Blending sharp business insight with his unexpected background as a world-traveling dueling pianist, Gregory Offner’s high-energy keynotes help audiences elevate performance, spark creativity, and strengthen engagement.
Gregory Offner is a renowned workforce strategist and author known for helping leading organizations cultivate high-performing, deeply fulfilled leaders. Before launching his speaking and consulting career, he led global sales and marketing for Fortune 100 companies, advised major commercial clients on complex risk management and insurance programs, and championed process improvement as a certified Lean Six Sigma practitioner. All the while, he lived an extraordinary double life: a polished corporate executive by day and a world-renowned dueling pianist by night, performing for audiences of every size on five continents.
That unlikely combination of strategic rigor and showmanship now fuels Greg’s signature keynote experiences, where business insights meet music, humor, and audience participation. His programs address a critical gap in modern leadership development—soft skills—and stem from his early-career study of 43 corporate onboarding and training programs, which revealed the profound performance differences between organizations that develop human skills and those that neglect them. His journey also includes a life-changing period spent in total silence following multiple vocal cord surgeries, an ordeal that nearly left him unable to speak and sparked his mission to help people and organizations identify the one change that can transform everything.
Whether he’s speaking, coaching, or leading workshops, Greg equips audiences with practical tools to elevate performance, spark creativity, strengthen engagement, and create work experiences that people want to repeat. By blending research-backed strategies with the immersive energy of a dueling piano bar, he shows teams how to unlock potential, build cultures where people thrive, and deliver performances—at work and in life—that leave others cheering for an encore.
- The Encore Experience™ — Transform Everyday Work into Something Worth Repeating
- When was the last time you went to a concert so good, you found yourself cheering “one more song” at the end? This keynote shows audiences how to bring energy, meaning, and joy back into the workplace by treating each day like a performance people would eagerly ask to experience again. Gregory Offner reveals how the attitudes and interactions that shape our daily work determine whether a job becomes a burden or a source of fulfillment, and he shares a practical framework for creating “Encore Experiences” for ourselves, our customers, and our colleagues. Attendees walk away feeling re-energized about their role, inspired to take personal responsibility for their performance, and equipped to make work feel fun and purposeful again—ultimately strengthening culture, boosting loyalty, and accelerating positive results across the organization.
- The Tip Jar Culture® — Re-Engage and Reignite Your Workforce
- In a time when uncertainty is high and employee engagement is at historic lows, leaders must focus less on fixing “culture problems” and more on elevating the everyday experience their people have at work. Drawing on more than a decade spent creating engagement on demand as a dueling pianist, author and TEDx speaker Gregory Offner delivers an unforgettable keynote revealing three experience-design principles—Take a Sip, Fill Out a Slip, and Leave a Tip—that organizations can adapt to spark stronger collaboration, deeper commitment, and higher performance. Attendees gain insight into the three employee archetypes present in every workplace and what each needs to stay engaged, learn why workers disengage and how behavioral economics can shift those choices, and leave equipped with practical tools to build sustainable engagement that resonates across diverse teams, ultimately creating a Tip Jar Culture® people want to be part of.