Robert Pizzini

Robert Pizzini Speaking Topics

• The Health and Wellness of a Leader and Their Team How 16 oz of Water Can Change Your Life

  The military is well-known for developing and creating leaders. Every member depends on one another to accomplish a mission and sometimes even for survival. Retired Navy Special Operations Bronze Star recipient Bob Pizzini shares how to apply military precision to every aspect of leadership and life in an interactive, feedback-driven presentation on how health and wellness impact everyone’s ability to lead and succeed in business and life. Bob is a self-proclaimed 'Unconventional' Leadership Coach, Trainer, Public Speaker, and Lifelong Learner. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2010 after 26 years of service in Navy Special Operations. Bob shares how he translated his skills from the military to the private sector, the role health and wellness plays in companies and leadership, the importance of confidence and trust in leaders and teams, and why you should hire slow and fire fast.

  Participants are encouraged to check their ego at the door and dive into an awakening of situational awareness, conscious execution, and habits to adopt that deepen their reserves to handle whatever challenges they face. The discussion includes six critical traits of a leader: rest, hydration, nutrition, exercise, brain and heart health, and lifelong learning. Each attribute has tangible takeaways and calls to action that directly relate to one’s ability to lead with physical energy and mental clarity throughout a career and beyond.

  After Bob’s discussion, audiences are better equipped to:

  • Establish a culture of health and wellness, beginning with the leader

  • Build and lead a high-performing, united team.

  • Energetically lead by example while inspiring others

  • Know when to make or defer high-consequence decisions based on mind and body.

  • Assess situations with greater clarity

  • Recognize deficits in health and wellness and enable improvements.
  • Expand your comfort zone and that of your team.
  • Project leadership presence that people recognize, and lead with confidence.
  • Expand and increase your level of comfort in decision-making.
  • Understand how you and your team’s health and wellness impact their ability to perform.

• How to Build and Lead a Winning Team

  Winning teams don’t evolve naturally. They take practice, reflection, and continuous learning to maintain optimal performance.

  Bob’s discussion includes the critical components of assembling and preparing a team for success including manpower, training, properly equipping your team, and putting them in motion.

  Takeaways:

  • Identify and understand the need for the three archetypes of any business team: pioneer, migrator, settler.
  • Set clear and achievable expectations.
  • Ensure your mission and vision is clear to all.
  • Establish momentum, and make room for you to personally and professionally grow.
  • Develop and understand how to better train teams, including your responsibilities and what teams need to succeed.
  • Establish and advance a positive culture.
  • How to effectively define and implement core values across the organization.

"The Pathway to Diversity is Inclusion

What can a white retired US Navy Special Operations male teach us about DEI? Everything. Robert “Bob” Pizzini shares lessons he learned from the military, his life, and his business and how core values are the underlying path to creating more diverse and inclusive teams and communities.

In this thought-provoking presentation, attendees are invited to explore the intersections of leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Drawing from a distinguished military background, Bob sheds light on the resonance between core values such as honor, courage, and commitment, and the foundational principles of DE&I. These insights illuminate a harmonious relationship that catalyzes transformative change.

Attendees will learn:

• How to define each element of DEI and why understanding the definitions matters.
• How the military’s core values reflect DEI.
• The impact of childhood experiences on biases and inclusion.
• The key factor leading the path to diversity.
• Why focusing on inclusivity must come first.
• Hiring and management practices to improve your DEI and workplace culture.
• The importance of metacognition within diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Why hiring simply based on diversity can lead to the illusion of inclusion.
• Why inclusion leads to innovation, diversity, growth and ROI.
• How to identify and address unconscious bias.
• Why boundaries protect inclusivity and how to best establish them.
• The importance of giving everyone a voice.
• How to recognize and react to your blind spots.

The 10 Critical Traits of a Leader

Few things in leadership are static, they evolve and change in any given situation. Understand and use these 10 key traits plus one bonus trait you can deploy in your leadership and teams. These traits help leaders understand how to better present themselves as well as how they should expect others to present themselves. These are tools you can use to elevate yourself and those who want to aspire to leadership positions.

Takeaways:

• Learn how to remove emotion and anxiety from any situation.
• Establish and expand name and brand recognition.
• Understand how to achieve greater clarity and creativity and validate or dismiss assumptions.
• Increase upper-level bandwidth through delegation and empowerment.
• Develop and execute 'what can I do for you' leadership.
• Implement the '5-Whys' to understand cause and effect relationships for better problem resolution.
• Make deliberate improvements in how and why you think.
• The three states of energy and awareness and why they are important.
• Recognize leadership at any level of your organization and how it positively impacts even the most minor components of a day and a company.
• How to better flex and adapt regardless of the situation.
• Provide others the opportunity to teach you something new.
• Showcase your team’s knowledge and skills.
• How to become a better teammate.

Versus in Leadership

When it comes to employee management, why are some people forgiven while others are fired for issues at work? Utilizing a “performance versus behavior” approach answers the question with great clarity. It is one of the most valuable tools at a leader’s disposal in making decisions regarding retaining, retraining, reassigning, or letting someone go.

The ability to read a situation and react appropriately is critical to leadership success. Bob shares six frameworks to identify and address daily challenges in the workplace. Using a find, fix, and finish philosophy, he helps audiences understand and carry out a powerful process to manage daily conflicts and problems.

Takeaways:

• A better understanding of when to retain, reassign, retrain, or let someone go.
• The critical differences between high and low performance and high and low behavior and how all four intersect.
• Key components of ROI and how to achieve them.
• Why tactical level employees are important to improve the process.
• 3 questions to evaluate the effectiveness of an idea.
• Strategies to be more innovative, responsive, and resilient in changing conditions.
• The difference between leadership and management and why it matters.
• How thought and feeling align for effective decision-making.
• Accomplish objectives faster and with greater accuracy.
• Implement tactical empathy as part of your strategy.
• When to lead from the front and when to let others drive.
• The critical differences and similarities between climate and culture
• gives leader tools in the conscious mind to deploy immediately.
• How to address six issues, of which one or more present themselves daily.