Hubert Joly: Business Leadership
Hubert Joly, former Best Buy chairman and CEO, shares leadership lessons on business transformation, connecting purpose, employee engagement, and organizational culture with sustainable performance.
Quick Facts:
- Former chairman and CEO of Best Buy.
- Led Best Buy’s turnaround after becoming CEO in 2012.
- Author of The Heart of Business.
- Recipient of the 2021 Thinkers50 Leadership Award.
- Formats:
Keynote presentations and leadership conversations.
- Audiences:
CEOs, executive teams, boards, business leaders, retail organizations, and teams navigating organizational transformation.
- Outcomes:
- Understand how purpose and employee engagement can support business performance.
- Identify leadership practices that help people contribute their best.
- Apply lessons from Best Buy’s turnaround to organizational change and leadership succession.
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **Fee range: $100,000 - $250,000
Keynote Topics
How to Unleash Human Magic and Achieve Improbable Results:
Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
Back in 2012, “Everyone thought we were going to die,” says Hubert Joly. As the newly appointed Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Joly transformed the retail giant into one of the nation’s favorite employers, a leader in sustainability and innovation, vastly increased customer satisfaction, and dramatically grew its stock price.
Joly discusses the philosophy behind the resurgence of Best Buy: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center of the business, create an environment where every employee can blossom, and treat profit as an outcome, not the goal.
While this approach is easy to understand, putting it into practice is not so easy. It requires radically rethinking how we view work, how we define companies, how we motivate, and how we lead.
Joly shares memorable stories, lessons, and practical advice drawn from his own personal transformation from a hard-charging McKinsey consultant to a leader who believes in human magic.
He provides a timely guide for leaders ready to abandon old paradigms and lead with purpose and humanity. He shows how we can reinvent capitalism so that it contributes to a sustainable future.
Talent Short Bio
Hubert Joly is the former chairman and CEO of Best Buy, a business author, and a keynote speaker on leadership, purpose, and organizational transformation.
Appointed CEO in 2012, he led Best Buy’s turnaround during a challenging period for the retail industry. His leadership approach emphasizes a clear organizational purpose, investing in people, and creating an environment where employees can succeed.
Hubert stepped down as CEO in 2019 and served as executive chairman until 2020. He is the author of The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism, which explores the relationship between human motivation and business success.
Recognized by Harvard Business Review, Barron’s, Glassdoor, and Thinkers50, Hubert received the Thinkers50 Leadership Award in 2021. His presentations give leaders practical perspectives on transformation, employee engagement, culture, and succession.
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