Anton Gunn

Helping Organizations Build a World-Class Culture

Nancy's Note:

“A powerful, charismatic presenter, Anton’s compelling talks provide lasting change, proving that the bottom-line is healthy when the culture of the company is healthy. I also admire and value his commitment to helping create “socially conscious” leaders and organizations. The world needs more of Anton Gunn and his wisdom. He’s a very special human being.”

Anton Gunn

Helping Organizations Build a World-Class Culture

Nancy’s Note
“A powerful, charismatic presenter, Anton’s compelling talks provide lasting change, proving that the bottom-line is healthy when the culture of the company is healthy. I also admire and value his commitment to helping create “socially conscious” leaders and organizations. The world needs more of Anton Gunn and his wisdom. He’s a very special human being.”

Anton Gunn

Helping Organizations Build a World-Class Culture

Nancy’s Note
“A powerful, charismatic presenter, Anton’s compelling talks provide lasting change, proving that the bottom-line is healthy when the culture of the company is healthy. I also admire and value his commitment to helping create “socially conscious” leaders and organizations. The world needs more of Anton Gunn and his wisdom. He’s a very special human being.”

Expertise

Diversity, Equity, Workplace Culture, Healthcare, Influence, Leadership, Sales

Travels From

Columbia, South Carolina

Speaking Style

Informative, Life-Changing, Humorous

About Anton...

Former Senior Advisor to President Obama and leading expert on Socially Conscious Leadership, he helps build diverse, high-performing teams and world-class workplace cultures.

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Presentation Topics

Your effectiveness as a leader is only as strong as your ability to influence. The problem is most organizations do not give their leaders the tools on how to create lasting impact on their workforce. According to a recent Gallup workplace study, 70% of US Employees are disengaged at work. A recent study revealed that 71 percent of workers in 19 industries are actively looking for new jobs. Additionally, 44% of the workforce is unhappy, underperforming and overlooked by their management or leadership.

Anton Gunn knows the negative impact of an ineffective leader. Nearly 30 years ago he was a disengaged team member and a marginal performer on a bad team. He was in a toxic culture, with an ineffective leader that forced him to quit that organization. But since that time, he has risen to become a top c-level executive, a senior advisor to President Barack Obama with over two decades of successful consumer and employee engagement experience. Anton Gunn has learned that anyone can become a greater influencer as a leader by embracing 7 simple principles.

In this inspiring presentation, your audience will leave knowing how to:

  • Inspire those you lead and create a positive legacy in their lives
  • Create quality communication within your organization
  • Develop passion that leads to greater performance
  • Engage your teams in the power of personal development
  • Build a culture that is caring, helpful and trusting.

Taking care of your health care team, will improve the care outcomes of your patients. In this new era of healthcare, patient satisfaction and quality of care have become make or break for America’s hospitals and health systems. According to Harvard Business Review, patient satisfaction and quality outcomes are highly dependent on the engagement, commitment, dedication, and skills of the healthcare workforce.  According to Gallop, currently less than half of the healthcare workforce is highly engaged. Other research from the New England Journal of Medicine  shows 55% of physicians want to leave the medical profession and one of the top three indicators of mortality (death) risk in the healthcare setting is nurse engagement level. This lack of engagement is a risk to patient safety and can cost health systems one-third of their annual profits.

As a former healthcare advisor to President Barack Obama and a c-level executive in top US News ranked academic health system, Anton Gunn has seen the negative impact a stressed, disengaged and burnout care team can have on the patient experience resulting in medical errors, unnecessary harm, frequent readmissions and decreased reimbursement rates. Anton has learned that healthcare organizations can transform their patient experiences and quality outcomes by embracing 7 simple principles.

 In this empowering presentation, your leaders will leaving know how to:

  • Increase the emotional commitment of team members to your mission
  • Create an organization culture of continuous caring, with leaders that are helpful and trusted by the workforce
  • Build a world-class team that reflects the diversity of your patients
  • Build an inclusive experience for every patient and team member
  • Inspire a safety culture that is focused on learning and improvement through accountability

Motivated and trained leaders will make any sales organization more successful. Unfortunately, the best sales people can quickly become the worst sales leaders without proper leadership development training. According to Bridge Group Research, there is a 34% turnover rate in sales organizations because of a lack of good mentorship and coaching from their leaders.

As a 21-year-old, Anton Gunn was a high-potential team member who received poor coaching and poor mentorship from a team leader.  Without good leadership, Anton became a disengaged team member and a marginal performer. The leadership culture grew toxic for the whole team, the leader was fired and Anton quit that organization.  Anton would overcome this bad start to his career to become an award-winning executive and a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Anton Gunn has learned the four simple tools turn the best sales organization into leadership training and development organizations that deliver the highest production.

In this empowering presentation, your leaders will leave knowing how to:

  • Increase the emotional commitment of sales teams’ members to your sales goals
  • Create leadership development plans that yield the right results
  • Build an inclusive culture for every team member, particularly millennials
  • Develop an effective leadership succession plan that leads to greater business continuity

Creating a world-class culture of engagement will increase your financial profitability. When compared to all other industries, finance and banking suffer from high customer switching rates, low employee engagement levels, high turnover, and absenteeism. According to Forbes, for banks, 20% of lost business is due to poor service. The number of customers switching from one bank to a competing bank ranks higher than those who switched internet service providers, and even wireless phone companies.

After working twenty-two years as a C-level executive in the customer-driven and customer-centered healthcare industry, Anton Gunn has learned the most profitable organizations have great customer service and great customer service rooted in developing a world-class workplace culture.

 In this empowering presentation, you will learn how to:

  • Create quality communication with your employees and customers
  • Develop an effective rewards and recognition process
  • How to build high performing teams that reflect the diversity of your customers
  • Model great service recovery by modeling great employee relations
  • Build a culture that is caring, helpful and trusting.

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