Employees who understand the science behind personal change:
 

• Accelerate their careers
• Secure their job
• Save struggling relationships
• Lose weight, get fit and stick with it
• Become financially stable
• Break free of addictions

That's because no problem is purely a personal problem. Research shows most people have a personal challenge that drags down their work performance by as much as 50 percent.

To help individuals overcome years of failed change efforts, the authors and researchers of the New York Times bestseller, Influencer, have embarked on their largest study of personal influence to date.  They studied the struggles, strategies, trials and triumphs of 5,000 people looking to make big changes. Whether hoping to get a promotion, lose weight, increase sales, or get off drugs, the select few who achieved their goals used the same basic influence strategies- strategies from which the authors distilled a new science of personal change.

In this engaging presentation, participants will learn to make long-anticipated improvements in their lives, careers and relationships by applying three breakthrough principles to any challenge.

1. Escape the willpower trap. Those who fail falsely believe they lack willpower. More often, the problem is that they are blind and outnumbered to the many sources of influence shaping their behavior.

2. Be the scientist and the subject. Those who succeed develop and refine a completely unique theory of change tailored to their individual needs.

3. Turn bad days into good data. The successful few care less about dramatic success than they do about incremental learning.

Joseph is coauthor of three New York Times bestsellers, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High, and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. An expert in topics ranging from influence and leadership to organizational change and effectiveness, Joseph has been cited in dozens of newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He has also appeared on more than one hundred radio and television programs including ABC News, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Today Show. Formerly, Joseph was cofounder and president of California Computer Corporation. And in 2007, he and his coauthors were named Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year for their work in founding and leading VitalSmarts, a leader in corporate training and organizational development. VitalSmarts has helped more than three hundred of the Fortune 500 realize significant results using a proven method for driving rapid, sustainable, and measurable change in behaviors. Named the 2008 Business of the Year by The Association of Learning Providers, VitalSmarts has also been ranked four times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America and has taught two million people worldwide.