Clint Swindall is the president and CEO of Verbalocity, Inc., a personal development company with a focus on leadership enhancement. These solutions include leadership development programs, training, speaking and general consulting.
As a professional speaker, Clint is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the speakingprofession’s international measure of professional platform competence. Just over 10% of speakers worldwide whoare a part of the Global Speakers Federation hold this designation.
For more than two decades, Clint has traveled the world delivering high-content speeches and training in an
entertaining and inspirational style to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and trade associations. His clients include 7-Eleven, American Express, BMW, Valero Energy, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Jack in the Box, and Keller Williams.
Clint enjoys the challenge of enhancing employee engagement for his clients by delivering programs based on his two books, Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement and Living for the Weekday: What Every Employee and Boss Needs to Know about Enjoying Work and Life. He has delivered his programs throughout the United States, Canada, South America, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Bermuda, and The Bahamas.
Clint does more than just talk about leadership. His leadership roles in the community include serving on the Executive Committee of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, as well as the board of directors for GVTC, the largest telephone cooperative in the state of Texas. He is founder and chairman of the First Chance Foundation, a 501(c)3 dedicated to assisting abandoned, abused, and neglected children. He is a past board member of the Texas State University Alumni Association, Junior Achievement of South Texas, and Provisions Food Pantry.
He and his wife Heather of 15 years reside just north of San Antonio in Bulverde, Texas…the front door to the Texas Hill Country. When he’s not working to enhance the leadership skills of his clients, he can be found pursuing his hobby of competition BBQ!
Research indicates that less than one-third of employees are truly engaged. The vast majority of employees simply show up to work each day prepared to do the minimum to get by. This problem of employee disengagement is a source of ongoing frustration for leaders of any organization. Not only does it irritate the management team, it demoralizes the productive employees who carry the majority of the work load.
The solution for overcoming employee disengagement is Engaged Leadership … a proactive approach to leadership that involves building consensus for the vision, inspiring employees to pursue the vision, and developing the team to realize the vision. In the midst of managing the business, there must be a focus on developing better leaders who understand the importance of a strong culture w ith a focus on the employee.
Over the past two decades, Clint has been developing his own approach to leadership, and can help you understand what actions can be taken to develop skills in all three areas, including:
In this program, Clint will discuss the importance of all three aspects of Engaged Leadership, and will stress the overall importance of having what he calls a “character core.” He will share a considerable amount of useful information, and deliver his message in an entertaining and inspirational style.
There is no one out there like Clint Swindall. He can speak to a room of hundreds, or thousands, and make each person feel like his words were meant only for them. He is engaging, inspiring, and entertaining, yet completely grounded and approachable. Clint is a truly gifted individual, and it was a great honor to work with him.
Clint was a guest speaker at one of our professional development forums. He successfully engaged all levels of employees (even the most intractable), making key leadership points in terms every attendee could embrace and implement. He is a true professional in every sense of the word.
Clint has, and continues to be, a resource or our organization. He has acted as a facilitator for strategic planning sessions, as well as provided motivating workshops focused with various teams, including sales and others. His programs are stimulating and challenging, and have received more positive reviews than any other similar professional has provided to our group.
Clint has been a speaker at several of our conferences, and has been a pleasure to work with from an organization perspective. However, our clients say it best — interesting, funny and mind expanding, absolutely superb, addressed our biggest issues, very inspirational. That is why we have asked him to speak several times.
Clint made the difference for our 2010 Executive Leadership Series program, and as a plenary speaker or the Annual Meeting. His message was down to earth, but very powerful.