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Dr James Adonis

International Speaker and Author

Topic

Addressing the leadership blind spots to staff engagement

There are two things we know for sure when it comes to employee engagement. The first is that leaders are often unaware of the level of engagement within their team and the way it fluctuates on a daily basis. The second is they’re unaware, when realising the (dis)engaged reality of their workforce, how to turn it around.

In this presentation, Dr James Adonis will reveal not only the most common leadership blind spots in relation to engagement but also the practical and easy-to-implement solutions for each one.

Bio

James Adonis is an international speaker on how leaders can engage employees during organisation crisis and significant change. James has become a renowned educator on employee engagement and team leadership.

His qualifications include a PhD that researched the ways in which leaders can engage employees during organisational crises and significant change. His previous qualifications spanned a diverse range of disciplines including business leadership, marketing management and political science.

James's academic history is supported by rich practical experience as a leader in a variety of industries, such as financial services and contact centres, at which his most noteworthy achievements were in relation to his employees' engagement, performance and retention. Still today, he is employed full-time in a leadership capacity with responsibility for more than 100 staff, thereby ensuring he's sharing with his audiences what he, too, is actively putting into practice.

James is frequently featured in the media as a thought leader on all matters related to workplace relations. This is most obvious in his weekly business column with the Fairfax group of online news publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. In combination with his books and fortnightly newsletter, James's insights are read by over 100,000 people every month.

For more than a decade, he has worked with hundreds of organisations helping them successfully lead change, engage staff, and improve performance. A truly international speaker and consultant, he has worked with leaders in Australia, New Zealand, India, Dubai, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany and Belgium, with an impressive list of clients including McDonald's American Express, Coca-Cola, Qantas, Ernst & Young, Gucci, Toyota and many government departments.