Jon Levy is the author of You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence. A behavioral scientist in the fields of influence, adventure and community building. Founded “The Influencers”, a secret dining experience and community, whose participants includes 1,400+ leaders ranging from Nobel laureates, Olympians and celebrities to executives, editors-in-chief and royalty.
Jon Levy’s Speech Topics:
The Future of the Hybrid Workplace – Making work work for everyone
The sudden shift to the hybrid workplace has brought to life new challenges that no one would have expected. Many employees are burning out, feeling isolated, or seeing opportunities to take roles at new companies, while others never want to return to the office and are loving their newfound family time. Navigating the complexities of this situation isn’t easy, but there are some best practices and strategies we should all consider.
- Learn how to foster a sense of belonging even when spread across the world;
- Understand the implications of the Allen curve and how to mitigate the impact at distance;
- Ensure remote team members feel included and are not seen as second-class employees;
- Discover the critical changes to management style so that employees don’t burn out and instead continue to take pride in the work they do;
- Explore cultural cues that give employees a sense of belonging and a one-hour intervention that can increase retention by 33%;
- Increase trust and psychological safety so teams perform better;
- Apply a counterintuitive technique that will reduce stress, increase team bonding, and group success.
The Science of Trust – The Hidden Factors that make or break our relationships
Trust is often said to be the most important factor in a relationship, but what is it made of? And how do you build it quickly or at distance? The truth is, most of what we do to build trusted relationships is harming them. Join behavioral scientist Jon Levy as we learn:
- The surprising technique used by a furniture company that has you care more about the product;
- Why you should always ask for favors even when you don’t need them;
- The biggest mistakes we all make that limits how much people trust us;
- How to develop trust in relationships at a distance as our connections become more virtual.
The Influence Equation – How Connection, Trust and Belonging define our success
Regardless of what you want to accomplish, from growing your business, creating a great company culture, championing a social cause, or affecting your habits, you can’t do it alone. The people around you define your success (whatever that means for you). Unfortunately, almost everything we do to develop better relationships is either wrong or backwards. Now we can do something about it.
- Learn why networking doesn’t work to connect, and what you should do instead;
- Discover how meaningful relationships are created and how they predict human longevity;
- Develop profound levels of trust with your customers and employees that will accelerate your results;
- Understand what four characteristics we need for people to feel a sense of belonging and how that will impact company profitability, employee sick days, and stock value.
The Elephant, The Rider and The Path – How to Guide People to the Best Decisions and Experiences
As we all know too well, appealing to people’s logic rarely succeeds, instead appealing to their emotions is far more effective. When done right, this is known as “Designing the Path”, a process built on the latest behavioral science to guide people through a journey that has people feel and understand you, your brand, and your values. This approach is at the core of everything from great media, or events, to theme park design and even corporate recruiting.
- Learn the three-stage design process and why we need to work backwards from out desired results;
- The surprising behavioral biases that affect our decision-making and how to best apply them to impact how people engage with your brand and value it;
- The five biggest mistakes people are making throughout the process and how to design a Path that reduces cost, increases engagement, and catalyzes creativity.
Jon Levy’s Bio:
Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist best known for his work in influence, human connection, and decision making. Jon specializes in applying the latest research to transform the ways companies approach marketing, sales, consumer engagement, and culture. His clients range from Fortune 500 brands, like Microsoft, Google, AB-InBev, and Samsung, to startups.
More than a decade ago, Jon founded The Influencers Dinner, a secret dining experience for industry leaders ranging from Nobel laureates, Olympians, celebrities, and executives, to artists, musicians, and even the Grammy winning voice of the bark from “Who Let the Dogs Out.” Guests cook dinner together, but can’t discuss their career or give their last name, and once seated to eat, they reveal who they are. Over time, these dinners developed into a community. With thousands of members, Influencers is the largest community of its type worldwide.
Jon’s second book, You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence, was released May of 2021. In it, he demonstrates the importance of human connection, trust and community to accomplishing what is most important to us.
In his free time, Jon works on outrageous projects. Among them spending a year traveling to all 7 continents, or to the world’s greatest events (Grand Prix, Art Basel, Burning Man, Running of the Bulls, etc.) and barely surviving to tell the tale. These Adventures were chronicled in his first book: The 2 AM Principle: Discover the Science of Adventure.
Articles:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/09/opinion/hybrid-workplace-probably-wont-last/
