Speaking

Michael Leckie brings over 30 years of leadership and consulting experience to his role in driving transformation in a digital world.  He believes that digital transformation is a combination of the human and the technological and that our organizations can only make the changes needed to thrive through addressing both the social and technical systems of which they are made. 

We accept both virtual and in-person speaking engagements requests.

For questions, please contact Michael at michael@michaelleckie.com

Topics and Objectives

Escape from the Emerald City - The 7 Myths of Change and Transformation

The words change and transformation are on everybody’s lips, and mind, but what is reall changing?  Michael Leckie–former Chief Learning Officer for Transformation at GE and author of The Heart of Transformation: Build the Human Capabilities that Change Organizations for Good–will expose the myths of change that are holding you back from true transformation and explain exactly how to set yourself, and your organization, free.

You will learn how to:

  • Identify, and bust, the myths of change and transformation

  • Make immediate, simple shift in behavior that make all the difference

  • Change the conversation that will change your organization

  • Ask the questions that leaders use to expose, and shift, hidden assumptions

The 5 Questions of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is so ubiquitous that organizations, and their leaders, are getting fatigued just thinking about it.  But their being sick of it doesn’t make the reality go away.  Michael Leckie–former Managing Vice President at Gartner and CLO for Digital Transformation at GE–shares with you the five key questions that mean the difference between success and failure in your transformation efforts.

You will learn how to:

  • Determine what “digital transformation” actually means to you and your organization

  • Identify and avoid the biggest traps and lies of digital transformation

  • Make the immediate changes that underlie a successful transformation strategy

  • Lead transformation in your organization from whatever role you are in.

How Great Leaders Become Transformative Leaders
with Michael Leckie & Mark Bowden

Leadership has changed,  but have our leaders changed as well?  Are today’s leaders meeting the demands of the modern, digital organization?  Can they meet those challenges or are we now asking leaders to do the impossible?  Even great leaders are struggling these days and that is because great leadership itself is no longer enough!  We are in an era of transformative leadership and that does not up the ante, it completely changes the game.  

Michael Leckie–thought leader on change and transformation–and Mark Bowden–world-renowned expert on communication and influence–take their work helping great leaders become truly transformational and bring it to all leaders to help them on their journey wherever they are.

You will learn how to:

  • See the changes in what leadership demands in today’s world

  • Build upon the past to create an entirely new leadership style for the future

  • Not make the mistakes so many leaders make today

  • Deploy the secrets to becoming a transformational leader in a world where great is no longer even enough