<p>Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement. </p><p>Lencioni’s passion for organizations and teams is reflected in his writing, speaking and executive consulting. He is the author best-selling books with nearly five million copies sold. His capstone book, <i>The Advantage</i>, is the pre-eminent source on organizational health and became an immediate best-seller. His classic book, <i>The Five Dysfunctions of a Team</i>, remains a weekly fixture on national best-seller lists. His popular follow-up book, <i>The Ideal Team Player</i>, highlights the virtues needed to hire and become real team players. The 2020 release <i>The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities</i> provides clear examples and action steps to help readers assess their approach to business challenges.</p><p>The wide-spread appeal of Lencioni’s leadership models have yielded a diverse base of speaking and consulting clients, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, non-profits, schools and churches.</p><p>Pat addresses thousands of leaders each year at world-class organizations and national conferences. Consistently the top rated keynote speaker at major events, Pat shares his insights and inspires his audiences through his accessibility, humor and story-telling.</p><p>Named in Fortune magazine as one of the ‘ten new gurus you should know,’ Pat and his work have been featured in USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review, to name a few.</p>
Organizational health guru and New York Times best-selling author
<ul><li><b><strong>The Untapped Advantage</strong></b></li><li>Addressing the model in his book, <i>The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business</i>, Pat makes the overwhelming case that organizational health "will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage." Drawing on his work consulting to some of the world’s leading teams and reaffirming many of the themes cultivated in his other best sellers, Pat reveals the four steps to achieving the ultimate competitive advantage.</li><li><b><strong>The Truth About Employee Engagement</strong></b></li><li>Pat addresses perhaps the most timeless and elusive topic related to work: job misery. He dismantles the root causes of frustration and anguish at work and provides managers with actionable advice on how to bring meaning and fulfillment to any job in any industry.</li><li><b><strong>The Five Dysfunctions of a Team</strong></b></li><li>According to Pat Lencioni, teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage. He makes the point that if you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. Lencioni uncovers the natural human tendencies that derail teams and lead to politics and confusion in so many organizations.</li><li><b><strong>The Ideal Team Player</strong></b></li><li>Lencioni turns his attention to the individual team-member, revealing the three indispensable virtues—humility, hunger and people smarts—that make some people better team players than others. Pat explores the power this combination yields, and illustrates how team members with these traits drastically accelerate the process of building high-performing teams.</li></ul>