Randy Street Speaker Biography
Randy Street is the Managing Partner of ghSMART, a leadership advisory firm whose mission is to help great leaders amplify their positive impact on the world. He regularly helps executive leaders as they select and develop A Players for their teams to build companies that win.
Randy has served as a leadership advisor to boards, CEOs, and executive teams for over 25 years. He is also a popular keynote speaker with a dynamic and energetic style that routinely generates the highest audience satisfaction scores possible.
In collaboration with Geoff Smart, the firm’s CEO, Randy co-authored Who: The A Method for Hiring (Random House, 2008), which is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly best seller. He also co-authored Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success (Random House, 2015), which became a Wall Street Journal best seller.
Upon release, Who became the #1 ranked bestseller on Amazon out of 24 million titles, and hit every major bestseller list in the United States. Soundview Executive Book Summaries gave Who the “Best 30 Business Books Award,” Shanghai Daily named it a “Top 5 Best Book in China,” Canada’s Globe and Mail named Who the “#1 Best Business and Management Book of 2009,” and The Wall Street Journal named it a top seven “Best Advice” book for leaders in 2011. Canada’s Globe and Mail also named Power Score the “#2 Best Business and Management Book of 2015.”
Prior to joining ghSMART, Randy was the EVP of Sales & Marketing and EVP of Corporate Development & Strategy for EzGov, a software firm that was named the fastest growing company in Atlanta during his tenure. Before that, Randy was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company where he led projects and advised senior executives of Global 1000 companies in a wide range of industries.
Randy earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children.
POWER SCORE: YOUR FORMULA FOR LEADERSHIP SUCCESS
Randy shares what all successful leaders actually do to succeed. Based on the largest leadership database of its kind and brought to life through entertaining stories and examples, Randy highlights how great leaders set the right priorities, pair those priorities with the right people (“who”), and create an environment where relationships can work. Priorities. Who. Relationships. Putting them together enables the world’s best leaders to run their team at full PWR (pronounced “power”).
Twenty years of years of research and consulting, deep analysis of over 15,000 leaders, and field interviews with hundreds of billionaires, CEOs, and successful investors all tell us that full powered leaders are 2-3x as successful as the average leader, and 20x more successful than the bottom 10% of leaders.
Attendees will come away from this experience able to maximize their team’s results, their company’s financial performance, and their own career success.
WHO: THE "A" METHOD FOR HIRING
Randy solves every manager’s #1 problem: making hiring mistakes. He presents stories and advice drawing from some of the most extensive research, interviews, and experience ever assembled on the topic of talent management. Why are most managers terrible at hiring? How do you generate a source of the right candidates? What do you look for to pick the right one? How do you sell the ideal candidate on accepting a job at your company? Audience members learn how to make “who” decisions that lead to career, financial, and personal success.
TOPGRADING: HOW LEADING COMPANIES WIN BY HIRING, COACHING AND KEEPING THE BEST PEOPLE
