Kevin Eikenberry Biography

Kevin Eikenberry is a two-time best selling author, speaker, consultant, trainer, coach, leader, learner, husband and father (not necessarily in that order).

Kevin is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993. Emphasizing the power of learning, Kevin’s specialties include leadership, teams and teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, training trainers and more.

Kevin’s philosophy in business and in life is that every person and every organization has extraordinary potential. Investments of time, energy, focus and money are required for that potential to be realized. He believes learning is an active, ongoing process, not a passive, one-time event. Learning, work and life should be fun; and if we are doing it right, work (and learning) is play.

Kevin’s students and clients consistently rave about his effectiveness, many calling him “the best trainer I’ve ever experienced.”

“Working with Kevin was a catalyst for developing and facilitating some of the best learning experiences that I have created. His dynamic presence and presentation both energized and informed the group. People left not only more knowledgeable, but more importantly, believing in themselves. They were clearly going to try out what they had learned.”

– Chris Saeger, Manager of Program Development, American Red Cross

He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small firms, universities, government agencies, hospitals and more. His client list includes the American Red Cross, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, John Deere, OPTI Canada, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Mint.

Kevin also is the creator and content developer of The Remarkable Leadership Learning System, a continual leadership development process focused on developing the 13 competencies of remarkable leaders with virtually delivered content to leaders worldwide.

He is the best selling author of Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time (Jossey-Bass Publishing 2007), a leadership primer designed to help you learn and master the 13 competencies of remarkable leaders; and Vantagepoints on Learning and Life (Dog Ear Publishing 2006), a collection of his email essays on learning from everyday experiences. He also is a contributing author to The Handbook of Experiential Learning (2007), Masters of Sales (2007), 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life (2006) and the best selling Walking with the Wise (2003). Kevin also has been a contributor to thirteen Training and Development Sourcebooks since 1997.

Kevin also produces two email-based publications: Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, a weekly publication read by more than 12,000 worldwide, to assist organizations and individuals in turning their potential into desired results; and Powerquotes Plus, a weekly publication read by more than 24,000 people worldwide, featuring a quote along with personal coaching.

As a speaker, Kevin gives keynotes for organizations and non-profits on remarkable leadership, life-long learning, developing human potential, teams and teamwork, creativity and more. He has presented to The National Institute of Health, The American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Speaker’s Association (NSA), the International Society for Performance Improvement, the National Association for Experiential Learning the American Society for Training and Development, the International Society for Performance Improvement and many more.

Kevin and his family live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up on a Michigan farm, Kevin says he learned some of his most important leadership skills working with his father. Kevin earned a B.S. with honors from Purdue University, collects antique John Deere tractors, is an avid reader and loves his family and his team (both on the job and on the gridiron – go Purdue!).