John Chappelear | Jacksonville Speaker | Author | Coach

John Chappelear - Keynote & Corporate Speaker

"The audience was mesmerized. We laughed and learned a lot."

John Chappelear has a number of powerful messages he can deliver to your group drawn on his over 30 years of experience as CEO, father and husband. John has learned the hard way the crucial balance and link between personal well-being and career success. He creates an immediate connection with his audiences. His open and warm style quickly establishes credibility, likability, and a sense honestly with all who hear him. View video samples of John in action!

John Chappelear provides effective and powerful keynote speeches across theworld. His keynotes cover a variety of subjects which include the following:

Strategic Direction ™
Helps with – Business, Leadership/Culture/Results/Inclusion
Set your organization along the path to prosperity with purpose. Strategic Direction aligns the focus of everyone in your organization, concentrating their energy and efforts on attaining your Organizational Vision. Create a Strategic Plan to achieve goals powered by your vision, and then instill Strategic Intent across all levels of your organization, collectively concentrating on the short-term actions needed to achieve your long-term goals. Build and sustain Strategic Momentum that keeps your team of empowered Strategic Thinkers moving your organization forward together, driven by emotion and the desire to achieve a greater good. Start steering your organization to success.

Insightful Leadership ™
Helps with – Business, Leadership/Communication/Engagement
Capture the hearts of your people. Arouse passion and purpose by leading with knowledge and emotion. Insightful Leaders empower employees, purposefully and intently guiding them toward your organization’s goals. They take up where planning leaves off and focused action takes over, inspiring employees to secure their success by attaining the organization’s vision.

The Daily Six ™
Helps with - Business and Personal Life, Balance/Stress Reduction/Connection
John’s signature talk, The Daily Six talk moves beyond the usual "motivational speech”. John discusses the struggles we all face today in trying to create balance for our over extended and over committed lives. John has developed his six simple, seamless steps for attaining greater peace of mind and for developing and setting priorities for work, family, community and self. John connects with and involves the audience with a warm and self-deprecating humor and personal heartfelt stories. John also encourages the audience to examine their lives, change their focus, and to stop waiting for life to get perfect to be happy. Everyone will leave one of John's keynotes with action steps to help them learn some simple ways to be happy, right now!  Wherever you fit within your organization, whether front line worker, manager, or executive, John Chappelear's upbeat message works for any professional struggling to find the balance between quantity of achievement, and quality of life.

Building Positive, Powerful, Productive and Profitable Organizations
Energize your organization by helping individuals succeed with significance. John changes your organization’s focus, developing self-confidence among your team members, and teaching them to appreciate their co-workers and be grateful for their entire lives.

Strengthening Leadership Individually and Organizationally
John builds emotion into leadership at all levels, capturing the hearts and the energies of people throughout the organization.  People exude confidence, knowing that they are keys to your organization’s success and agents of its intended goals.

Improve Communication to Improve Mood, Morale and Results
Given a chance to connect and communicate, people will take it and move your organization forward. John cultivates inclusion -- not just vertically within departments or divisions but across the entire organization. See the resulting physical and mental sense of optimism, enthusiasm and community change and grow right before your eyes.

Building Powerful and Productive Teams That Work Better Together and Get More Done
John has improved productivity and performance at universities, hospitals and corporations in the United States and abroad. He eliminates internal competition by focusing both management and staff on resolving the most relevant and pressing issues.

Improve Life and Work - Reduce Stress and Build Balance
John guides people who want to succeed while generating a sense of significance for themselves and their organizations. He brings balance; drawing upon the personal lessons he has learned from being a husband, father and business leader.

What They Are Saying

John was engaging, funny and provided great advice to our team at the Sulzbacher Center.  Everyone left feeling refreshed and motivated – just what you want from a speaker!
Audrey McKibbin Moran.
President and CEO
Sulzbacher Center

"John Chappelear did a remarkable job at connecting with our attendees at our Annual Convention through his keynote and interactive workshop. One of his greatest strengths was using personal examples to illustrate his points and deliver a message that is critical for us to hear in this busy world that we all live in. We enjoyed the fact that there were both personal and business applications in the information presented - that was the key for our group. We are already looking at using him for other clients that are requesting keynote speakers and workshops for their meetings and conventions. Thank you John for a job Well Done!!"
Karen Farrington, CMP
President, Suncoast Meetings & Events
Meeting Planner, US Swim School Association

"What I have learned from John's remarkable presentation - is the transformation underway that has helped John (and now me) redefine success, work on strategies to find balance and emerge as successful business leaders who actually have a life outside of the 9 to 5 (8 to whatever) world of our office. John's story, laced with his wit and willingness to laugh at himself, is moving and motivating. John's efforts to identify ways for others to follow in his transformation make it a story that really can make a difference."
Garry R. Curtis
Senior Vice President
Hagar Sharp Inc.

John Chappelear is the ultimate life coach. He teaches all of us to focus on what's really important in life-- our health and values, our families and friends. Step off the train for just a moment and learn from one of the best."
Dr. Bob Rosen, CEO
Healthy Companies International and Author of "Leading People" and "Global Literacies"

Observing John work as a coach is inspiring. He has a gentle, positive way of guiding his client to hearing a simple, profound truth that is as valuable as it is 'hearable'. His obvious compassion combined with his clear real world experience makes for a very powerful combination."
Stephen E. Garber, President
Practice Development, Inc.

"I have seen him speak to groups on several occasions and I am constantly struck by the way audiences respond to him. While his story and what he has to share are importantconcerns of all of us, he presents it in a way that is so engaging, so humorous in a delightfully self-deprecating way, that people who listen cannot help but relate and see something in themselves. And, invariably, that something is the possibility to re-invent one's own life in a healthier, happier way. I highly recommend that you use John as a speaker. I promise you will be thrilled, both with working with him, and in the way he impacts you and your group."
Howard Ross, President-CEO
Cook-Ross Associates

Past Engagements

Below are just a few of the clients that John has worked with in the past!