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Mike Lee

LEADING WITH PRESENCE – Lead From Within. Grow Your People. Profit Through Presence.

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  • High-performance leadership lessons from basketball’s elite including NBA MVP Steph Curry
  • Blending the worlds of sports performance psychology and mindfulness to create a counter-cultural approach to high-performance leadership
  • Work with bold, driven and high-performing leaders to develop the purpose-driven, future-focused and heart-centered leadership skills for the future of work
  • Help leaders use their organizations as a vehicle for purpose, well-being and belonging

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Mike Lee is a keynote speaker, internationally sold author, and coach who shares high-performance leadership lessons from inside the hearts and minds of NBA’s elite. His work helps individual contributors, leaders and organizations elevate engagement, win the war for talent, and create cultures of belonging in a world of disruption. For 15 years he spent time with basketball’s 1% including NBA MVPs Steph Curry and Joel Embiid. While leading his basketball training business, he was blindsided by a period of personal and professional adversity, and dove deep into the practices of mindfulness and meditation. Today he’s blended diverse backgrounds of mindset, mindfulness, and high-performance to create a counter-cultural approach to the future of leadership.

Mike’s engaging, inspiring, and interactive programs at F500 companies and professional associations like Morgan Stanley, AmFam, Cisco, SHRM and IBM have earned rave reviews from bold and driven leaders. He’s delivered this approach through keynotes in packed ballrooms of a thousand, virtually to a global audience, and workshops with 10-person senior leadership teams. Mike has been described as “the easiest and most conscientious speaker I’ve worked with”, “the perfect choice to kick off our event” and having “an impeccable ability to tell a story”.

Building his basketball business from his college apartment, while battling anxiety and depression, Mike understands the challenges leaders face in this volatile, uncertain, and complex world. His unique combination of personal adversity and basketball background gives him the ability to connect in a vulnerable and authentic way with a diverse range of audiences from the stage.

Drawing on the latest research from neuroscience, sports psychology, and personal experience, he’s shared stories and practical exercises — across the world — to help people find their own inner power and poise to thrive in business and life. His latest book, The New Rules For The Future of Leadership, has been endorsed by the likes of New York Times best-selling authors, thought leaders, and other Fortune 500 execu

NEW RULES FOR THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP: How The Bold and Driven Can Elevate Engagement, Win The War For Talent, and Create A Culture Of Belonging

The future of leadership is more human than ever. In 2020 challenges lingering in the background like mental health, purpose, and belonging immediately rose to the surface. In 2021 the Great Resignation followed leaving companies with challenges that can’t be solved long-term simply with a pay increase. Today, the aftermath of the pandemic, virtual work environments, the looming recession, and the Great Resignation are front and center for leaders. Simply put, Covid changed how we work, our relationship to work, and the expectations of leaders across all industries. And senior leaders, emerging leaders, and leaders without a title need to be equipped with internal skills to navigate this new world of work.

Future of leadership keynote speaker Mike Lee has blended a diverse background of entrepreneurship, personal adversity, and experiences with some of the world’s top performing athletes to create a counter-cultural approach to leadership. He’s shared this methodology with Fortune 500 companies and leading industry associations like IBM, AmFam, Cisco, Morgan Stanley, and SHRM.

This program is designed to equip leaders with the purpose-driven, future-focused, mindfully aware, and heart-centered leadership skills to meet the moment and prepare for what’s next. These research backed competencies are proven to elevate engagement, attract top talent, improve well-being, and create a culture of belonging. Ultimately helping organizations sustain peak performance, drive growth, and create their future in the new economy.

Key Takeaways:

  • Activate personal and organizational purpose to drive employee engagement
  • Shift from outcome-driven to legacy-driven leadership
  • Utilize practical mindfulness skills to elevate high-performance and well-being
  • Leverage heart-centered leadership for psychological safety and belonging
  • Attract top talent and give yourself an edge
WIN THE MOMENT: Counter-Cultural Performance Principles That Crossover From The Court To Business and Life

In this high-impact program, Mike shares personal stories, proven strategies, and powerful mindsets he’s learned from times on the court with basketball’s elite like MVP Steph Curry, All-Star Joel Embiid, and Rookie of The Year Malcolm Brogdon. All, of which directly translate to business performance.

The challenge we all face is that our work environments are overwhelmingly disruptive, rapidly changing, and increasingly fragmented. This creates the biggest barrier to success — the constant battleground of our mind for the present moment. Just like elite performers block out the opposing crowd in a packed arena, Mike teaches you how to lock in on the task at hand in the middle of chaos.

