Stay In It!
KEYNOTES and TRAINING

Become A Champion At What You Do!

It doesn’t matter if you are sweeping floors, head of IT, regional manager, salesperson, customer service representative or the CEO of the company; when you are driven to be the best at what you do, everything changes for the better. You not only perform better, you feel better, enjoy your work more, walk taller and become a better person. No matter what your job title, how long you have been at your job or what kind of challenges you face, it’s imperative to work at being the best in the world at your job. This is what the Stay In It program is all about: never accepting average, always driven to achieve excellence and become the best at what you do. Through 7 very compelling steps, Darin Green shows his audiences the enormous benefits of staying in it to win it! This re-energizing program is full of practical insights and tools that will help your team raise their performance standards and their performance to the highest level.

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Change Happens.
Winners Adjust!

How to Stay Calm, Focused and Driven
During Changing Times

To improve in any area of business or life, change must occur. With mergers, acquisitions, re-engineering, re-strategizing, re-focusing, and difficult economies the era of predictability is over. Add to the mix the shortening time span of the surprise of change and the fact that change is the new business norm. Almost all industries and organizations are constantly forced to do more with less and continually improve process and product. What this all means is that everyone in your organization must embrace change.

In Change Happens, Winners Adjust!, the turnaround and enlightenment start with a self audit of your change-adeptness. Learn three things you can do to immediately become more adept at mastering the change process. Darin shows you how to gain control of yourself during times of change and how to control change instead of change controlling you.

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Own Your Own Health

How to Take Charge of Your Health to Ignite More Energy

When moving an organization, team, or your performance from “good” to “great,” often a paramount ingredient is overlooked in this challenging process. What is this missing ingredient on the road to greatness? It is the physical health and energy levels of the individuals that make up a team and company. When people are healthier, good things start to happen all on their own: increased morale, commitment to mission, staff cohesion, and a higher level of productivity.

Challenging work requires healthy people. This is why Darin shows you how the power of getting clear on what type of health you want for yourself and taking ownership of your health will give you better results in everything you do. Energy for Excellence! unlocks the hidden energy sources that lie in each of us and shows us how a few simple changes at work and in our personal lives can quickly and dramatically improve our performance and life!

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The Art of Diversity Service!

Delivering Excellent Service to Customers of Diverse Cultures, Personalities and Backgrounds

In difficult economic times, good customer service matters even more. Every customer affects the bottom line. With the internet and social media, word of mouth about your company’s customer service can quickly spread with positive or negative consequences. In today’s diverse society, we must make sure that our people on the frontline are not driving customers away due to their personal biases and behavior toward certain groups of people. In this economy, companies cannot afford to lose any customers and/or damage their brand by the mistakes made on the frontline. The Art of Diversity Service! gives your people the skills, tools and motivation to identify, defeat and/or control the biases that can create poor customer service. Through humor, heartfelt stories and real diversity customer service examples, Darin quickly connects with the audience and drives home powerful insight and key tools that leave the audience ready to deliver excellent service to every customer they serve.

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Diversity Pump Up!

Diffuse discomfort and resistance to diversity. Improve the ability to work productively with team members of diverse backgrounds and personalities. Conscious and unconscious biases impact all but the most enlightened among us. In today’s diverse workplace, it has never been more important to be aware of and to overcome the biases that prevent teams from reaching their full potential. Taking your team and organization from “good to great” requires team members who effectively communicate with each other and meet the expectations of those around them. Darin shows the audience how to minimize the impact of bias and prevent and/or recover quickly from diversity collisions and setbacks.

Diversity Pump Up! will simultaneously motivate and illuminate the audience and provide immediately applicable tools that help create excellent teamwork and productivity in diverse work environments.

More about the program:

Leadership Ignites
Diversity or Di”worse”ity!

Managing Effectively in a Diverse Environment

To bring out the best in diverse workplaces and teams, bias-free leadership is paramount. This is why Darin helps mid- and upper-level managers improve their ability to effectively motivate and meet the needs of individuals of all backgrounds. Darin helps organizations and today’s leaders create and encourage a diversity-friendly work environment. Leadership Ignites Diversity or Di”worse”ity! will help your management team reduce the risk of career damage due to poor decisions resulting from biased attitudes and improve the ability to model bias-free attitudes and behaviors for other members of the organization.

