John Baldoni

John Baldoni is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and executive coach who provides his services via video conference. In 2018, Trust Across America honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Trust. Also in 2018, Inc.com named Baldoni a Top 100 Leadership Speaker. In 2020, Global Gurus once again named him a top 30 global leadership expert, a list he has been on since 2007. In 2014, Inc.com named Baldoni to its list of top 50 leadership experts. Baldoni is the author of 14 books, including “MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership” and his newest, "GRACE: A Leader’s Guide to a Better Us."

Inspiration: One song title at a time

June 17, 2021

John Baldoni

All Kenny Gamble needed was a title, and he and fellow songwriter-producer Leon Huff would be off and running. And run they did. Gamble and Huff were the founders of Philadelphia International Records, which began in...

Richard Feynman's lessons for life (and leaders)

April 2, 2021

John Baldoni

Richard Feynman shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. Making the complex understandable was a specialty of Feynman. Even though seriously ill with cancer, Feynman signed on to the committee investigate the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986. In testimony before a congressional committee...

Watching "Ted Lasso" Can Make You A Better Manager

October 30, 2020

John Baldoni

Say you land a job about which you know little, in a field you know even less about, and in a country different from your own. If you do, you will be emulating the premise of Ted Lasso, a new show from Apple TV+. The good news is...

A leader's chief responsibility: Hold yourself accountable

June 25, 2020

John Baldoni

Two chiefs recently took responsibility for their actions, with very different outcomes but one unified intention: holding themselves accountable. The first chief is Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Milley made an apology that was...

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