Jim Lukaszewski is Offering Five FREE 60-minute Webinars on Critically Important Current Topics

Topic #1:
Crisis Proofing Your Organization (and Your Career?)

Topic #2:
How to Find the Happiness That Success Should Bring, But Rarely Does.

Topic #3:
Avoiding Unethical Crisis Response Behaviors, Most are Intentional.

Topic #4:
Influencing Leaders, Getting Your Boss to Listen to You.

Topic #5:
Developing a Strategic Mindset – Part One: How Leaders Think and Operate.

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Professional Webinar Presentations in 2024

5 Powerful, Important, and Relevant Free 60-Minute Live Webinars From Jim Lukaszewski
Americas Crisis Guru®
In Person (seminar) or by Zoom (webinar)

1. Crisis Proofing Your Organization and Your Career

Getting Ready, Doing The Most Important Things First.

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2. Finding Happiness

How To Find Happiness That Success Should Bring, But Rarely Does
Five Principals, Three Crucial Decisions, Seven Steps.

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3. Avoiding Unethical Crisis Response Behaviors

Serious Errors In Crisis Response Are Often Intentional and Unethical.

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4. Influencing Leaders

Getting Your Boss (And Their Boss?) To Listen To You
How To Improve Your Impact, Access, Influence, And Inclusion.

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5. Developing A Strategic Mindset

Part One:
How Leaders Think And Operate,
The Realities Of Advising Top Executives

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6. Developing A Strategic Mindset

Part Two:
Getting To The Table Earlier With More Personal Power

Getting And Keeping Leaders, Managers, And Those Who Advise Them Ready To Lead.

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7. Developing A Strategic Mindset

Part Three:
Anticipating, Detecting, Preempting, Avoiding, Deterring, Dealing With, And Recovering (When Possible) From Senior Management Problems. Most Are Self-Inflicted.

Getting And Keeping Leaders, Managers, And Those Who Advise Them Ready To Lead.

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Dear communication and leadership colleagues,

I am again offering FREE 60 Minute Master Practitioner Webinar Presentations on important communication topics to qualifying organizations:

Qualifying Organizations

  • ASIS Chapters
  • Corporate Communications Departments
  • Government Agency Communication Departments
  • Government/Military PA’s/PIO’s
  • IABC Chapters
  • League of Women Voters
  • Lions
  • NPO’s
  • Other Communication Society Chapters
  • PRSA Chapters
  • Rotary
  • Please Ask If Your Organization Qualifies

During the Covid years more than 3,000 IABC, PRSA, and other professional communication societies and chapter members attended one, some, or all of these programs as a part of their professional development activities. The reaction has been very gratifying. For a sample from more than 1,000 participant comments. Click Here.


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Webinar Topic 1:

Crisis Proofing Your Organization (and Your Career?)

Most Popular Talk of 2022

Getting Ready, Doing the Most Important Things First.

Key Learnings and Insights:

  1. How to manage the victim dimension of mass casualty situations.
  2. Jim’s Wisdom: learn the truisms of crisis: bad news always ripens badly, every moment of indecision creates unsees, avoidable collateral damage, silence is the most toxic strategy, and a dozen more.
  3. Learn a simpler and more powerful definition of crisis situations.
  4. Staying ready.
  5. Understand the intentional misbehaviors that cause a problem to become a crisis.
  6. Understand why victims will control the outcome, your reputation, and the boss’ destiny.
  7. Anticipate the intentional misbehaviors that cause a problem to become a crisis.
  8. Crisis reputation protection is achieved in the first 60-120 minutes of crisis response. The golden hour concept.
  9. Jim’s Wisdom: learn the truisms of crisis: bad news always ripens badly, every moment of indecision creates unsees, avoidable collateral damage, silence is the most toxic strategy, and a dozen more.
  10. Key issue identification and risk assessment.
  11. Learn why victims will control the outcome, your reputation, and the boss’ destiny.
  12. Top management and leadership’s most crucial roles in crisis. Crucial crisis response planning and readiness steps.
  13. Unconscionable behaviors to avoid, anticipate, or stop.

Webinar Topic 2:

How to Find the Happiness That Success Should Bring, But Rarely Does.

Five Principles, Three Crucial Decisions, Seven Steps.

