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The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever with Michael Bungay Stanier

Presented on: Thursday, October 16th, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT


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The best leaders don’t have all the answers—they ask better questions.

But in fast-paced workplaces, the pressure to jump in, solve problems, and give advice is real—and it’s sabotaging our best intentions.
 
In this live author event, best selling leadership thinker Michael Bungay Stanier (author of The Coaching Habit) shares practical tools from his provocative follow-up book The Advice Trap. You’ll learn how to resist the reflex to advise and instead embrace a more transformational way of leading—one grounded in humility, trust, and curiosity.
 
With humor, candor, and radical simplicity, MBS will help you unlearn advice-giving as your default and replace it with a mindset that unlocks potential in others—and yourself.

Practical Tools and Strategies You’ll Gain:

  • A framework for identifying and taming your inner “Advice Monster”
  • Core habits that support a more coach-like leadership style
  • Key questions that disrupt unproductive dynamics and foster insight
  • Skills to hold space for learning instead of rushing to solutions
  • Techniques for creating more agile, self-reliant teams

Ideal Participants for This Conversation:

  • Leaders at every level who want to shift from directive to developmental leadership
  • Coaches, mentors, and people managers striving to empower others
  • Professionals ready to break the cycle of burnout and micromanagement
  • Culture-shapers looking to drive real behavior change across teams
You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need to stay curious. Join us.
 

About the Author: Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership competency. His book The Coaching Habit is the best-selling coaching book of this century, with nearly a million copies sold and thousands of five-star reviews on Amazon. In 2019, he was named the #1 thought leader in coaching. Michael was the first Canadian Coach of the Year, has been named a Global Coaching Guru since 2014 and was a Rhodes Scholar.
 
Michael founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations transform from advice-driven to curiosity-led. (Learn more at BoxOfCrayons.com.)
Michael is a compelling speaker and facilitator, combining practicality, humour, and an unprecedented degree of engagement with the audience. He’s spoken on stages and screens around the world in front of crowds ranging from ten to ten thousand. His TEDx talk has been watch by hundreds of thousands of people. (Learn more at MBS.works.)
 
Balancing out these moments of success, he was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident” … was sued by one of his Law School professors for defamation … and his first published piece of writing was a Harlequin Romance-esque story involving a misdelivered letter … and called The Male Delivery.

Empower employee learning with the authors who literally wrote the book!

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