Born without arms, John Foppe has had to break down and re-engineer every aspect of day-to-day life. He learned that the inability to do something didn't rest on the lack of resources or vision. Instead, it has more to do with one's subconscious perception to meeting a challenge head on.

In the field as part of his Master's Degree in social work, John saw this scenario play out repeatedly. To his surprise, he discovered that many people subconsciously substitute personal improvement with systems to support their perceived limitations. As a speaker, John also witnessed this resistant mindset operate in all sorts of companies. He repeatedly heard leaders complain about how difficult is to motivate their people.

John has addressed this common challenge through years of research, clinical study and field testing, which ultimately led to the discovery of the primary cause of failed vision execution. In light of this important, personally-significant discovery, he has developed a variety of solutions to help individuals and leaders overcome their exasperation and translate their visions into outcomes.

His compelling story and methods caught the attention of the legendary Zig Ziglar, who broke his long-standing rule of promoting from within and recruited and mentored John.

In 1995, John launched a successful training business that has taken him to 15 different countries, pro-football organizations like the Miami Dolphins and to Fortune 500 clients such as Boeing, GE and State Farm. John's insights on how the biggest vision can be derailed by the smallest bit of resistance are now being used to orchestrate the missions of visionaries and change agents around the world.

• Cracking The Code: Why Don't Big Visions Translate Into Big Outcomes? - Visions don't translate because the message often gets garbled - like a code. In this presentation, John reveals how a "Code of Exasperation" can unwittingly exist within an organization. It's no secret employees have become burnt out, fearful, and frustrated. Instead, the secret is how these reactions kill vital initiatives. John explains how this Code is encrypted through four distinct roles workers take on.
  
  
• Being an Executor, Not an Executioner: How to Get Everything Done Without Destroying Anything - Have you ever felt like a hamster on a wheel? The faster you go, the better you get, but better probably isn't enough, so you have to go even faster...an exhausting cycle. Eventually, work falters. Enter the Executioner! Managers crack down with tighter controls. When controlled workers feel they have no choice, they stop taking initiative. Workers also become executioners and slowly kill initiatives with inaction. John explains how to break the cycle by showing people they can choose to be Executors where making things happen becomes a way of life.
  
  
• You Reap What You Sow: Harvesting Strong Business Execution Practices - When it comes to creating a culture of business execution, leading thinkers and visionary executives realize that employees need to make every practice an execution practice. In this presentation, John defines execution practices and reveals how cultivating these practices positively impacts an organization's culture. John highlights the four root purposes of an execution practice and presents how our daily mindset influences the way we fulfill these purposes.