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Stephen Long

PhD
President & Founder
Long Training+Research
Country or state 
United States
Available to 
Global
City 
Denver Metro
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes

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Bio

Dr. Stephen Long is the founder & president of Long Training+Research, specializing in human performance, leadership effectiveness, talent optimization, and strategy execution. For more than 30 years, he has unlocked the potential of exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, elite producers, and corporate executives. The author of four books, he earned his PhD from the University of Kansas, where he was honored as the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student while serving as the Director of the KU Peak Performance Clinic. He then served as the Head of Performance Psychology in the Human Performance Lab at the US Air Force Academy. A University of Utah independent study identified Dr. Long as one of North America’s top applied performance psychologists.

Current position (1)

President & Founder

Long Training+Research

Degrees (3)
PhD, Education
University of Kansas
1990 to 1993
M.Ed., Education
University of Virginia
1982 to 1984
Education
university of Delaware
1979 to 1982

Presentations

Presentations (13)
The Hidden Costs of Human Nature

Every manager has hidden costs baked into their enterprise, which are the unforeseen expenses of doing business. These costs range from trivial like maintenance to significant like legal fees. This seminar teaches managers to expose hidden costs and convert them into newfound revenue. Human Nature is the most expensive hidden cost, therefore Human Nature is the most profitable opportunity. How do we prevail over an insurmountable force like Human Nature? Individual and collective Prosperity Trait Index© results reveal the Hidden Costs of Human Nature. Managers apply tools and strategies to reduce the natural defects of an organization's collective Prosperity Trait expediting growth, increasing revenue, improving productivity, and expanding profit margins.

What Great Looks Like

Those who are the best at what they do have one thought that enters their mind: Can I do better? It is only when people reach the top that new possibilities arise. The best need additional, but elusive skills to make greatness a reality. Applying a combination of group and individual instruction, the seminar leverages the inherent human capital within participants. The interactive seminar draws on participants’ expertise to help create the curriculum and shape the seminar through a customized teaching method. No two seminars are alike because participants offer unique strengths and challenges through their different mindsets, different experiences, different responsibilities. Participants feed off each other, learning from their distinct differences and unexpected commonalities. The Prosperity Trait Index© provides the template for our greatest aspiration: to be truly and completely free.

Fish Don't Know the Water is Wet

You see the need for change, but you can’t do it alone. The problem is your employees have no sense of it. As a result, they don’t share your priorities. It’s like they work in a completely different environment. But they don’t. You see the environment as it is. You see the reality. Your organization is vulnerable because the evidence is clear to you, but your employees act as if they are impervious to market forces. What are the forces preventing your employees from seeing reality? Entitlement? Possibly. Narrow comfort zones? Perhaps. Complacency? Probably. A tight labor market? Certainly. Many leaders descend into fear and intimidation under these circumstances which may yield short-term results but ensure long-term negative consequences. How do leaders create a sense of urgency without creating panic? It starts with leading by example. Psychometrics and behavioral science equip leaders to manage and lead change empowering employees to take on the challenge of transformation.

Theory PT™: A Human Performance Management Theory

People are the engine that creates value. Grounded in LTR's behavioral science research, Theory PT meets the demands of today’s knowledge-based economy where the need for an innovative management approach has emerged. Theory PT emphasizes the ends over the means by providing solutions for the managed through the manager. This seminar exposes leaders’ assumptions about the most effective way to manage people to achieve transformation through Human Performance. Participants acquire skills essential to efficient organic growth by understanding that people are the product.

Design Thinking

Design Thinking is a 10-module workshop that strengthens The Prosperity Trait®. The skills participants acquire create simplicity, improve brain functioning and decision-making, remove friction, decrease stress, reduce decision fatigue, liberate creativity, promote organization, and enhance performance. It even improves sleep. Design Thinking creates a state of effortless concentration requiring no exertion of self-control, freeing up cognitive resources and empowering people to pursue their most ambitious goals. This state of optimal human performance is called Trust.

Leadership Series

The Leadership Series consists of Coaching Effectiveness and Managing Effectiveness Workshops. Both workshops support the Design Thinking workshop and are scientifically proven to strengthen The Prosperity Trait® in team members. The Leadership Series puts people first by prioritizing the ends over the means. People are the product and the by-products generated include higher productivity, greater creativity, stronger cohesion, increased retention, and significant ROI on other human capital initiatives. As a result, people seek change rather than avoid, evade, and delay it.

