Kennon C. Bauman delivers high-impact, intelligence-grade keynotes and interactive briefings for corporate retreats, industry conferences, and executive boards. Moving past generic motivational tropes, his presentations bring analytical rigor and behavioral tradecraft to the stage—equipping leadership teams with data-driven insights to navigate high-stakes complexity.keynotes & corporate facilitation
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You Get What You Pay For: Hidden Incentives Driving the Behaviors We Don't Want
Focus: A deep dive into personality intelligence, team dynamics, and structural alignment strategies to explain why nobody does it right when you’re not around.
sabotage: everything you need to know about leading a team
Focus: In 1944, the predecessor to the CIA — the OSS — wrote a pamphlet with ideas on how to sabotage the Nazis in occupied Europe. It’s also a perfect guide to how we should run organizations today.
Say the Quiet Part Out Loud: Putting Your Values Where Everyone Can See Them
Focus: A facilitated small- to medium-group exercise to uncover the values that drive your business decisions, and the unspoken agreements that give your business its character.
Anatomy of a trainwreck: fixing your leadership track before you derail
Focus: Utilizing Hogan Assessment metrics to expose the hidden psychological blind spots and predictable derailers that compromise executive decision-making when things get tough…or when they get too easy.
Focus: You founded your business on what you can do and how you do it. Now, all these other people want to make decisions about what you built. This is how to be OK with it.
Investing in Trust: Grow by Letting Go
If You Can't Kill It, Shrink It: Reducing Uncertainty to Make Better Decisions
Focus: Nothing drives bad choices more often or more severely than fear of what we don’t know. Leverage real life intelligence and analytic tradecraft to get the information you can and get over not having the information you don’t.