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Mike Lee

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Mike Lee, former NBA mentor, guides organizations through disruption. Harness purpose-driven strategies to win the talent war and foster a culture of belonging.

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Mike’s message is inspiring and message rooted in practicality. The strategies he’s teaching will help your people unlock the potential within.

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Why you should book Mike Lee for your next event

  • Unlock Peak Performance: Mike Lee delivers high-performance strategies for corporate excellence and lasting success.
  • Mindfulness Mastery: Equip your organization with mindfulness tools for resilience and strategic decision-making.
  • NBA Mentorship: Benefit from Mike Lee’s firsthand experience coaching NBA MVPs, translating winning strategies to corporate success.
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Empower your team with Mike Lee, a transformative keynote speaker. Elevate leadership through purpose-driven strategies, mindfulness, and high-performance insights. Ignite engagement, win the talent war, and foster a culture of belonging.

Why you should book Mike Lee for your next event

  • Unlock Peak Performance: Mike Lee delivers high-performance strategies for corporate excellence and lasting success.
  • Mindfulness Mastery: Equip your organization with mindfulness tools for resilience and strategic decision-making.
  • NBA Mentorship: Benefit from Mike Lee’s firsthand experience coaching NBA MVPs, translating winning strategies to corporate success.

Mike Lee, a distinguished keynote speaker, seamlessly blends a legacy on the basketball court with a profound journey through mindfulness and high-performance leadership. With 15 years immersed in the world of NBA, coaching elite players including MVPs like Steph Curry and Joel Embiid, Mike channels his experiences into transformative lessons for organizational success.

In the crucible of personal and professional challenges, Mike delved into the practices of mindfulness and meditation, emerging not only with resilience but with a counter-cultural approach to leadership. From his college apartment, Mike built a basketball training business, battling anxiety and depression, a journey that uniquely equips him to connect authentically with diverse audiences.

Mike Lee’s keynotes are a masterclass in purpose-driven, future-focused, and heart-centered leadership. His programs at Fortune 500 companies, including Morgan Stanley, Cisco, and IBM, have earned him praise for an engaging, inspiring style. Described as “the perfect choice” to kick off events, Mike’s impeccable storytelling ability weaves personal adversity, basketball prowess, and the latest research from neuroscience into a compelling narrative. And when organizations book Mike Lee, they secure not just a speaker but a catalyst for transformative leadership, ready to elevate their event and empower their team.

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NEW RULES FOR THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP

How The Bold and Driven Can Elevate Engagement, Win The War For Talent, and Create A Culture Of Belonging

The future of leadership is more human than ever. In 2020 challenges lingering in the background like mental health, purpose, and belonging immediately rose to the surface. In 2021 the Great Resignation followed leaving companies with challenges that can’t be solved long-term simply with a pay increase.  Today, the aftermath of the pandemic, virtual work environments, the looming recession, and the Great Resignation are front and center for leaders. Simply put, Covid changed how we work, our relationship to work, and the expectations of leaders across all industries. And senior leaders, emerging leaders, and leaders without a title need to be equipped with internal skills to navigate this new world of work.

Future of leadership keynote speaker Mike Lee has blended a diverse background of entrepreneurship, personal adversity, and experiences with some of the world’s top performing athletes to create a counter-cultural approach to leadership. He’s shared this methodology with Fortune 500 companies and leading industry associations like IBM, AmFam, Cisco, Morgan Stanley, and SHRM.

This program is designed to equip leaders with the purpose-driven, future-focused, mindfully aware, and heart-centered leadership skills to meet the moment and prepare for what’s next. These research backed competencies are proven to elevate engagement, attract top talent, improve well-being, and create a culture of belonging. Ultimately helping organizations sustain peak performance, drive growth, and create their future in the new economy.

Key Takeaways:

  • Activate personal and organizational purpose to drive employee engagement
  • Shift from outcome-driven to legacy-driven leadership 
  • Utilize practical mindfulness skills to elevate high-performance and well-being
  • Leverage heart-centered leadership for psychological safety and belonging
  • Attract top talent and give yourself an edge
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GAME CHANGERS

Counter-Cultural Performance Principles That Crossover From The Court To Business and Life

In this high-impact program, Mike shares personal stories, proven strategies, and powerful mindsets he’s learned from times on the court with basketball’s elite like MVP  Steph Curry, All-Star Joel Embiid, and Rookie of The Year Malcolm Brogdon. All, of which directly translate to business performance.

The challenge we all face today is that our work environments are overwhelmingly disruptive, rapidly changing, and increasingly fragmented — creating the biggest barrier to success. The constant battleground of our mind for the present moment. Which is the only place we can take action to impact our future.  Just like elite performers block out the opposing crowd in a packed arena, Mike teaches you how to lock in on the task at hand in the middle of chaos.

The audience will walk away with actionable strategies — from NBA’s Elite — that can be implemented immediately, to unlock the human potential inside of you and deliver world-class performance in any arena. Game Changers leaves the audience with an inspiring message that impacts them long after he leaves the stage.

Key Takeaways

  • Discover what separated Kobe Bryant beyond his basketball skills that apply to workplace performance
  • Learn a Steph Curry mindset for activating high-performance
  • Discover breakthrough insights on what drives elite performers you can leverage in your business
  • Learn how to master distractions in order to place your attention and energy on what you can control
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UNSHAKEABLE

Developing The Resilient Leader Within

Never before have leaders faced more things at once. The Great Resignation, the looming recession, and a hybrid work environment have created the toughest leadership crisis of our time. During these pivotal moments, a generation of leaders and their businesses will be defined by how they decide to show up.

