Lynda Gratton
Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2024 | Professor at London Business School | Founder of HSM Advisory | Author of 'The 100-Year Life' & 'Redesigning Work'
Michael Bungay Stanier
Bestselling Author, The Coaching Habit | Founder, MBS.works & Box of Crayons | Author, The Advice Trap & How to Begin | Coaching & Leadership Expert
Bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, the coaching book of the century, with over a million copies sold and a new 10th-anniversary hardcover edition. He founded MBS.works and Box of Crayons, training over half a million managers at Microsoft, Salesforce, Gucci, and TELUS. Audiences book Michael Bungay Stanier for witty, science-backed keynotes on coaching, curiosity, and doing work that matters.
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Michael Bungay Stanier biography
Motivational speaker Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of The Coaching Habit, the bestselling coaching book of the century, with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Released in a 10th-anniversary hardcover edition with new content and original illustrations, the book has reshaped how managers at companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, TELUS, and Gucci think about leadership conversations.
In The Coaching Habit, MBS teaches managers and their teams how to make coaching a regular, informal part of daily work in order to drive better results with less effort. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioral economics, and field-tested practice with more than 10,000 managers worldwide, the book translates abstract advice into seven concrete questions any leader can use on Monday morning.
From Box of Crayons to MBS.works
Bungay Stanier also wrote The Advice Trap and How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters, and he founded MBS.works in 2019 to help ambitious people unlock work that matters. Earlier, he founded Box of Crayons, the learning and development company that has trained more than half a million managers to shift from advice-giving to curiosity-led leadership. He has also collaborated with Seth Godin on a project that raised more than $400,000 for Malaria No More.
Originally from Australia and now based in Toronto, MBS has been called one of the most influential thinkers in coaching by peers including Marshall Goldsmith and Brené Brown. His career has been a sustained push against rigid power structures — democratizing coaching so that any leader, in any role, can use it to develop the people around them.
As a speaker, Michael Bungay Stanier delivers witty, conversational keynotes and workshops that help leaders say less, ask more, and create the conditions for their people to do their best work. Organizations book Michael Bungay Stanier to make coaching an everyday leadership act, tame the urge to give advice, identify and commit to a worthy goal, and consistently show up as the best version of themselves.
Michael Bungay Stanier Speaking Videos
Michael Bungay Stanier - How to tame your Advice Monster
The Coaching Habit: Michael Bungay Stanier & Marshall Goldsmith
Michael Bungay Stanier Keynote Topics
For participants to see and experience the power of being more coach-like.
Coaching is a powerful leadership behaviour. But coaching comes with baggage: it's difficult, it's "HR", it's a black box. This session helps unweird coaching, and provides five questions that can make coaching an everyday leadership act.
By the time we're done, participants will have:
- Learned about the three vicious circles of leadership and which one they're stuck in
- Measured how they split their time between Bad, Good and Great Work
- Confessed to at least one of the five reasons they're skeptical about coaching right now
- Worked through the Five Key Questions, including the Best Coaching Question in the World
Based on Michael's bestselling book, The Coaching Habit.
For participants who want to shift their leadership style to say less and ask more.
Curiosity is a leadership superpower. But while it's easy in theory, in practice it's difficult. This session explores the deeper barriers to staying curious, and helps participants tame their Advice Monster.
By the time we're done, participants will have:
- Seen the difference between Easy Change and Hard Change, and why it matters
- Identified which of the three Advice Monsters is their Advice Monster
- Quantified the price they and others pay for the Advice Monster being in control
- Generated strategies for taming their Advice Monster
Based on Michael's bestselling book, The Advice Trap.
For participants who want to consistently show up at their best.
We've all had a sense of ourselves at our best: when we're clever, generous, strategic, and proactive. We also know how easy it is to get knocked off our stride and become less smart, less generous, less strategic, and reactive. This session provides the two best tools to navigate your way back to being your best.
By the time we're done, participants will have:
- Explored three common ways we get knocked off our stride
- Worked with a tool to help "move towards the light": return to the best version of themselves
- Worked with a tool to help "move away from the dark": avoid the lesser versions of themselves
- Identified when and where they will best deploy those tools
For participants to get clear, get courageous and get going on work that matters.
One of our greatest fears is a meaningless life. One of the certain ways to create a life of meaning is to do more of the work that matters. This session provides the tools to help find and start a worthy goal.
By the time we're done, participants will have:
- Understood that we unlock our greatness by taking on the hard things
- Learned the three attributes of a Worthy Goal
- Understood the choices required to fully commit to a Worthy Goal
- Designed the first "small steps" across the threshold for their worthy goal
Based on Michael's book, How to Begin.
Speaker topics
FAQs on Booking Michael Bungay Stanier
Why Michael Bungay Stanier?
Few authors have changed the conversation about leadership the way Michael Bungay Stanier has. The Coaching Habit has sold over a million copies, sits on the desks of executives at Microsoft, Salesforce, Gucci, and TELUS, and now anchors a 10th-anniversary hardcover edition. MBS brings the rare combination of academic rigor, real-world coaching practice with thousands of managers, and a witty, conversational stage presence that audiences remember weeks later. Book Michael Bungay Stanier through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring a one-of-a-kind voice on coaching, curiosity, and meaningful work to your next leadership event.
What is The Coaching Habit about?
The Coaching Habit teaches managers how to make coaching a regular, informal part of daily work — not a separate program reserved for HR. The book is built around seven powerful questions, including the AWE Question and the Foundation Question, that help leaders say less, ask more, and unlock the thinking of the people around them. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioral economics, and testing with more than 10,000 managers, the book has reshaped how organizations like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Gucci approach everyday leadership conversations.
What is Box of Crayons?
Box of Crayons is the learning and development company Michael Bungay Stanier founded to help organizations move from advice-driven action to curiosity-led transformation. Its programs have trained more than half a million people across hundreds of organizations, including Microsoft, Salesforce, TELUS, and Gucci. The firm's flagship offerings build on MBS' books to embed practical coaching habits inside teams, so managers can develop their people without adding another layer of process.
What does Michael Bungay Stanier speak about at events?
MBS' keynotes and workshops focus on coaching, curiosity, and ambitious goal-setting. His signature talks cover the five questions every leader should master, how to tame the urge to give advice, how to show up consistently as the best version of yourself, and how to identify and commit to a worthy goal. He pairs sharp insight with self-deprecating humor, leaving audiences with concrete tools they can use the next morning. To bring Michael Bungay Stanier to your stage, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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