Speaker - Kevin L. King

motivational speaker and author

“Do you want to become your best, most authentic self? Do you want to live an inspired life? Let me guide you as you learn the art and science of making transformational choices!”

Kevin L. King is a learner and a teacher. He is constantly challenging himself to be better and gain insight into the “why” behind his behavior patterns. And he shares the knowledge gained from personal and professional successes and failures through his motivational presentations.

Understanding the Underlying Motivation

In his presentations, Kevin shares stories of his life experience applying YOU inspired concepts and principles. He explains how understanding how you are wired and why you do what you do are the first steps to making transformational choices. You can become your best possible self by discovering and understanding who you are and what you need to be motivated and energized. The techniques Kevin shares in his presentations are designed to help people make effective choices and discover new possibilities.

Motivational Presentations

Kevin aims to create a better world, one person, leader, or team at a time. He is available for speaking engagements with large and small groups, sharing what he has learned from working with Fortune 500 clients in more than 30 countries.

Review the list of Keynote Topics or request a presentation custom-tailored to your audience. Then, contact us to arrange for Kevin to present his inspiring and dynamic concepts at your business or corporate event. It will be a life-changing experience!

Testimonials

"Kevin is simply one of the most exceptional consultant/public speakers in the marketplace."

"Kevin is a ball of professional energy, direct and to the point, yet engaging in his approach. "

"Kevin, of Transformation Point, provided a fantastic program for us based on his book “THINK!” He offers a broad variety of creative offerings to support growth initiatives in the workplace. We’re looking forward to having him back in 2009."

Kevin's Approach

Kevin L. King’s keynote addresses inspire audiences and teach them how to achieve unprecedented personal and professional success by understanding how to tap into the strengths already inside them. His openness, authenticity, honesty, and humor inspire his audiences, leaving them eager to take action with tools to sustain them.

With his inspirational and practical delivery, Kevin shares heartwarming and humorous stories from his personal and professional life to illustrate how knowing what you need to be your best self can inspire and energize you, influence your perspective, and improve your relationships.

Kevin tailors every keynote with a focus on how each audience can benefit. He possesses a keen ability to relate his experiences and topics to your particular group.

YOU | Inspired

How do you achieve level of excitement and energy that you and only you can sustain? Understand what you need to be energized and make better choices about how you manage your energy. Many of us do things that we are good at but not necessarily the things that we are passionate about in environments and with people that bring us energy. We all have a “secret formula” a “unique code” that when decoded opens our gateway to inspiration. Kevin reveals the answers that are already inside of you and the keys that enable you to be “self-inspired” in a powerful and sustainable way. Kevin illustrates what motivates you, what stresses you, and how to make better choices to get what you need. Kevin also explores why everything you need to be inspired is already inside of you and how this perspective can minimize your stress and help you to depersonalize challenging interactions and relationships.

You Are Your Brand

Authenticity in practice

Creating a positive perception coupled with substance is powerful! It starts with knowing your personal brand. An example of a personal brand is the five things that come to mind when people hear your name or see your face. You are brand positive, brand-neutral, or brand negative. Brand positive means you are perceived positively. Brand neutral means you are an unknown entity. Brand negative means you are perceived negatively. To maximize their effectiveness, they must reinvent their brand such that it does not impede their effectiveness or create a barrier to developing effective relationships. Kevin illustrates the power of the Authentic Brand. The brand that represents who you really are is consistent and requires minimum energy for the project. Kevin also explores how sharing with others what they can expect from you when you are inspired and what they can expect from you when you are stressed actually works for you and not against you. Kevin shares real-life stories of the process of moving from brand negative to brand positive and the power of authenticity.

Teamwork | What It Really Takes

Working in teams can often be frustrating. This frustration fuels the perception that the team structure or interdependencies, especially in matrix organizations, produces chaos. Traditional and matrix structures involve developing and navigating relationships across the organization, identifying interdependencies, and effectively negotiating how those dependencies are managed. This requires awareness of the dynamics impacting other parts of the business and how the choices in your domain of influence and control impact success. This involves being organizationally aware.

Additionally, managing the dynamics includes collaborating on priorities and how resources will be leveraged to achieve success with those priorities. Kevin illustrates that it is unnecessary to boil the ocean to improve teamwork. He explains how to empower yourself to think outside the box independently and collaboratively and not to be constrained by rules that lead to poor choices. Kevin shares how to challenge the rules independently or build a coalition that pushes back to accomplish what is in the organization’s best interest. He shares stories, methods, and techniques learned working in teams and with clients to improve team effectiveness.

Engagement

How To Achieve It, How To Sustain It

The Gallup Q12 is a tool used to measure the level of engagement in an organization. Their data indicates fewer than 30% of employees are engaged at work. Kevin creatively illustrates what leaders do unconsciously to foster disengagement and what employees do that contributes to their disengagement. He also shares how simple conversations that lead to understanding and commitment can reverse disengagement. Kevin emphasizes that self-awareness and personal accountability are critical factors in achieving sustainable engagement.

THINK! Leadership

All leaders can benefit by better understanding the relationship between leadership style and being an inspirational leader. Kevin shares his unique global experience delivering his proprietary leadership program within GE Healthcare. He illustrates how a strengths-based approach to helping leaders maximize their effectiveness as inclusive and inspirational leaders can enhance employee engagement. Additionally, Kevin shares how to improve your skills in building rapport/relationships with your direct reports, matrix teams, and those you need to collaborate with and influence. To this end, he explains how assessments are objective tools to provide insight into motivational needs, strengths, and stressors.

Additionally, Kevin will explain how this insight can enhance your ability to uncover the motivational needs of others and identify where differences in needs can be managed more effectively to increase employee engagement and inclusive leadership. The philosophy here is that differences misunderstood create conflict, and differences understood create synergy. The topics of this inspiring and experiential presentation include self-awareness, personal alignment, personal accountability, personal branding, success enablers, success obstacles, effective use of questions, human dynamics, rapid rapport building, relationship management, style differences, and self-management techniques.

THINK! | Challenge What You Are Telling Yourself

Things would be fine if they would do what I ask them to do the way I would! This assumes that everyone prefers what you prefer and that what works for you works for them. Good luck with that! Kevin reveals how what we tell ourselves with our self-talk, even the words we use, drives the following behavior. If we tell ourselves something negative, it typically results in negative perceptions that lead to harmful or ineffective actions. Kevin illustrates how our reactions start as physical reactions that, if not understood, result in cognitive choices that lead to behavior we often regret. Kevin also shares humorous stories and examples of building the mental muscle necessary to override this natural human stress response.

Custom Tailor

Request a custom keynote address drawing on different aspects of the keynote topics above that interest you.

Kevin L. King is known for walking his talk—in other words, he likes to build relationships with his clients. He prefers to tailor to the audience’s needs to connect with them and create an authentic and impactful experience. Let us know if you have a specific interest area or would like to mix it up and merge topics. Kevin aims to ensure his audience knows he is speaking to them and not at them.