Executive Golf Workshops

Expanding strategic execution skills is only the beginning. It’s about results and relationships. The Workshops are part of a comprehensive strategy to grow your business. Reward your most valued clients. Recognize your most productive employees. Close your most promising prospects. All by spending three days acquiring first class, cutting edge instruction emphasizing the most important facet of business

GOLD! Mastering the Psychology of Strategy Execution

Featuring 17 Olympians who amassed 25 Olympic Gold Medals, GOLD! provides a system that enhances individual and organizational performance. GOLD! furnishes the why and the how to manage risk through an empirical foundation of human performance. The workshop breaks down strategy execution into a series of steps and phases that improve outcomes through Olympic champion case studies. If requested, Olympians make special appearances and presentations throughout the workshop.

A Matter of Trust

Never has trust been so hard to acquire yet so easy to lose. In association with Dr. Tommy Thomas - president of Opposite Strengths, Inc - we provide the tools and strategies for three dynamics of trust based on valid psychometrics and proven behavioral science. Trust between clients, trust among employees, and trust within oneself are absolutely essential for success. Through these two primary sources, Dr. Thomas and Dr. Long provide the blueprint for executives to get people on their side, move their organizations forward and consistently execute strategy. Participants acquire the skills needed to communicate with others effectively, spread confidence inside and outside the company, and align the organization. Three workshops are available:
• Relational Trust
• ​Social Trust
• ​Self Trust

The Nature of Things

The Center's capstone program, this workshop addresses in a time where people are over-managed and under-lead, organizational life exhibits a natural quality where things happen under the first wave of consciousness regardless of the industry. Participants receive a complimentary copy of Motere’s Organizational Health Evaluation, which measures managerial capability for the three primary areas of organizational health. Organizational health is an output of four components of organizational life.
- The Nature of Work
- The Nature of Leadership
- The Nature of Innovation
- The Nature of Motivation

Elite Producers

Those who are the best at what they do have one thought that enters their mind: Can I do better? It is only when the best have reached the top that new possibilities arise. Elite Producers need additional, but elusive skills to make consistent excellence a reality. Applying a combination of group and individual instruction, the Elite Producers workshops leverage the inherent capital within participants. The interactive workshops draw on participants’ expertise to help create the curriculum and shape the workshops through a customized teaching method. No two workshops are alike because participants offer unique strengths and challenges coming from different industries, different experiences, different responsibilities. Participants feed off of each other, learning from the distinct differences and the unexpected commonalities.

Patterns

A deeply introspective experience, the Patterns Workshop enables executives to identify and apply their unique personal high performance pattern. Instead of replicating a method that may have worked for someone else, the Patterns Workshop provides a process where participants learn how they work best across diverse situations. Participants leave with guidelines that are personal, non-disruptive, produce fast results and apply to a broad range of performance challenges and opportunities.

Emerging Leaders

Designed for High Potentials and Hot Recruits expected to move into successively important leadership roles, Motere applies a unique parallel teaching method to four career developmental stages by coordinating executive development with organizational initiatives. Classroom and experiential learning empowers participants to create a leadership brand that sets an organization apart.

Past talks (1)
Human Capital Issues in M&A Activity
Faegre Baker Daniels M&A Conference
Minneapolis, MN
November 6, 2018
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Books & Articles (10)

The Incumbent
Motere Publishing,
2020
Long on Leadership
Motere Publishing ,
2020
GOLD! Mastering the Psychology of Strategic Execution - The Abridged Version
Motere Publishing,
2020
The 7 Deadly Sins of Youth Sports: How to Raise Happy, Healthy and High Performing Kids
Motere Publishing,
2020
Exercising Wisdom in an Era of Ambiguity
Icahn vs. Hollub: Sound Decision Makers Don’t Bet on Luck
The World Has Changed. Have You?
The Leadership Tax Bigger than EQ. More Important Than IQ.
Executive Presence: What It Is and 4 Steps to Develop It
The Soulless Organization: Overcoming Pornographic Management

Expertise (12)

Business
Management Consulting Strategic Execution Turnarounds Executive Transition Continuity Management Psychology Perfomance Psychology Psychometrics Human Performance Leadership Effectiveness Talent Optimization
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I built a predictive model of human performance and leadership based on The Prosperity Trait®.

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