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Stay In It!
KEYNOTES and TRAINING

Become A Champion At What You Do!

It doesn’t matter if you are sweeping floors, head of IT, regional manager, salesperson, customer service representative or the CEO of the company; when you are driven to be the best at what you do, everything changes for the better. You not only perform better, you feel better, enjoy your work more, walk taller and become a better person. No matter what your job title, how long you have been at your job or what kind of challenges you face, it’s imperative to work at being the best in the world at your job. This is what the Stay In It program is all about: never accepting average, always driven to achieve excellence and become the best at what you do. Through 7 very compelling steps, Darin Green shows his audiences the enormous benefits of staying in it to win it! This re-energizing program is full of practical insights and tools that will help your team raise their performance standards and their performance to the highest level.

More about the program:

When you stop improving, innovating and accept mediocrity, you have dropped out of the game of life. When you choose this route, you can expect nothing but the worst because you have given up the greatest gift of all: life purpose and the power to improve yourself by striving to become the best at what you do. Difficult times and daily routines can cause you to lose the drive for being the best at what you do. Stay In It! re-energizes and reawakens the passion for excellence that is necessary to go from “good to great” and from average to outstanding! The transformation starts with knowing what type of attitude and work philosophy you currently have. What type of attitude and work philosophy will it take to cultivate excellence, and what type of attitude and work philosophy do you want? Stop making excuses. Set a new attitude goal, create an empowering work philosophy, take action using the 7 Stay In It steps, and enjoy the journey.

Using a highly passionate, direct approach, Darin motivates, enlightens and entertains the audience. His dynamic delivery and eye-opening content captivates and engages any audience. Each audience member takes home new tools, motivation and practical steps that will help them incorporate Darin’s message into everyday life.

Darin challenges each person to take a hard look at their attitude, work philosophy and results and determine if they are conducive to striving to be the best. The objective of this program is for each person to improve their performance and maintain the drive for excellence and being the best at what they do.

We all experience setbacks, disappointments, broken dreams, growing older, change, and living in volatile, uncertain times. These circumstances can be a recipe for low morale and mediocre performance. It’s essential to know how to transcend life circumstances – and Stay In It! Using Darin’s seven steps that are based on high achievers throughout history, Darin resuscitates his audience from a mediocre, average performance.

Stay In It! generates the drive for excellence. Morale will increase while pessimism and excuses decrease. This inspiring, engaging presentation is great for an opening or closing keynote.

“Darin has such amazing passion and sincerity – you can feel his message from head to toe. Our dealers loved him!”
—Cheri Judkins, HDU Manager, Harley-Davidson

“The comments are still rolling in! What an impression you made at our manager conference! The standing ovation was proof of this!”
—Andrea Mustelier, Marketing Director, Wells Fargo, Miami FL

“Darin Green is one of those rare speakers who makes you think and take action. We feel like we got a real blueprint for success!”
—Cindy Stanphill, HR Manager, Hewlett

Target Audience: Management, Teams, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Professionals, Front Line Staff, Health Care Professionals, Entrepreneurs/Business Owners, All Employees, School Administrators, Educators and all those who want to become the best at what they do.

Format: Darin will make every effort to customize the Stay In It! presentation to fit your industry, needs and the expectations of the audience. This program is available as a keynote/general session talk, break-out session, or half-day to full-day workshop.

The quotes below are representative of the theme and message of the Stay In It! Program:

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”
-Margaret Thatcher

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”
-George Washington

“When you have a strong purpose to be the best at what you do, hard work isn’t so hard. It’s just a necessity.”
-Darin Green

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
-Swami Sivananda

“Hard work is painful when your job is devoid of purpose. All work has purpose. So you don’t have to change jobs; you just have to change your mind about the work you do. Then hard work becomes a labor of love, and you are fully alive again!”
-Darin Green

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
-Joseph Barbara

“Being a pessimist is just an excuse for laziness.”
-Darin Green

“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
-Sir Walter Scott

“Our attitude and work philosophy will affect much more than our performance. It will determine how we walk and talk and what kind of people we are…BECAUSE we are our attitude.”
-Darin Green

Change Happens.
Winners Adjust!

