He was engaging, interesting, thought-provoking, funny and very genuine.









