SERVICES & PRODUCTS
Dr. Ambery offers an array of programs and services to improve
personal and organizational success including key note presentations,
leadership development programs, team facilitation,
and executive coaching. He can build custom programs based on client needs. In addition, he is an Academic Director at the Kellogg School of Management | Northwestern University. Below are examples of popular programs.
VIBE: Alignment of Values, Intentions, Behaviors, and Intentions
90 min - 4 hour
An organization's most valuable resource is the attention and commitment of its people. This engaging program explores key components of resilience, with readily-applicable techniques, enabling participants to build a fully engaged and focused workforce. John shares a leadership model based on aligning values, intentions, behaviors, and your environment, as outlined in his book, Mindful Alignment: Leadership in the Hyper-Connected Age (2017). Participants will learn tools to deepen purpose, create meaning, and increase intentional behavior. John also explores the powerful role of mental narratives in this process. Learn how to adapt your explanatory style and internal storytelling to help you fulfill your greatest potential.
Building a Culture of Candor
90 min - 2 hour
You may be avoiding the data you need most - the data that falls outside your expectations. Learn how cognitive blind spots restrict the effectiveness of you and your organization and find ways to overcome them. Discover mechanisms to foster inclusive and productive dialogues to unleash the collaborative power of your organization. Learn ways to leverage all the talent at your table. Explore dynamic topics such as contrarian contributions, assumption challenges, and cross-boundary trust vectors. A healthy culture of candor can jump start open collaboration, embrace divergent perspectives, and illuminate innovative solutions.
Situational Awareness: Tactical & Strategic
90 min - 4 hour
High stress, highly-fluid, time-pressured, dangerous professions, such as firefighting, require situational awareness, both "in the moment" while operating and at the "life level" to remain resilient over time. This workshop shares proven techniques to maintain situational awareness and resilience while serving in challenging professions and enviromnents. Dr. Ambery also explores methods to build shared situational awareness at the team level. Additionally, this workshop provides a framework accompanied with practical techniques to enhance team effectiveness and communication.
Mindfulness - What is it?
How Can You Apply It?
90 min - 2 hour
Mindfulness is popping up across a broad spectrum of our professional and personal lives. It purports benefits ranging from physical health improvements to increased workplace effectiveness to emotional and spiritual enhancement. But many wonder, how can I practically apply mindfulness in the workplace? This light-hearted, engaging session is grounded in neuroscience research and offers a practical approach to implementing mindfulness in your work environment. Explore a range of realistic ways you can apply mindfulness within your professional and personal life. John uses humor to bridge the concept of mindfulness with diverse applications in the work context. Dr. Ambery's dissertation, Mindfulness Meditation And Its Enhancement of Psychotherapy Skills (1997), studied how applied mindfulness may enhance job skills utilized when conducting psychotherapy.
Dr. Ambery's book offers a leadership model based on alignment of your values, intentions, behaviors, and environment to enable you to live with purpose in the workplace and in life. It provides a framework to lead yourself and others and to have authentic, meaningful impact.
Our personal and professional lives are becoming increasingly intertwined with technology at a pace unprecedented in human history. This hyper-connected age offers tremendous conveniences and advantages; however, it also comes with significant side effects. Rapidly advancing technology is influencing us in ways we are still discovering and not fully understanding. Worse, in an increasing number of contexts, our digital footprint exposes us to these influences without our awareness or deliberate choice.
Situational Awareness & Self Awareness: The Intersection of Leadership
1 Hour Keynote
Discover how situational awareness and self-awareness intersect to maximize your professional and personal effectiveness. Examine the critical role values, feedback, and continuous learning play in your leadership development and professional effectiveness. John shares compelling stories to convey key learning points.
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