
Joseph Grenny
Co-founder of Crucial Learning, Joseph Grenny empowers teams
with tools to build influence, trust, and high-performance habits.
Co-founder of Crucial Learning, Joseph Grenny empowers teams
with tools to build influence, trust, and high-performance habits.
Unlock powerful, lasting change with Joseph Grenny, bestselling author of Crucial Conversations and cofounder of Crucial Learning. With over 7 million books sold and trusted by nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000, his groundbreaking strategies in communication, influence, and accountability help organizations build high-performance cultures. Joseph delivers science-backed, actionable tools that transform leadership, resolve conflict, and create measurable behavioral change, making him the go-to keynote speaker for companies ready to elevate results and relationships.
Keynote Speaker Joseph Grenny is a world-renowned social scientist, bestselling author, and leadership expert whose work has transformed how organizations communicate, lead, and perform. With over 7 million copies sold, his New York Times bestselling books, including Crucial Conversations, Crucial Influence, Crucial Accountability, and Change Anything, are trusted by executives, HR leaders, and managers across the globe to drive meaningful change in behavior and results.
Joseph’s research-based frameworks are used by nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 and are taught in universities worldwide. As co-founder of Crucial Learning, he has built one of the world’s most respected leadership development firms, helping teams master high-stakes conversations, create cultures of accountability, and lead with purpose and influence.
Booking Joseph Grenny for your event means equipping your organization with practical, actionable tools that immediately improve performance, collaboration, and employee engagement. His keynotes are not only inspiring, they are deeply insightful, drawing from decades of research and real-world application.
Book Joseph Grenny for your event to help your leaders and teams tackle their most critical communication challenges, resolve conflict effectively, and implement behavior change that sticks. Whether you're navigating transformation, addressing culture, or driving performance, Joseph delivers the clarity and expertise to help you succeed.
Keynote by Joseph Grenny:
Whenever you’re not getting the results you want, it’s likely an important conversation either hasn’t happened or hasn’t been handled well. We call these Crucial Conversations—discussions between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong.
When conversations turn crucial, people tend to follow one of two ineffective paths: they either speak directly and abrasively to get the results they want but harm relationships, or they remain silent with the
hope of preserving relationships only to sacrifice results.
But with the right set of skills people can step into disagreement—rather than over or around it—and turn disagreement into dialogue for improved relationships and results. And our research shows that both individual and organizational success are largely determined by how quickly, directly, and effectively we speak up when it matters most. At the heart of healthy and high-performance organizations are people willing and able to hold Crucial Conversations.
In this engaging session, participants will learn the research-based, time- tested dialogue skills used by more than five million book readers and one million training graduates.
You’ll learn how to:
Keynote by Joseph Grenny:
Change efforts fail when leaders narrowly look for a single cause behind their persistent problems and then try to implement quick-fix solutions.
On the other hand, influencers succeed because they understand that most problems are fed not by a single cause, but by a conspiracy of causes. They merge multiple sources of influence into a strategy that can overpower even the most persistent and resistant problems.
In a recent study published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Crucial Learning researchers found that those who combine all Six Sources of Influence are ten times more likely to succeed at producing substantial and sustainable change.
These results held true across areas of:
Learn a step-by-step strategy for exponentially increasing your power to change your greatest and most persistent challenges
Keynote by Joseph Grenny:
Managing performance is more than a process – it’s about people. Effective performance management isn’t done with software and tools. It’s accomplished by respectfully addressing your people’s behavior routinely and consistently. It’s about candidly coaching through challenges and holding people accountable for lapses in behavior. It’s about identifying goals, fast-tracking careers, and in the process, improving your people and your bottom line.
These are dialogue skills—the difficult kind that may not come naturally, but when learned, mean the difference between managing people and managing process.
In this engaging speech, participants will learn how to hold people accountable in a way that improves performance without compromising relationships.
They’ll learn how to: