SHOLA RICHARDS
Founder & CEO, Go Together™ Global
Best-selling Author, Go Together
Keynote Speaker, Coach & Consultant
CBS This Morning
Forbes
TODAY
Black Enterprise
Parents
Business Insider Australia
Complete Wellbeing
“Today, more than ever, we need to find our way back to kindness, respect, and civility. Shola Richards is by far among the top motivational speakers I have worked with (or heard) in a 25+ year career in media and marketing. He's entertaining, relatable and genuine. His skills, attitude, and message will pay tangible dividends to your team or event...and leave every participant personally motivated and engaged to do (and be) better.”
CAROLINE JANIK-WONG | Director of Communication & Custom Content at Southern California News Group
"Shola's passionate, vulnerable, honest, hopeful message of positivity in this line of work was truly the perfect way to close out a full day. He gave us tangible, achievable ways to be positive and hopeful as nurses in our every day, and also laid a bigger picture vision for the heart behind it all. We left all the more motivated and inspired to move forward with renewed spirit to care for our patients, each other, and ourselves in healthier, more life-giving ways. So grateful for Shola's powerful message of positivity!"
HUI-WEN SATO | Registered Nurse III, TEDx Speaker
Do You Have a Culture...
where leaders intentionally adopt beliefs and systems...
that inspire and empower your people to do their best work so…
your organization can deliver exceptional results consistently?
Through a transformational roadmap of mindset, behaviors, and tools, Shola helps you to build and sustain compassionate and competent workplace cultures where peak performance, engagement, and satisfaction are the new norm.
Hi! I am Shola
Over a decade ago, I was drowning in the despondency of yet another workday. My success as the top regional performer had been numbed by a culture of incessant workplace bullying. And, I’d recently made the situation worse by filing a formal complaint. In short, I was collateral damage in a company without the process or intention to address my experience.
Exhausted from the drama, with an unrecognizable version of myself at the wheel, I intentionally swerved off the interstate in an attempt to take my own life. But in that half-second, my reflexes responded, and I yanked the wheel away from disaster. As I clipped the guardrail on I 405, something changed...
I uncovered a power within myself
...a burning desire to reverse a trend that happens daily to sixty-five million people in this country alone. This catalyst has since become Go Together™ Movement - a transformational roadmap of mindset, behaviors, and tools that transform workplace cultures and drive results.
Leveraging my personal experience and the
GO TOGETHER™ FRAMEWORK
I help organizations build compassion, competence, and accountability in the workplace. As a result, sustainable and joyful peak productivity, engagement, and satisfaction become the new norm.
Step 1
Choose a Culture of Go TogetherTM
When your people share a vision of their future culture, it gives them purpose and energy to work through this change.
Step 2
Act with
Courage
Create shared values, vocabulary, and actions so your people are empowered to act with courage.
Step 3
Retain to
Retrain
Identify and empower select employees as resident ambassadors to ensure retention and impact beyond our engagement.
What happens when we
GO TOGETHER™?
A Culture of Collective Accountability
When peers hold peers accountable, leaders hold their staff accountable and when staff holds leaders accountable, it creates an environment of equity where everyone’s voice can be heard and respected.
Improved Results Throughout the Organization
When teams remove the interpersonal barriers that undermine team performance, customer service improves employee engagement rises and overall profitability increases.
Creation of Actionable Team Norms
When team members are clear about how they should treat each other and communicate with each other, it creates a shared understanding that allows everyone to do their best work.
Increased Speed in Addressing Toxic Behaviors
When concerns are addressed respectfully and quickly, it builds trust, strengthens comradery, and accelerates behavior change.
I am
Because
We Are
The illusion that we are separate from each other, more different than similar, is eroding our ability to work, live, and lead effectively. What if we all focused on the powerful idea of ubuntu instead? This transcendent African philosophy embraces the belief that we are universally connected to each other—and Shola Richards suggests it could transform the way we treat others, making us kinder and more respectful to others, on and off the job. Without ubuntu, he argues, we cannot truly live a productive and satisfying life. Go Together is a thought-provoking read that could change our own behavior . . . and the world around us.
Connect
Shola is exclusively represented by Gotham Artists.
Please use the form below to contact his agent, Kate DesRosier.