Craig Weber

Craig Weber

Craig Weber helps people and teams improve their performance by treating dialogue as a discipline.

The author of the bestselling book, Conversational Capacity: The Secret To Building Successful Teams That Perform When The Pressure Is On (McGraw-Hill, 2013), and his new book Influence in Action: How to Build Your Conversational Capacity, Do Meaningful Work, and Make a Powerful Difference (McGraw-Hill, 2019), Craig is on a mission to empower people striving to make their workplaces and communities a better place. To do this, he’s teamed up with an alliance of experts and organizations committed to helping people build more healthy, engaged, and adaptive organizations:

  • Healthy: his work helps people build and lead organizations that are good for people, good for business, and good for the community.
  • Engaged: he helps clients create an environment in which people do meaningful work that contributes to success of their team while learning skills that serve them well beyond the workplace.
  • Adaptive: he helps clients learn to shift their thinking to fit a new problem rather than interpret a problem to fit their old thinking.

Craig’s work stands out because it provides more than just good ideas, it provides practical skills for putting those ideas to work — from running better meetings and making smarter decisions, to facilitating more productive change and crafting more effective strategies.

This work has helped people and teams from such diverse organizations as Intel, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Simplot, Cal Fire, Wells Fargo, Boeing, Boeing Defence Australia, the Australian Commonwealth Department of Defence, Vistage, NASA, Kaiser-Permanente, The Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank, The Bank of Hawaii, SAP, Los Alamos National Labs, and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. He’s also working with legislators in an expanding number of U.S. states helping Republican and Democratic legislators engage in more constructive policy debate.

Craig is a member of the Advisory Board for the Masters of Leadership and Organizational Change (MLOC) program at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve. Engagedly.com named him one of the Global Top 100 Human Resources Influencers of 2021. A Vistage speaker for over nearly 3 decades, Craig has received the prestigious Vistage International Speaker of the Year Award, the Vistage Lifetime Achievement Award, the TEC (Vistage) Canada Speaker of the Year award, and the Vistage Top Performer Award.

Craig’s work is being used by a growing list of organizations around the world. To meet the escalating demand, Craig has partnered with Blanchard to create the Conversational Capacity course, which was released in July of 2020 and is now one of their core programs.