Michael Gerber

Small Business Strategist; Author of The E Myth and The Power Point 
Fee Range: $50,000–$75,000 [FEE NOTE]
Travels From: California

Every revolution has a leader...to awaken the spirit, to champion the cause, to lead the charge! Business visionary, entrepreneur, best-selling author and Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, Michael Gerber has been leading a Small Business Revolution before anyone knew there was one! He called it The E-Myth Revolution, and over the past two decades, he has indelibly touched hundreds of thousands of small business owners throughout the world with his brilliantly insightful, original E-Myth message.

Gerber's E-Myth Point of View embodies his commitment to personal growth and the realization that a business owner's purpose in life can be actualized through his or her business. Michael Gerber's efforts, his message--his very life's work has been to empower business owners to gain more freedom, more money, more time, and more life.

Documented in his mega-best seller The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, Gerber's E-Myth Point of View provides those typically enslaved by a business with a way out of what he calls "the tyranny of routine." Dragging down the owner's entrepreneurial spirit, this tyranny is the dull, repetitive work Michael Gerber refers to as doing-it, doing-it, doing-it. The E-Myth  powerfully describes how to rise above that tyranny of routine to build a flourishing, exciting, innovative business.

But The E-Myth  is much more than just a book! After intensive research and hundreds of thousands of hours testing essential business development principles, practices and systems, Michael Gerber successfully created a programmatic method that works for anyone determined to improve the condition of his or her business. As a result, The E-Myth  is now a process, a system, a model which can be implemented in any small business--and when implemented--will provide freedom and joy for the owners, employees and staff.

Michael Gerber has taken his methodology and message on the road, addressing business audiences throughout North America, the Pacific Rim, Europe and beyond about how to start their own personal revolution. Since the 1970s, he has served as keynote speaker, telling his compelling story to a variety of corporations, organizations, professional associations, franchises and independent business owners.

Besides speaking to business audiences, Michael Gerber expresses The E-Myth Point of View through his highly-acclaimed business books, audio tapes, videos, radio and television broadcasts. His book, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It , is licensed in 16 languages and has gone into its tenth printing. Selling over a million copies, The E-Myth Revisited has been named one of the top business best sellers. Gerber has also authored The Power Point , The E-Myth Manager: Why Management Doesn't Work and What to Do About It  and The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors' Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It . His latest book , published in January 2003, is The E-Myth Physician: Why Most Medical Practices Don't Work and What to Do About It.

Let Michael Gerber teach you to work on your business, not in it, to create a perfect turnkey operation—a perfect money machine—that delivers predictable results, day after day, whether you are there or not. Let Michael Gerber speak for you at your next event! Michael Gerber doesn’t just speak; he changes people’s lives!

Most Requested Topics:

  • The E-Myth Principles: It is not the unique things of a business that make it successful it is the business' ability to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way and to do those things consistently, predictably, and effectively, day after day after day. The business should be able to run consistently and effectively without you having to be there. All this is accomplished by creating a systems-dependent, not a people-dependent business.

  • Michael Gerber on Management: "There aren’t any bad managers. There are only untrained managers, unmanaged managers, managers operating without a management system, managers expected to produce miracles without the right perspective and without the right tools and the right training. Anyone can become an effective manager who wants to, provided the right systems are in place. But no one can become an effective manager without those systems. Unless he or she is lucky, of course. But, we’re not here to talk about luck."

  • Michael Gerber on Marketing: "The simplest approach to creating a powerful position in your market... immediately...no matter what your business does, no matter where you do it. Great marketing is found in very few businesses. Great marketing comes from an understanding that every business has an opportunity to seize what I call "The Power Point," that specific place in the mind of its customers, its competitors, its employee, its suppliers, its shareholders, and its lenders and investors which distinguishes that business from every other business in the world. Knowing what that place is and how to fill it as fully as possible is what great marketing is all about."

  • Michael Gerber on The Entrepreneur: "The fact is that most people who start a business of their own aren’t entrepreneurs. They’re technicians suffering from an entrepreneurial seizure. And that’s the problem. The technician who starts a business looking for independence builds the business around his or her own personal skills, and immediately goes to work. By anybody’s definition, that’s not a business but a job. The entrepreneur, on the other hand, creates a business that works successfully without the entrepreneur. Thought of in that way, the truly entrepreneurial personality invents a business that works in such a remarkably unique way that it is immediately differentiated from every other business in the world."