His work as an advisor and speaker has taken him to the White House, West Point, the Olympics, and Harvard Business School. He has worked for more than 25 years with Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, law firms, private equity funds, investment banks, and insurance companies, which includes Citi, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, BankUnited, State Farm Insurance, Nationwide, Blackstone, Nomura, Cowen, Evercore, BorgWarner, PerkinElmer, Silver Point Capital, Taconic Capital, GoldCorp, Latham & Watkins, Neuberger Berman, Third Point, Senator Investment Group, BDT, Debevoise & Plimpton, and Summit Rock Advisors, among many others.

With a fierce devotion to understanding what makes great leaders great, he is the founder of the Admired Leadership Institute® which is dedicated to uncovering and teaching the uncommon behavioral routines of the world’s best leaders. Dr. Stutman promotes the idea that exceptional leaders engage in the same routines in all aspects of their lives, including in the family, in the office, with friends and colleagues, and with clients. He is a popular speaker on the behaviors of extraordinary leaders and was delighted when he was recently introduced by a leader familiar with his work as a “practical savant.”

Making People Better® Through Feedback

At its core, the act of leadership is about coaching and developing talent. When engaging their team, world-class leaders are artful at balancing developmental conversations with the everyday, direct feedback that builds competency and confidence. They deliver hard messages with a soft touch to alleviate the anxiety of delivering negative feedback and maximize the motivational effect of positive feedback, and they don’t shy away from the conversation itself. This presentation focuses on the behaviors employed by the best coaches as they develop talent and sharpen the skills of those they lead through feedback and mentoring discussions on effective decision making, calculated risk-taking, and self-advocacy.