Top team performance · Leadership · Executive coaching
John
Murphy
International Executive Coach and Professional Speaker
"I help global companies create winning teams."
In his own words: I help senior executives optimise their own potential and become respected leaders, as well as build high performing teams. Before founding John Murphy International he was a Sales Director, a CEO, and an Executive Chairman, so when he steps into a leadership team's problem he has usually sat on the other side of it.
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Top Team Performance
Developing the talent in top teams to help them deliver what they are capable of. His Top Team Training Program has run across all industries, year after year.
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- Audience
- Senior executives, leadership teams, and business owners
- Topics
- Top Team Performance, Onboarding New Managers, Leadership, Executive Coaching
- Client list
- Pfizer, Airbus, Vodafone, KLM, Merck and others
- Based in
- The South of France, works internationally
- Virtual
- Yes, has worked to a virtual model since 2008
- Background
- Former Sales Director, CEO and Executive Chairman
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What topics does John Murphy speak about?
John Murphy speaks on Top Team Performance, Onboarding New Managers, Leadership, and Executive Coaching. In his own words, he helps senior executives optimise their own potential and become respected leaders, as well as build high performing teams.
Who is John Murphy best suited to speak for?
John Murphy is best suited for senior executives, leadership and management teams, and business owners. He works with top-tier executives at brands including Pfizer, Airbus, Vodafone, KLM and Merck, and with newly promoted managers making the step into leadership.
What types of events does John Murphy speak at?
John Murphy is an international professional speaker who works with conferences, leadership events, and management team sessions. Alongside speaking he runs executive coaching and team programs, including his Top Team Training Program, so an engagement can extend beyond a single talk.
Does John Murphy work virtually?
Yes. John Murphy moved from a face to face approach to a virtual coaching model in 2008 to better suit the needs of a growing international client base, and has worked that way with clients around the world since.
Where is John Murphy based, and will he travel?
John Murphy is based in the South of France. He is originally from Dublin, Ireland, where John Murphy International is registered, and he works with clients internationally.
What outcomes can John Murphy's audience expect?
His clients report managers who transition into real leaders, a top team delivering on objectives in a timely manner, a clear vision, mission and set of values they live to, leaders holding each other accountable for their goals, and an atmosphere of trust and openness not experienced before.
What are John Murphy's credentials and background?
John Murphy spent his career at the top of the corporate ladder in roles including Sales Director, CEO, and Executive Chairman, finishing as CEO of a pan-European multinational insurance group. He founded John Murphy International in 2004 to coach people to reach their potential and build high performing teams, and in 2013 he represented Ireland at the European Professional Speakers Association conference and came second.
Has John Murphy written a book or hosted a podcast?
Yes. He is the author of the Amazon best seller 10 Key Traits of Top Business Leaders, available free from his website, and he hosts the Winning Teams podcast, also published as Winning at Business and Life.
How do I book John Murphy as a speaker?
You can book John Murphy through Charli Jane Speakers at support@charlijane.com, or contact him directly at john@johnmurphyinternational.com. His website carries a Book John To Speak form. His profile is listed in the Charli Jane Speakers Directory.
What he covers
Four topics, one job.
Getting a leadership team to deliver what it is actually capable of. Developing vision, culture and leadership skills has been core to John's work since he founded John Murphy International in 2004.
Top Team Performance
Primary focus
Top Team Performance
Primary focusJohn's work has involved developing the talent in top teams to help them deliver what they are capable of. The questions he starts with are direct: is your team achieving only a fraction of its full potential, is everyone aligned on the team goals and fully committed to achieving them, and do you have a way of working together that fosters the culture you actually want.
- Get the team aligned on team goals rather than individual ones.
- Build a culture of positive behaviours, honest relationships, and engaged members.
- Establish a way of working together that holds after the session ends.
