Ari Weinzweig Keynotes

Keynotes with Ari Weinzweig

Co-founder, Zingerman’s Community of Businesses

Ari Weinzweig, Co-founding Partner of Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a line cook turned CEO. Zingerman’s Deli is now an iconic food establishment, and the Zingerman’s Community of Businesses has blossomed into 11 businesses with an annual revenue exceeding $65 million. These businesses, while distinct, all share the same vision and guiding principles to share “The Zingerman’s Experience” with passion and commitment.

Ari has become a thought leader who expresses his learnings about positive business through extensive writing and keynote speaking.

He travels nationwide to share Zingerman’s unique approach to business, and has authored 10 books, including Parts 1-4 of his ongoing Guide to Good Leading series which encompasses the principles, beliefs, and pillars of him and the Zingerman’s organization.

Ari is our most sought-after keynote, having delivered speeches for The Welcome Conference, Inc. 500, Microsoft Expo Spring Conference, Great Game of Business Gathering of Games, Positive Business Conference at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, American Society for Quality (ASQ), and the American Cheese Society.

He is inspiring and powerful. His presentation style is informative and intense while remaining casual, engaging, and very approachable.

Price Range: $15,000-$20,000 + travel

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“Ari’s professional yet easy-going personality is so easy to work with… truly a pleasure”

Ari's Keynote Topics

Nurturing Your Organizational Ecosystem

There is no one “secret” that makes an organization successful. It is the interrelation of a million small actions lived out daily. So while the world focuses on big headlines and dramatic confrontations, servant leaders continue on, quietly but meaningfully, tending to their organization’s culture.

In this talk, Ari Weinzweig shares his multi-year inquiry into how the idea of looking at organizations as ecosystems elevates organizational effectiveness, enhances leadership, and enriches the quality of life. Like the garden’s rich soil helps plants to grow, an organization’s rich culture will allow people to grow and flourish within it.

Audience Takeaways:

Consider the emotional impact of many words and analogies that are often used to describe organizations
Explore a new, more holistic way for thinking about and managing organizations
Understand how to begin navigating and positively impacting your organization’s ecosystem

The Power of Beliefs in Business

Although most of us don’t realize it, our beliefs have a major impact on how things go in our lives. What we believe may or may not be true, but unknowingly most of us will behave in ways that reinforce our beliefs anyway.

In this talk, Ari will take a look at how our beliefs play out in our day to day experiences in the workplace, and how we and our workplaces are impacted by those beliefs. Whether we accept it or not, what we believe about ourselves, about our organization, our co-workers, our boss, the work that we do and our ability to do it will significantly alter the outcomes we are seeking to achieve. Best of all, Ari will address how by becoming more mindful of our beliefs, we can effectively alter them and change the way we see our work and the world. And radically later the outcomes we get from our efforts.

Audience Takeaways:

Explain the role that our beliefs play in our organizations and lives
Explore some of your beliefs and how they might be impacting your actions
Use new tools and techniques to manage your own beliefs

Zingerman’s 12 Natural Laws of Business:
The Energy Crisis in the American Workplace

Every leader knows how challenging it is to create a culture that keeps their employees engaged, inspired, focused on a common goal and bringing their best selves to work. Ari calls the apathy and distrust that emerge when the culture flounders “The Energy Crisis in the American Workplace”.

In this inspiring and thought-provoking keynote, Ari will introduce the 12 Natural Laws of Business from his first book in the Guide to Good Leading Series. He’ll explain why operating in violation of the Laws is creating this energy crisis. And he’ll present powerfully simple and meaningful ways to help your organization live within the Natural Laws and become more successful and sustainable, all while creating positive lives for your employees and customers!

Audience Takeaways:

Explain the 12 Natural Laws of Business as interpreted by Zingerman’s
Use a variety of new tools and mental frameworks to leverage them within your own organization

The Power of Visioning

When Inc. Magazine called Zingerman’s “the coolest small company in America”, they said that the “grand plan” the Zingerman’s founding partners came up with for the future of their business was “far better than anything a management-consulting firm could have devised for them.” At Zingerman’s, we call the “grand plan” a vision. We do it in our own particular way. We have a “recipe” for it. And we use it for projects of any scale – from getting a new office printer to opening a new business. In this keynote, Ari will tell you all about why we think visioning is so powerful and how we do it. You will never think about the future the same way again!

Audience Takeaways:

A proven process for connecting to what success looks like – be it for an individual, an organization, a change
Inspiring stories from Zingerman’s and others of how our visioning process led to levels of greatness that aligned with their own definitions of success
Tools to share your vision with others and solicit productive, constructive feedback

Want to explore another topic? Ari would love to hear more about your event to tailor his content to reach your outcomes!

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“…thoughtful and generous… resonated with a wide array of leaders in our community and set an inspiring tone for the day.”