How to Stay Calm, Focused and Driven
During Changing Times

To improve in any area of business or life, change must occur. With mergers, acquisitions, re-engineering, re-strategizing, re-focusing, and difficult economies the era of predictability is over. Add to the mix the shortening time span of the surprise of change and the fact that change is the new business norm. Almost all industries and organizations are constantly forced to do more with less and continually improve process and product. What this all means is that everyone in your organization must embrace change.

In Change Happens, Winners Adjust!, the turnaround and enlightenment start with a self audit of your change-adeptness. Learn three things you can do to immediately become more adept at mastering the change process. Darin shows you how to gain control of yourself during times of change and how to control change instead of change controlling you.

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“Those who want constant success must constantly change.”
-Anonymous

“Change before you have to.”
-Jack Welch

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
-Charles Darwin

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
-Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe

Successful people and organizations are those that initiate and embrace change! Yet most people view change as a setback, and by doing so attract frustration, fear, difficulty, and failure. Change Happens and Winners Adjust! empowers and shows your people how to become change-adept professionals who are resilient and not only survive change, but flourish in changing times. Darin gives the audience step-by-steps tools and practical information they can use immediately to bring about lasting, healthy individual and organizational change.

“Wow, what fun Darin is! We love his humor and dancing! He put everybody at ease, and he was still able to get his points across while discussing a very sensitive subject. He really is the Cultivator of Harmony and Excellence!”
—Celoise Steele, COR Special Events Planner, General Mills

“I want to take a moment and personally thank you for the amazing presentation! Everyone loved it!!!”
—Jairo Ramirez, R.Ph, Support Services Director, Kaiser Permanente, Colorado Region

“Darin, you were such fun – and a true professional. You were by far the best speaker at our regional meeting! Thanks for customizing your programs and for learning our language. We can’t wait to bring you back!”
—Chris Longstreet, Marketing & Training Professional Development

Target Audience: Any professionals and/or organizations that are in the process of change and want to not only survive change, but flourish and stay positive and driven in changing times.

Format: Darin will make every effort to customize Change Happens and Winners Adjust! to fit your industry, needs and the expectations of the audience. This program is available as a keynote/general session talk, break-out session, or half-day workshop.

Own Your Own Health

How to Take Charge of Your Health to Ignite More Energy

When moving an organization, team, or your performance from “good” to “great,” often a paramount ingredient is overlooked in this challenging process. What is this missing ingredient on the road to greatness? It is the physical health and energy levels of the individuals that make up a team and company. When people are healthier, good things start to happen all on their own: increased morale, commitment to mission, staff cohesion, and a higher level of productivity.

Challenging work requires healthy people. This is why Darin shows you how the power of getting clear on what type of health you want for yourself and taking ownership of your health will give you better results in everything you do. Energy for Excellence! unlocks the hidden energy sources that lie in each of us and shows us how a few simple changes at work and in our personal lives can quickly and dramatically improve our performance and life!

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“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
-Spanish Proverb

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
-Anonymous

“To wish to be well is part of becoming well.”
-Seneca

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence … It destroys the fruitfulness of one’s work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom, which makes work fruitful.”
-Thomas Merton

According to Ken Kraybill, MSW of National Health Care Council, The key characteristics of a healthy work environment are: “A healthy work environment refers to an organization in which people are valued and priority is given to the multiple aspects of the workplace that affect employees’ ability to function well in order to accomplish the goals of the organization. These aspects of the workplace include:

• the organizational culture
• relationships with other agencies and the larger community
• personnel policies including salaries & benefits
• clinical and administrative supervision
• quality and structure of decision-making
• communication methods and effectiveness
• conflict resolution
• cultural diversity and sensitivity
• opportunities for systems and political advocacy
• safety concerns
• practical and aesthetic features of the physical work setting
• support of personal wellness
• other

It takes healthy people full of positive energy and passion to create a healthy work environment. Energy for Excellence! is a great kick off and/or reminder of the importance of taking good care of yourself and creating a workplace culture of energy and excellence!