Through Mike’s experience building an international basketball brand from his college apartment, and growing it while battling anxiety and depression, he understands the challenges leaders are facing in these very moments.  Drawing on the latest research from sports psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, Mike shares timely, relevant, and actionable strategies he’s personally embraced to lead through adversity.

When combined with his inspiring storytelling approach, they create an experience that has helped people across the world uncover, unlock, and unleash the purpose-driven, future-focused, and heart-centered leader within themselves during these unprecedented times.

Key Takeaways

  • Develop the psychology needed to lead in an era of disruption
  • Learn how to create an infinite culture of heart-centered leadership to foster belonging, engagement, and resilience
  • Discover how to stay connected to your energy as a leader
  • Learn the power of shifting from outcome-driven to legacy-driven leadership
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MINDFULNESS IN THE MODERN WORLD

How to beat burnout, elevate performance, and cultivate well-being in a volatile, uncertain, and complex world

A global pandemic, overwhelming uncertainty, and a virtual world have accelerated our country’s epidemic of mental health, stress, and burnout. According to Gallup’s State of The Workplace report employees have never been more stressed, which the American Institute of Stress says is costing US businesses $300 billion dollars per year. Harvard Business Review research also shows that we are only present about 50% of the day. That means in our forty-hour workweek we’re actually only productive twenty hours. Simply put, this stress pulls us out of the present moment.

In this program mindfulness keynote speaker Mike Lee demonstrates that the present moment is where high-performance, engagement, and well-being all exist. We spend time in the past stuck in guilt, anger or regret. Or we’re in the future in anxiety, planning, or worry. But the best thing you can do for your future-self, the future of your organization, and the future of people you lead is to be fully in the present moment.

The bottom line is this. Technology advances, information, and distractions are not going to slow down.  Our external environment is not going to change.  The change has to come from the place within. Mindfulness keynote speaker Mike Lee introduces this through the lens of personal adversity and sports performance to connect to the audience in a vulnerable, relatable and authentic way. He explains how by building a foundation in mindfulness we unlock the emotional IQ, develop the self-awareness, and cultivate the resilience needed to thrive in this demanding, rapidly changing, and uncertain world.

Key Takeaways

  • The common myths and barriers to starting a mindfulness practice
  • How to incorporate mindfulness into your daily routine to build the skill
  • Access the power of the Decision Gap to lead from your values
  • Practical application to elevate high-performance, decrease stress, and improve emotional resilience
  • A mindfulness meditation experience session that translates to action
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Mike’s message is inspiring and message rooted in practicality. The strategies he’s teaching will help your people unlock the potential within.

Larry Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer, The Walt Disney Company

I've had the opportunity to experience Mike both virtually and live, in-person. Regardless of how you decide to work with him, you're going to walk away with strategies to better navigate through adversity, build focus and enhance overall professional performance. His content, stories, and mindsets could not be more relevant at this time!

Brad Pavelec, Cisco

Mike’s message on the power of the present moment was incredibly impactful. He spent time up front getting to understand our business, people and industry and was able to seamlessly tie his talk into our North America Annual Meeting theme. Mike brought a unique combination of energy and compassion that really connected with our people. And, I know his message not only impacted our people’s lives, but will support us in reaching our strategic initiatives.

James Rooney, CEO and Chairman, DazPak

Listening to and learning from Mike has not only been a positive experience but also a powerful one. In a world of change, he has a knack for simple tools that help you focus on a path forward. It's been great to connect with him over the past year, both one-on-one and in larger groups – he's able to keep everyone engaged and it will be great to see him in-person one day soon.

Richard Curtis, CEO, FutureBrand Australia

If you’re looking to inspire and elevate your people, look no further. Mike helped our leaders really focus on purpose-driven, heartfelt leadership that will have a huge impact on our culture of belonging and well-being.

Rich Steffen, President, American Family Insurance

Mike was literally the perfect choice to kick off our event and set the tone for the rest of the day with Jesse Itzler and Mike Tyson. The basketball stories had takeaways for a general audience even if you don't follow the game and left everyone wanting more. I couldn't believe how fast the hour went by! We would have him back in a heartbeat!

Chris Flakus, CEO, CSI Companies

If you want someone who understands the power of presence, performance, and people then Mike Lee is your go-to person. Every encounter we have exchanged left me a wiser and bolder leader and human being. Mike knows the theory, the practice, and how to deliver them. What else do you need if you are looking to build presence, resiliency, leadership, and peak performance.

Patrick Kozakiewicz, Global Mindfulness Program Leader, IBM

Mike’s presentation today to our sales team was extremely relevant in dealing with our state of constant distractions and hurricane of emotions. He did a fantastic job.

Dave Donarski, National Head of Sales and Strategy, BMO Harris

Mike, your keynote speaker session at the recent NHRMA conference was great! Mindfulness, and meditation, specifically, was more of a buzzword to me heading into the session. You took it from a buzzword to something real, tangible. More importantly, your examples inspired me to action. Thank you!

Carrie Schleicher, HR Manager, PwC

We hosted Mike Lee for an impactful performance coaching event for our members. Even months later our members speak very highly of his session because they've used his strategies to keep them on track to achieving their goals. The unique combination of relatable stories plus actionable strategies really made this program stick.

Michael Unger, FPA Miami
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5 out of 5 stars

Mike’s message is inspiring and message rooted in practicality. The strategies he’s teaching will help your people unlock the potential within.

Larry Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer, The Walt Disney Company See all references

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