Missouri
Dan Coughlin works with senior-level executives and managers to improve their impact as business leaders, focusing on five critical management topics: leadership, teamwork, branding, innovation, and execution. A leading authority on how to lead an organization for sustainable, profitable growth, his client list is a who’s who of some of the world’s best companies, including McDonald’s, Toyota, Marriott, Coca-Cola, GE, Anheuser-Busch, Shell, Subway, Abbott, RE/MAX, Prudential, Boeing, and more than 200 others. Since 1998, Coughlin has invested over 3,000 hours on-site as a management consultant observing and advising executives and managers in a wide variety of business functions and in more than 50 industries. As an executive coach, he has provided more than 2,100 coaching sessions for presidents, vice-presidents, and senior directors in Fortune 500 companies, major privately-owned firms, and small businesses. Coughlin and his clients constantly work to hone simple processes that will improve performance throughout their organizations.
Dan Coughlin is one of America’s most practical business teachers. He delivers penetrating insights that attendees can use immediately to achieve sustainable improvement in their business performance and results. Audiences consistently say they appreciate the usefulness of his ideas, the way he customizes his remarks for their group, and the simple, down-to-earth, and humorous way in which he delivers them. In fact, he has provided hundreds of customized presentations on business acceleration across the United States. His keynote topics include leadership, teamwork, branding, and innovation.
Customization. Dan Coughlin is an extremely detailed, organized, and articulate speaker. He believes that every keynote speech, seminar, and executive coaching relationship has to be built around an understanding of the client’s desired business outcomes and his or her unique work situation. He gains an understanding of customers through extensive research – a combination of in-depth interviews with employees, on-site visits, acting as a client of the organization, and studying the organization’s materials, website, and customers.
Acclaimed Author. As a business thought leader on generating sustainable, profitable growth, Dan Coughlin has written six management books, including: The Business Leader’s Impact: Five Critical Drivers of Sustainable Profitable Growth (2013), Beat Yesterday: A Business Novel (2012); Find a Way to Win: Management Insights from Terry Michler, America’s All-Time Winningest Soccer Coach (2010, foreword by Marshall Goldsmith); The Management 500: A High-Octane Formula for Business Success (2009, foreword by Jason Jennings); Accelerate: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum (2007), which made it to No.4 on Barnes & Noble’s business best-seller list; and Corporate Catalysts: How to Make Your Company More Successful, Whatever Your Title, Income, or Authority (2005), which was translated for both China and India. Quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The Journal of the American Management Association, and myriad other publications, Dan Coughlin has written articles published in more than 150 trade association publications and corporate in-house publications, including a monthly article in The Ladders.
ACCELERATE YOUR IMPACT AS A BUSINESS LEADER. Can one person make a real difference in a business? In this highly interactive, high-impact session, Dan Coughlin explains why the answer is a resounding yes. Leadership is influencing how other people think so they make decisions that improve results. He demonstrates practical ways to lead in any size organization. Based on his 3,000 hours of on-site observing and advising of executives in more than 50 industries and on the more than 2,100 executive coaching sessions he has provided, he debunks the traditional myths of leadership and shows how any employee can impact the way other people think and drive better sustainable business results.
Learning Objectives:
Every attendee will receive a copy of Dan Coughlin’s Leadership Action Guide that will help him or her convert the ideas from this session into a personalized plan of immediate action upon returning to work.
BUILD TEAMWORK THAT WORKS TO WIN. Many business groups are not teams. They’re a collection of silos. Teamwork happens when individuals support one another toward achieving meaningful objectives. This requires focused collaborative effort and open, honest, and respectful communication more than the long term. At the heart of debilitating communication is a lack of respect for other members of the group. Coughlin has worked closely with business teams in more than 50 industries and interviewed more than 800 people to understand what they feel makes their organization effective and ineffective. He has seen the disciplined, selfless attitude necessary to win consistently in a constantly changing marketplace as well as the multiple issues and drama that bubble up from self-centered behaviors that ruin business performances.
Learning Objectives:
Every attendee will receive a copy of Dan Coughlin’s Teamwork Action Guide that will help him or her convert the ideas from this session into a personalized plan of immediate action upon returning to work.
INNOVATE TO GENERATE SUSTAINABLE, PROFITABLE GROWTH. A business innovation is the creation of more appropriate value for customers that they will pay for at a profitable margin to the organization. It has to be both: more appropriate value than the customer already has and a profit-generator for your business. One without the other is insufficient. Companies that avoid continuous innovation put themselves at risk of becoming extinct. Coughlin demystifies the process of innovation, making it simple, clear, and practical. He explains how successful business innovators boldly walk away from a lot of good ideas so they can focus on a few great ideas. He addresses the importance of prototyping to save time and money. If you want your organization to propel itself beyond today’s performance level to generate sustainable, profitable growth, this is a must-attend session.
Learning Objectives:
Every attendee will receive a copy of Dan Coughlin’s Innovation Action Guide that will help him or her convert the ideas from this session into a personalized plan of immediate action upon returning to work.
FEED YOUR BRAND EVERY DAY. Your organization’s brand is like a person. It needs to be fed intelligently every day in order to stay healthy for long-term success. In this session you will learn practical ways to feed your brand every day to differentiate your organization in the marketplace. A great brand is a magnet that attracts people to you who want to buy from your organization. When your brand is strong, it makes selling exponentially easier. When your brand is weak, it makes selling exponentially harder. Your brand is the value customers think they receive when buying from your organization or potential customers think they will receive if they do buy from your organization. Your brand is not what you want to be. It's what customers and potential customers believe you are right now. Coughlin provides penetrating insights into the “dos” and “don’ts” of building the brand you want. He explains the importance of defining and owning a performance category that matters deeply to customers and will generate the financial outcomes your organization desires. He demonstrates how an obsession with undisciplined experimentation can ruin a brand and destroy the sustainable, profitable growth of an organization.
Learning Objectives:
Every attendee will receive a copy of Dan Coughlin’s Branding Action Guide that will help him or her convert the ideas from this session into a personalized plan of immediate action upon returning to work.
THE ANY PERSON MINDSET SEMINIAR is a practical, useful, and user-friendly approach for managing yourself, your team, and your organization. It is based on Dan’s core belief that any person can make a significant difference in an organization, but that no one is born with the necessary traits. These are learned thinking traits.
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