The audience will walk away with actionable strategies — from NBA’s Elite — that can be implemented immediately, to unlock the human potential inside of you and deliver world-class performance in any arena. Win The Moment leaves the audience with an inspiring message that impacts them long after he leaves the stage.

Key Takeaways:

  • Discover what separated Kobe Bryant beyond his basketball skills that apply to workplace performance
  • Learn a Steph Curry mindset for activating high-performance
  • Discover breakthrough insights on what drives elite performers you can leverage in your business
  • Learn how to master distractions in order to place your attention and energy on what you can control
UNSHAKEABLE: Developing The Resilient Leader Within

Never before have leaders faced more things at once. The rise of AI, the looming recession, and a hybrid work environment have created the toughest leadership crisis of our time. During these pivotal moments, a generation of leaders and their businesses will be defined by how they decide to show up.

Through Mike’s experience building an international basketball brand from his college apartment, and growing it while battling anxiety and depression, he understands the challenges leaders are facing in these very moments. Drawing on the latest research from sports psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, Mike shares timely, relevant, and actionable strategies he’s personally embraced to lead through adversity.

When combined with his inspiring storytelling approach, they create an experience that has helped people across the world uncover, unlock, and unleash the purpose-driven, future-focused, and heart-centered leader within themselves during these unprecedented times.

Key Takeaways:

  • Develop the psychology needed to lead in an era of disruption
  • Learn how to create an infinite culture of heart-centered leadership to foster belonging, engagement, and resilience
  • Discover how to stay connected to your energy as a leader
  • Learn the power of shifting from outcome-driven to legacy-driven leadership
MINDFULNESS IN THE MODERN WORLD: How to beat burnout, elevate performance, and cultivate well-being in a volatile, uncertain, and complex world

A global pandemic, overwhelming uncertainty, and a virtual world have accelerated our country’s epidemic of mental health, stress, and burnout. According to Gallup’s State of The Workplace report employees have never been more stressed, which the American Institute of Stress says is costing US businesses $300 billion dollars per year. Harvard Business Review research also shows that we are only present about 50% of the day. That means in our forty-hour workweek we’re actually only productive twenty hours. Simply put, this stress pulls us out of the present moment.

In this program mindfulness keynote speaker Mike Lee demonstrates that the present moment is where high-performance, engagement, and well-being all exist. We spend time in the past stuck in guilt, anger or regret. Or we’re in the future in anxiety, planning, or worry. But the best thing you can do for your future-self, the future of your organization, and the future of the people you lead is to be fully in the present moment.

The bottom line is this. Technology advances, information, and distractions are not going to slow down. Our external environment is not going to change. The change has to come from the place within. Mindfulness keynote speaker Mike Lee introduces this through the lens of personal adversity and sports performance to connect to the audience in a vulnerable, relatable and authentic way. He explains how by building a foundation in mindfulness we unlock the emotional IQ, develop the self-awareness, and cultivate the resilience needed to thrive in this demanding, rapidly changing, and uncertain world.

Key Takeaways:

  • The common myths and barriers to starting a mindfulness practice
  • How to incorporate mindfulness into your daily routine to build the skill
  • Access the power of the Decision Gap to lead from your values
  • Practical application to elevate high-performance, decrease stress, and improve emotional resilience
  • A mindfulness meditation experience session that translates to action
Chief Strategy Officer, The Walt Disney Company
Mike’s message is inspiring and message rooted in practicality. The strategies he’s teaching will help your people unlock the potential within.
Cisco
I've had the opportunity to experience Mike both virtually and live, in-person. Regardless of how you decide to work with him, you're going to walk away with strategies to better navigate through adversity, build focus and enhance overall professional performance. His content, stories, and mindsets could not be more relevant at this time!
CEO and Chairman, DazPak
Mike’s message on the power of the present moment was incredibly impactful. He spent time up front getting to understand our business, people and industry and was able to seamlessly tie his talk into our North America Annual Meeting theme. Mike brought a unique combination of energy and compassion that really connected with our people. And, I know his message not only impacted our people’s lives, but will support us in reaching our strategic initiatives.
Global Mindfulness Program Leader, IBM
If you want someone who understands the power of presence, performance, and people then Mike Lee is your go-to person. Every encounter we have exchanged left me a wiser and bolder leader and human being. Mike knows the theory, the practice, and how to deliver them. What else do you need if you are looking to build presence, resiliency, leadership, and peak performance.
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