Robyn Benincasa
World Champion Adventure Racer, 2014 CNN Hero, Full Time Firefighter, New York Times Bestselling Author, 3x Guinness World Record Endurance Kayaker
TEAMWORK - Win as One: The 8 Essential Elements of Human Synergy
What do the world's most successful teams have in common? --- The ability to upgrade their "teamwork" to Human Synergy!
If your goal is to increase performance by inspiring your team to adapt, overcome, and win as ONE, this keynote is the perfect message to set the tone for your event.
Through her 8 Essential Elements of Human Synergy keynote, Eco-Challenge Adventure Racing World Champion and San Diego Firefighter Robyn Benincasa takes your team on a fast-paced multimedia adventure that visually and viscerally imparts the attitude and mindset that allows groups of ordinary people to accomplish truly extraordinary feats together...especially when the stakes are high, the goals are audacious, and constant change is the only thing your team can count on (aside from one another!). Attendees will leave the room buzzing with inspired ideas about how to raise their team to the next level against all odds, both personally and professionally, and take home some simple and easily applied skills that will allow them to create Human Synergy with all of the teammates in their lives.
There is an old proverb that says "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". But the stories and videos that Robyn shares from the most epic, entertaining and meaningful moments in the sport of Adventure Racing will leave your team with a deep understanding that with true Human Synergy they will go farther AND faster in pursuit of their goals!
The 8 Essential Elements of Human Synergy:
•Total commitment
•Empathy and Awareness
•Adversity Management
•Mutual Respect
•'We' Thinking
•Ownership of the Project
•Relinquishment of Ego
•Kinetic Leadership
LEADERSHIP/PERFORMANCE - Why Winners Win
What are the four most common attributes of people who make a lifelong habit of winning? Inspired by a Fast Company Magazine article entitled 'Extreme Teamwork', which featured Robyn's team of World Champion adventure athletes as well as "Winners" from all walks of life, Robyn's ‘Why Winners Win’ keynote outlines the common traits, attitudes and mindset of the world's most consistently high performing leaders in their eternal pursuit of world class results.
The 'Best of the Best' experience times of great challenge and change just like everyone else. But with characteristic Courage, Luck (Opportunity + Preparation), Adversity Management Skills, and a keen ability to create Synergy with their colleagues, Winners possess the ability to continually motivate and inspire themselves and those around them to the top of the podium in any endeavor.
The icing on the cake of the Why Winners Win keynote? Attendees will experience the thrill of peak performance and exceptional leadership through Robyn’s incredible stories and breathtaking video footage of extreme teams in action, and they will leave energized and empowered to create consistent world class results in every aspect of their lives!
Lead Like Gumby: Flexible Leadership That Gets Results (90 min - 2 hour seminar)
According to research from the Harvard Business Review, a company's profitability increases by up to 1/3 when managers create a more positive corporate climate through Flexible Leadership! In Robyn's Lead like Gumby: Flexible Leadership that Gets Results seminar, she combines well-respected academic research with amazing Adventure Racing and firefighting footage that illustrates great (and not so great) leaders in action in the most extreme challenges on earth.
The result is an in depth and powerful look into six distinct leadership styles that, when utilized interchangeably and judiciously, are proven to have a positive effect on the corporate climate--the simplest way to increase the bottom line. Your leaders will emerge with a deep understanding of the most effective way to engage and motivate their team.
CHANGE - Leading Through Change
Change is the only thing that stays the same. It is our response to that change that dictates our success.
How do the world's most consistently high performing leaders ALWAYS find a way to get the finish line and achieve their goals against all odds? Are they lucky, blessed or immune to setbacks? Nope. Great leaders experience times of great turbulence, challenge and change in every aspect of their lives--but it is their attitude and mindset that carries them and their teammates to greater heights in the FACE of that change.
Leading through Change means Being Ruled by the Hope of Success versus the Fear of Failure,Embracing Setbacks as a Chance to Learn and Excel, and Never Letting the Pursuit of Perfection Hinder Progress. In her Leading Through Change keynote Robyn shares incredible stories and videos from the worlds of Adventure Racing and firefighting that illustrate how great leaders succeed against all odds and triumph in the face of adversity --And your entertained and amazed attendees will walk away with some easily applied leadership skills that will help them shatter the norm, see challenges versus roadblocks and inspire their teammates to once again see a future full of possibilities...
SAFETY - Dangerous Attitudes, Deadly Consequences: Why Bad Accidents Happen to Good People
In her "Why Bad Accidents Happen to Good People" Safety Keynote, World Champion Adventure Racer, San Diego Firefighter, and New York Times Best Selling Author, Robyn Benincasa takes your team on a compelling and unforgettable multimedia adventure, including video footage and analysis of preventable disasters and thrilling safety success stories from the worlds of adventure sports and firefighting, and offers some unique, simple, yet extremely effective tools for inspiring the people that we work with and work for to be SAFER every day!
Why Do Bad Accidents Happen to Good People? According to research, it's as simple as ABCD:
A= Attitude: Not Me, Not This Time, Not My Place, Not My Job
B= Background and Preparation
C= Circumstances (Preventable or Non-Preventable? Hint: 80% are preventable!)
D= Decisions
How Do We Inspire People to be SAFER?
S=Synergy --Seeing one another as TEAMMATES vs simply colleagues. We are better...together!
A=Adapt-- Situational awareness, focus on what it takes to "win" when it comes to safety/survival versus "not lose"
F= Follow your R's! Rules, Roles, Regulations and Routine Procedures restore order to extraordinary circumstances
E= Educate and Engage: Move your teammates from Compliance (because they'll be caught) to Commitment (because they CARE)
R=Respect the risk/benefit ratio of your actions, and respect yourself, your teammates and your family to DWR (Do What's Right)