Henry Evans: Executive Leadership
Henry Evans is a leadership speaker and executive coach specializing in accountability, strategic implementation and high-performance cultures for organizations navigating complex growth and change.
Quick Facts:
- Founder and Managing Partner of Dynamic Results, LLC
- More than 10,000 hours of executive coaching delivered
- More than 2,000 hours of change management and strategic implementation work
- Author of Winning With Accountability with more than 100,000 copies in print
- Formats: Leadership speaker, executive coach and accountability strategist.
- Audiences: CEOs, executive teams, high-growth organizations and leaders seeking stronger accountability and healthier performance cultures.
- Outcomes:
- Strengthen accountability and communication across teams
- Build high-performance cultures that scale during growth and change
- Improve leadership effectiveness and strategic execution
- Travels from: San Francisco, CA
- **Fee range: On Request
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
WINNING WITH ACCOUNTABILITY™
With over 100,000 copies in print, Henry Evans best-selling book, “Winning With Accountability, the Secret Language of High Performing Organizations” is the basis for his keynote.
Audience members will learn how to navigate the busy environments we work in to clarify expectations, drive better business results, build relationships, and gain a competitive advantage through our Winning With Accountability™ organization and leadership training.
STEP UP
This message focuses on generating leadership at every level of your organization. Author’s Henry Evans and Dr. Colm Foster offer new research and challenge your audience with some counterintuitive ideas like “Get Angry, not Stupid” (the intelligent use of anger in the workplace) and “Appreciating and Leveraging your Pessimists”.
Participants will enjoy an interactive environment where they will earn to recognize the six moments that matter, and also, how to demonstrate leadership when they are in one of those moments.
EMOTIONAL SAFETY®
This isn’t your grandfather’s approach to Emotional Intelligence. We challenge the audience to put all the previous reading and studying they have done to work by offering tangible, action oriented ways of building trust, demonstrating vulnerability and creating the appropriate mood for various types of tasks.
Audience members will understand how to read and generate the appropriate emotions for the kind of outcome they are trying to create.
Talent Short Bio
Henry Evans is the Founder and Managing Partner of Dynamic Results, LLC and a globally recognized leadership speaker, executive coach and accountability expert. Over the course of his career, he has delivered more than 10,000 hours of executive coaching and more than 2,000 hours of change management and strategic implementation support. His practical, disciplined approach is rooted in real-world experience, shaped by both notable successes and a pivotal business failure that informs his current work with leaders.
Henry is the author of Winning With Accountability: The Secret Language of High Performing Organizations, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and is used by multinational corporations as well as executive MBA programs across the United States, Asia and Europe. He is also the co-author of Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter, written with Dr. Colm Foster and featuring a foreword by Marshall Goldsmith. The book was named an Amazon Top 10 business title and one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 5 business reads of 2014.
A former Vistage Chairman, Henry led CEO think tanks and coached leaders individually each month, helping them sharpen decision-making, build accountability cultures and improve organizational performance.
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Henry Evans Leadership Preview: Accountability, Trust and High-Performance Communication
A 3 minute and 44 second keynote sampler where Henry Evans introduces the language, behaviors and communication habits that build trust, strengthen accountability and elevate leadership effectiveness.
Video Summary & Key Moments
This 3 minute and 44 second preview features Henry Evans sharing a practical, human-centered approach to accountability and leadership. He opens by reframing the often intimidating concept of accountability, emphasizing that leaders can apply it with greater empathy and clarity. Henry notes that today’s leaders process 30 times more information per day than people did in 1985, which contributes directly to the implementation challenges organizations face. He cites a striking example: the average implementation rate of a strategic plan is 10 percent once it has been written, but client organizations that apply the accountability language he teaches have reached implementation rates of 86 percent over a seven-year period.
He highlights a core leadership truth: it does not matter what leaders think of themselves. What matters is the perception others hold. Trust is the foundation of every relationship, and vulnerability is the conduit to trust. Modeling honesty, owning mistakes and communicating clearly are essential to creating that trust.
Henry introduces the concept of the “glossary of failure,” a list of vague or ambiguous terms commonly used in everyday workplace conversations. These unclear phrases lead to misinterpretation and poor execution because they ask others to translate gray instructions into precise action. Eliminating them is a key step in building high-accountability cultures across industries ranging from national security to food service to financial services.
He offers one of his most actionable practices: publishing commitments proactively. Leaders should send concise updates that list their responsibilities for the next 30 days, include specific deadlines, identify clear owners and share the information openly so accountability is transparent. When leaders model this behavior, teams follow; it cannot be preached, only demonstrated.
Key Moments
- 00:22 Why strategic plans fail and how clear language improves implementation
- 01:05 Leadership perceptions, trust and the role of vulnerability
- 01:35 The “glossary of failure” and eliminating vague communication
- 02:32 Publishing commitments proactively to build accountability
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