Alan Mallory

Alan’s dynamic keynote is built around the two years of planning and two months of climbing that went into making the goal of reaching the summit of Mount Everest a reality for Alan and three members of his immediate family. It is an engaging visual and educational journey packed with tools, strategies and innovative ideas that human resources professionals can put into action to make positive changes in their professional and personal journeys. Alan puts specific emphasis on maintaining a future mindset, effective collaboration, adapting to change, developing mutual goals, overcoming adversity, empowering others, and developing trust in professional relationships. It is an exciting and educational journey that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats from beginning to end.

On a High Note focuses on the external, internal and interpersonal factors that connect individuals and teams. Through psychology-based evidence and examples, Alan explores the importance of understanding personality and character traits associated with ourselves, our team members and other stakeholders we interact with. The ability to form strong connections is a crucial capacity to develop as it plays such a critical role in motivating team members, problem solving, resolving conflicts, gaining alignment and creating cohesion. Integrated into this program are live electric violin segments which creates a very upbeat, engaging and entertaining environment. The underlying message is about putting people first, which is the foundation of high performance, retention and long-term success. It is the difference between disharmony and harmony.

Throughout this captivating keynote, an puts specific emphasis on adopting an agile mentality so that we are not too rigid in our thinking, reframing activities to focus on results rather than tasks, developing a level of trust in professional relationships, gaining alignment and commitment, working through change, recognizing strengths, managing schedule and risks, adopting an iterative approach which incorporates immediate feedback, and effectively working together to achieve strategic goals. Alan’s message is about the passion, commitment and resilience that are needed to reach new heights in all that we do as well as the strategies and tools that allow great leaders and committed teams to achieve breakthrough performance.