Your effectiveness as a leader is only as strong as your ability to influence. The problem is that most organizations do not give their leaders the tools needed to create a lasting impact on their workforce. Furthermore, a myriad of recent workplace studies show that employees today are disengaged at work; actively looking for other jobs; “quiet quitting”; and prefer to work with leaders who will help them build a career path that benefits them and the organization. Anton Gunn knows the negative impact of an ineffective leader.

Nearly 30 years ago, he was a disengaged team member and a marginal performer on a lousy team. As a result, he was in a toxic culture full of unfairness that forced him to quit that organization. Since then, Anton rose to become a senior advisor to President Barack Obama and an award-winning leader in multiple organizations over his 25-year career in public, private, and non-profit sectors. As a keynote speaker, author, and business consultant, Anton’s programs teach that anyone can become an influential and effective leader when they know how to serve, empower, and create a legacy of trust in the workplace. Just Lead will provide you with a straightforward strategy to increase your professional development, improve your team culture, and become a world-class leader that everyone will admire.

The best workplaces have three things in common: strong values, influential leaders, and excellent team culture. Unfortunately, business leaders have lost focus on what it takes to build and maintain successful workplaces. Over the last two years, millions of employees have quietly quit their jobs, citing distrust, inequity, mistreatment, and exclusion among their reasons for shifting priorities and walking away from work. The result of this shift has left numerous organizations without an effective strategy to retain top talent, build inclusive workplaces, and address the low morale, low productivity, and high turnover impacting mission and margin. Building a world-class culture requires the knowledge of service, empowerment, and creating a legacy of trust in the workplace.

This program shares six pillars that Anton Gunn has used to build award-winning workplace cultures in multiple organizations over his 25-year career in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. World-Class Culture delivers the tools, tactics, and actions needed to break down barriers, boost retention, and build a productive workplace culture. Customized for each audience to address important topics such as diversity, equity, inclusion, employee engagement, retention, or solving systemic problems, this program will provide the roadmap to improve your organizational and team culture.

Industry-leading organizations have two things in common: they have inclusive leaders, and they are intentional about corporate diversity. In today’s economy, too many organizations and executives have collectively taken their eyes off these two things. Instead, they have reduced diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts and allowed the silence and the conflict around diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility to spread like cancer throughout their business culture and workforce.

A pulse survey by the research firm The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) found that 27% of organizations have put all or most D&I initiatives on hold because of their response to the pandemic. And 12% say that D&I is less of a consideration when companies are making decisions about workforce changes such as reductions, promotions, special assignments, and compensation.

Eliminating the intentionality of diversity and inclusion can result in low morale, low productivity, high turnover, discrimination claims, and toxic workplace culture. In this program, Anton reveals how anyone can build an industry-leading organization if they gain The Diversity Advantage. By learning and embracing a few leadership traits modeled by some of the best organizations, you can build your company culture and boost your bottom line.