Become the boss you wish you had!

Next Level Leaders is a full-day, interactive leadership program built for organizations investing in their emerging and advancing leaders — the people already leading, or about to, who are worth developing before the stakes get higher. It's more than a single keynote: a real, structured day built around how your people lead, communicate, and grow.


  • 1 Day

  • 20 Lessons

  • 15 Interactive Activities

  • 3 Assessments with TriMetrix® EQ


Key Concepts

  • Lead with your personal leadership style

  • Increase employee retention

  • Improve employee engagement and creativity

  • Grow your emotional intelligence and communication skills

  • Build stronger work relationships

  • Leverage languages of appreciation for a positive work environment


TriMetrix® EQ Assessment

Every participant receives a personal TriMetrix® EQ Assessment, combining three assessments to explore behavioral style, personal motivators, and emotional intelligence — included as part of the day, not an extra step to schedule separately.


Interactive Activities

Throughout the day, your emerging and advancing leaders participate in hands-on activities designed to improve communication, build emotional intelligence, and grow real leadership skills — not sit through slides about them.


About Jon Colby

International keynote speaker and corporate trainer, Jon Colby, has been empowering people with improv since 1998. His engaging, interactive approach has helped audiences across the globe become better communicators, leaders, teammates, and colleagues.

A graduate of the world-famous Second City Conservatory comedy program and an educator with 15 years of classroom experience, he's brought this same approach to organizations like American Express, Honda, Salesforce, and Charles Schwab.


“Our entire company has learned so much from him and we've benefited greatly from that learning. His work has helped our team think more creatively, and approach the day-to-day operations of our business with a much more innovative mindset. 'Yes, and' is an incredibly powerful way to approach our work and has led to our team creating new lines of business, which has directly and positively impacted our revenue. We couldn't be more grateful to Jon for the way he has shifted our business.”

— Tonya Turrell, CEO & Chief Inspiration Officer, TechnologyMatch.com

“For our premier event we were looking for someone to bring incredible energy to a program that mirrors our relentless culture. Not only did Jon put in the effort to understand and work into the program our new mission and brand identity, more importantly he was able to captivate every single person to participate, and did so by creating a fun and collaborative environment. A truly first-rate experience.”

— Nick Bailey, President/CEO, Century 21