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Dr. Lance Secretan is a pathfinder and missionary, and one of the world's foremost thinkers about leadership and inspiring people and organizations. He is of the most insightful and provocative leadership teachers of our time and the former CEO of a Fortune 100 company, an award winning Business Professor at two of Canada’s leading universities, and has been ranked by Leadership Excellence as one of the 100 Most Influential Thinkers on Leadership in the World for the past two years.

As you know, leaders around the world are being called upon to make difficult decisions that will lead to greater stability and profitability in these challenging economic times. Inspiring leaders never underestimate the importance of personal leadership when stress levels rise to an all-time high. Our actions and the language we use to communicate in times of crisis are vital and viral.  The “Call-to-Action” that results in great leadership in these unique times is to find creative ways to inspire employees. Now, more than ever, people are yearning for the hope that comes from Inspirational Leadership. Lance Secretan can show you how.

Lance’s ability to inspire people is legendary. His gift for communicating breakthrough ideas with humor, originality and dazzling multimedia has led to him being ranked one of the top ten keynote speakers in North America.  Lance has delivered over 2000 presentations to high profile clients including Microsoft, First Command Financial Planning, US Postal Service and several large health care organizations. Lance addresses over 150,000 men and women each year, raising their spirits, and giving them brilliant ideas about how to lead, build teams, inspire employees and improve customer satisfaction.  

Lance has had the unique experience of working with 11 of Fortune Magazine’s Best Companies to Work for in America because he knows what it takes to make major corporations succeed in challenging times. Lance’s ability to double profits and reduce staff turnover by 50% for his clients has made him one of the most highly regarded change agents and leadership specialists in the world. Lance has worked with over thirty of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies by helping good organizations develop great leaders who achieve extraordinary results.

A master teacher, Lance Secretan works with a gifted worldwide faculty changing the lives of people and transforming companies and revolutionizing the way they think about leadership. He is the international best-selling author of thirteen books on leadership, an award-winning columnist, teacher, philosopher, corporate coach, and one of North America's most sought-after keynote speakers, retreat leaders, and business advisors.

Voted one of the nation's top ten speakers, and one of the twenty-first century's most influential, he addresses audiences around the world. Lance was the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the 1997 Special Olympics World Winter Games and former Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program. In recognition of a lifetime of caring about people and the planet, Lance was awarded the prestigious International Caring Award (often referred to as the US equivalent of the Nobel Prize), whose other recipients include Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall.

The International Management Council has also recognized his contribution to leadership with the McFeely Leadership Award. Lance has several degrees including a Masters in International Relations from the University of Southern California (magna cum laude) and a Ph. D. from the London School of Economics.

He divides his time between homes in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and Ontario, Canada overlooking a 700-acre wilderness reserve, where he lives with his wife Tricia and their wonder dog, Spirit.