ALAN S. BERSON ELECTRONIC PRESS KIT. Executive Coach. Author. Leadership Consultant. Speaker.

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1 ALAN S. BERSON ELECTRONIC PRESS KIT Executive Coach. Author. Leadership Consultant. Speaker.

2 CONTENTS This EPK is Interactive! Select one of the content titles below to jump to a specific section of the Press Kit. TABLE OF CONTENTS...2 BIOGRAPHY...3 SPEAKING TOPICS...4 PUBLICATIONS...6 HIGHLIGHTS...7 APPEARANCES...8 MEDIA...9 BOOKING INFORMATION...10 Table of Contents / Electronic Press Kit

3 BIOGRAPHY Alan Berson invites high-potential managers and top organizational leaders to look deeply at themselves and the people they lead. Are you asking great questions and listening to the answers or are your conversations a hectic battle to be heard? How much of your time do you invest to drive innovation to create the future versus obtaining results in the present? How effectively are you creating a culture that benefits from learning to create significant new opportunities? How well does your team function individually and as a team? Alan utilizes the models and theories in his book, Leadership Conversations; Challenging High- Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders, published by Jossey-Bass, in practical ways that can be used to drive effective business conversations and inspiring leadership. Alan is an executive coach, leadership consultant, speaker, and professor. Since getting his BS and MBA from Wharton, he has held leadership, strategic planning and marketing roles at Fortune-500 firms including Gillette, Bausch & Lomb, and Marriott. He was the CEO of a VC funded training company with Fortune 500 clients. In addition to being the CEO of Leadership Conversations LLC, Alan is a Learning Director at Wharton Executive Education, the founder of the Doctorate in Leadership for Educators Program at Delaware Valley University, and is on the Associates Board of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. In addition to running team workshops and off-sites for clients, Alan has taught and coached executive students as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown s McDonough School of Business in the Executive Masters in Leadership Program (EML), the Georgetown/ESADE Global Executive MBA Program (GEMBA), and the Booz Allen Hamilton Change Management Advanced Practitioner Program (CMAP). Since Alan understands both the business and personal development needs at all levels of management and leadership, he is an effective catalyst in creating alignment and achieving innovation and change for individuals, teams and entire organizations. Alan has worked with many great organizations including: Medtronic, Dell Computer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, KPMG, Brown-Forman, AIR, Goodwill Industries, NASA, National Cancer Institute (NCI), LexisNexis, Department of the Navy, Autism Society, Alzheimer s Community Care, PNC Bank, and FINRA. Biography / Electronic Press Kit

4 SPEAKING TOPICS Do you need a custom keynote speech focused on management, leadership, and communication that would amplify results by focusing on your organizations key messages? Would your organization benefit from measurable, practical leadership tools that positively affect your organization s performance and bottom line? Learn to better balance your management and leadership mindsets and activities and to communicate powerfully. As a highly sought-after speaker, executive coach and leadership consultant, Alan has been able to craft several distinct layouts to deliver his interactive content and engage your audience. Alan Berson s dynamic tailored presentations are set to reach your organization s goals, with heart, experience and authority. Alan s leadership tools are developed to directly apply to the specifications of your employees and your organization. You and your team will learn how to think differently to act differently on the criteria proven to create success in your organization. Prior to each presentation, Alan will personally spend time with key event sponsors to ensure the right messages are developed and delivered. After the presentation, Alan will host follow-up conversations and coaching of key team members, when appropriate to ensure results. Below, you will find samples of some of Alan s most requested presentation layouts: Keynote Address In this informative presentation, Berson will share conversation techniques and tools, drawn from his experience coaching and working with leaders at a wide range of organizations, to help strong managers become great leaders, and leaders to develop leadership skills in others. While managers conversations are generally transactional and centered on best practices and proven processes, leaders must focus on people, vision and creating new thought leadership. The right balance between Leadership mindsets and Management skills can be developed, and Berson will provide practical guidance for connecting with others in ways that transform each interaction into an opportunity for organizational and personal growth. He will identify the four types of conversations every leader must master: building relationships, developing others, making decisions, and taking action, as well as provide an action plan for building an authentic personal leadership brand, and for developing leadership skills in others. Offsite Workshop Intensive Alan Berson s informative off-site intensive workshops can range from one-hour to several days in length including both in-person and webinar instruction. This intensive is developed to perform group coaching with intact teams. In this workshop, Alan normally interviews each participant in advance to determine any barriers to success as well as define the interpersonal skills that will need to be taught. Alan utilizes an action learning methodology to accomplish important strategic objectives while simultaneously building both team cohesion and individual capabilities. Participant/ organizations of his workshop will walk away with: Leadership Assessment, Improved Teamwork and Succession Planning Balancing Leadership and Management to deliver longand short-term results Developing Cross-Mentoring, Peer-Coaching and Feedback Cultures Speaking Topics / Electronic Press Kit