Onboarding New Managers
Focus area
Onboarding New Managers
Focus areaJohn's own leadership story started in 1990 with a General Manager role at Friends First, and in his words he was just like a new manager is now: an ambitious people manager taking on a new business challenge. The transition into leadership is the moment most organizations leave to chance, and it is one of his four stated topics.
- Give new managers the step-by-step process rather than the sink-or-swim version.
- Shorten the time between the promotion and the performance.
- Work with someone who made the same transition himself.
Leadership
Focus area
Leadership
Focus areaDeveloping vision, culture and leadership skills is a core part of John's work. His position is that management success is both predictable and scalable, and that after three decades of learning and testing he has distilled it into a step-by-step process. He is the author of the Amazon best seller 10 Key Traits of Top Business Leaders.
- Think more strategically and focus on what is most impactful.
- Move from constant noise to clarity and decisive decision making.
- Develop, motivate and retain exceptional talent.
Executive Coaching
Focus area · Beyond the stage
Executive Coaching
Focus area · Beyond the stageJohn's argument is that every great leader has a coach or mentor they can turn to: a trusted ally, a balancing viewpoint, someone to push them to be the best they can be. When there is nobody to turn to internally, the experienced outside perspective of an executive coach lets a leader see with clarity, act without emotion, and think rationally.
- Give a leader a trusted sounding board and mentor.
- Take a clear step back rather than endlessly grinding away.
- Extend a speaking engagement into ongoing work where it makes sense.
- Top Team Training Program
- Priority Track
- Critical Teams
- Critical Projects
- Strategy Under Pressure
- Ways of Working
- Clarity on Results
- Meta Team Program
Why John
He was the CEO before he coached them.
Thirty years at the top of the corporate ladder, then twenty more coaching the people climbing it. The challenges a leadership team brings him are ones he has stood inside.
Through John's guidance, I now have a high-performing team delivering great solutions to our customers. He helped unleash the full potential of my team.
Since working with John, business grew 40 percent and we won the biggest single account in our industry.
John is an action orientated advisor and coach. He gets executives and teams to focus on the key activities that will get results. He makes sure people drive through on their weekly and monthly activities and coaches them to develop areas that don't come naturally.
Who he works with
Top-tier executives, across brands you know.
A selection of the organizations John Murphy International has worked with.
- Pfizer
- Airbus
- Vodafone
- KLM
- Merck
- Johnson & Johnson
- BT
- Great West Life Co.
- Rothco Ltd
- Failte Ireland
- DAA
- ASG Group
In his own words: here at JMI, I bring the best strategies to the best talent.
Meet John
Dublin, then the boardroom, then the South of France.
"It's how you respond to what happens to you that shapes your future."
John Murphy is an international executive coach and professional speaker, originally from Dublin and now based in the South of France.
His leadership story began in 1990 with a General Manager position at Friends First, an ambitious people manager taking on a new business challenge, where he helped turn an aging business into a major player in Irish financial services. By the time he left the corporate world he had been made CEO of a pan-European multinational insurance group.
In 2004 he set up John Murphy International, taking fifteen years of management experience into the wild so he could spend his time on something he loved: coaching people to reach their potential and build high performing teams. In 2008 he moved from face to face work to a virtual model to suit a growing international client base, and by 2012 that list included Airbus, Pfizer and KLM, later Vodafone and Great West Life.
In 2013 he represented Ireland at the European Professional Speakers Association conference and came second, speaking in front of hundreds of professional speakers. In 2017 came the Amazon best seller 10 Key Traits of Top Business Leaders and the Winning Teams podcast.
Could John be right for your room?
Start with your team.
Send your event date, who is in the room, and what the leadership team is actually wrestling with. Send it to Charli Jane Speakers and we will connect you, or reach John directly. His own site carries a Book John To Speak form and is a second place to get to know him, not a detour.
Booking: support@charlijane.com
Direct email: john@johnmurphyinternational.com
Website: johnmurphyinternational.com