John Foley

KEYS TO IMPLEMENTATION / SPEAKING TOPICS:
High Performance Zone:
This concept was developed to help teams clearly create a plan to close performance gaps. The High Performance Zone exists in the space between where you are operating currently and where you want to go. By identifying your current performance honestly and transparently and conceptualizing your ideal performance, you actually create the High Performance Zone that enables performance.

Belief Levels:
The Process of developing a vision for your true potential and deepening the commitment and buy-in to that vision.

Brief:
is a process that elevates the way you prepare and focus before taking actions. The Brief incorporates specific tactics, including visualizing outcomes and the actions needed to reach them. These tactics create the speed teams need to perform at their absolute highest potential.

Debrief:
THE GLAD TO BE HERE DEBRIEF is a results-oriented process and mindset that makes higher performance possible. This high-impact, after-action review of both successes and failures leads to incremental improvement. The Glad To Be Here Debrief plays an active role in defining shared values, and group dynamics. This process delivers results, while transforming the culture of the teams that implement it.

CenterPoint
A CenterPoint is a single reference point or a shared goal that holds the collective focus of a team. The concept can create unified, powerful actions in any organization. A well-defined and clearly communicated CenterPoint helps individuals maintain vision of goals and objectives. For teams, it keeps actions focused on priorities, while inspiring collaboration, which leads to faster outcomes, greater innovation and elevated trust.

Contracts:
Contracts are all around us. They are part of the natural fabric of any business. Explore the difference between written contracts, and the unwritten verbal or non-verbal agreements between that influence every organization and the trust it impacts. These types of contracts often go overlooked, but research indicates that acknowledging and improving these agreements can have substantial positive effects on the trust within an organization which is one of the top variables to execution of strategy.

Glad to be Here:
is an Ethos way of living combined with Operation of Excellence – as it takes teams to the next level. Organizations will learn how to CONNECT, ALIGN, & COMMIT and by doing so it opens up the communication lines creating a grateful and happy culture!

The Diamond Performance Framework:
Is based on John’s experiences as a Navy fighter pilot, including 3 years with the Blue Angels. John applied those experiences to the business theory he learned at Stanford as a Sloan Fellow, and refined it by working with some of the highest performing organizations in the corporate world.

DPF is the key to higher performance. Strategic management theory teaches a loop of vision, plan, execution and feedback. This creates a buy-in mindset of commitment, focus, trust, & measurement.

The Diamond Performance Framework builds on the strategic management theory that teaches vision, planning, execution and feedback by incorporating extreme levels of buy-in and commitment. It includes four components – Belief Levels, Brief, Contracts and Debrief – that take place around an agreed upon CenterPoint and with a shared mindset known as Glad To Be Here. The result is a spiraling upward process that incrementally closes performance gaps and leads to exponential improvements in results. This framework provides the foundation for keynotes that address a multitude of topics around leadership, management, and team effectiveness.

PERFORMANCE / SPEAKING TOPICS:
Keynote Speaker John Foley

John Foley is a High-Performance Keynote speaker who has developed a framework that is foundational to high performing teams. High Performance is a journey toward excellence and elevated execution that has the power to carry individuals and teams beyond their expectations.

Elevated choices create elevated results. Making better choices isn’t about knowing the future, it’s about setting yourself up for success, every single day. Learning from the past is the key to plotting the future. There’s no better way to examine the past than through a debrief.

Research has shown the effects of a positive mindset. When our mind is grateful, it changes the way we see the world. It re-centers our priorities, it activates emotions that lead to happiness and it leaves us in a more open state, willing to embrace otherwise unforeseen opportunities. With a grateful mindset, we can see our options and their outcomes more clearly.

High Performance and Culture of Excellence:
High Performance is a mindset, a process, and a commitment to a culture of excellence that accelerates every day performance and achievement.
John Foley is a High Performance Keynote speaker who has developed a framework that is foundational to high performing teams. High Performance is a journey toward excellence and elevated execution that has the power to carry individuals and teams beyond their expectations.
Elevated choices create elevated results. Making better choices isn’t about knowing the future, it’s about setting yourself up for success, every single day. Learning from the past is the key to plotting the future. There’s no better way to examine the past than through a debrief.
Research has shown the effects of a positive mindset. When our mind is grateful, it changes the way we see the world. It re-centers our priorities, it activates emotions that lead to happiness and it leaves us in a more open state, willing to embrace otherwise unforeseen opportunities. With a grateful mindset, we can see our options and their outcomes more clearly.

