Tracy Spears
- Co-author of the best-selling books "What Exceptional Leaders Know" and "Exceptional Leaders Playbook"
- Leadership Trainer
Tracy L. Spears is the co-founder of The Exceptional Leaders Lab. She is the co-author of the best selling book, “What Exceptional Leaders Know”. As a national business consultant for over 25 years, Tracy’s dynamic and comfortable approach has led to her addressing thousands of people, whether it is during a keynote speech for an
read the restTracy is a high-energy keynote speaker that specializes in developing leaders, inspiring teamwork, and enhancing all types of communication. As a keynote speaker, she presents audiences with an interactive and approachable style that is always memorable.
She is passionate about motivating and developing individuals and teams to their maximum potential. Her presentations are laced with humor, interaction and movement to ensure the highest level of audience engagement. Tracy keeps her audiences laughing and learning. Participants walk away motivated and energized, equipped with the necessary tools to become dynamic leaders of others and/or themselves and improve their performance.
In her 25 years of training and motivating teams and leaders, Tracy has developed the ability to work directly with a client to customize a presentation to fit their needs. So, whether the needs of those presentations include diversity and inclusion, leadership, innovation, motivation, teamwork, or something else entirely, she is able to adapt accordingly. Working with all levels of staff and engaging the audience are skills she has honed over her years of speaking – which translates to engaging audiences comprised of CEO’s; entire companies; individual teams within a company; medical professionals; business owners and beyond – helping them all grow and excel in their given roles.
She has presented around the topic of women in leadership to an international conference in Denmark for Coca-Cola and Maersk. Her presentation, “What Exceptional Leaders Know”…a title taken directly from her best-selling book, has been presented to Coca-Cola World headquarters in London, Cargill, Wal-Mart, TD Williamson, WPX Energy, and hundreds of other engagements. Her audiences consistently rate “Why People Do What They Do,” as the best keynote session EVER.
Tracy is a member of the National Speakers Association, and co-author of the best-selling books “What Exceptional Leaders Know” and “Exceptional Leaders Playbook,” as well as the newly released “Leadership is a Verb.” She was published in The Journal of Medical Practice Management with an article titled “The 5 Conversations Leaders Must Get Right.”
Tracy earned her communications degree from the University of Oklahoma. As an athlete, she participated in the US Olympic Sports Festival, was a National Junior Olympic Coaching Instructor, and played in Japan as a member of the US National Softball Team.
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