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Gregory Offner

Former Dueling Pianist Turned Author; Workforce Strategist; Award-Winning Keynote Speaker

Gregory demonstrates three principles of engagement, found in a Piano Bar, which create experiences people want to engage with again and again. He then shares stories of real world organizations who've applied these principles to business, and offers a framework for audiences to do the same.

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Gregory Offner is a multi-talented individual, with a passion for entertaining and educating others.

His keynotes, workshops, and corporate consulting engagements help the worlds leading organizations create high performing, highly fulfilled leaders. Prior to this work, Greg led global sales and marketing efforts for several Fortune 100 organizations; brokered complex Risk Management and Insurance programs for large commercial organizations; and drove process improvement initiatives as a certified Lean Six Sigma practitioner. But during that time, Greg lived a double life.

By day, he was a suit and tie wearing professional; but under the cover of night Greg was better known as “Junior” – a world renowned professional dueling pianist. As an entertainer, Greg has performed on stages of every size; for audiences of every size; on 5 continents. His ability to integrate that fun and energy into his programming (yes, he often uses a piano on stage) transforms his program from a keynote speech into a keynote experience. Greg’s work as a keynote speaker, coach, and workshop facilitator fills a void that most organizations leave in their training programming: soft skill development. Greg has always been passionate about soft skills, analyzing the onboarding, training, and development programs of 43 companies before the age of 30. He was fascinated by the performance differences between organizations which prioritized soft skill training and those who focused primarily on hard, job-specific skill development.

Most recently, Greg has spent over 2 months in total silence as a result of multiple surgeries needed to repair and rebuild his vocal cords…an experience that nearly left him mute; and which ignited the critical spark needed to transform his work from a “personal curiosity” to a “professional mission” – to help individuals and organizations identify the one change that can change everything.

Through a mix of speaking, audience participation, and a little dueling piano bar magic sprinkled in, Greg reveals the insights and tools you need to accelerate your growth, amplify creativity, and deliver a performance that leaves your audience (clients, stakeholders, or employees) cheering for an encore.

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The Tip Jar Culture: How to Re-Engage and Reignite Your Workforce
FOR LEADERS, OWNERS, AND ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING TO IMPROVE WORKFORCE RETENTION & INCREASE ENGAGEMENT
Today’s leaders face a critical workforce challenge, with employees demanding more for less—more pay, flexibility, and control, with less time spent working. This coincides with historically low engagement and loyalty, affecting not just productivity and profits, but also workplace culture and morale.

Globally, businesses spend 20 billion dollars each year trying to improve employee engagement and retention. Still, less than 30 percent of the workforce is actively engaged and working toward the organizations success. What most leaders see as problems with workforce culture, or the workers themselves, are just symptoms of the real problem: the employment experience.

In this unforgettable keynote former dueling pianist turned award winning speaker Gregory Offner reveals three principles of engaging experiences—used in piano bars—and demonstrates the steps to adapt them for your workforce.

Using these three principles (Take a Sip, Fill Out a Slip, and Leave a Tip) organizations can generate more engagement, deeper commitment, and better performance from their existing workforce. Attendees will leave inspired, entertained, and equipped to put these principles into action, and create a Tip Jar Culture™? of their own.
Takeaways:
- A framework to create a sustainable engagement strategy that appeals to broad and diverse employee groups.
- Three tools to implement simple, but effective, shifts in the experience of work that eliminate the three major frustrations causing employees to leave.
- Insight into the question that most leaders don’t ask, but all employees wish they would.

Dueling with Disruption
Dueling with Disruption
AMPLIFY SUCCESS BY SIMPLIFYING THE SCIENCE OF CHANGE

You may know that 70% of corporate change initiatives fail, but do you know why?

To create sound we only need two elements: a source of agitation and a source of vibration. To create an organizational culture that thrives in and embraces disruption we also need two elements. In this captivating keynote, Greg uses examples from the world of business and music to reveal the key to creating successful disruptions.

Using principles of psychology and behavioural economics, Greg helps the audience explore their own approaches to change, and explains why most attempts to make sustaining changes fall flat.
Takeaways:

Discover how to ignite the change resilience that lies within, and simplify dealing with disruption.

Learn the two critical ingredients needed to create and sustain disruption.

Articulate the definition of disruption, and how it applies to organizational and individual change.

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I've had several members approach me and say this is the best keynote they've ever seen. We couldn't have been more impressed. I'm grateful for Gregory's partnership, professionalism, and would recommend him highly to anyone looking for a keynote speaker.

Bobby Cornwell, Executive Director, Camp Florida RV Park & Campground Association

I can take the discussion about people and culture back to work next week and apply the lessons he taught. Gregory delivered a session that was engaging, interesting, and fun. I think the whole audience was into what he had to say, and they're lessons we can apply every single day.

Don Avery, CEO, Fairview Park Hospital

We had Gregory keynote for our Trustees conference, and he gave us a presentation like we've never had before. It was fun, but offered a functional message for our attendees. He clearly did his homework, and everyone has told me how much they enjoyed his session. I think you would too!

Earl Rogers, Executive Director, SHRM

We've done lots of corporate events, and brought in lots of speakers. I love how everything Gregory does is tangible, and useful for businesses.

Jeff Stiles, VP of Sales, Sage Surfaces

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I've had several members approach me and say this is the best keynote they've ever seen. We couldn't have been more impressed. I'm grateful for Gregory's partnership, professionalism, and would recommend him highly to anyone looking for a keynote speaker.

I can take the discussion about people and culture back to work next week and apply the lessons he taught. Gregory delivered a session that was engaging, interesting, and fun. I think the whole audience was into what he had to say, and they're lessons we can apply every single day.

We had Gregory keynote for our Trustees conference, and he gave us a presentation like we've never had before. It was fun, but offered a functional message for our attendees. He clearly did his homework, and everyone has told me how much they enjoyed his session. I think you would too!

We've done lots of corporate events, and brought in lots of speakers. I love how everything Gregory does is tangible, and useful for businesses.

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Gregory Offner

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The Tip Jar Culture: How to Re-Engage and Reignite Your Workforce

Dueling with Disruption

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I've had several members approach me and say this is the best keynote they've ever seen. We couldn't have been more impressed. I'm grateful for Gregory's partnership, professionalism, and would recommend him highly to anyone looking for a keynote speaker.

I can take the discussion about people and culture back to work next week and apply the lessons he taught. Gregory delivered a session that was engaging, interesting, and fun. I think the whole audience was into what he had to say, and they're lessons we can apply every single day.

We had Gregory keynote for our Trustees conference, and he gave us a presentation like we've never had before. It was fun, but offered a functional message for our attendees. He clearly did his homework, and everyone has told me how much they enjoyed his session. I think you would too!

We've done lots of corporate events, and brought in lots of speakers. I love how everything Gregory does is tangible, and useful for businesses.

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