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About Dr. James Belasco - Leadership and Change Speaker:

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 re-engineering.

He is Founder of San Diego State University's Management Development Center and Co-Founder of The Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue, a video conference network that connects executives with the world's greatest leaders.

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 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.

Dr. Belasco is author of the best-sellers Teaching the Elephant to Dance and Flight of the Buffalo, and coauthor 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.

What Dr. James Belasco Talks About:

Leadership: 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

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.

It Is Easier to Create Tomorrow Than Change Today
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. 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.