Most leadership programs make you choose — a memorable speaker or a useful framework. We deliver both: research-grade behavioral science, translated into tools leaders use long after the room clears.
Influence 51 was founded on a simple conviction: great leaders don't rely on authority, charm, or luck. The best leaders are those who understand the factors that truly move people — to shift their perspective, alter their decisions, or change their behavior — and translate these insights into better strategy, culture, and performance for their teams.
We don't rely on opinions or gut feelings — we simply share what the research shows actually works.
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WE CAN'T RECOMMEND HIM HIGHLY ENOUGH.
Tawanna Myers, Chief People & Culture Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Founder & Principal · Influence 51
JonRobert Tartaglione is a psychologist and behavioral scientist by training — with a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Cambridge and research roots at several of the world's top universities.
He founded Influence 51 with a simple motivation: to bring powerful, research-backed insights on psychology and behavioral science to the individuals and organizations who can actually use them.
His applied frameworks now sit behind global brand launches, change initiatives, policy campaigns, and high-stakes negotiations. But it's not just cutting-edge content that sets JonRobert apart — it's how he delivers it. Entertaining, engaging, and immediately applicable. There's a reason he's been called the best on the planet at what he does.
When leadership programs need more science and less cliche.
When change initiatives stall because people understand the plan but aren't moving.
When the next keynote, offsite, or board moment has to land — and stick.
When motivational theater isn't enough and you want tools your skeptics will actually use.
Fortune 500s, leading law firms, the world's most impactful non-profits, and more trust Dr. Tartaglione to develop their leaders and optimize their strategies.
Get to know how our Founder and CEO thinks, teaches, and works with leadership teams.
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Every framework, talk, and engagement is built on three pillars: rigorous academic research, applied practice in the field, and a deep understanding of the audiences we serve.
Everything we teach is grounded in peer-reviewed work across social psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and persuasion science.
Our frameworks have been sharpened across hundreds of keynotes, workshops, and advisory engagements with leaders from boardrooms to front lines.
We work with the people who have to actually move other people — and design everything around what they need on Monday morning.
Every engagement, every talk, and every tool we ship comes back to these.
We believe in creating experiences that both captivate an audience and equip them with the skills, tools, and frameworks that improve how they perform.
Our research is based in science, but our audience is rarely scientists. We translate our content so it speaks to the people in the room. Because if they can't follow it, they can't use it.
Audiences learn by experiencing, not just listening. Every engagement is built so the ideas resonate — and so the people in the room can apply them to their own work the next day.
The hardest person in the room is the one we build for first. If it works for them, it works.
If nothing changed after the keynote, the keynote didn't work. We design for outcomes and say so out loud.
We work best with leaders who want evidence, not theater. Here's the quick signal on whether we're the right partner for you.
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Whether it's a single keynote or a year of advisory, every engagement follows the same rhythm — grounded in research, shaped by your context, and measured by what actually changes.
We start by listening to the context: your audience, your stakes, your constraints. No framework leaves our door until we understand the room it's entering.
We translate peer-reviewed behavioral science into language your team speaks, tools they can use, and decisions they can make. Theory stays backstage.
Every engagement is designed backward from the behavior change you want. We define what "moved" looks like — and build the intervention to get there.
Why Influence 51 Exists
How can we communicate in ways that maximize the impact of our messages; that persuade people to think differently? How can we influence the choices people make based on the way we present, describe, and compare different options? How can we motivate action, whether it be driving engagement, encouraging participation, or inspiring change?
Every day, there are brilliant researchers in psychology and behavioral science generating ideas, building frameworks, and surfacing insights that are truly transformational — that have the power to change how we lead, communicate, and create change. But few people are even aware they exist. Influence 51 was founded on a simple idea: to bring the most powerful of these insights to the leaders and organizations who could use them the most.
Start with a complimentary discovery call — or explore the full set of engagements we deliver.
Access matters. Behavioral science shouldn't be locked behind an enterprise budget — Influence For All exists so it isn't.