Kevin is the chief potential officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group , a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams, and individuals reach their potential since 1993. Emphasizing the power of learning, Kevin’s specialties include leadership, teams and teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, training trainers and more.
Kevin’s philosophy in business and in life is that every person and every organization has extraordinary potential. Investments of time, energy, focus, and money are required for that potential to be realized. He believes learning is an active, ongoing process, not a passive, one-time event. Learning, work, and life should be fun, and if we are doing it right, work (and learning) is play.
Kevin’s students and clients consistently rave about his effectiveness, many calling him “the best trainer I’ve ever experienced.”He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small firms, universities, government agencies, hospitals, and more. His client list includes the American Red Cross, A&W Canada, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, John Deere, Nexen, OPTI Canada, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Mint.
Kevin also is the creator and content developer of The Remarkable Leadership Learning System, a continual leadership development process focused on developing the thirteen competencies of remarkable leaders with virtually delivered content to leaders worldwide.
He is the bestselling author of Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time and Vantagepoints on Learning and Life (Dog Ear Publishing, 2006), a collection of his e-mail essays on learning from everyday experiences. He wrote #LEADERSHIPTweet (Happy About Publishing, 2009), based on leadership thoughts from his Twitter stream (@KevinEikenberry).
He also is a contributing author to The Handbook of Experiential Learning (2007), Masters of Sales (2007), 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life (2006), and the best-selling Walking with the Wise (2003). Kevin has contributed to thirteen editions of The Training and Development Sourcebook since 1997.
Kevin also produces two e-mail-based publications: Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, a weekly publication read by more than 16,000 worldwide, to assist organizations and individuals in turning their potential into desired results; and Powerquotes Plus, a weekly publication read by more than 24,000 people worldwide, featuring a quote along with personal coaching.
As a speaker, Kevin gives keynotes for organizations and nonprofits on remarkable leadership, life-long learning, developing human potential, teams and teamwork, creativity, and more. He has presented to the National Institute of Health, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Speaker’s Association (NSA), the International Society for Performance Improvement, the National Association for Experiential Learning, the American Society for Training and Development, the International Society for Performance Improvement, and many more.
Kevin and his family live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up on a Michigan farm, Kevin says he learned some of his most important leadership skills working with his father. Kevin earned a B.S. with honors from Purdue University, collects antique John Deere tractors, is an avid reader, and loves his family and his Boilermakers.
If Kevin or his team can help you in any way call (317.387.1424 or 888.LEARNER—toll free in the United States) anytime.
Kevin Eikenberry is coauthor with Guy Harris of a fantastic leadership resource called From Bud to Boss – Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership it’s more than just a book, it’s a journal of steps and strategies that will bring you closer and closer to your goal of being a leader people choose to follow.
Kevin co-developed the Bud to Boss workshop held in cities across North America with Guy Harris.
