Steve Gutzler: Emotional Intelligence
High-performance leadership expert Steve Gutzler empowers organizations to elevate emotional intelligence, ignite personal transformation, and develop leaders at every level through dynamic, research-backed keynote experiences.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- President of Leadership Quest, a premier leadership development firm
- Delivered 2,500+ keynotes to industry-leading organizations
- Expert in emotional intelligence, high-performance leadership, and personal transformation
- Coach to CEOs, executives, elite athletes, and global organizations
- Formats: Keynote speaker, leadership development trainer, executive coach, corporate workshop facilitator
- Audiences: Corporate leadership teams, sales organizations, executive retreats, HR and L&D leaders, associations, professional services firms, Fortune 500 companies
- Outcomes:
- Strengthened emotional intelligence and leadership capacity
- Tools for leading under pressure and accelerating team performance
- Increased engagement, communication, and trust within organizations
- Travels from: Seattle, WA
- **Fee range: On Request
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Keynote Topics:
Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Leadership
Harness the power of the “number one” predictor of professional success, impact, leadership, high performance, and sustainable relationships in business and life. Steve’s highest-rated keynote presentation.
Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Teams
Increase your teams’ emotional currency to develop better relationships leading to an optimal workplace where everyone can thrive.
Full Potential- How to Perform Best Under Pressure
Steve Gutzler dynamic keynote addresses the epidemic of stress and pressure. Through real-life case studies, Steve explains how leaders today need strategies to be both “smart and healthy”.
You’ll learn actionable keys to operate at optimum levels while facing deadlines and challenging relationships.
Lead With No Fear: 7 Shifts for Positive Change
In this uncertain age of worry, insecurity, and self-doubt, how will you lead and manage change for greater inspiration, clarity, and confidence?
In this program, Steve will teach how to unlock 7 Key Leadership Shifts for greater influence and impact.
Unleash the Leader Inside You
Through inspiring stories of untitled leaders, Steve Gutzler unlocks extraordinary keys each one of us can use to improve our organizations and enhance our careers.
Steve shows the power of true leaders who are positive influencers, create remarkable impact and inspire others to greatness.
Talent Short Bio
Steve Gutzler is a globally recognized leadership authority, emotional intelligence expert, and President of Leadership Quest, a Seattle-based leadership development firm. As a top keynote speaker with more than 2,500 presentations delivered to elite clients—including Microsoft, Starbucks, Boeing, Cisco, and Pandora—Steve has earned a reputation for inspiring audiences with his high-energy, deeply actionable insights on leadership performance.
Known for his ability to combine humor, clarity, and practical strategy, Steve’s mission is simple: every keynote should transform a life and inspire leadership. With more than 26 years of experience coaching CEOs, presidents, professional athletes, and world-class organizations, he brings a powerful blend of science, storytelling, and motivation to every stage.
Steve Gutzler’s signature programs—Emotional Intelligence for Extraordinary Leadership and Unleash the Leader Inside You—equip professionals with the tools to lead under pressure, drive results, and build high-performing cultures rooted in emotional intelligence, resilience, and personal mastery.
Read Full Bio
Steve Gutzler is the President of Leadership Quest, a Seattle based Leadership Development company. Steve is a dynamic, highly sought after speaker who has delivered over 2500 presentations, to a who’s who list of clients including, Pandora Radio, Microsoft, Starbucks, Boeing, Cisco, Starwood Corporation, U.S. Security Administration, and Oxford Financial to name just a few.
Steve’s exceptional ability to communicate clear leadership and business/sales solutions with humor, clarity and insight is why he is in such high demand. Steve believes every Keynote presentation should transform a life and inspire leadership.
He presents with passion and conviction to groups of 50 to over 5000 intimately in his high-performance Emotional Intelligence for Leadership and Unleash the Leader Inside of You. He knows how to deliver proven results and has been engaging and inspiring audiences with his messages of extraordinary leadership, achievement, success, and significance for over 26 years.
Having coached and trained CEOs, Presidents, professional athletes, and world-class organizations, Steve’s insights have gained a reputation around the world as an authority on high performance leadership, emotional intelligence for exceptional leadership, growing leaders at every level, and accelerated sales success.
Steve Gutzler is a regular guest on T.V. and radio. He recently was voted #1 by the readership of Huffington Post as the Most Inspirational Leader on Social Media.
A published author on leadership and Emotional Intelligence, Steve Gutzler is widely read and followed by over 105,000 Twitter followers. He resides near Seattle with his wife Julie where they enjoy time with their three adult children and four grandchildren.
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