Josh Wymore

While bold and egocentric leaders are often celebrated, decades of research show that humble leaders make better strategic decisions, bring out the best in others, live happier lives, and embrace kindness without sacrificing results. Yet despite humility’s advantages, few leaders have a practical plan for how to become humbler.

In this practical and engaging session, Dr. Josh Wymore equips leaders with concrete steps that they can take to become humbler every day. Based on his book Humbler Leadership, Dr. Wymore weaves together stories and social science research to help leaders deepen their self-awareness, appreciate others more, cultivate a growth mindset, and discern their greater purpose.

Audience takeaways:

• Connect with Josh’s personal story of battling insecurity and discovering humility.
• Contrast common misconceptions of humility with true humble leadership.
• Discover how humility deepens emotional intelligence & improves decision-making.
• Learn why humble people are less stressed, build stronger teams, and produce better financial results.
• Acquire a framework for building character traits like humility over time.
• Practice the skills of a humble leader.
• Plan for their own growth in humility.

How can you Become More of the leader you were meant to be? Since “you are what you repeatedly do,” changing your skills, mindset, and presence begins with changing your habits.

This powerful and practical keynote explores how the Do-Become Flywheel can be either your greatest enemy or ally. Together, we'll dissect the barriers holding you back from better habits—ignorance, vagueness, and motivation—and empower you with actionable strategies to conquer them. Through Josh’s blend of cognitive science and fascinating real-life examples, you'll catch a vision for how to dissolve your most harmful habits and sculpt powerful ones in their place.

Audience takeaways:

• Understand the Do-Become Flywheel and its role in habit formation.
• Overcome the three barriers to better habits.
• Leverage the habit formation formula to script beneficial new habits.
• Recognize cues and implement strategies to make desirable habits obvious and undesirable ones invisible.
• Implement routines that make desirable habits easy and undesirable ones difficult.
• Utilize rewards to reinforce desirable habits and deter undesirable ones.
• Motivate yourself to get started right away and build momentum.
• Sharpen your ideas with other leaders to create accountability and develop an actionable plan.

When your team is underperforming, how do you coach them through it? When your boss is holding you back, what do you say? And when your kids never seem to change, what can you do?

The solution is the Feedback FormulaTM—a practical and predictable guide to giving helpful criticism and meaningful encouragement to others. By leaning into this behaviorally-focused approach, leaders can confidently and effectively provide meaningful feedback to others.

Audience takeaways:

• Experience the difference between good and bad feedback.
• Understand what research says about the importance of good feedback for organizational and personal flourishing.
• Identify and overcome the barriers to better feedback.
• Gain a practical and predictable guide to giving helpful criticism and meaningful encouragement to others.
• Practice delivering feedback to others in a more effective way.
• Increase confidence in approaching the next feedback opportunity.