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About David Thomson - Speaker on Business Innovation and management:

David G. Thomson is founder and Chairman of The Blueprint Growth Institute., a specialized management-consulting firm focused on helping companies develop business development and growth strategies to successfully achieve exceptional or exponential growth. David's billion-dollar business building experience, combined with his McKinsey & Company consulting background, provides a unique ability to turn insights into actions. His passion for innovation, business development strategy and growth leadership is reflected in his keynote speaking, business growth research and business development consulting services. He is the author of the best-selling book, Blueprint to a Billion®: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth that provides the first quantitative identification of the success patterns of America’s highest growth companies that he calls the Blueprint Companies. His book has been released across Asia in Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and China. SoundView Book Summaries awarded the Blueprint to a Billion as one of the top 30 business books for 2006. His latest book is Mastering the 7 Essentials of High Growth Companies

David's work has been featured in on CNBC's Closing Bell, MSNBC, ABCNews.com, Businessweek.com, TheStreet.com, and in such well know publications as the NY Times, the cover story in Fortune Small Business, Leader to Leader (formerly Peter Drucker Foundation) and Investor's Business Daily's Leaders and Success feature. The Blueprint insights have been embraced globally with coverage on Sky TV Business, the cover of the Korean Economic Daily and coverage across India, China, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.

As a consultant, business advisor and distinguished keynote speaker, he has worked with senior executives in many mid-sized companies and business units ranging from million dollar companies to multi-billion dollar business units, high-tech start-ups to universities and non-profits such as the YPO and the Churchill Club. While the size ranges are broad, they have one common need – to apply the 7 Essentials to achieve exponential growth!

Prior to founding The Blueprint Growth Institute, David has been leading business growth for 20 years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard. He also served as an Associate Principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company.

What David Thomson Talks About:

A Different Approach to Growth
The odds are one in 50 that an idea becomes a business, then one in 20 that a funded business sees an initial public offering (IPO) and, finally, one in 20 that a public company achieves $1 billion revenue. The odds of turning an idea into a billion-dollar business, then, are one in 20,000! A long shot. Nevertheless, we chase this dream. We want to be among the few winners.

What does it really take to become a billion-dollar company? Turns out, the answer did not come from soft subjects such as organizational development or leadership theory, or from an examination of divisions or operating units in larger companies. It came from a quantitative and fact-based analysis of America's fastest growing companies.

Furthermore, the analysis had to hinge on what is often overlooked: revenue performance. Every company can invest, even over invest, to grow. However, not every company can create revenue growth. How many times have you heard a CEO announcing quarterly results stating that earnings did not meet expectations because of a revenue shortfall, yet expenditures met or exceeded budget?

Whether you are a senior management team of a large corporation aspiring to create a billion dollar business or high growth entrepreneurs to get onto the exponential growth trajectory, David’s keynote speaking presentations will not only motivate you but aspire to achieve greater growth. David’s presentation style provides a unique blend of content and stories to guide your growth aspirations and actions.