Tom Faranda has owned hotels in Costa Rica and America, a pepper gas business in South Africa, an ATM firm, a global software firm, a mobile home venture in S. Africa and a global consulting firm focused on business growth and profit......and other ventures. He has worked around the world and has clients in China, Japan, India, Malaysia, UK, Germany, Australia and across the globe.

Tom Faranda's global trends have been on target for over 25 years. He forecasted the rise and fall of Japan, the rise and fall of the Euro and the rise of China as a world power as well as many other trends.

Tom is one of the few keynote speakers with enough top management and entrepreneurial experience around the globe to welcome Q & A. His style is fast-paced and compelling. His global examples, bottom-line techniques, stories and humor create a compelling experience which motivates leaders to use his strategies to create growth and profit.

Tom Faranda was named one of the most exciting speakers in America by "Meetings & Conventions Magazine" due to his high content, 'bottom-line' programs packed with examples, stories and global humor. He is the former President of The Hospital Corporation of Chicago, the former National Accounts Sales Manager for The Masonite Corporation and a former candidate for the United States Senate.

His books include "The Global Sales Professional" and "Uncommon Sense Leadership", and he has published over one hundred business articles. Tom Faranda has the credibility and experience audiences respect and demand in a featured speaker. He has earned a BS, an MBA in International Business and a Doctorate(abd). He has been a guest lecturer for universities in South Africa, the UK, Australia and was an adjunct faculty professor of business at the University of Minnesota.

Few speakers know the global world as well as Tom Faranda. His clients have included Siemen's Engineering Germany, IBM Europe, Siemens Medical South Africa, Thermo-King Japan, Ford Canada, GE, Prudential Singapore, Creative Communications India, INTEL, Motorola, 3M, IBM, Honeywell and other corporations.

Tom Faranda has climbed some of the tallest mountains in the world–including Mt. Cotopoxi in Ecuador, the tallest active volcano in the world at just under 20,000 feet elevation! He has run the rivers of Alaska, raced 100-mile competitive cycling events, competed in triathlons, mountain bike races, rollerblade events, cross-country ski races, Africa treks and SCUBA diving adventures in Austrailia. His adventure experiences are captured in his exciting programs.

Global Realities and YOUR Bottom Line
This is the most stimulating and thought provoking global business program in the world. It is an amazing experience that shows you, by country and with a specific time line, what is going to happen around the world in the next TEN years and how these events will affect YOU and YOUR bottom line.

Tom Faranda will provide specific global forecasts and key global trends that will impact your growth and profit. His information comes from senior corporate executives and entrepreneurs based around the world and legitimate inside information provided by government officials and others who are part of his extensive global network. Tom was correct about the rise and fall of Japan, changes in the EU and in the value of the EURO, the rise of Asia and especially the rise of China and India. His forecasts are accurate and timely. This program is fast-paced and filled with examples, stories and global humor. It is an unforgettable look at tomorrow.

American Realities and YOUR Bottom Line
Tom Faranda will explain what is going to happen in America in the next TEN years, with specific forecasts and time frames. He will explain how economic, political, social and legal changes in America will impact YOU and your organization and return America to prosperity.

This program provides an objective view of AMERICA just as Tom's "GLOBAL REALITIES" program provides an objective view of the entire world. This is a fascinating, fast-paced program filled with examples,facts, stories and humor. It is an unforgettable look at our America over the next ten years.

CHINA & INDIA's Impact on YOUR Bottom Line
This program is an in-depth study of how China and India will change your global strategy over the next ten years!

Tom Faranda will detail their economy, growth plans, world views, competitive advantages and future plans. He will show you their strategic plans to take control of the world and become the two key economic engines of this century.

UncommonSense Leadership for YOUR Global World
Based on Tom Faranda's book "Uncommon Sense Leadership"

A global leader has to compare his/her results with successful organizations in Shanghai, Tokyo, Stuttgart and others around the world and not just to American organizations. A great global leader has to see beyond the rules of today and create new rules that work in tomorrow's global world.

In this program, Tom Faranda will teach us new management and leadership skills that lead to success in a global world. He will show us how to plan strategically, act with innovation and lead successfully to create growth and profit.

Leadership is the connecting mechanism that links resources with goals, plans with achievements and people with productivity. It is an illusive but learnable skill that make the impossible, possible. It is the force that drives people to succeed and reach their potential. Tom Faranda's style is fast-paced, dynamic and entertaining. His real-life examples, bottom-line ideas, stories and humor create a compelling experience which motivates people to succeed.

Global Futurism-Impact on Life and YOUR Bottom Line
This wild global ride will take you through the worlds of medicine, electronics, telecommunications, 3D imaging and more. You will learn what inventions and innovations will be part of your life over the next ten years. This is an exciting, humorous and very interesting program that will keep people entranced and open their minds to their world of the near future.

The Global Sales Professional - Selling Internationally
The most successful sales people in the world are Global Sales Professionals. The art and science of global selling adds a new dimension of sales to build competitive advantages and increase market share around the world. This program will improve every sales professionals skills and especially their GLOBAL SALES SKILLS and help them move to the next level of success.

Uncommon Sense Leadership for Global Leaders
Global leaders requires an entirely new set of skills for the successful growth and profit of a global business or organization. Global leaders must master the cultural, lingual, social, legal, political and economic issues of every country in which they do business. They must understand currency fluctuations. They must know how to deal with distributor networks that have been in place for generations. They must have negotiation skills that are specific to each country. In this program, Tom Faranda will explain these unique leadership skills and show us how to master them for global growth and profitability.