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For leaders, teams, and audiences who need energy that lasts.

WHEN BELIEF FADES,

LEADERSHIP MATTERS MORE

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Hi, I'm John Eades

I work with organizations that care deeply about their people but can feel the energy slipping. Leadership quality hasn’t kept pace with expectations, and even strong teams can start to feel flat when belief fades.

My work sits at the intersection of leadership, optimism, and a bias for action. I believe in principles, simple frameworks, and real stories. Most of all, I believe in helping leaders and teams reconnect to purpose, build confidence, and leave with something they actually use.

Let's Get Personal

Momentum, Not Motivation

People don’t need to be fired up for a day. They need language, stories, and perspective that continue to show up weeks later in conversations, meetings, and decisions.

The goal is not applause. It’s forward movement. Whether the setting is a keynote, a leadership session, or a longer-term partnership, the focus is helping people believe again and act differently because of it.

One leader can change everything, but one leader can't do everything.

John Eades

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What People Say After the Work is Done

“Not only did I learn many basic principles of how to be a better leader but precise, actionable steps. I am excited to get my team involved to ensure we are working together the best way possible. I highly recommend John Eades and look forward to future training opportunities”
Brenda, Executive
Brenda, Executive
"Since working with John Eades, I've been put in a position of greater responsibility. It's an incredible opportunity for growth and their expertise helped make this possible. Thank you for your help and support, and the great kindness you've shown a perfect stranger."
Sam, Manager
Sam, Manager
“The leadership concepts shared are relevant and vital in today's workplace. I gained great insight from John Eades on how to become a better leader.”
Suzanne, Human Resources
Suzanne, Human Resources
"John's speaking was in a manner that was not only thought-provoking, but also kept our interest. They can be utilized in all facets of life, not just in your profession. He is an expert in leadership development"
Jay, L&D
Jay, L&D
"John is very funny, and made the learning experience a delight! I have already started to implement a lot of the learning points from his talk in my professional career as well as my personal life. I would absolutely recommend him to everyone, whether you are a leader in your current role or not. "
Whitney, Executive
Whitney, Executive
"John energized the team, encouraged participation, and kept our focus through the entire presentation. I would recommend him to any company looking to grow the best teams that they can. "
Susan, Participant
Susan, Participant
John's upbeat personality and positive attitude kept my attention the entire time.
Brandi ArmstrongParticipant
John is an exceptional motivational speaker. His positivity and enthusiasm is contagious.
Demetrice BundyPresident

If This Resonates, Let's Talk

Every organization and every event is different. Sometimes the need is a keynote that creates a shared moment. Sometimes it’s a leadership session that helps people reset and refocus. Other times it turns into an ongoing conversation about how to help leaders and teams grow.

If you’re looking for someone who brings steady, modern energy and helps people reconnect to why their work matters, I’d love to explore what would serve your people best.

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Ways to Inspire Action to Improve Performance

Keynote Speaking

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The Teamwork Advantage

Turning Groups Into High-Performing Teams

Elite teamwork isn’t reserved for the select few. Any group of people can become an elite team when they embrace the right formula and commit to the behaviors that make it work.

When a team operates at its best, the output is exponential — 1+1 can equal 4, 8, or even 16. But when a team is misaligned or disconnected, 1+1 can be less than 1.

In this engaging and interactive keynote or workshop, John Eades reveals the core behaviors and principles that separate elite teams from average ones. You’ll learn how to:

  • Build a clear sense of purpose.

  • Create alignment

  • Strengthen communication a

  • Inspire team members to take action 

By the end, you’ll be equipped with practical strategies to build stronger trust, greater alignment, and a more unified, action-oriented approach to achieving results.

Are you ready to make teamwork a competitive advantage?

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Popular Keynotes and Workshops

The Leadership Lens

Why Your Choice Matters

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Accelerate Leadership

How World Class Leaders Deliver Impactful Results

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Creating Elite Company Culture

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

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The Excellence Loop

How Small Iterative Steps Lead to Big Results

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The Growth Formula

How the Best Professionals Accelerate Their Development and Impact

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The Change Funnel

Stop Trying to Force Change and Start Unleashing It

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The Leadership Lens
Why Your Choice Matters

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Building the Best -
What Great Modern Leaders Do

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The Excellence Loop -
How Small Iterative Steps Lead to
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Creating Elite Company
Culture - How Great Leaders Inspire Action

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Bound By Belief - How to
Create an Unwavering Belief to Fuel Success

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Route to Results -
Focus on Standards to Achieve Outcomes

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The Excellence Loop

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Building the Best

"One of the Best Leadership Books of the Year"

John Eades, LearnLoft CEO, challenges you to rethink what it means to be a leader today, and shows you how to become a world-class leader who inspires, empowers, and serves—and who can transform the results of any team or organization.
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64 Day Excellence Planner

"This planner is elite"

Your ability to focus is what will separate you from achieving your goals. Focus is what separates action from distraction. Focus is the habit of habits.

