Keynote Marcus Buckingham Launches “Find Your Strongest Life”

Marcus Buckingham, the world’s leading expert in personal strengths, shows women how to create lives of passion, purpose, and performance in Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently. Hailed as a visionary in the corporate world, Buckingham now shares his proven, research-based techniques to help every woman identify her strengths, reignite her zeal and power, and live an invigorating life.
 
Buckingham recently led a workshop sponsored by Oprah Winfrey for 30 talented—but unfulfilled and unhappy—women. Acting on his advice, they were able to make immediate significant and positive changes in their lives. More than 1.7 million people downloaded the three-hour workshop video, and more than 100,000 unique contributors came online to post messages when his workshop and its results were featured on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” The phenomenal response to the program demonstrated the critical need to address the role of personal strengths in women’s lives.
 
In FIND YOUR STRONGEST LIFE, Buckingham challenges conventional wisdom and reveals:
•  Ten myths about women—Women with more free time feel less stressed; kids want more time with their working mothers; being good at multitasking helps women get everything done; and women earn less than men for doing the same work. All of these beliefs are part of our perceived wisdom about women. And all of them are wrong.
•  The paradox of declining female happiness—Despite “getting it all,” since 1972, women’s overall level of happiness has dropped, both relative to where they were 50 years ago, and relative to men.
•   Having children does not make women happier—With isolated exceptions, this drop in happiness affects women regardless of whether they have kids, how many kids they have, how much money they make, their health, their job, their marital status, their age, or race.
•   Paid leave, telecommuting and flex-time have a zero or negative correlation to happiness—Workplace data show that programs designed to recruit and retain the most talented women—such as on-site daycare, flexible work options, and paid leave—don’t improve actual happiness.

An indispensable tool for women of all ages, FIND YOUR STRONGEST LIFE will forever change the way women choose to live and work. And by enabling women to tap into their best selves, Marcus Buckingham will help them shatter the internal “glass ceiling” and reach the most elevated level of personal achievement and contribution—their strongest lives.
 
Keynote speaker Marcus Buckingham, founder of The Marcus Buckingham Company, is a best-selling author with more than 3.7 million copies of his landmark bestsellers in print. He has been profiled in the New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and USA Today. Marcus spent nearly two decades at the Gallup Organization pioneering research into personal strengths and has developed strengths-based business solutions for some of the world's most recognizable brands, such as Best Buy, Disney, and Toyota. A graduate of Cambridge University in 1987 with a master's degree in Social and Political Science, Marcus is a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

TAKE THE STRONG LIFE TEST
Keynote Marcus Buckingham invites you to take his new Strong Life Test to discover your Lead Role and Supporting Role. The survey only takes a few minutes, and he’ll provide insights at the Conference! Take the Strong Life Test

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