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Short Bio (100 words)
Jonathan Raymond is the author of Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For, creator of The Accountability Dial, and founder & CEO of Ren, an accountability infrastructure platform for people leaders. Named one of Inc. Magazine's Top 100 Leadership Speakers, he has delivered keynotes and workshops to organizations including TikTok, Amazon, Southwest Airlines, and Phillips 66. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review. He lives in Encinitas, California.
Long Bio (300 words)
Jonathan Raymond has spent 25 years helping leaders close the gap between knowing what great leadership looks like and actually doing it. He is the author of Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For, which Seth Godin called “a modern classic.”
Jonathan created The Accountability Dial, a five-stage framework used by thousands of managers worldwide to hold people accountable with compassion. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review and he was named one of Inc. Magazine's Top 100 Leadership Speakers.
As the former CEO of EMyth, Jonathan led a multi-year transformation of a global coaching brand, learning firsthand that the most expensive gap in business is the one between leadership training and leadership behavior. That insight led him to found Ren, accountability infrastructure that lives in Slack and Teams and proactively coaches managers in the flow of work.
Jonathan has delivered keynotes and workshops to organizations ranging from TikTok and Amazon to Southwest Airlines, Phillips 66, and Panasonic. His approach is practical, confronting, and rooted in the belief that all leadership work is, at its core, personal growth work.
He lives in Encinitas, California with his family.
Speaking Topics
- The Accountability Dial: Five Stages That Transform How Leaders Develop People
- Good Authority in the Age of AI: What Changes When the Machine Handles the Thinking
- Building Accountability Cultures: From Values on the Wall to Behavior in the Hallway
- More Yoda, Less Superman: The Art of Coaching Through Questions
- Leadership as Personal Growth: Why the Hard Conversation Is Always About You First