Darin’s presentations focus on accountability as the main ingredient to improve your health, performance, and the company’s desired outcome. TTR (Take Total Responsibility) for your health and work output – in spite of obstacles and without excuses or blame – is what Darin and Energy for Excellence! is all about.

Target Audience: All organizations who want to create healthier teams and employees, increase work output and decrease healthcare costs. All individuals who want to increase their energy and improve their health, life and performance.

Format: Darin will make every effort to customize Energy for Excellence! to fit your industry, needs and the expectations of the audience. This program is available as a keynote/general session talk, break-out session, or half-day workshop.

“We are so very pleased you were able to connect with all the departments of our organization simultaneously! You exceeded our expectations!”
—Evelyn Wesly, Human Resources, Mall of America, Bloomington MN

“Darin, you are an exceptional speaker! Your presentation was a perfect way to close our conference!”
—Sarah Shiffert, International Personnel

“Darin Green was awesome! His advice was very useful. The best speaker we’ve heard in a long time!
—Shannon Mayer, HR Manager, Special Event Planner, Blue Cross Blue Shield, MNagement Association, Canada

The Art of Diversity Service!

Delivering Excellent Service to Customers of Diverse Cultures, Personalities and Backgrounds

In difficult economic times, good customer service matters even more. Every customer affects the bottom line. With the internet and social media, word of mouth about your company’s customer service can quickly spread with positive or negative consequences. In today’s diverse society, we must make sure that our people on the frontline are not driving customers away due to their personal biases and behavior toward certain groups of people. In this economy, companies cannot afford to lose any customers and/or damage their brand by the mistakes made on the frontline. The Art of Diversity Service! gives your people the skills, tools and motivation to identify, defeat and/or control the biases that can create poor customer service. Through humor, heartfelt stories and real diversity customer service examples, Darin quickly connects with the audience and drives home powerful insight and key tools that leave the audience ready to deliver excellent service to every customer they serve.

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“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”
-Henry Ford

“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
-Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com

“Every great business is built on friendship.”
-JC Penney

“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us; we are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

Providing excellent customer service to diverse populations has never been more important. Darin knows this from firsthand experience. First, Darin will help the audience see how biases interfere with achieving customer service excellence. Next, Darin will show your audience how to accurately identifying bias in oneself and others and how to take control of a bias long enough to meet the needs of their customers and deliver excellent customer service (“Fake It Till You Make It”). Darin is a masterful communicator and conveys his message in an empowering, uplifting process that makes the audience want to perform better in diversity!

“Darin, you were amazing! You have the unique ability to make diversity fun, interesting, and valuable! We are still talking about the fantastic job you did!”
—Sarah Mullins, Development Specialist, Training Services Branch, FDIC, KS

“Your energy, passion, humor and knowledge were stunning. You have the power, courage, and firsthand experience to address the most sensitive diversity issues without turning people off or away!”
—Charles C. Crank, HR Manager Meeting/Event Planner, 3M, Minneapolis, MN

Target Audience: Customer service professionals and frontline staff who want to improve their service and/or care.

Format: Darin will make every effort to customize The Art of Diversity Service! presentation to fit your industry, needs, and the expectations of the audience. This program is available as a keynote/general session talk, break-out session, or half-day to full-day workshop.

Diversity Pump Up!

Diffuse discomfort and resistance to diversity. Improve the ability to work productively with team members of diverse backgrounds and personalities. Conscious and unconscious biases impact all but the most enlightened among us. In today’s diverse workplace, it has never been more important to be aware of and to overcome the biases that prevent teams from reaching their full potential. Taking your team and organization from “good to great” requires team members who effectively communicate with each other and meet the expectations of those around them. Darin shows the audience how to minimize the impact of bias and prevent and/or recover quickly from diversity collisions and setbacks.