Teamwork:
Blue Angel precision is built on a solid foundation of teamwork around a common objective or CenterPoint. Unified alignment collapses barriers and creates a powerful culture of action.
John Foley is a teamwork keynote speaker and former Blue Angels Solo Pilot that challenges today’s leaders to inspire collaboration and elevate trust among teams.
Teamwork is the collective potential of individuals harnessed to create an exponential outcome of a unit. Effective teamwork requires many variables including trust, communication, a belief in purpose greater than self, and a common goal.
A CenterPoint is a single reference point or a shared goal that holds the collective focus of a team. The concept of CenterPoint can be used to create unified, powerful action in any organization. A well and clearly communicated CenterPoint helps individuals maintain vision of goals and objectives. For teams, an effective CenterPoint keeps actions focused on priorities, while inspiring collaboration, which leads to faster outcomes, innovation and elevated trust.
Identifying and aligning your teams on a CenterPoint keeps action directed toward desired outcomes while still allowing teams to be adaptable.

Trust:
Picture this: two jets, on a collision course, 1000 mph rate of closure, and the goal is to miss the other jet by a wingspan. An extreme trust makes this maneuver possible, and when that relationship and process is transposed onto the world of business, the results are incredible.
How would your teams perform if there was complete inherent trust in each other and the organization? Implicit contracts are all around us. They bind our world together, and they are part of the natural fabric of any business.
Research shows that vocalizing contracts and establishing them in a formal agreement can lead to increased productivity because both employees and managers recognize the risk inherent in breaking trust contracts.
Acknowledging and improving these agreements can have substantial positive effects. Because contracts permeate the entire organization, turning your attention to them has the ability to elevate both trust in individuals and teams.
Contracts present an opportunity to build trust. Trust is well known as a necessary component—if not the most important variable—of successful teams.

Leadership:
The Blue Angel approach to leadership is unique and inspires trust through confidence, with open and honest communication. Every team member is a leader driving expectations.
John Foley is a top leadership keynote speaker and former Blue Angels solo pilot that challenges leaders to build trust, improve performance, and create elite teams.
Teams become elite because of leadership, a commitment to excellence and a proven process. As companies transform their DNA and pivot their business to compete in the new digital paradigm, the ability to develop transformational leadership and enable workforce evolution is a critical competitive advantage.
The potential of elite performance lives within every individual, every team and every organization. It takes intentional leadership to enable that potential and turn it into focused action.
Innovation in Performance & Transformation:
In the digital age, innovation and transformation surrounds us. Engaging with advances mid-stream requires a unique mindset. Once you’ve arrived, how do you sustain change?
Every organization is faced with some form of transformation based on a changing and dynamic business environment. A global economy, changing consumer behaviors and the digitization of every industry has created tremendous pressure for companies. Today’s leading companies adapt and create competitive advantage in the process.
Organizations that lead through change succeed. The two key elements to success are a reiterative process and a shift in culture. The Diamond Performance Framework was built specifically to drive performance and create the mindset and commitment to a culture of excellence.

Glad To Be Here® Mindset
Glad To Be Here® is a mindset that opens the door to higher performance. Teams and individuals that embrace a grateful, positive mindset as a core belief will improve their communication, inspire commitment and buy in to group objectives, all while opening their mind to enable new perspectives to recognize opportunities for success.
Elevated Beliefs and Raising Performance Expectations:
People and teams operate at the level of their beliefs. When we raise the level of those beliefs, performance will follow.
A simple self-reflection on limiting and liberating beliefs can create new alignment and precision in individuals and teams.
Perception is reality. What leaders, teams, and individuals believe drives behavior and a level of performance that mirrors those beliefs. This is true for both the high end performers and the lower end performers. So what is the difference? What separates the best from the rest and what separates the best from the best?
Performance is directly linked to short term beliefs and long-term mindset. A leader’s mindset and emotional intelligence is a proven critical element of high performing teams. When you evaluate performance in any industry, leadership often is the differentiator above skill and experience.

JFI WORKSHOPS:
John Foley offers a variety of programs including training, workshops, online curriculum and mentoring and coaching. Each program is individually tailored to address the challenges and desired business outcomes of our clients, through application of our methodology to existing business processes and environments. The programs offered differ in length ranging from one half day exposure to comprehensive annual engagements with follow on training, monitoring and consultation. JFI has provided these programs successfully to a variety of companies and industries including Health, Financial, Capital Investment, Logistics, Transportation and Information Technology.