Key Learnings and Insights:

  1. Always be The One to bring happiness to others, they’ll give it back.
  2. Always be on the lookout for simple sensible decencies and civilities.
  3. Avoid excuses, just do things that need to be done right now.
  4. Build a gratitude base. Simply do things frequently that people have to thank you for.
  5. Create your own Decency Manifesto
  6. Stop using words that damage, hurt, or injure others.
  7. Know when you have to go.
  8. Learn the pathways to happiness through decency, civility, integrity, and truth.
  9. Move away from indecency and incivility using the ingredients of decency accountability, civility, compassion, empathy, honesty, humility, principle, integrity, and trust.
  10. Stop waiting for happiness to start. Jumpstart it for yourself.
    • Dump negative, irritating, abrasive, and arrogant people out of your life, today.
    • Establish a regular and routine personal thank you program.
    • Find ways to deliver small decencies frequently and everywhere you can.
    • If you want to be remembered, remember others first, starting today.
    • Reach out to people from your past and thank them specifically if there is something they did or that helped you.
    • Use and apply the two most powerful words in any culture, any language, every day: Thank you.
  11. Train yourself to always act in someone else’s best self-interest, first.

Webinar Topic 3:

Avoiding Unethical Crisis Response Behaviors

Serious Errors in Crisis Response are Often Intentional and Unethical.

Key Learnings and Insights:

  1. Behavior patterns that perpetuate trouble.
  2. Communicating intentionally: build your own ethical decision-making guide.
  3. Empathy and apology strategies: the two most powerful concepts when victims are created. Fail here and your response fails. Learn the most crucial crisis response strategy.
  4. How to anticipate and defeat the unbelievable excuses leaders and managers make.
  5. How unethical behavior begins.
  6. Nine steps to building and rebuilding trust.
  7. Overcoming management and leadership objections to doing things now.
  8. The psychology behind unethical behavior.
  9. Understand the nature of top-level decision-making, including intentional mistakes by leaders and managers.
  10. Understand the behaviors that cause so much disruption during crisis response.

Webinar Topic 4:

Influencing Leaders

Getting Your Boss (And Their Boss) to Listen to You.

Key Learnings and Insights:

  1. Do you have what it takes to become a trusted strategic advisor?
  2. How to give advice memorably.
  3. How to apply “the three options” strategy in giving advice and convincing management to act.
  4. How to avoid the six biggest mistakes advisors frequently make.
  5. How to be in the room when the big decisions are made.
  6. How to become more influential, powerful, and successful.
  7. How to get your boss and other leaders to listen to you earlier and more frequently.
  8. Knowing the eight things management really wants from trusted strategic advisors, especially in urgent situations.
  9. Learn the changes you need to make to your work and life and the personal disciplines necessary to become a trusted strategic advisor.
  10. Learn the ten areas for serious personal and professional reflection necessary to become a trusted strategic advisor.
  11. Seven personal tests that demonstrate you are or are becoming a trusted strategic advisor.

Webinar Topic 5:

Developing a Strategic Mindset

Part One: How Leaders Think and Operate.

This is a special series of major presentations designed to better understand how to influence CEO’s, leadership, and management behavior. We need to know who these people are, how they think and decided things, and where we can have the most useful influence, access, inclusion, and impact.

Key Learnings and Insights:

  1. All crises are serious management and leadership problems.
  2. CEO communication trends and concerns, a look inside the chief executive, what they do every day.
  3. Get heard earlier on serious issues.
  4. How to be noticed and sought after in management and leadership.
  5. How to succeed if your boss is not the CEO.
  6. Influence important decisions.
  7. Know what motivates leaders to act or not in crisis.
  8. Overcome management objections to crisis readiness.
  9. Readiness is the goal.
  10. Seven secrets of the successful chief executive.
  11. The difference between strategy and leadership.
  12. The five main tasks of an executive leader.
  13. The key to understanding leaders and leadership is to study leaders and leadership, now and for the rest of your career.
  14. The most important concern of leaders is: Tomorrow. The least concern of leaders is: Yesterday.
  15. The new and real top executive agenda.
  16. The power of strategy.
  17. Truly know the boss (and your boss).
  18. Understand CEO survival patterns.
  19. Understanding the CEO’s world.
  20. Very, very few management problems are crises. All crises are very serious management problems.

Topic 6: Developing a Strategic Mindset – Part Two

Getting to the Table Earlier with More Personal Power


Topic 7: Developing a Strategic Mindset – Part Three

Anticipating, Detecting, Preempting, Avoiding, Deterring, Dealing With, and Recovering (When Possible) From Senior Management Problems.




More than 3,000 IABC, PRSA, and other professional society colleagues will have attended Lukaszewski’s webinars During the Covid years. More than 1,000 participants have provided comments about their experience.

“One hour wasn’t long enough for something this interesting.”

“Expand an additional 15 minutes for questions and answers.”

“Fresh approach to ethics and culture.”

“He gave great descriptions of ethics and decency.”

“Subject and references to real-life situations support concepts presented.”

“Great topic, knowledgeable speaker who provided a lot of great materials.”

“I enjoyed Jim’s presentation, I thought it was interesting and enjoyable.”

“Outstanding webinar. The best one I’ve attended this year.”

“Is needed for all organizations and businesses.”


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