Enter the 64-Day Excellence Planner. It’s designed to help you mimic how high performers maximize their efforts over six working days a week, breaking goals into quarters. The consistent practice of starting your day with planning, prioritizing, and being proactive with the most essential actions will fuel your future achievement.

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The Leadership Lens

When things are out of our control, we quickly blame others. While it feels good now, it doesn’t get you any closer to better outcomes. Instead of focusing on things out of your control, it’s time to turn your attention to something you can. The lens that you look at something through. It’s time to put on the Leadership Lens.

The Leadership Lens transforms the way you look at solving problems, elevating others, and creates a relentless responsibility over your thoughts and actions. In this 45 to 60-minute session, John Eades will help change the lens you look at the world. You will learn:

• The three kinds of lenses people look through.
• Why you can’t force leadership, you encourage leadership
• How to choose excellence and not ordinary.

You will leave inspired to take responsibility for the things in your control and help transform your life and career. Are you ready to put on the Leadership Lens?

Leadership Excellence Now

People aren’t born great leaders they develop into them. While it would be great if every manager in our companies chose leadership, the hard truth is very few do. Instead of asking managers to lead, we must show them how to lead effectively. 

Leadership Excellence Now provide participants a playbook describing exactly how the best leaders lead. In this fast-paced 60-minute keynote, John Eades shares stories and best practices to help managers choose leadership. Managers will learn the following:

  • The researched back secret to how the best leaders lead.  
  • The 5 Modern Leadership Styles (Participants took a short quiz during the keynote to determine their current style). 
  • Stories and tools that promoted different leadership actions when they got back to their place of work. 

The audience will leave inspired to lead and with a practical playbook of how to do it. The only question remains: Are you ready to have leadership excellence now?

Creating Elite Company Culture

Companies spend a lot of time talking about service and excellence. But search the websites of your competitors, and you’ll quickly find that they are saying the same thing. Instead of telling people we are different, let’s show them we are different.

It turns out one of the most effective ways to create an engaged staff that maximizes their potential isn’t just telling them. It’s about creating an elite culture where team members are willing and able to be active participants in it. It’s time to explore what it takes to create an elite culture. In the 45 to 60 minute session, John Eades will walk you through the five levels of culture and help you identify specific strategies to move your company or team to the next level.

Are you ready to create an elite culture?

The Excellence Loop

The Excellence Loop is not just another motivational speech. It’s an impactful and meaningful guide that will help your audience unlock their full potential and achieve excellence in every area of their lives. In this inspiring and educational 45-60 minute session, John will challenge your audience to think differently about excellence. Instead of trying to be perfect, we will explore the critical role of failure in the pursuit of excellence. By embracing the lessons that come from our mistakes, we can leverage the Excellence Loop to achieve sustained excellence on a consistent basis.

 

Through real-life stories, practical strategies, and thought-provoking insights, your audience will learn how to cultivate a growth mindset, take action, and create a positive impact. They will discover the key ingredients that all high-performing professionals and teams leverage to achieve excellence daily.

 

Most importantly, your audience will leave inspired to re-think how they view and pursue excellence. Whether they are looking to improve performance or increase accountability, the Excellence Loop is designed to build a powerful mindset shift that never sleeps.

Bound By Belief

We spent very little time accepting the promotion but so much time considering what other people are doing to help the team get great results.

Instead of focusing so much on others, it’s time to turn the attention back on yourself. It turns out that in order for a team to get great results, it starts with how much the leader believes in themselves and the mission.

It’s time to be bound by belief. Bound By Belief rewires your beliefs about yourself, others, and the company culture to shape a new reality.

In this 45-60 minute story-laced session, John Eades will help you harness the power of your beliefs to become the way you behave.

You’ll learn how to leverage reality to create magical moments in the future. So whether you are interested in increasing engagement or performance for you or your team, Bound Your Belief is designed to be the springboard to your new success.

You’ll leave inspired to rethink how you lead yourself and your team. Are you ready to Bound Your Belief?

The Change Funnel

Are you tired of feeling like you’re constantly pushing against a brick wall when trying to make change happen in your life or your organization? Do you feel like you’re banging your head against the same old problems, with no real progress to show for it?

Well, it’s time to stop trying to force change and start unleashing it instead. That’s where “The Change Funnel” comes in.

In this dynamic and engaging talk, John Eades shares the secrets to unleashing real, sustainable change in your organization. Instead of pushing and struggling to make change happen, you’ll learn how to create an environment that naturally facilitates change, making it easier and more effortless than ever before.

Using the proven Change Funnel framework, John will guide you step by step to shed convincing others, put a picture around the problem, invite others in, and shorten the shift to create a clear path forward.

So if you’re ready to stop trying to force change and start unleashing it, join John for “The Change Funnel. You’ll come away feeling inspired, empowered, and ready to take action.