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Dr. James Belasco is a pragmatic, rigorous, and dynamic visionary whose revolutionary ideas and practices are creating dramatic improvements in organizations around the globe. His passion for impacting his clients’ business triggers change among individual leaders and sets the stage for organizational redirection and reengineering.
The world’s leading companies have embraced Dr. Belasco’s research and teachings on business strategy, leadership, change management, and competitive advantage. Speaking to corporate and association audiences, he opens the door to individual and institutional change, and fosters new-found energy for dynamic leadership that empowers, rather than stifles, breakthroughs.
A dynamic and entertaining keynote speaker, Dr. Belasco is recognized for his ability to have a lasting impact on his audiences. His focus on strategy, leadership, and change energizes audience members with fresh ideas to improve themselves and their organizations by moving from traditional, autocratic management to flat, customer-focused, and horizontally managed organizations.
More than just a theorist, Dr. Belasco has put his expertise and insight to the test. He led a major computer software and service firm to 10 years of phenomenal growth and high margins. He also grew the revenues of a specialty chemical business to the highest margins and market share in its niche.
Dr. Belasco is author of the best-sellers Teaching the Elephant to Dance and Flight of the Buffalo, and co-author of the books Soaring With the Phoenix: Renewing the Vision, Reviving the Spirit and Re-creating the Success of Your Company and Seize Tomorrow, Start Today: Renew Your Vision, Revitalize Your Organization, and Stay Ahead of the Future. He continues to challenge organizations to redefine management and constantly create environments to foster their employees’ learning, growth, and success.
As the founder of San Diego State University’s Management Development Center, with previous tenure at SUNY-Buffalo and Cornell, Dr. Belasco has over 20 years experience opening doorways to new management structures and reinvention techniques. He also co-founded The Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue, a videoconference network that connects executives with the world’s greatest leaders.
Dr. Belasco speaks to audiences about his breakthrough ideas on becoming customer-centered, being employee-led, responding to change, remaining value-focused, and creating an environment which promotes true employee learning and growth. In keynotes and seminars alike, he challenges audience members to become revolutionary leaders.
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Heart and Alignment: Leaders make THE difference. Leaders transform a collection of well-meaning, good-intentioned, talented individuals into teams and organizations that consistently deliver great performance for their customers. Every organization has lots of potential leaders--executives, team leaders, coordinators, secretaries and machinists. The challenge: encourage everyone to be a leader--to step forward and assume responsibility. Great leaders establish both a heart connection with their people and the alignment (discipline) to achieve tough goals. From Admiral Rickover, building the nuclear Navy, to Pat Summit, leading the Lady Vols women's basketball to consecutive National Championships, successful leaders help others win by combining both heart and alignment. Leaders: Establish heart connections with people and customers; surface critical facts and issues; engage the people in converting “Must Dos” into “Will Dos”; align valuable resources with important goals; energize learners to open doors, break through walls and let the future in. Professor Belasco will show you how successful leaders develop an organization of leaders who develop heart connections and the alignment (discipline). Create Your Own Future, Make a Difference, Leave a Legacy: Strategy provides the road map from the present to the future. The most experienced and capable executives craft this all-important road map. Yet, many companies make wrong turns. General Motors, IBM, McDonald's, American Express, Sears, K-Mart and Disney are just a few of the many organizations that wound up going the wrong way on a one way street. Why? One CEO put his finger on it when he said, "Our strategic planning approach is like using a Piper Cub airplane to keep up with an F-18 jet. We need more horsepower. Tomorrow is coming too fast." Professor Belasco takes you beyond strategy and shows you how to break the current market boundaries and create your own future. He will show you how to: Use a disciplined process for creating your future first, then deciding the resources and capabilities you need; engage everyone in the strategy making process; create ownership for successful implementation; align/focus implementation actions; and grow the organization by energizing learning. Professor Belasco will help your people see a different road to a more competitively successful tomorrow. It is Easier to Create Tomorrow Than Change Today: Change an organization--now there is an oxymoron. "Change" is an elusive rare species, often talked about, seldom observed and rarely captured. Why? Almost all change efforts are based upon the assumption that we can change the way people perform. All of our experience--at home and in the office-- show us the ludicrousness of this assumption. Utilizing the tools outlined in the Strategy and Leadership sections, Professor Belasco shares with us his prescription for changing organizations by creating tomorrow first, and then engaging individuals in implementing that shared vision of the future. Professor Belasco will show you how to enroll others in the renewal-change process, rather than the more typical failure-plagued "roll-out" process. |
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