Bruce Babashan

The daily pressures to meet performance metrics and goals often pull us away from the high-ideals and high-calling of our work. It transforms the way we view our ourselves, our goals, our mission, and even how we view the people we lead or serve. This “dangerous drift” has helped to destroy some of history’s greatest leaders, teams and organizations and is often hard to spot until it's too late. This talk Bruce shares the importance of staying connected to the higher purpose of your work, how losing that connection can have a devastating impact on your team and company, how to spot when it’s happening, and what to do to break free from its grasp.

Understanding the power of your daily interactions with those you lead, the 10 universal underlying motivators driving them, and how to build a culture of high expectations are essential skills for leadership success. Using the true story of a brief, personal interaction with the great University of Maryland football coach Bobby Ross, Bruce describes how coach Ross’s kindness, intent and message taught him more about leadership and culture building than Bruce had learned to that point in his entire life. It was leadership in action and demonstrated how great leaders establish trust, faith and loyalty within the teams and organizations they lead. This is a powerful talk for leaders looking to understand and deepen the connection they share with the people they lead.

Does any of this sound familiar? You are committed to your work, but still can’t seem to produce the results you want or need. You read books about and pursue work-life balance, but still just can’t get the right balance that leads to the success you want? You are stuck going between “out of the park” success and just meeting your goals. ​In this talk Bruce shares the very real and sometimes stark and contrarian truth about the level of commitment it takes to achieve big things and the sacrifices we must sometimes make along the way. With plenty of examples and using a unique behavioral model and visual system, he helps the audience understand and identify their true level of commitment and what it means to get to the next level.