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6 PUBLICATIONS Leadership Conversations: Challenging High-Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders by Alan S. Berson and Richard G. Stieglitz Conversation techniques and tools that can help strong managers become great leaders Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence become liabilities when promoted into a leadership track. While managers conversations are generally transactional and centered on the task at hand, leaders must focus on people, asking great questions and aligning them with the vision for the future. Leadership mindsets and skills can be developed, and Leadership Conversations provides practical guidance for connecting with others in ways that transform each interaction into an opportunity for organizational and personal growth. Identifies four types of conversation every leader must master: building relationships, making decisions, taking action, and developing others Provides an action plan for boosting your personal leadership potential, as well for developing leadership skills in others Draws on the authors rich experience coaching and working with leaders at a wide range of organizations, including NASA, the U.S. Navy, intelligence agencies, Boeing, Gillette, Bausch & Lomb, and Georgetown University In their brilliant new book, Leadership Conversations, Alan Berson and Richard Stieglitz offer proven methods, instructive examples, and provocative questions that enable leaders to engage in more meaningful conversations the kinds of conversations that produce innovative solutions, cause deep self-examination, and stimulate disciplined development. I highly recommend this book to leaders at all levels. When you apply the principles and processes in Leadership Conversations it will transform your relationships and your business. James Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge, and Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University Leadership Conversations is required reading for both highpotential managers looking to make it to the next level and leaders looking to develop their people. Publisher: Jossey-Bass 2012, 320 pages Publications / Electronic Press Kit

7 Highlights Alan Berson, author of Leadership Conversations is a valued addition to our newly formed doctoral program in educational leadership. Not only does the EdD program have Leadership Conversations as required reading for all of its students and professors, the course syllabi have been cross walked with the book s chapters. With his workshop, Alan engages our students in provocative and instructive exercises to help them share and learn how to communicate strategically. Consistently, participants use words like practical, insightful, engaging, and stimulating to describe a day with Alan. Dr. N Robert Laws Delaware Valley University, Doyleston Pennsylvania Highlights / Electronic Press Kit

8 APPEARANCES Medtronic Sales Management Conference: Evolve Today Into Tomorrow s Leader ASAE Executive Leadership Forum 2015 Keynote Presenter; Integrating the Art of Leadership with the Science of Management Entrepreneur Organization DC Entrepreneurial Leadership Conversations AMC Institute 2015 Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Wharton Club of South Florida, DC and Boston Vistage DC, and New York Dell Computer Sale Management Meeting: Advance Your and Your Team Members Careers; Separate Yourself From the Pack as a Leader! New Jersey School Superintendent Annual Conference Soundview: Web course on: Leadership and Conversations to Enable Change Delaware Valley University Leadership Forum Keynote Wharton Executive Education: Senior Indian Revenue Service Commissioners; GSK; UNDP; and 25 corporate leaders in Brazil conducted at University of Fortaleza in Brazil George Washington University Alumni Leadership Webinar McCauley Brown Annual Leadership Conference; Keynote Speaker and Facilitator George Mason University Leading to Well-Being Conference speaker Department of Veterans Affairs through Booz Allen Hamilton ICF Meeting Speaker, London, UK Goodwill Industry Executives Moving Successfully Into Leadership Federal Executive Institute Federal Executive Alumni Association Executive Forum 2013 Keynote PNC Bank Wealth Manager Meeting Bristol-Meyers Squibb Sales Executives Meeting CME Executives Workshop on Change Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) United States Treasury Executive Institute Harvard Business School Club of DC CHCI Leadership Program Speaker Washington Exec.com Zip Realty Leadership Series Appearances / Electronic Press Kit

9 MEDIA [click image to read] Wall Street Journal: Alan Berson on The Five Steps It Takes To Go From Manager to Leader [click image to watch] Leadership Conversations that Enable Change with Alan Berson [click image to listen] Dose of Leadership podcast: Richatd Rierson interviews Alan Berson [click image to read] Buainess Standard: Pulling an organisation forward as a leader is better than trying to push it as a manager Media / Electronic Press Kit

10 BOOKING INFORMATION Contact Alan S. Berson Melanie Deck DCG Speakers Bureau Phone: Please specify in subject of your the nature of the speaking engagement or event. Booking Information / Electronic Press Kit