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About John Caslione - Speaker on Global Business Strategies:

John A. Caslione is a highly respected thought leader and expert in international business strategy and the new global economy. John is vigorously sought after as a keynote speaker and conference leader. Having done business in 88 countries on six continents over the past 20 years, John’s dynamic and pragmatic approach to engaging an audience, with today’s complex topics, has kept him in high demand as a premier keynote speaker worldwide.

John Caslione is the founder and currently President & CEO of GCS Business Capital, LLC (GCS), with offices in Chicago, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Milan. GCS is a mergers and acquisitions advisor founded in 2005, advising US, European, Chinese and other Asian middle market companies seeking to globalize their businesses through mergers, acquisitions, strategic equity joint ventures and alliances.

Prior to founding GCS, in 1991 John founded and served as President and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc., an international management consulting firm assisting U.S. and Europe firms to develop global marketing, global account management and global sales and distribution channel strategies. He has personally executed business strategies worldwide for many companies, including ABB, BD Biosciences, Caltex Lubricants, ExxonMobil Chemical Films, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Philips N.V., R.J. Reynolds, Sandoz, and many large and middle market firms.

John serves as director and/or advisor for many U.S., European, Chinese and other Asian firms to globalize their businesses, including a special focus on small and middle market enterprises. He is a founding member of Rotary Club International’s first English-speaking international member club in Frankfurt, Germany in 2006.

John and his co-author, marketing guru Philip Kotler, have collaborated to write their best-seller 2009 book, Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in The Age of Turbulence. Chaotics defines a new strategic platform that addresses the need for business leaders to develop a new mindset – one that takes into account unpredictable periods of disturbance – as the world has now entered into a new age of frequent and heightened periods of turbulence in the global economy.

Chaotics is currently being published in more than 50 countries and in 24 languages with new countries and languages being added monthly. It is the number one book for 2009 for each of its publishers worldwide. Chaotics has surpassed all sales expectations and has generated tremendously positive reviews from top business leaders and renowned thought leaders internationally.

John’s previous books include: Going Global: How to Globalize Your Business ,Developing Successful Global Sales and Distribution Channel Strategies , Global Manifest Destiny: Growing Your Business in a Borderless Economy, and Growing Your Business in Emerging Markets: Promise and Perils.

What John Caslione Talks About:

Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in The Age of Turbulence
John’s most requested keynote topic comes directly from his most recent book, Chaotics, and this topic is his most gripping and dynamic speech to-date for all audiences.

John’s key message advises leaders of a new strategic management platform – one that allows companies to thrive while under the ongoing threat of continuous and also heightened turbulence. Chaotics presents this new system—a set of new strategic behaviors—designed to help businesses navigate through the new normality characterized by unpredictable and oftentimes undetectable, waves of turbulence, chaos, risk and uncertainty.

Other Topics Include:

• China and Chinese Competition – The NEW Opportunity
• Competing Against Price in the New Discount-Driven Global Marketplace – Regardless of Company Size
• Compete Globally – Globalize your Company or Expand your Global Presence
• The Next Wave In Business Globalization: China Gives Back US Jobs and US Capital