keynote Speaker

Joseph Grenny is an author of ten books, including four immediate New York Times bestselling books with more than seven million copies in print that are also standard texts in universities worldwide. His bestsellers include Crucial Conversations, Crucial Influence, Crucial Accountability, and Change Anything. Joseph’s work has been used by nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 and has helped millions of people achieve better relationships and results.

In 1990, Joseph cofounded Crucial Learning, one of the world’s most respected learning and organization development firms. Crucial Learning offers solutions to achieve healthy communication, high-performance habits, productive relationships, and influential leadership. It has a community of more than 20,000 certified trainers and facilitators worldwide.

Joseph is also the cofounder and current board chair of Unitus Labs, an international nonprofit that has helped more than 50 million people increase their self-reliance. Unitus Labs affiliates have provided capital arrangement services of more than $4 billion to some of the world’s most successful socially oriented ventures. Joseph is cofounder and board chair of The Other Side Academy (TOSA), a residential school that teaches vocational and life skills to people with histories of crime, addiction, and homelessness. In 2021 he cofounded The Other Side Village, a 430-home community for the chronically homeless based on principles of self-reliance and peer accountability.

A dynamic keynote speaker and leading social scientist for business performance, Joseph’s work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and is available in thirty-six countries.