Welcome to Professor Bennett’s Speaking Portfolio for 2025-2026. It includes some of his most highly received topics as well as a few newly developed leadership presentation topics. These are all suitable for your next conference, association meeting, company meeting, group meeting or company/group retreat.
Topics range from traditional leadership development to leadership edutainment, like leadership lessons from Hamilton or Star Trek. They are all very informative, as indicated by the comments below. All topics are typically meant for 60-minute time slots with 35 to 45 minutes of presentation and 15 to 25 minutes of Q&A.
Presentations can be customized for the audience organization level, discipline and/or industry.
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Identifying & Filling the Gaps in Your Leadership Practice
Everyone has leadership gaps as most people overestimate their leadership abilities. These misconceptions between the leader’s actual leadership abilities compared to the average abilities of others or to the perception of their abilities by their team, represents the gaps that each leader needs to identify and work on.
In this session, attendees will learn the 3 types of gaps every leader should identify: individual, team and organization level. Analyzing the results from research conducted over eight years, we visually present what the gaps look like and the steps leaders can take to correct for them.
“Thank you to the incredible insights shared by our esteemed speaker, Professor J. Bryan Bennett, for “Leadership Gap: Identifying and Filling the Gaps in Your Leadership Practice for 2025.” From recognizing hidden gaps to applying practical tools for growth, Professor Bennett’s expertise and hands-on experience in leadership development provided invaluable takeaways for navigating the challenges and opportunities this coming 2025.”
– Femie Cupit, Founding President , Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Greater San Diego, FACCGSD Educational Series
UTILIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN YOUR DAILY LEADERSHIP PRACTICE
Artificial Intelligence (AI) means many things to many people. Leaders should embrace the technology and utilize it in their daily leadership practice. It can easily be used to support decision-making, improve communications, stimulate brainstorming and accelerate research. Incorporating AI can improve a leader’s efficiency by minimizing routine tasks, increasing effectiveness and creating a more dynamic and responsive organizational culture.
In this session, leaders will discover various AI tools, how to effectively use them and how to incorporate them in their leadership practice.
Why ‘Leadership Skills’ Are Not Enough
People spend the bulk of their careers acquiring various “Leadership Skills”. Unfortunately, acquiring those skills will usually not help them become a better leader. This ‘checking the boxes’ approach to leadership improvement only provides temporary success, if any, as people become complacent once they’ve achieved them, instead of working to improve them. For ongoing, long-term improvement, leaders need a continuously improving leadership process to help them achieve their career goals.
In this session, attendees will learn the leadership process and how following it will lead to continuously-improving leadership.
“Great presentation. I always learn something new from Bryan.”
– Attendee, Kellogg Alumni Club of San Diego, Alumni Speaker Series, April 2024
What INDIVIDUAL Leadership Gaps are You Bringing Into 2024?
What TEAM Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?
What ORGANIZATION LEVEL Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?
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Beyond Leadership Titles: Cultivating Influence and Impact
In today’s dynamic work landscape, the essence of leadership goes beyond titles. Holding a title doesn’t automatically make one a leader, and lacking a title certainly doesn’t preclude leadership. The heart of leadership lies in a continuous process rather than a static position. Whether holding a formal title or not, individuals can embody leadership through various impactful practices.
In this session, we will delve into the essence of leadership as a dynamic process not confined by hierarchical labels. Attendees will explore tangible actions to showcase value within a team and unlock potential at every level.
“Bryan Bennett spoke at our monthly event in 2023 sharing about leadership qualities, strategies and tactics. He comes from a wealth of leadership experience through the Elite Leadership Academy that gave our members the tools to excel in their professional and personal lives. Bryan is a pleasure to speak to and a true professional.”
– Rylie Jennings, Board Member, San Diego Tech Hub, SDTH Monthly Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2023
TAKING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH LEADERSHIP RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Organizations spend billions of dollars each year on leadership development programs, but very little, if anything, on managing the leadership resources they developed. Leadership resources management is a data-informed approach to managing an organization’s leadership resources. It enables more informed decisions in promotions, assignments, retention and hiring by replacing subjective interviews, relationship-based promotions and selections with a quantifiable, repeatable and unbiased leadership management strategy. It goes beyond leadership development and helps organizations improve their overall leadership culture.
In this session, we will explore the impact of adding a leadership resources management strategy to a leadership development program and examine its implications on promotions, assignments, retention and hiring.
10 Leadership Lessons from the Hamilton Musical
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton using hip-hop and songs. It has become one of the highest grossing Broadway musicals ever – and is still growing.
There are many leadership lessons from the musical about Alexander Hamilton and the other Founding Fathers as well as lessons in the creation of the musical.
In this fun and inspiring session, we count these leadership lessons “Ten Duel Commandments” style just like the musical, only without the singing and dancing.
“I loved it all. Now I am ready to watch Hamilton for the 3rd time and think about it from a different (leadership) perspective.
– Attendee, AMN Leadership Seminar
“The topic was relevant and the presenter was excellent! The experiences he shared were relatable and he offered great suggestions which I can incorporate into my daily routine. The approach of learning lessons from the Hamilton musical made it fun and memorable.”
– Attendee, AMN Leadership Seminar
“Good morning Professor Bennett, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the ‘10 Healthcare Leadership Lessons from The Hamilton Musical‘. I loved your presentation and the leadership lessons learned, thank you so much.”
– Attendee, AMN Leadership Seminar
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How Leadership is Like Golf
Sports provides a powerful metaphor for leadership as they remind us that leadership can be applied in sports situations as well as in life. Of all the sports, golf is the one that compares most directly to leadership. It’s individually focused. Each golf course and each hole is different just like each leadership encounter is different. Improvement only occurs through practice and coaching.
In this session, attendees will learn the parallels between leadership and golf, as well as how to apply golf improvement techniques to their everyday practice of leadership.
“Very fun and enjoyable session. Professor Bennett did a nice job of demonstrating components of the topic. I intend to look into this topic further and to review the slides again. He made it visual and interactive. Great components for learning.”
– Attendee, Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, Chicago, IL, September 2017
10 Leadership Lessons from the Star Trek Universe
Star Trek has been entertaining us for over 60 years with its morality-based stories. If you look behind the shields, you’ll find leadership lessons worth many latinum bars that work for captains as well as ensigns. Whether you’re leading a starship or working on a lower decks team, a first contact away team or recalibrating the warps coils, you’ll benefit from the leadership lessons in this presentation.
In this fascinating session, attendees will learn leadership lessons from the many Star Trek TV shows and movies, applicable from captains to ensigns.
Identifying & Harnessing Your Leadership Superpowers
Like superheroes, leaders should be on a continuous journey to discover their personal leadership superpower, which is their go to thing as a leader.
Each journey is different just like no two superheroes have the exact same powers. Batman is as much like Superman as the Hulk is like Thor. Every leader has their own leadership power or abilities, as well their weaknesses.
In this session, attendees will learn how to identify and use their leadership superpower for leadership success. They will also learn how overcome any leadership weaknesses or ‘kryptonite.’
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