Blame is cheap.
It costs the most.
Every company I have walked into with a strategy problem had a behavior problem underneath it. Nothing moves until somebody stops explaining.
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Greg Witz has spent three decades helping leaders see what they actually do under pressure — and what it costs the people who work for them. He is a keynote speaker, a behavioral advisor, and the founder of Witz Education.
Three places
people hide.
Blame is not one behavior. It is three, and most people run all three without noticing. Naming the one you default to is the whole job.
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Blaming
othersThe loudest kind, and the easiest to spot in someone else. It protects the ego and costs the relationship. Teams quietly stop bringing you problems, because they watched what happened to whoever owned the last one.
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Blaming
yourselfThe one nobody calls blame. It wears the costume of accountability and behaves like paralysis. Self-blame keeps the story about you instead of about the fix, and it takes out your most conscientious person first.
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Blaming
circumstanceThe market. The economy. The timing. Sometimes true, always convenient. Circumstance is the blame that feels most reasonable, which is exactly why organizations sit inside it for years.
Loaded
What swallowed blame costs you, and how to catch it before it fires. The habit running quietly underneath almost every leadership failure — built from three decades of sessions, not from theory.
Currently in manuscript. Greg’s second book, after Lead, Follow or Get Out of The Way.
Three ways in.
Take the stage
Conference keynotes and leadership sessions for CEO peer groups, executive teams and industry events. Built to be worked, not watched.
Work the problem
Direct advisory for founders and executive teams where the behavior is the bottleneck. Small engagements, real access, no deck theatre.
Get the data
Instruments that tell a leader what they actually do under pressure — starting with a free twelve-question read on your default state.
Tools,
not slogans.
Everything below gets taught, practised and pressure-tested in the room. It is the reason a session still gets quoted a year later.
- STOPStop, Threat, Objective, Plan. The interrupt. It cuts across fight, flight or freeze and consciously activates the Adult ego state before you answer the thing that just threatened you.
- PRATPeople Respond As Treated. Four rules: know your objective, know who is driving in you, read who they are, and ask rather than tell. The Platinum Rule — shut up and listen.
- Ego StatesSix sides, always blended. Adult, Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Spontaneous Child, Withdrawn Child, Angry Child. The goal is not to live in Adult. It is to know which one is driving, and to recognise your Executive Ego State — the one you default to.
- MRPIMulti Rater Personality Inventory. A 360 behavioral self-discovery instrument, always paired with a formal debrief. It shows a leader the distance between who they think they are and who the room experiences.
- L.E.A.R.N.Learn, Execute, Absorb, Retain, Naturalize. The delivery methodology. Behavior does not change in a workshop; it changes when the practice outlives the workshop.
Honest conversations,
no highlight reel.
Long-form with leaders, operators, and people who changed their mind about something that mattered.
I did that program twenty years ago. It was life changing for me. Witz Education client, two decades on
Which state are you leading from?
Twelve questions, two minutes, no email wall to see your result. It names the ego state you default to under pressure — and what it is costing the people around you.