Chuck Garcia: Transforming Leaders into Astonishing Communicators

Chuck Garcia is an author, executive coach, keynote speaker and CEO of Climb Leadership International. He coaches executives on public speaking and leadership communication. A 25-year veteran of Wall Street, he spent several of those in leadership positions at Bloomberg, Blackrock and Citadel. He is also adjunct associate profession at Columbia University where he teaches leadership communication in the Fu Foundation Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Chuck leverages his business leadership experience, as well as his hobby of mountain climbing to provide an effective teaching narrative for professionals applying his tools and techniques.

Chuck has an Amazon best selling book in multiple categories and has been translated into Mandarin Chinese.

Chuck is a graduate of Syracuse University and has a master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership.

Today’s Subjects:

• Tim Ferris major impact on Chuck on Chuck’s life
• The parallels of being a mountaineer and climbing professional success.
• How he implements passion and purpose to motivate and help others to unblock themselves (release fear) and reach their potential, recognize
• Mercy College: a diamond in the rough of college
• Learn how one of Chuck’s Mercy College students got a job at Google
• How helps people get out of the box they feel that they have been put in
• The power of being a strong communicator
• 10 commandments of great communicators
• Networking: he teaches people how to behave and connect with people at a networking event
• The importance of non-verbal ques
• The ultimate trust indicators: hand shake and eye contact
• The 7-38-55 rule and the profound impact it has had on how he teaches
• Why people fail: it’s a mindset thing. What kind of mindset is needed for personal change
• When is the best time to be networking?
• The 3 things you are automatically judged on when you first meet someone: Likeability, trust ability & technical competence
• How to differentiate yourself
• “Project Oxygen”: Googles study on their top performers, top 8 skill-sets: (not sure if we want to incorporate this part. Will leave to your discretion: 1st communication and 2nd is empathy, lastly is their technical skills.)
• Consistent themes he sees amongst top performers (on the fence with the second part. Will defer to your judgement: They are focused on a higher mission)