Learn how to inspire focused, fast action without burnout by aligning urgency with purpose, boosting accountability, engagement, and sustainable performance across your team.
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, leaders face the constant challenge of motivating teams to act with speed and focus--without creating stress, burnout, or mistakes that undermine results. Too often, urgency is confused with panic, leading to reactivity rather than purposeful action. Creating a Sense of Urgency With Your Team is designed to help leaders at every level--from HR managers and payroll professionals to CFOs, business owners, and attorneys--establish the kind of urgency that drives results, accountability, and alignment with organizational priorities.
This session goes beyond theory, providing a practical framework that blends psychology, leadership strategy, and organizational best practices. Participants will explore the neuroscience of urgency and how it impacts decision-making and engagement; learn to diagnose the cultural and structural barriers that stall progress; and discover communication strategies that motivate people to act quickly without fear or resistance.
Key takeaways will include methods for aligning urgency with vision and measurable goals, techniques to balance speed with quality and compliance, and communication tools that inspire buy-in rather than pushback. Through real-world examples and actionable tools, attendees will leave prepared to create momentum, energize their teams, meet critical deadlines, and sustain long-term performance--transforming urgency into a positive, lasting driver of organizational success.
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LeRoy Thompson, Jr.
LeRoy Thompson & Associates LLC
- Managing Director, Thompson & Associates LLC; formerly Associate with McKinsey & Company, Practice Leader in Worldwide Strategy at Kepner-Tregoe, and Senior Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton specializing in large-scale change management initiatives with federal agencies
- Practice emphasizes all aspects of leadership development, performance management, DEIA strategy, organizational change, and workplace culture and climate assessment; facilitation style is interactive, engaging, and tool-based—participants describe his sessions as energetic, practical, and memorable
- Speaking/Teaching accomplishments include: featured presenter at numerous national and international conferences; creator and host of the AMA-By-Satellite television broadcast Written Skills for Business Communications, which won the Best of Business Television Award; delivered executive briefings, training, and webinars for federal agencies, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies
- Author/Publication accomplishments include: Mastering the Challenges of Change (recipient of the Newberry Book Club Award); Foundations and New Frontiers of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (listed on The New York Times Book List); article ‘E-Commerce—Changing the Rules of Strategy Implementation,’ published in Strategy and Leadership magazine
- Membership/Recognition: firm recognized by HR Tech Outlook as a Top DEI Firm of 2022; consultant to organizations such as NASA, the U.S. Departments of Energy, Justice, Commerce, and Defense; Arlington County; Citigroup; BMW; Motorola; Marriott; and the Library of Congress
- Education: bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University; master’s degree in Finance and International Business from Columbia University School of Business; Certified Agile Scrum Master; Certified Virtual Master Presenter
- Can be contact at [email protected] or 703-587-6560
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