My team is planning a senior management conference focusing on the role/accountability of senior leaders in addressing the strain of rapid growth on infrastructure (e.g. talent/talent systems, process, structure). I am seeking speakers on this topic.
Recommended speakers would likely have expertise in how companies manage high rates of growth. They likely would also have consultant experience with actual companies that have doubled in size while simultaneously successfully managing the strain of growth on internal operations/systems/people resources.
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Sam M.
Manager of Leadership Development at Jo-Ann Stores, Inc.
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Hi Mimi,
My company seems to meet your criteria, but I'd like to hear more about your needs before promoting myself. Let me know if you are interested, and let's set-up a time to discuss.
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Sam M. also suggests this expert on this topic:
Phil L.
(Spherical Phil) - Founder/CEO Spherit Inc - Solutions 4 Complexity
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Hello Mimi,
The challenges faced in fast growth are as you correctly pointed out, multi-dimensional. Rapid growth is a complex interconnected sphere of people, processes, structure, and also includes culture, technology, regulations, attitudes, expectation and mindsets.
Successfully addressing these interconnected, complex and constantly changing elements requires that we look at our organization and what is happening in a new manner. We must stop looking at parts in isolation and start looking at the interconnected whole of the organization.
I have spoken and consulted nationally and internationally on these issues, written a book about them as well run fast growth companies. But speaking where one gives some inspirational stories or some preset 7 steps to managing in change doesn’t provide the substance that organizations like yours require.
Going beyond just speaking and I interact with the management team. In concert with my speaking I have a simple process that I use with organizations that shows them the shape or condition of their organization on a single graphical sphere chart that my speaking presentation is based upon.
By showing a visualization of the interconnected whole of organizations and tying that to organizational actualizations – transformation in attitudes and actions occurs. The situation is no longer abstract, it is real and personal and the team can see and understand both why they must act differently and what to do.
If you would like to know more about my speaking qualifications please contact me.
The first link below is to my personal web site which emphasizes my speaking, coaching and book. The second link is to my company along with some brief case studies of corporations, government agencies and even cities that have used my system for successfully dealing with radical change.
Spherical,
Phil
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Jason A.
Chief Executive Officer, Entreprenuer and Visionary around the future of Human Resources
Would love to talk to you Mimi on how Knowledge Infusion works with organizations in to support the combination of people, process and technology to drive the business outcome that an organization like Covance has set as its strategic mission.
Please feel free to contact me at anytime via email at jason.averbook@knowledge-infusion.com or our Vice President of Marketing at natalie.perdue@knowledge-infusion.com.
We deliver over 150 advisory events like this per year and would love to share the KI story with you.
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Kevin Burns - W.
Consultant, Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker
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Mimi,
When it comes to managing business growth, there is only one expert: Marty Park. He has been running growing businesses since he was a teenager. He is a business coach with a huge list of client testimonials of not only how their respective businesses have grown, but how they've managed the growth. I wouldn't dare send you anywhere else. See the attached web address.
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Bo C.
Senior Consultant / Practice Leader
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Mimi,
I'd be honored to visit with you if you have a few minutes this week. I may have two people within our firm that can provide what you need. Both having worked with other international pharmaceutical companies.
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Kyle S.
Senior Consultant at The McQuaig Institute
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Hello Mimi,
I recommend you consider Michael Gravelle, Managing Director of The McQuaig Institute, and in the interest of full disclosure, my employer. Michael has spoken across North America on numerous Human Resource topics including How to Hire the Right People, and Is Your Crystal Ball on the Fritz.
Mimi, if you'd like to know more about Michael, McQuaig, or anything else, please contact me at ksalem@mcquaig.com or 1.800.387.5455 x367 and I will send you his bio, articles written, presentation materials and whatnot.
All the best,
Kyle
Subbu I.
CEO at Acropetal Technologies Limited Bangalore
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Dear Mimi
I am an Enterprise Architect focused on Enterprise Business Transformation for growth. I have consulted internationally with such organizations as Novartis (then Sandoz), Clariant, American Express, P&O Nedlloyd, Maersk among others. I'm the author of frameworks that includes Human Capital Management that precisely addresses the question you have raised here with respect to addressing growth...not discretely but continuously and concurrently with business as usual. Please visit http://www.mindsie.com to gain an understanding of the short introduction I've provided here. I would be deligted to facilitate your conference should my credentials be considered suitable for your enterprise.
Best regards,
Subbu Iyer
Theo P.
Bit of this. Bit of that. Bit of BPM.
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I would certainly like to speak on the subject regarding Process Management, accountability of process design and ownership and how not to ultimately lose sight of your strategic objectives.
You can also speak with David Robinson, ex-CEO of a start up company for one of the largest Life Insurers in the UK, I would thoroughly recommend him on this topic (the company has grown 3 fold in 5 years)
Please contact me if you want David as he's not on LinkedIn.
T
Clarification added February 26, 2008:
It may also be worth pointing out (just noticed your title) that Process Management leads to more efficient training methods if applied correctly, so education and knowledge sharing becomes more fluid if the company is growing at a fast rate.
Frank F.
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Managing growth is a major challenge for any organization, but with proper advance planning and preparation, it is possible to achieve humongous goals -- yes, I will bet, even larger than those which your company is contemplating.
It requires an ability to "see" and "map" the future of the organization, and then to constantly exercise "futuristic leadership." Conventional leadership is insufficient.
We have assisted many organizations (all sizes, all sectors) with keynote speeches, executive seminars, and strategic visioning processes to help clients put such a platform in place.
I would be happy to discuss this with you.
Best wishes, with whomever you decide to work!
Frank Feather (business futurist, author of "Futuristic Leadership A-Z" and "Biznets: The Webopoly Future of Business" (Main hub website at http://FFeather.com or e-mail me direct at Frank.Feather@Gmail.com).
