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Research-driven skillsets, immediate results.

Chris Lipp speaks at all types of organizations from Google and Microsoft to Stanford and UC Berkeley. His areas of focus are personal power, persuasion, and pitching.

As an engaging speaker, Chris ensures audiences walk away with both knowledge and actions they can take to immediately transform themselves.

Below are sample topics. Please contact us to build a custom signature presentation for your team.

Building Personal Power in the Workplace

Many of us feel torn between ambition and stress. We desire success, yet a lack of power leaves us frustrated and disengaged. Professor Chris Lipp, a leading expert in personal power, draws on cutting-edge research to provide you actionable strategies to transform your career by channeling your power from the inside-out.

    You will learn how to:

  • Assess opportunities to develop personal power
  • Enhance creativity and performance
  • Practice courage under fire
  • Tap into your authentic engaged self
  • Set strong boundaries that earn respect

How to Lead with Personal Power

Leadership trust is on the decline even as many new leaders struggle to define themselves. All the while, we battle with the misconceptions of aggressive leadership. Chris Lipp, author of The Science of Personal Power, will share strategies to help you cultivate a powerful presence that motivates others and drives meaningful impact while winning respect.

    You will learn how to:

  • Project power in high-stakes pitches, media, and negotiations
  • Empower your team to be productive and engaged
  • Shape others’ perspectives through compelling visions
  • Enhance your leadership trust
  • Remain unshaken under pressure

Harnessing Accountability in a World We Don’t Control

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, accountability is key to high performance and trust in teams. Three-time author Chris Lipp will show you why taking responsibility, both as individuals and as leaders, is a mark of true personal power, and how to inspire your team to do the same. Packed with research insights and practical methods, this session empowers your workforce to embrace accountability.

    You will learn how to:

  • Develop a sense of control under external pressures
  • Recognize the relationship between accountability and power
  • Earn respect by holding others accountable effectively
  • Build a culture of accountability

Mastering Assertive Communication

In a world where the best ideas often go unheard, mastering communication is essential for creating impact. In this engaging workshop, Chris Lipp,10-year veteran in persuasion and fundraising, goes beyond traditional storytelling and data presentation to reveal the latest science-backed strategies that elevate your communication and project both power and confidence to audiences.

    You will learn how to:

  • Pitch new ideas persuasively
  • Receive less push-back when speaking
  • Balance strategic speaking and listening in meetings
  • Highlight your value to organizations
  • Experience greater confidence

Training that Fits your Goals

Pitching

Present innovation, secure funding

Persuasion

Magnetize attention on and off the podium

Power

Assert yourself and strengthen inclusion

Resilience

Develop inner strength and confidence

Successful CLIENTS

We were acquired by a Fortune 100 company in a HIGH eight-figure deal. It was a brutal series of pitches, and Chris was critical to our success.

Alberto Zamora

CEO of Movilizer
We raised over $2 million in our latest round. Chris was a cornerstone for our fundraising.

Mostafa Akbari

CEO of HoloBuilder
Attended Chris’ Influencing Skills workshop at LinkedIn. A year later I still use the skills daily.

Promeet Mansata

Manager at LinkedIn
We all enjoyed Chris’ workshop. Very interactive, loved every minute of it.

Shyla Klinder

President of Silicon Valley Product Management Association
Chris approaches communication from a totally different perspective than most scientists are used to. He taught us to shift from an information-oriented to an audience-focused communication style.

Ermelinda Porpiglia

President of Palo Alto Women in Science
Chris’ presentation on pitching was very valuable to our audience. As one participant related, “Focus on you, not I (which is what we often do!)”

Margaret Krebs

Program Manager for the Stanford Leopold Leadership Program