With over a decade of experience performing for diverse audiences across five continents, there’s no audience too large or small for his programs. Gregory Offner brings each keynote to life through a mix of storytelling, audience interaction, and—of course—using music as the metaphor for creating experiences that deliver more.
It doesn’t matter whether your audience is customer service professionals, executive leadership, classroom teachers, or plastic surgeons…everyone benefits from the Encore Experience framework Gregory teaches attendees.
Speech Topics:
The Encore Experience
When was the last time you went to a concert so good, you found yourself cheering “one more song” at the end? THAT is an Encore experience. Why doesn’t this exist in the workplace?
Imagine a workplace where:
-Your people take personal responsibility for their performance each day;
-Work feels fun again;
-Positive results are accelerating; and,
-Your culture is so good, everyone wants to work there.
-Your people are the center of the action. Creating an encore experience with your teams builds a culture that has them excited about coming back every day.
Gregory Offner sets a new standard for how content is brought to the keynote stage, delivering a lively, one-of-a-kind and extremely fun performance; blending the interactive format of a dueling piano stage with high-impact takeaways to help people reimagine their amazing potential and impact in the workplace.
The Encore Experience gets the attendees to own the spotlight in the session, just as you’d want them to in the workplace. Gregory takes song requests from the audience and weaves their musical ideas into his messaging—backed by scientific data–to help amplify the changes you’re looking to create.
The magic of this experience is that everyone realizes how different an hour of work can feel when you embrace this mindset.
Are YOU ready for an encore?
The Tip Jar Culture™️
Today’s leaders face a critical workforce challenge, with employees demanding more for less—more pay, flexibility, and control, with less time spent working. This coincides with historically low engagement and loyalty, affecting not just productivity and profits, but also workplace culture and morale.
Globally, businesses spend 20 billion dollars each year trying to improve employee engagement and retention. Still, less than 30 percent of the workforce is actively engaged and working toward the organization’s success. What most leaders see as problems with workforce culture, or the workers themselves, are just symptoms of the real problem: the employment experience.
In this unforgettable keynote former dueling pianist turned award winning speaker Gregory Offner reveals three principles of engaging experiences—used in piano bars—and demonstrates the steps to adapt them for your workforce.
Using these three principles (Take a Sip, Fill Out a Slip, and Leave a Tip) organizations can generate more engagement, deeper commitment, and better performance from their existing workforce. Attendees will leave inspired, entertained, and equipped to put these principles into action, and create a Tip Jar Culture™️ of their own.
Audiences Will Gain:
-Understanding of the 3 principles of repeatable engagement.
-A Framework to apply each principle in their own business / organization.
-Explore what tomorrow’s talent expects from their workplace experience.
-Learn what employees really think when they hear the words engagement & retention.
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Bio:
Gregory Offner is a multi-talented individual, with a passion for entertaining and educating others. His keynotes, workshops, and corporate consulting engagements help the world’s leading organizations create high performing, highly fulfilled leaders.
Prior to this work, Gregory led global sales and marketing efforts for several Fortune 100 organizations; brokered complex Risk Management and Insurance programs for large commercial organizations; and drove process improvement initiatives as a certified Lean Six Sigma practitioner. But during that time, Gregory lived a double life. By day, he was a suit and tie wearing professional; but under the cover of night Gregory was better known as “Junior” – a world-renowned professional dueling pianist.
As an entertainer, Gregory has performed on stages of every size; for audiences of every size; on 5 continents. His ability to integrate that fun and energy into his programming (yes, he often uses a piano on stage) transforms his program from a keynote speech into a keynote experience.
Gregory’s work as a keynote speaker, coach, and workshop facilitator fills a void that most organizations leave in their training programming: soft skill development.
Gregory has always been passionate about soft skills, interviewing over 1,000 senior executives about purpose, and analyzing the onboarding, training, and development programs of 43 companies before the age of 30. He was fascinated by the performance differences between organizations which prioritized soft skill training and those who focused primarily on hard, job-specific skill development.
Gregory spent over 2 months in total silence as a result of multiple surgeries needed to repair and rebuild his vocal cords…an experience that nearly left him mute; and which ignited the critical spark needed to transform his work from a “personal curiosity” to a “professional mission” – to help individuals and organizations transform their business by transforming the people within it.
He is the author of The Tip Jar Culture.
Through a mix of speaking, audience participation, and a little dueling piano bar magic sprinkled in, Gregory reveals the insights and tools you need to accelerate your growth, amplify creativity, and deliver a performance that leaves your audience (clients, stakeholders, or employees) cheering for an encore.
