Richard Quest
CNN Business Anchor & Global Finance Speaker
Jim Dethmer
Founding Partner, The Conscious Leadership Group | Bestselling Author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership | CEO Coach | Leadership Culture Expert
Jim Dethmer is the founding partner of The Conscious Leadership Group and bestselling co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, a framework used inside Genentech, Asana, Yahoo, and many other organizations. He has coached more than 150 CEOs to lead with clarity, accountability, and trust. Audiences leave his keynotes with tools they can apply immediately to reduce drama and sharpen decisions.
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Jim Dethmer biography
Speaker Jim Dethmer is a founding partner of The Conscious Leadership Group and one of the most respected voices in the field of executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational culture. Over a four-decade career, he has personally coached more than 150 CEOs and their senior teams, helping them shift from fear-based to trust-based leadership and build companies where clarity, accountability, and conscious commitment drive performance.
Before founding The Conscious Leadership Group, Dethmer led a major Chicago church to remarkable growth and served as a senior consultant inside dozens of high-stakes investment, professional services, and technology firms. He is the co-author of two influential books. High Performing Investment Teams unpacks how individual talent becomes cohesive team performance inside investment firms, and The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, an enduring Amazon bestseller, lays out a practical framework for leading from above the line: with curiosity, full responsibility, and emotional integrity.
A Framework Adopted by CEOs Around the World
The 15 Commitments has been adopted by leadership teams at companies like Genentech, Asana, and Yahoo, becoming required reading inside many of the world’s most progressive organizations. Dethmer hosts invite-only Forums for senior leaders in Chicago and New York, trains the next generation of conscious leadership coaches, and has spoken at Conscious Capitalism, Wisdom 2.0, the Mindful Leadership Summit, Northwestern Kellogg, and USC School of Medicine Greenville, which integrates conscious leadership into its medical curriculum.
His work blends psychology, neuroscience, somatics, and contemplative practice into a practical operating system for executives working under high stakes, high speed, and high complexity.
As a speaker, Jim Dethmer is warm yet uncompromisingly direct. He invites audiences out of drama and into presence, equipping leaders with tools they can apply on Monday morning to transform team trust, decision-making, and culture. Event organizers in leadership and conscious business consistently rank his keynotes among the most impactful of the year.
Jim Dethmer Speaking Videos
Jim Dethmer — How to Shift from Victim Consciousness, Reduce Drama, Be Fully Alive
Jim Dethmer - Impeccable Agreements for High Quality Cultures
Jim Dethmer Keynote Topics
Jim Dethmer pulls back the curtain on the inner work of executive leadership through four deceptively simple questions that distinguish reactive leaders from conscious ones. Drawing on decades of coaching CEOs, he shows how each question reframes how leaders see themselves, their teams, and the situations in front of them.
Audiences leave with a portable mental framework they can apply to every meeting, decision, and difficult conversation, and a clear understanding of why above-the-line leadership compounds team performance over time.
Cultures of fear get short-term compliance. Cultures of trust unlock long-term performance. In this keynote, Jim Dethmer demystifies how leaders engineer the latter, blending psychology, somatic awareness, and practical conversational tools that any executive team can install.
Drawing on his work inside Genentech, Asana, and dozens of other organizations, Dethmer offers concrete commitments senior leaders can model immediately to shift their team out of drama and into alignment, candor, and shared accountability.
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership has become required reading for executive teams across industries. In this signature keynote, Jim Dethmer walks audiences through the framework's most actionable principles, from radical responsibility to candor to appreciation, illustrating each with stories from inside the C-suites he has coached.
This talk is built for leadership offsites, executive retreats, and company-wide conferences that want a single, lasting operating system for how their leaders show up.
FAQs on Booking Jim Dethmer
Why Jim Dethmer?
Jim Dethmer is one of a small handful of leadership thinkers whose framework has been quietly adopted at the highest levels of companies like Genentech, Asana, and Yahoo. He combines four decades of hands-on CEO coaching with a clear, practical model that audiences can apply the moment they leave the room. His delivery is warm and disarming yet pulls no punches, and his work consistently rates among the most highly remembered talks at executive offsites. Book Jim Dethmer through Aurum Speakers Bureau to give your senior leaders a shared language for trust, accountability, and culture.
What is conscious leadership?
Conscious leadership is a model developed by Jim Dethmer and his co-founders at The Conscious Leadership Group that distinguishes between leading from above the line, where executives operate with curiosity, full responsibility, and openness, and below the line, where they default to blame, defensiveness, and self-protection. The 15 Commitments outlined in Dethmer's bestselling book describe specific shifts leaders can make in how they relate to themselves, their teams, and their results in order to consistently operate above the line and unlock higher performance and well-being.
What companies use The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership?
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership has been adopted by leadership teams at companies including Genentech, Asana, and Yahoo, and has become standard reading inside venture capital firms, private equity portfolios, and high-growth technology organizations. The framework is taught in executive Forums in Chicago and New York that Jim Dethmer personally hosts, and it has been integrated into the curriculum of institutions like USC School of Medicine Greenville.
What kind of events does Jim Dethmer speak at?
Jim Dethmer is regularly invited to keynote executive offsites, leadership retreats, founder gatherings, and conferences for industries undergoing rapid change. He has spoken at Conscious Capitalism, Wisdom 2.0, the Mindful Leadership Summit, Northwestern Kellogg, and USC School of Medicine Greenville, and he is a recurring presence at private CEO Forums. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring Jim Dethmer to your stage for a keynote that resets how your leaders show up.
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