Ivan Joseph

Ivan Joseph Speaking Topics

• Success, Self-Confidence & Grit

  Your belief in yourself is the foundation for thriving, achieving your dreams and unlocking your potential. As an award-winning coach and PhD sport psychologist, Ivan Joseph has focused on understanding the skill of self-confidence. He developed, applied and refined dozens of techniques that lead to high performance and excellence. In this energizing and motivational talk, you’ll learn secrets Ivan uses to help Olympians, World Champions and Fortune 500 companies reach goals they never thought possible. Humor, visualization and immersive activities keep everyone engaged and create a memorable experience. Dr. Ivan Joseph shares powerful stories that people take to heart, as well as, research-based insights.

  Audience Takeaways:

  • Practical Tools for developing the skill of self-confidence in yourself and the teams you lead.
  • A New Mindset to drown out the noise and sustain self-confidence, especially in times of adversity.
  • Inspiration and Renewed Belief in yourself and your ability to manage change and lead with confidence.

• Building High-Performing Teams

  When teams struggle, they create dynamics and challenges that limit performance. How do you create a culture of excellence? How do you build a high-performing team? NAIA National Coach of the Year, Ivan Joseph, cracked the code. He led a tiny college in Iowa to win a national soccer championship. He led a marginal university athletic program to national prominence. He has mentored coaches to Olympic and World Championship success.

  Sharing funny and moving stories and research-based insights, Ivan inspires leaders and teams to achieve even their toughest goals. Self-confidence, cohesion and expectations drive team performance.

  Ivan’s approach works: Leaders and teams see immediate impact.

  Audience Takeaways:

  • Articulate common values and a shared sense of purpose.
  • Create team cohesion with practical exercises that elevate team performance.
  • Recover from setbacks with new coping skills that unlock your team’s ability to set and meet higher levels of expectations.

Fueling High Performance Through Diversity & Inclusion

Your leaders will be inspired and ready to further a culture where inclusion and high performance go hand in hand.

In this powerful and perspective-shifting session, Ivan shares compelling research and lived experiences that demonstrate why diverse teams foster innovation and are good for the bottom line. Drawing on insights from his own remarkable story, Ivan shares easy to apply and digest strategies and techniques designed to help your organization confidently create a transformative culture of inclusion and belonging.

Audience Takeaways:

• Strategies for identifying and overcoming unconscious and systemic bias in the workplace.
• Tactics for navigating organizational nuances and decisions that help foster psychological safety.
• Techniques for fostering cross-cultural recruitment, engagement and retention of diverse talent.

Finding Your North Star: Team Innovation & Engagement

Innovation is not just for Tech Stars. Everyone on your team can improve, adding insight & energy as your organization optimizes operational effectiveness and expands into new competitive markets.

In this new presentation, Ivan brings your team the latest research on generating growth and engagement in your team and concrete methods to make real improvements right away. Dr. Joseph understands the stress & resistance humans naturally experience during times of uncertainty and will teach you specific strategies to move past fear to achieve more.

Audiences are inspired & hopeful after listening to Ivan’s entertaining stories from his life’s work of bringing people together, bringing out the best in them and overcoming overwhelming odds to achieve unprecedented levels of success.

Audience Takeaways:

• Proven Strategies for Increasing Engagement. Dr. Joseph has led diverse teams to the highest levels of success. He will share his secrets for fostering a sense of belonging and pride in your team.
• Raising expectations to see your team soar. High performers thrive when they have enticing and ambitious goals. Ivan will demonstrate the importance & effectiveness of incrementally calling for more.
• Techniques for managing stress confidently. Humans respond emotionally and physiologically to calls for change. The audience will walk away with tools to manage and master their anxiety at work so they can restore and thrive.