Glenn Llopis, known as “the opportunity expert” is the prototype of the new entrepreneur whose success lies in steadfast character, passion for life and an ability to marry social responsibility with ground-breaking products and services. He combines a celebrated UCLA education with fast-tracked years at the Gallo Wine Company and Sunkist where he became the youngest senior manager in the company’s 100+ year history. Leading the successful turnaround of Sunkist’s juice beverage division opened the door for his next endeavor, the vice president of the $1 billion Norway Seafood Co. at only 30 years old.
In the decade since, Llopis has parlayed his traditional experience into nontraditional ventures that have been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, The Financial Times, Advertising Age, Brandweek, MSNBC, Yahoo! News and others. He has also published more than 30 articles appearing in these and other business publications and has successfully launched (7) new business ventures.
Mr. Llopis has recently launched his highly anticipated new book, Earning Serendipity – 4 Skills for Creating and Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work. He also serves at the Chairman of the Executive-2-Executive Mentoring Program at the University of California at Irvine, and Faculty Lecturer at the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics at Chapman University, and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He also serves as a educator for Junior Achievement and is the founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership. Glenn actively serves on the distinguished (2) non-profit innovation think-tank groups: KIN Global (Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University) and Renaissance Weekend.
Speech Topics
Moving through Changing Times
I have often said that the immigrant (people from developing countries that have made the United
States their home) can teach us all lessons about moving through changing times. The immigrant haseir lived through uncertain times most of thves and have been forced to operate with the
“entrepreneurial mindset” just to survive. These uncertain times have forced us all to change the way
we live, work, eat and breathe. Think about it – the world will never be the same. So the question is –
how do we move through these changing times to see and seize opportunities? How do
organizations lead, grow and prosper by accepting “the new normal.” First and foremost, “the new
normal” during these uncertain times is defining your business as one that serves a civic duty towards
building global prosperity. Businesses are no longer about the bottom line – but rather about making
the bottom line matter; making opportunity matter to make the world a better place.
Moving through changing times is about understanding that change without strategy is substitution; not evolution. That leading companies must start to think differently about the role of their business in propelling positive social impact/change. Companies must rethink / retool their workplace culture that incentivizes their people to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset to propel innovation and initiative. A mindset that respects the corporate guidelines and infrastructure while allowing its people to navigate fresh / new opportunities that matter for the betterment of society. This keynote / training session will include:
- What is change and how to make change your best friend?
- Building global prosperity through innovation, action and the power of positive serendipity
- How to best see and seize opportunity during times of change.
- Social responsibility: its new role in defining the 21st century workplace culture.
- The new roles, responsibilities and capabilities of leaders and managers
Opening Doors for a Positive Lifestyle
With the news, images and realities of what is now and what will forever be characterized as the global
economy; people are seeking a positive lifestyle that is attainable and sustainable. Opening Doors for
a Positive Lifestyle means learning how to see and seize opportunities for a healthier, wealthier and
stimulating life. With the uncertainties of the day, new opportunities abound and are more plentiful
than ever before. Organizations’ must become more attuned to providing their employees an
environment that breeds inspiration, motivation and hope. Offering channels to seek new and exciting
activities (both in and outside of the workplace) to propel creativity and unlimited opportunity for
personal and professional development, is the key.
Opening Doors for a Positive Lifestyle should become the core of what an organization stands for its employees. An environment that breeds “lifestyle development” and that extends towards creating a more balanced approached to ones everyday both in and outside of the workplace. A big part of the process requires that organizations provide their employees the tools and environment to “trust their brand.” Trusting your brand is about opening doors for a positive lifestyle and learning how to navigate the potential that lies within you – through others. It’s about having the courage to live your brand and the positive lifestyle that you have always dreamed of living. This keynote / training session will include:
- Personal development and the role of a positive lifestyle and its impact on workplace productivity
- What it means to have the courage to live the lifestyle that you seek and how to attain it both in and
outside of the workplace.
- How learning to see, sow, grow and share opportunities represents the path to a lifestyle of
prosperity
- What it means to Trust Your Brand and how adversity reveals the lifestyle that you may have never
imagined.
- Create Purpose for a Positive Lifestyle that benefits you and those around you.
Multigenerational Workforce
Without question, the workplace is changing in a direction most would have thought unimaginable 18
months ago. The economy has created a domino effect of change management requirements that
have included but are not limited to: the role of technology, environmentally-friendly products/services,
new supply-chain collaboration and cost-cutting methods, global trade, resourcing and outsourcing, etc.
Yet, the most impactful change management requirement has been the emergence of the multigenerational workplace (ie. Boomers, Gen X’ers and Millennials) - and the soon to be inclusion of the multicultural workforce. A multigenerational workplace does not only represent (3) clusters of multigenerational people that co-exist at work; it’s about blending multiple personalities, age groups, styles, cultures and technological requirements all under one roof – while still keeping the organization focused, stable and growing.
To understand this, one must live it. There is not enough empirical data to conclusively teach how to best lead and optimize the performance of a multigenerational workforce. However, we can conclude from the core characteristics that they represent - that the (3) generational clusters offer a powerful blend of minds, capabilities, raw talent and skills-sets that can surge companies in directions never thought possible in today’s global economy. This keynote / training session will include:
- The (4) C’s of Millennial Engagement: Career, Culture, Community and Connectivity
- “Third-Age Boomers”: Why the economy has forced those that were thinking about retiring to
extend their careers. What is required of employers / employees to reclaim the fire.
- The dynamic role of cross generational mentoring and reverse mentoring
- Why trust and collaboration serve to keep the Prophets (Boomers), Nomads (Gen-X) and
Heroes (Millennials) in alignment.
- How social responsibility initiatives is a common thread to propel multigenerational unity
- Why knowing how to identify the 4 types of personality traits in the workplace (ie. leaders, lifters, loafers and leeches) can help propel teambuilding amongst the generational clusters.