Diversity Pump Up! will simultaneously motivate and illuminate the audience and provide immediately applicable tools that help create excellent teamwork and productivity in diverse work environments.

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“Think of communication as the organizational cardiovascular system. The lifeblood of an entity is nothing without the heart, lungs, arteries and veins to transport it to its destination. Departure from regular and effective communication can eventually atrophy the creative engine of [an organization].”
-Wanda Shumaker

“Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.”
–William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

“Seek to understand before seeking to be understood.”
- Augustine, 4th Century

“Always remember that you’re unique. Just like everybody else.”
– Anonymous

Diversity Pump up! is designed to create both cognitive and emotional receptivity. Darin will use workplace examples, personal anecdotes, humor and an uplifting delivery style to help your audience defeat bias in the workplace, turn diversity tension into diversity dialogue, improve ability to work productively with team members of diverse backgrounds, improve team communications and reduce incidents of diversity-related team tension and disputes. Diversity Pump Up! will help you and your diverse team more effectively communicate and meet the objectives of the team and organization.

“Our Commanding Officers are still buzzing from your presentation! Without exception, you were right on target. Two thumbs up!”
—Admiral B.E. McGann, United States Navy, TN

“You gave our staff some new perspectives on diversity; your presentation was captivating, honest and very helpful! Many of our staff identified this as the best training they ever encountered on this topic!”
—John Henderlight, Program Manager, Fairview Hospital, Minneapolis MN

“I knew you were good, but not that good! You were even better than your marketing material. It was unanimous – all of our managers and the President himself loved your program!”
—Kim McDonald, HR Management, Employee Training, Harris Teeter, NC

Target Audience: All industries and organizations with a diverse workplace who want to improve teamwork, morale and work output.

Format: Darin will make every effort to customize the Diversity Pump Up! presentation to fit your industry, needs, and the expectations of the audience. This program is available as a keynote/general session talk, break-out session, or half-day to full-day workshop.

Leadership Ignites
Diversity or Di”worse”ity!

Managing Effectively in a Diverse Environment

To bring out the best in diverse workplaces and teams, bias-free leadership is paramount. This is why Darin helps mid- and upper-level managers improve their ability to effectively motivate and meet the needs of individuals of all backgrounds. Darin helps organizations and today’s leaders create and encourage a diversity-friendly work environment. Leadership Ignites Diversity or Di”worse”ity! will help your management team reduce the risk of career damage due to poor decisions resulting from biased attitudes and improve the ability to model bias-free attitudes and behaviors for other members of the organization.

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“What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
-General Douglas MacArthur

“Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them…Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.”
-Baltasar Gracián

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
-John Quincy Adams

In almost every industry and workplace there are unique diversity challenges. This is a workplace and business reality that will never go away. Today’s leaders and managers will have to remain keenly aware of the issues, challenges and benefits of diversity and maintain a high level of diversity acumen. Darin will help you and your audience stay on top of diversity. Your management team will walk away with concrete examples of how biases impact the ability to be effective leaders, tools for achieving a high-level awareness of bias in oneself and others, and skills to accurately minimize and/or eliminate bias in oneself and others.

“I want to express my appreciation for the keynote speech you gave last week. Your presentation was excellent! Personally I found that your message caused me to rethink my own personal development!”
—Jim Faricy, Event Planning Committee, Metropolitan Economic Development Association, Minneapolis MN

“I want to thank you for delivering such a dynamic keynote address! The overwhelming success of our summer conference was in a large extent to your presentation.”
—Lori Myers- Carpenter, Marketing and Conference Director, National, Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, Washington D.C.

“Darin, your presentation on Generational Diversity was nothing less than amazing; your energy was great! You really are the Cultivator of Harmony and Excellence!”
—Francenia Johnson, Supervisor Assessment and Development, Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division, Memphis TN

Target Audience: Mid- and upper-level managers and executives of diverse workplaces

Format: Darin will make every effort to customize the Leadership Ignites Diversity or Di”worse”ity! presentation to fit your industry, needs, and the expectations of the audience. This program is available as a keynote/general session talk, break-out session, or half-day to full-day workshop.