About Steve Weber
Keynote Speaker
Fellow Human Being
Dream Big and Take the Long View
Steve is a big picture guy. He loves new ideas designed to make big change possible. He?s a thinker. An organizer. A planner. Steve understands how a big idea without execution is day-dreaming. He understands how great execution on a big idea makes transformation occur. Transformation takes discipline. Steve is disciplined. Steve is living his own life with Gumption.
Responsibility is the Foundation of Personal Freedom
Steve teaches taking 100% personal responsibility for your thoughts, actions, and interactions with others. He calls this Gumption. He teaches groups and individuals how to Function with Gumption. He knows that taking action always leads to results. Results lead to more freedom. Results are why your business exists. Freedom is what drives the human spirit. Your employees yearn for both results and freedom. They want to contribute. They need to be lead ? lead them!
Steve can help you lead them.
Transformation is Always Available
Life is a journey and continuous learning opportunity. All individuals have great potential. Those who recognize their potential understand that life is a journey. Those thirsty for knowledge don?t have trouble with change. But they do need to be informed. Encouraged. Aided. Pushed. Prompted. And occasionally chided. Transformation is always available.
Be Willing to Reinvent Yourself
Steve has reinvented himself sixteen significant times throughout his life. From paper boy at age 11 to Forrest Gump at age 37 to Change Ambassador / Speaker today. He moved to CA at age 22 and to Montana at age 49 ? both times alone. In the last eight years Steve have reinvented himself from entertainer to speaker to host to change ambassador ? now he?s all four. Throughout his life, Steve has initiated a major change approximately every 3-4 years. While several of these changes have been major stumbles, the vast majority have been solid stepping stones. One change leads directly to the next opportunity. Steve imagines many more changes to come in the final third of his life.
Speaker
His message is personal responsibility ? he calls it Gumption. People who live their lives with Gumption take 100% personal responsibility. Steve likes to deliver his message in combination with your message of change.?Where do you want to go? Where do you need to go??Your message of change combined with Gumption is what Steve most passionately promotes. He communicates with a purpose and purposefully. Take personal responsibility and make a difference.
Creatively Engaging
He works with your insider process as an outsider. He listens. His ability to create new ideas surprises and delights. He?s not constrained by typical ways of problem solving. He likes to catch people by off guard with unconventional solutions. Steve has the ability to grasp alternative viewpoints. He has a vivid imagination and a wry sense of humor. He?s sometimes ironic. He likes to take the status quo and flip it around in new, innovative ways. Steve wants to creatively engage with your group to cause your change.
Naturally Curious ? A Natural Leader
Steve gets more excited about instigating new ideas than in seeing them through to the finish. He wants to help your team get started so they can finish. Steve can be the ringleader. He gladly takes command when he?s invited into your group. Once he?s invited in, Steve can not not lead. He keeps things moving. His curiosity energizes conversations. His natural optimism inspires others.
Playful and Enjoys Meeting People
Steve knows how to make a great first impression. This energy gets others participating. He loves meeting new people and learning new skills which excites others about themselves. Steve views every new experience as a fun project and learning opportunity.
Steve is excellent at reading situations and understanding the dynamics of relationships ? this breaks down barriers. He has the ability to make people feel important whether it?s the CEO, the new person you hired last week, a meeting planner, another speaker, a typical conference attendee, or the hotel wait staff. When people feel important, their performance rises.
Strives for Excellence
Steve is self-confident and participates actively with the highest level thinkers. He wants the best for others. He encourages, cajoles, and prompts others to find their own excellence. Steve has never searched for nor taken the traditional path. It?s all about new ideas and execution. This helps tremendously when he?s planning a speech or doing research in preparation for a hosting event or consulting project.?Living Your Life with Gumption?is what Steve equates with excellence. Helping others?Live Their Lives with Gumption is his vision.
Unassuming
His mild-mannered demeanor hides his free spirit. He has a minimalist communication style. He listens carefully. He explains his ideas clearly.
Steve can be reticent. He will restrain his emotions and contain his inner thoughts until he is ready to share them. He?s often one of the last to speak but frequently comes up with a great idea. This skill is invaluable for providing new energy when normal fatigue occurs.
Do You Know Who You Look Like?
Steve was given a gift from his parents. He calls it genetic luck. Since 1981 he?s been told he looks like Tom Hanks. Thousands have asked, ?Do you know who you look like??Steve has taken his gift of genetic luck and gives back by helping others change. Gump breaks down barriers. Gump is truth serum. Gump is the gift Steve received from the Creator. Sharing his gift with others is Steve?s purpose.
Steve?s outgoing personality and comedian-like sense of humor leaves people laughing and feeling as if they?ve just met the real Forrest Gump ? stupid is as stupid does!
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