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About Dr. Jim Crupi - Speaker on Leadership and Change:

Dr. James A. Crupi is President and founder of Strategic Leadership Solutions, Inc. Jim is a recognized authority in international business, future trends, and leadership development and is an internationally popular speaker. His leadership workshops are world renowned. Jim works with executives for the purpose of aligning strategy, enhancing productivity and competitiveness, and training of the management team. Jim has been featured on CNN and National Public Radio, and quoted in many publications throughout the world.

He received his B.S. degree from North Georgia College, M.S. from the University of Southern California, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He has completed advanced work at the London Business School, Oxford University, and the International Management Institute in Geneva and is an Executive in Residence at the KSU Center for Character, Ethics, and Leadership.

Jim has served as a consultant to the Office of the President of the United States and does work for many Fortune 1000 corporations, including Coca Cola, Turner Broadcasting Corporation, AT&T, EDS, Bell South, Southwestern Bell, Intel, Phelps Dodge, Motorola, and IBM among others. He served in the armed forces as a company commander and instructor at the elite Army Ranger School.

What Dr. Jim Crupi Talks About:

Leadership: If I Take Away Your Title, Will They Follow You?
So you think you really know what it takes to be a leader in the information age. You believe that some things are just impossible to do unless you see it happen. You think you really understand how people look at you and how that frames your company's culture. You think people hear your company vision and really understand and see what you are after. If you can answer yes to these questions, you don't need to hear Jim. If, on the other hand, you want to really understand leadership in the modern age, his presentation is for you. You will accomplish something you believed was impossible and come to understand that your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. You will see that today people are substituting belief for knowledge and hope for expectation and that has profound implications for you as a leader.

Managing Personal and Organizational Change
Why is it that organizations want to change and just can't seem to fast enough? Why is it that people want to change their lives and just can't seem to get their fast enough? Why is it that companies and people confuse incremental change with transformation [real deep change]? In our search for meaning and direction, we have a problem. Traditionally, our paradigms, myths, or scripts have told us what to do. They have helped organize our lives. Whenever we follow them, we feel safe.

But today, our environment keeps changing. New ways of thinking and behaving are required because change is major in scope, discontinuous with the past and generally irreversible. Change distorts existing patterns of action and involves taking risks. It means surrendering control. Organization and change are not complementary concepts. To organize is to systematize, to make behavior predictable. This initially makes people and organizations more efficient or effective. As time goes on, however, these routine patterns can cause decay and stagnation. Because environments are dynamic and our myths are based in the past, our strategies often fail, and we feel a sense of alienation. In a highly interactive session Jim helps people recreate new paradigms, myths, scripts, and personal and organizational frameworks that enable us to build the bridge while walking on it.

Other Topics Include:

• Changes in Technology: What and What Does It Mean?
• Eight Forces That Will Shape the Future
• NEON BUZZ: Building High Performance Teams
• Understanding Community Power Structures
• When the Stakes Are High: What Business Can Learn from the Military
• Changes in Technology: What and What Does It Mean?