Greg Offner
Dueling Pianist turned Author & Experience Evangelist
Greg Offner
Dueling Pianist turned Author & Experience Evangelist
Biography
Gregory Offner is a multi-talented individual, with a passion for entertaining and educating others. His keynotes, workshops, and corporate consulting engagements help the worlds leading organizations create high performing, highly fulfilled leaders. Prior to this work, Greg led global sales and marketing efforts for several Fortune 100 organizations; brokered complex Risk Management and Insurance programs for large commercial organizations; and drove process improvement initiatives as a certified Lean Six Sigma practitioner. But during that time, Greg lived a double life.
By day, he was a suit and tie wearing professional; but under the cover of night Greg was better known as “Junior” – a world renowned professional dueling pianist. As an entertainer, Greg has performed on stages of every size; for audiences of every size; on 5 continents. His ability to integrate that fun and energy into his programming (yes, he often uses a piano on stage) transforms his program from a keynote speech into a keynote experience. Greg’s work as a keynote speaker, coach, and workshop facilitator fills a void that most organizations leave in their training programming: soft skill development. Greg has always been passionate about soft skills, analyzing the onboarding, training, and development programs of 43 companies before the age of 30. He was fascinated by the performance differences between organizations which prioritized soft skill training and those who focused primarily on hard, job-specific skill development.
Most recently, Greg has spent over 2 months in total silence as a result of multiple surgeries needed to repair and rebuild his vocal cords…an experience that nearly left him mute; and which ignited the critical spark needed to transform his work from a “personal curiosity” to a “professional mission” – to help individuals and organizations identify the one change that can change everything.
Through a mix of speaking, audience participation, and a little dueling piano bar magic sprinkled in, Greg reveals the insights and tools you need to accelerate your growth, amplify creativity, and deliver a performance that leaves your audience (clients, stakeholders, or employees) cheering for an encore.
Speaker Videos
Greg Offner - 2025 Speaker Reel
Speech Topics
The Encore Experience™: Transform Everyday Work into Something Worth Repeating
When was the last time you went to a concert so good, you found yourself cheering “one more song” at the end? That is an Encore Experience. So, why doesn’t this exist in the workplace?
Every workplace, and every worker, holds the potential to transform the lives of others. Too often we lose sight of this opportunity and fall into the trap of seeing work as an obligation. What turns that job we once prayed for into the job we’re praying to get out from under, and how do we turn things around? The answer lies in the experience we have, and provide, each day through the work we do.
In this interactive and highly inspirational keynote, award-winning author and entertainer Gregory Offner shares the framework you can use to create more Encore Experiences each day—for yourself, your customers, and your colleagues. These experiences lead to a deeper sense of meaning and fulfillment at work (and at play), and result in more loyalty, better performance, and superior outcomes from the work itself.
Takeaways:
- Your people take personal responsibility for their performance each day;
- Work feels fun again;
- Positive results are accelerating; and,
- Your culture is so good, everyone wants to work there.
The Tip Jar Culture®: Re-Engage & Reignite Your Workforce
To succeed in tomorrow’s uncertain and volatile environment, today's leaders must build teams that thrive in uncertainty and collaborate effectively. But this mission coincides with a moment in time when workforce engagement and employee loyalty are at historic lows. What most leaders see as problems with corporate culture, or the workers themselves, are actually just symptoms of the real problem: the quality of the experience people have at work each day.
For more than a decade, author, TedX speaker, and dueling pianist Gregory Offner created engagement from scratch every night in piano bars around the world. In this unforgettable keynote he reveals three principles used to design engaging experiences—used in piano bars—and demonstrates how to implement them for your workforce.
Using these three principles (Take a Sip, Fill Out a Slip, and Leave a Tip) organizations can generate more engagement, deeper commitment, and better performance from their existing workforce. Attendees will leave inspired, entertained, and equipped to put these principles into action, and create a Tip Jar Culture® of their own.
Takeaways:
- Insight into the three employee archetypes found in each organization, and an understanding of what each type wants from their employment experience.
- Perspective on why employees disengage, and what behavioral economics can be leveraged to help them make a different decision.
- Three tools to create a sustainable engagement that resonates with broad and diverse employee groups.
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