Why settle for generic training experiences or "off the rack" development programs when you can have one customized for your team?
Training experiences with Dr. Johnston pump up your team’s potential and equip your people for the next level. He targets your specific interests and needs within the topic. So, his seminars and workshops hit the mark.
Dr. J prepares leaders and teams for real-world challenges and opportunities. His training is focused on results, and he equips participants with insights and strategies they can put to work immediately. This makes the experience unusually practical and pertinent, and the lessons more enjoyable and enduring. Participants give Dr. J’s workshop’s five-star reviews, and organizations depend on his impact on culture and performance.
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Dr. J provides world-class learning and development for every professional level and creates custom training experiences to advance your organization's specific goals.
Encourage and equip your Rising Stars, HiPo’s, and other emerging leaders. Transformational training experiences from Dr. J. help you expand the capacity, maximize the impact, and guarantee the retention of your top performers.
Take aim at the specific skills and perspectives your team needs to become exceptional. Dr. J designs custom training sessions and series that advance your team, talent, and culture goals and equip your people for success.
Refine and refuel Leaders-of-Leaders. Don't confine professional development to lower levels of your organization. Dr. J creates advanced development sessions for seasoned leaders. These deeper dives engage the real experience of veteran leaders and equip executives, senior leaders, C-suiters, and leaders-of-leaders to thrive.
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popular workshops & Seminars
These training topics are especially popular. They’re road-tested and raved about by organizations like Bridgestone, Genesco, Walgreens, Tractor Supply, The Salvation Army, and many more!
Six Foundations of Interdependence: The Secret of Synergy and High-Performing Teams
This engagement demystifies the magic behind the unusual trust, resilience, and performance in top teams. This magic is actually the precious consequence of more specific commitments and practices that transform a team’s priorities and group process. This session refocuses participants’ collaborative efforts and equips them to build stronger and more rewarding teams. [Download Description]
Strategies for Stronger Relationships: Harnessing Conflict & Difficult Conversations
This engagement changes participants’ perspectives on conflict and prepares them to manage it more effectively. It gives them new strategies, broadens their repertoire of responses, increases their emotional control, and prepares them to conduct difficult conversations more effectively. [Download Description]
Five Foundations of Accountability: Cultivating Commitment in Teams
This engagement demystifies the art of building commitment and raising the engagement of your team. Participants learn how to build “buy-in” and turn “hired hands” into co-owners of the mission by aiming their leadership at the Five Foundations of Accountability. Great for supervisors and teams! [Download Description]
Making the Most of the Best of You: Discovering, Developing & Deploying Your Strengths
This engagement shifts the focus from weaknesses to strengths and introduces a new, more powerful, perspective on personal development and performance. It prepares participants to make the most of themselves and unleash their full potential by discovering, developing, and deploying talent. [Download Description]
Carrots, Sticks, and Cattleprods: A Crash Course in Motivation & Influence
This engagement introduces the fundamentals of human motivation and prepares participants to move people and projects more effectively. It introduces a motivational continuum and six sources of influence available to every person at every level and equips them to recognize, resist, and employ them strategically.
These and many other workshops and seminars are available in short-form, half-day, full-day, and multi-day formats– Just right for a lunch-and-learn, offsite, or conference. Dr. J adapts experiences to fit into your Learning & Development needs. Download other topics/descriptions below…
what clients are saying…
Dr. Johnston's teaching is of the highest quality and he is unusually able to adjust to unexpected interests or needs that emerge during the engagement. I am continually impressed by his ability to adapt to different experience levels, tones, or needs and to smoothly combine research and academic content with practical discussion and personal conversation. –Melanie Adams, Executive Director, Center for Executive Education
Dr. J took such care in crafting an experience that benefited the unique nature of our company. He was not only knowledgeable but engaging and relatable as well. and the benefit to our people was amazing! Thankful we made the decision to go with Dr. J for our event. –Danielle Summers Taylor, Director of Employee Experience
“Andrew makes an audience feel like he is in a one-on-one conversation with each of them. Participants gain new insights of their own and new ways of looking at their experiences rather than simply hearing another speaker’s predetermined conclusions. Andrew leads them to internalize the message and apply it for themselves. ” — David Plummer, Architect
Leadership is an adventure to Andrew, and the people he works with quickly catch his enthusiasm for it. They get a new perspective on the challenges and opportunities they face and they get excited about what lies ahead for themselves and the people they lead. –Leslie Carrn, Director Staff Development
Not only are you an excellent speaker but the depth of your knowledge and your gift for teaching impacted us deeply. It is common to attend an event and come away energized but it is rare to come away truly changed and given tools that make an immediate difference for yourself and your team/employer. –Tammy Mason, Group Benefits Department Manager
When considering speakers, Andrew was an obvious choice. He’s been a favorite for his teaching ability and his fine-tuned storytelling skills engage his audiences and keep them engrossed in the subject matter. Our team holds his knowledge base, teaching talent, and personal approach in highest regard.” — Chelsea Swindle, Executive Development Program Administrator
Your sessions on Conflict Management and Strengths Leadership were life changing. Not only did the information change and reshape my view from a professional level. but it was also impactful on a personal level. It is very empowering to gain knowledge that can be put into practice immediately and make a difference. – Krista Calphon, Talent Development Manager
