Anton Gunn

<ul><li><strong>WORLD-CLASS CULTURE™</strong></li><li>Boost Employee Retention and Build Your Bottom Line</li><li>The best workplaces have three things in common: strong values, influential leaders, and excellent team culture. Unfortunately, business leaders have lost focus on what it takes to build and maintain successful workplaces. Over the last two years, millions of employees have quietly quit their jobs, citing distrust, inequity, mistreatment, and exclusion among their reasons for shifting priorities and walking away from work. The result of this shift has left numerous organizations without an effective strategy to retain top talent, build inclusive workplaces, and address the low morale, low productivity, and high turnover impacting mission and margin. Building a world-class culture requires the knowledge of service, empowerment, and creating a legacy of trust in the workplace. This program shares six pillars that Anton Gunn has used to build award-winning workplace cultures in multiple organizations over his 25-year career in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. World-Class Culture delivers the tools, tactics, and actions needed to break down barriers, boost retention, and build a productive workplace culture. Customized for each audience to address important topics such as diversity, equity, inclusion, employee engagement, retention, or solving systemic problems, this program will provide the roadmap to improve your organizational and team culture</li><li><strong>Radical Recovery</strong></li><li>How Great Leaders Prepare for and Come Back from Tough Times</li><li>Motivated and prepared teams with the right tools can not only survive a crisis, but they can also thrive in a crisis. Unfortunately, the best teams can quickly fall apart in turbulent times without a crisis leadership strategy. Global pandemics, racial and social unrest, economic calamity, and other catastrophic events are just a few potential crises that can devastate an organization. An online poll of more than 2,000 executives and organizations found that a large percentage of respondents did not know what their biggest gap in crisis preparedness would be. Further, half of the respondents were unsure whether their teams would even be prepared to respond to a crisis. Not having the tools to respond can cost an organization everything. Loss of revenues, market share, brand positioning, plus a loss of talent and employee trust are the first things that can impact your organization in times of crisis. Anton Gunn has experienced the massive impact of a crisis. More than 20 years ago, the crisis of terrorism that devastated the American economy after 9/11 almost cost him and his family everything. But since that time, he has led a remarkable turnaround to become one of the most influential minority executives in healthcare and a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. With more than two decades of successful leadership development experience, helping some of America's top organizations, Anton teaches that any high-performing team can thrive through tough times by embracing a few key principles modeled by some of the greatest leaders. </li><li><strong>The Diversity Advantage</strong></li><li>Break Down Barriers and Build a Winning Organization</li><li>Industry-leading organizations have two things in common: they have inclusive leaders, and they are intentional about corporate diversity. In today’s economy, too many organizations and executives have collectively taken their eyes off these two things. Instead, they have reduced diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts and allowed the silence and the conflict around diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility to spread like cancer throughout their business culture and workforce. A pulse survey by the research firm The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) found that 27% of organizations have put all or most D&I initiatives on hold because of their response to the pandemic. And 12% say that D&I is less of a consideration when companies are making decisions about workforce changes such as reductions, promotions, special assignments, and compensation. Eliminating the intentionality on diversity and inclusion can result in low morale, low productivity, high turnover, discrimination claims, and toxic workplace culture. Anton Gunn has seen the negative impact of a failed diversity strategy on business. In 2014, the crisis of race and injustice nearly consumed the culture of a $1 billion academic healthcare system in protests and discrimination claims. His expertise as a strategic advisor to the President and CEO and the executive team led to impactful initiatives that improved employee engagement, workplace culture, and community relations – fueling their growth strategy to nearly $3 billion in revenue and resulting in the organization making the Forbes List of America’s Top Employers for Diversity. </li></ul>