Award-winning author, behaviorist, and seasoned leadership development expert, Val Jon Farris is best known for his pioneering work in bridging the gap between personal growth and professional performance. From the early 1990s until today, Val Jon has designed, delivered, and supervised enterprise-level training programs for over 40,000 executives, managers, and employees from Fortune 100 companies around the world. Clients included Sir Richard Branson and his XTC initiatives, Pacific Telesis, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Intuit, Yahoo, Intel Corporation, and many other international firms located in Mexico, Central and South America, India, Finland, Dubai Saudi Arabia, Canada, and China. (Professional bio link for Mr. Farris: https://www.diamius.com/farris-bio/) His breakthrough “Transcendent Leadership" curriculum and training programs opened the way for holding those in leadership positions accountable for developing greater self-awareness and higher consciousness, the practice of "staying out of the way" and allowing one's greater egoless virtues to lead. This superlative human faculty is what Abraham Maslow called “Self-Transcendence,” his sixth hierarchy need. CORE COMPETENCIES:• Leadership Development: Strategic and entrepreneurial leader, executive confidante, seasoned leadership coach, cultural change steward, business scaling mentor, succession planner and client-facing relationships expert. • Organizational Skills: Go to market expert, on-boarding, talent management and leadership pipeline architect. International project designer, proficient with ERP, SAP, LMS applications.• Curriculum Design: 360 leadership assessments, performance benchmarking, high-level instructional design and curriculum mapping, business case development. Stand-up and blended learning facilitator for sales, negotiations, leadership development, coaching and change management.• Operations Management: Enterprise-level P&L, budgeting, business management and staff leadership development. Extensive Talent Management, L&D and HR department collaboration, train-the-trainer experience, action-learning implementations and small business development expertise.Specialties: preparing new acquisitions to ramp uporganizational leadership developmentstart up business scalingexecutive leadership coachingchange managementventure capital resourceworkforce leadership trainingstrategic planning and consultingcore team performance evaluationshigh-level leadership curriculum design
Listed skills include Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Leadership, Strategy, and 29 others.
