Speaking Facilitation
I speak about purpose to inspire possibility and seed the vision of what purpose can do for your business and your leadership. Then I facilitate the conversations that turn it into action.
Topics
Every session is practical: grounded in research, full of real stories, and built so people leave with something they can try straight away.
How to discover your purpose, create a legacy and live it out in a practical, accessible and flexible way, and why purpose is a deeper, more sustainable source of energy for work, life and leadership.
The research on purpose-driven teams, my best tips and practical takeaways to try with your team, for leaders in technology, digital and beyond.
What psychological safety is, what it isn’t, and how leaders create a climate where people speak up and teams learn.
The human and business cost of burnout, and ten practical levers, from organisational clarity and priorities to retrospectives and leadership.
Why lasting agility goes deeper than mindset, and how to get beyond the firefighting that keeps teams from improving.
Have a theme, audience or outcome in mind? I shape sessions around your event, your people and what you want them to leave with.
Facilitation
Leadership off-sites, strategy and planning sessions, team workshops and retrospectives.
Good facilitation gets the right conversations happening, with everyone contributing, and ends with clear decisions and actions. I bring structure and energy, and I use agile and design-thinking tools where they help, so the time together turns into progress.
Team on PurposeKind words
Glenn has a real passion for developing an agile culture and mindset and is a really accomplished facilitator… I have no hesitation in recommending him.
Pieter BakkerChief Information OfficerI would put Glenn in the top echelon of facilitators. His expertise and agility in facilitating is extremely effective. I have no hesitation recommending him.
Brad ErcegChief Commercial OfficerGlenn is a skilled and experienced agile leader and a gifted facilitator… I will be engaging with him for future work and I would encourage others to do the same.
Tom AtkinsonDigital Product ManagerGlenn has an uncanny ability to connect with anyone at any level, making him an exceptional facilitator and leader. I’ve really enjoyed working with him and hope to work together again in the future!
Gavin SharkeyManaging DirectorHis workshops have been nothing short of extraordinary to participate in… If you’re looking to transform, collaborate better or move ahead with your agile delivery, don’t make the mistake of not securing Glenn Bolan to help facilitate it.
Peter MurrayCloud Solution ArchitectI’ve seen him take us through an amazing journey of facilitating workshops and influencing the senior leadership team… using tools and techniques often out of your normal textbook method to suit the audience, venue and situation. Working with him will no doubt be professional but fun!
Beena RyanProject ManagerFor event organisers
Glenn Bolan is a leadership facilitator, speaker and coach based in Auckland, New Zealand. He helps leaders, teams and organisations discover their purpose and put it to work. Glenn has worked with organisations including Spark, Vodafone, Suntory and NZME, and is writing Leadership Calling: How to Work, Live & Lead on Purpose.
Glenn Bolan is a leadership facilitator, speaker and coach based in Auckland, New Zealand, who specialises in harnessing purpose to fuel leadership and business success. He has worked with many of New Zealand and Australia’s leading organisations, including Spark, Vodafone, AT&T, Suntory, NZME, DairyNZ and Farmers, on their journey toward greater growth, productivity and engagement. Glenn runs programs on individual and organisational purpose, helps teams work well together, and brings agile and adaptive thinking to how work gets delivered. He holds ICAgile, PMP and PRINCE2 credentials, is a certified Harthill LDP practitioner, and is writing Leadership Calling: How to Work, Live & Lead on Purpose.
FAQ
Purpose-driven leadership and the ideas in Leadership Calling, leading teams with purpose and meaning, psychological safety, avoiding burnout, and building agility that lasts. I also tailor sessions to your event.
Keynotes, conference sessions, leadership off-sites, team workshops and webinars.
Yes. As well as in-person sessions, I run webinars and online workshops.
Email hi@glennbolan.com or call 027 210 1726 with your date, audience and what you’d like people to take away.
Get in touch
Tell me about your event, your audience and what you’d like them to take away.