About Steve
A Speaker Who Has Lived the Message
Steve Lowisz is a keynote speaker on resilience, leadership, and performance under pressure. He has delivered over 500 keynotes to audiences ranging from Fortune 500 executive teams to healthcare leadership summits, national association conferences, and community banking events.
His talks are known for being high-energy, deeply practical, and customized to each audience. Steve does not deliver generic motivation. He delivers frameworks leaders can use the same week.
Built from Experience, Not Theory
Steve is the founder and CEO of five organizations: Qualigence International (executive search and talent consulting), Qualigence Staffing (staffing services and workforce solutions), the Lowisz Leadership Institute (leadership development programs), the Community Bankers Institute (banking industry education), and the Recruitment Education Institute (recruiting training and certification). He has built, scaled, and led real teams through real pressure for over 20 years.
That experience is what separates Steve from speakers who teach leadership from a textbook. Every framework he shares on stage was tested inside his own companies first.
CEO of Five Organizations
Real Leadership, Real Companies
Steve leads five organizations across executive search, staffing, leadership development, banking education, and recruiting training.
Board Advisory
Board and Advisory Service
In addition to leading his own companies, Steve serves on multiple boards and advisory councils. He brings the same practical, no-nonsense leadership perspective to the boardroom that he brings to the stage. His board experience gives him a unique understanding of the challenges executive teams face when it comes to strategy, culture, succession, and organizational performance.
Signature Method
Guide, Don't Drive™
Steve's signature method, Guide, Don't Drive (GDD), is a practical leadership framework that replaces command-and-control management with a system for building autonomous, high-performing teams. The GDD method is the foundation of his TEDx talk and one of his most requested keynote topics.
GDD is not the only thing Steve speaks about. But it is the thread that runs through all of his work: leaders get better results when they guide their people toward ownership instead of driving them toward compliance.
The GDD framework is developed and taught through the Lowisz Leadership Institute, where organizations can access leadership development programs, coaching, and training built on these principles. Steve's keynotes bring this methodology to life on stage. For teams that want to go deeper, LLI provides the programs to embed it into the culture.
The Resilience Behind the Message
Steve does not talk about resilience as a concept. He talks about it because he has lived it. He has navigated economic downturns, organizational setbacks, and personal challenges that would have stopped most people.
Those experiences shaped his conviction that leadership is not about avoiding pressure. It is about building the standards, systems, and mindset to perform through it. That perspective is what makes his keynotes resonate with audiences who are tired of surface-level advice.
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