Keynote Speaker: Barry Wishner

On Top...And Still Climbing
Now that you and your department are on top, what do you do for an encore? Getting to the top is easy… staying there is the challenge. Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a fast-paced keynote that will leave you charged up and ready to tackle projects with fresh insights for your own success!

Hear real life stories about what separates the doers from the talkers in business and life. Discover how winners continuously anticipate the unexpected, jump-start innovation and take actions to avoid psychoschlerosis – hardening of the imagination! Like NASCAR champions, you’ve got to focus on the next curve, not the last. Barry’s fast-paced, high-content, entertaining program will leave you with a sense of renewal and commitment to turn your bold ideas into remarkable results.

 

About Barry Wishner
Barry, a noted speaker and business consultant, is also an advisor to America’s most successful business leaders. He has delivered keynote presentations for Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and General Electric and is known as the down-to-earth business speaker who takes complex ideas and distills them using everyday language. Barry has conducted engagements and personal, in-depth interviews with more than 350 Fortune 500 CEOs and thousands of high-powered business leaders, news-making entrepreneurs, and ground breaking mavericks. He has been said to have “the passion of Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence) and the content of Jim Collins (Good to Great).” As president of ProFormance, a management consulting firm with over $50 million in revenue, Barry provokes and spurs people to take action and challenge their previously held assumptions.

Barry has been an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University , City College of San Francisco’s Business School , and Canada College Management School . Barry has been featured in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and CNN Financial News. His upcoming book, The Humpty Dumpty Solution: How to Use Off-the-Wall Thinking to Stand Out, is scheduled for release in 2007.

 

 


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