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The famous Bell Tower on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has chimed for decades as an hourly motivator to students on their paths to adult lives of dedicated work and achievement. Close to campus, another Bell, just as treasured as the tower, educates and inspires today’s business elite in self-mastery and world-class achievement.
Dr. Gerald D. Bell has taught at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School for thirty-some years, with a visiting professorship at Harvard Business School and teachings at Cornell, Stanford, McGill, and the London School of Business. At UNC his award-winning Power, Politics and Leadership class—rated by Forbes as a “Don’t miss”—is a perennial favorite for up-and-coming MBAs.
Mention Bell to executives from Pfizer, Kraft, Marsh Advantage America, or Sovereign Bank, and you may be treated to an impromptu lesson on Bell’s leadership development strategies. Visit The Biltmore Company, Progress Energy, Trammell Crow Company, Walt Disney Imagineering, or the member companies of the Urban Land Institute, and you’ll undoubtedly spy a few of Dr. Bell’s instructive Achiever models on display. Dr. Bell’s creative thinking and intellectual generosity have earned him a national and global reputation as one of the highest-rated advisors on leadership. Organizations such as the Young Presidents Organization and the Chief Executives Organization call on him again and again for his plain, unaffected yet deeply thought-provoking delivery.
In 1972, Dr. Bell founded Bell Leadership, a consulting firm that works with CEOs and other senior leaders to provide their organizations with advanced leadership development. Two of Dr. Bell’s most striking attributes are his effectiveness and his passion for his mission—helping leaders increase their effectiveness so that they can achieve high level of performance and contribute to their own lives, to the lives of their families, and to their organizations and society.
Dr. Bell has conducted leadership-training sessions for approximately 500,000 managers in more than 4,700 organizations from over 85 countries.
Over the years, thousands have enrolled in Dr. Bell’s open programs held in Chapel Hill or sought his services for on-site programs, master classes, and executive retreats. He also delivers keynote speeches, alongside other well-known business experts such as Steven Covey, Ken Blanchard, and Michael Porter. Highly regarded topics include New Discoveries in Leadership, Thinking Smart, Resolving Conflicts, Complex Lives, Money, Families and Children, Building a World-Class Organization, and Selecting Achievers.
Dr. Bell is currently researching and writing a series of books. His Personality Patterns of the Achiever: The Foundation of Human Achievement will build on his first book, The Achievers . Others in the series will include Selecting Achievers Advanced Communication: Mastering the 7 Essential Skills of Effective Communication and Money, Families & Children . His lastest publication is entitled, The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons From a Life in Coaching , co-authored with Coach Dean Smith, the most successful coach in college basketball history, and John Kilgo, an award-winning newspaper columnist in North Carolina.
In addition to his books, Dr. Bell has created the Bell Personality Profile and several other assessment tools for individuals and companies to use in determining their strengths and weaknesses.
Dr. Bell earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He also earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology and business, respectively, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating with honors from both universities. In addition to teaching, consulting, and writing, Dr. Bell enjoys time with his family at home in Chapel Hill. He is an avid golfer, fly fisherman, runner, and Western art collector.
Most Requested Topics:
The Achievers, Advanced Personality and Leadership: Who You Are and How You Lead: Build your personal leadership skills to lead others at a world-class level and develop techniques to guide your people so they can build your business. Dr. Bell’s research and consulting with the most effective and least effective leaders throughout the world form the basis for concepts and personal technologies that offer significant ways to enhance your success and contributions by increasing your effectiveness in leading others. New Discoveries in Leadership: How to Create World-Class Leaders who Build World-Class Companies: Dr. Bell will explore the major personality causes that drive us to lead in our unique styles. Then, he will examine the ten major action steps the best leaders take to become heroes within their own firms. He will describe the major dimensions of effective leadership, then provide a method for you to benchmark yourself against these dimensions and techniques to apply the core competencies of the most effective leadership patterns to your own leadership efforts and to your organization. Leading Change: How to Change Yourself, Others, Your Management Teams and Organizations: Learn how to help yourself and your team change effectively and naturally while maximizing motivation and minimizing tensions. Dr. Bell will teach you the art of leadership leverage--how to leverage yourself to be able to deliver increased results with scarce resources and high pressure. Advanced Teamwork: How to Build a Great Top Management Team: We are all in favor of teamwork. But how do you know if you have it? What does it feel like? What are the ingredients of great teams? What are the key variables that exist in weak teams? Let Dr. Bell give you a game plan to diagnose your teamwork. You will leave with a step-by-step plan you can implement immediately in your company. Self Mastery and Personal Effectiveness: How to Master Yourself to Leverage Your Time, Contributions and Success: Dr. Bell will show you how to live a rewarding life while working extremely hard. You will learn how to maintain a high level of commitment and still create wealth, contribution and pleasure throughout the many domains of your life. Selecting Achievers: How to Produce Great Results for Your Organization and Launch Careers Successfully: This program is designed to build the skills to recruit, screen, interview, diagnose, select and promote. Learn how to hire achievers who match your company’s needs and who will excel in accomplishing your goals. Money, Families & Children: How to Raise Mentally Healthy and Achieving Kids: Dr. Bell’s seminar will teach you specific techniques for using your money to build your family and help your children become productive and loving individuals. Thinking Smart: The Keys to Smart Working: Using the advanced discoveries in medicine about the intricate and powerful workings of the brain, Dr Bell has developed new methods and processes to help you raise your operating IQ, make decisions more wisely, and translate your learnings into practical rules for personal effectiveness. |
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