This keynote specifically focuses on the best practices leaders successful in strategy implementation demonstrate. Much of the published literature, to date, still focuses on why implementation frequently fails. This keynote, in contrast, focuses on how to succeed by addressing the specific behaviors from top performing implementation leaders. It introduces eight best practices that have evolved from over 20 years of research, client work and the publication of six books on the topic by the presenter. Somewhere between planning the strategy and taking action to implement it, leaders lose their way. What is missing is the discipline to do what needs to be done and to make that a best practice.  The best practices are particularly important for successful strategy implementation during times of rapid change and disruption in this ‘right now world’ and this hard-hitting keynote explains specific leadership behavior changes by using a number of stories, examples and neuroscience. The 8 Implementation Best Practices are: