Motivational Leadership Speaker

Motivational Leadership Speaker – L.E.A.D.E.R. Success Keynote- 2023/2024

Developing Extraordinary Leaders

How Motivational Leadership Speaker Michael Qualifies:

  1. Among the top 50 motivational leadership speakers in the U.S.
  2. Unique appearances, such as on The Tonight Show
  3. L.E.A.D.E.R. Success keynote on leadership for C.E.O.s, managers, management staff, and executives
  4. Incredible audience entertainment
  5. Free challenge leadership books for all meeting participants 
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L for Listening

Master the art of active listening, identifying where, when, and how much. Learn what the world’s most outstanding leaders do to impact history. Garner the courage to make mistakes to grow and increase your influence. Learn from a leadership keynote speaker how one’s failure can be the key to growth and success by actively listening to your network’s feedback.

E for Embracing Change

Learn how to challenge yourself to turn fear of change into a desire for change. Great leaders embrace change for personal and professional growth, to satisfy their customers, and to keep the company environment exciting and motivating for their employees.

A for Assisting

As a leader, it’s your job to help others understand the bigger picture, help them define their contributions to larger business objectives, and give them what they need to meet those communicated performance goals. Assist with generosity and lead with courage.

D for Decisiveness

Great leaders are decisive. They can decide between people vs. position, influence vs. authority, action vs. words, and vision vs. money. Keynote speaker Wigge makes a clear case for why focusing on people, impact, effort, and vision will always be the winning strategy.

E for Entertainment

Strong leaders are often good entertainers, and people usually like to work with humorous leaders. Humor builds trust, boosts morale, supports creativity, and relieves stress. A Robert Half survey found that 91% of executives believe a sense of humor is essential for career advancement, while 84% feel that people with a good sense of humor do a better job.

R for Relating to Others

Successful leaders are connectors. Two-thirds of respondents in a CCL study stated that “building and maintaining relationships is a critical competency for leadership.” Learn how strong relationship skills and influence are vital for leadership success.

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Motivational Leadership Speaker – Challenge-4-Change

Are you looking to lead more effectively as a business owner or chief executive? As an influencer in your organization, do you envision developing great leaders through the ranks to improve teamwork, productivity, innovation, and problem-solving?

Motivational leadership speaker & keynote speaker Michael Wigge’s Challenge for Change – Leadership Success keynote and workshops inspire the leadership greatness inherent in every individual.

From his experiences as a challenge seeker in international media, this leadership keynote speaker has learned the secrets of leading through extraordinary circumstances to achieve incredible goals.

Amazing Leadership Challenges Michael Has Faced

Known for his Challenge-4-Change programs and his appearances on the Today Show & The Tonight Show, this motivational leadership speaker embraces tremendous challenges head-on to make the impossible happen. By implementing his fundamental keys to leadership success, motivational leadership speaker Wigge has a portfolio of adventure challenges. For example, he converted a bitten apple into a home in Hawaii in 42 excellent exchanges (as documented in his book and TV show: How to Barter for Paradise). 

He also traveled the entire world without any money for food, transportation, and accommodation (as described in his book and on his PBS show: How to Travel the World for Free). Hollywood star Angelina Jolie named him “a strange but fantastic man” when she met Michael during his time as an MTV host in Europe. And the Los Angeles Times called him “the ultimate budget traveler.”

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Diverse Keynotes

Motivational leadership speaker Wigge’s Challenge for Change: Leadership keynotes build on strategies proven through overcoming the extraordinary. Throughout his multiple series of documented challenges, the leadership speaker implemented several fundamental leadership principles:

  • Being a great listener to communicate effectively across cultures
  • Perfectly navigating the tension between stability and change
  • Actively assisting others in completing ambitious and visionary projects
  • Honing his decision-making skills to become an action-oriented influencer

For a fresh and creative approach to leadership success, tap into the world of the motivational leadership keynote speaker (leadership, sales, motivation, and change) and learn how you can develop extraordinary leaders throughout your organization. The award-winning author serves multiple locations in the US and Canada, and he often travels to Europe to perform leadership keynotes and workshops in Switzerland, Germany, the UK, and Austria. Contact the speaker now for a free quote and availability for the next few months.

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8 Tools the Motivational Leadership Speaker Is Using to Build Leaders

How the SCARF Model Is Used by the Motivational Leadership Speaker

Michael works as a leadership expert with different tools and methods to improve the leadership skills of his clients. The SCARF model is just one out of many.

The SCARF Model helps leaders to encourage their team. Do you want to have your team motivated and satisfied? Often leaders struggle to keep team spirit high and wonder how to measure and improve the team’s motivation. So let’s have a closer look at the acronym and what it does:

  • S – stands for STANDING: Every employee likes to have a certain standing in your team. It’s a basic human need to strive for a place, as already shown in Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs. Are you giving your team members a certain standing in the team? Or could you improve this through your leadership style?
  • C – stands for CERTAINTY: The feeling of certainty is essential for the workforce not to be exposed to workplace fear and anxiety. Certainty raises team motivation because fear and motivation affect each other negatively. Do you give your crew the impression that no one has to go tomorrow? Do you share your vision on a long-term basis with them?

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  • A – stands for AUTONOMY: Who likes to have a micromanaging boss, right? The opposite is leadership that allows freedom of individualism and space for creativity. If an employee feels autonomous, motivation usually goes up. Micromanaged employees, on the other side, instead feel controlled and lose motivation.
  • R – stands for RELATEDNESS: Relating to others in the team to our lead is the fourth aspect of this model. Relatedness makes a person feel safe in a group setting. Acceptance and validation are parts of this pillar. As a leader, it’s good to ask yourself, do I offer a space for team members to relate to each other and myself?
  • F – stand for FAIRNESS as a final pillar: Do your team members feel treated reasonably? Do they think you, as a leader, have a sense of fairness so no one is above or behind the other? Fairness is a very subjective aspect but good to reflect on if you do everything to improve the fairness factor in your team.

These pillars usually raise team motivation and team spirit and help you keep employees in your team in the long term. You find more on the SCARF model in different sources.

What Should I Know Before Booking a Motivational Leadership Speaker?

What is the Background of the Motivational Leadership Speaker?

Interview Michael on his career as a Motivational Leadership Speaker & Keynote Speaker.

How Did You Become a Leading Motivational Leadership Speaker?

Michael: I worked for the international book and television market as an adventurer and travel writer for over 15 years. My stories specialized in the challenges I faced during my trips. Is it possible to travel the world for free? Is it possible to turn an apple into a house by bartering for bigger and better things? Could I travel all 50 states in 50 days and face 50 challenges – one in each state? 

There’s a portfolio of seven different adventure challenges I met, and all have one element in common: I had to leave my comfort zone to challenge myself for change. That’s why I developed my Challenge-4-Change program.

Looking Back at the Exercises

Looking back at these comfort zone-leaving exercises, I realized that I had to learn and apply certain leadership traits that corporate leaders usually need to be successful in their job, such as team building, empathy, decisiveness, goal orientation, the ability to constantly leave one’s comfort zone, networking, and being a good listener, an entertainer, and a role model. 

I wrote down all the lessons I learned. I then developed my Challenge-4-Change Leadership program, which I deliver worldwide as a keynote & motivational leadership speaker. Although adventure travel and corporate leadership seem far apart, they require similar personality traits! The BigSpeak Motivational Speakers Bureau for Speakers has more information on my background and event bookings.

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