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The Creative Economy
Which companies will thrive in the coming years? Those that value thinking outside the box above all else. MICHAEL EISNER's career has revolved around managing businesses in which more than 80 percent of their products must be new every year. He shows audiences how an intangible asset like creativity can make a dramatic impact on any company’s bottom line. In this insightful and compelling speech, Eisner discusses the importance of generating fresh ideas while enhancing and protecting your brand.
Leadership: Succeeding by Failing and Other Paradoxes
As a leader in the media industry for nearly four decades, MICHAEL EISNER has overseen organizations recognized for their inventiveness and innovation, experienced an explosion of technological advances that have impacted his business, and led his companies through the advent of the next big ideas. In his presentations on leadership, Eisner shares his insights on what it takes to run a company that must always grow and change.
Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed
Every great institution needs a partnership to really achieve greatness. In Working Together, MICHAEL EISNER, former Disney CEO and entertainment biz veteran, takes an inside look at some of the most successful business partnerships and what makes them tick. In business there are always unique individual achievers but pull down the veil, and you’ll often find someone alongside them. Eisner does just that, using his own successful collaboration with Frank Wells at Disney as a launching point for examining other famously successful and rewarding partnerships. Working Together offers a wealth of behind-the-scenes stories and insights from in depth interviews with these partners: tried-and-true wisdom as well as the unexpected, and plenty about what works in business and what doesn’t work.
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Leveraging Technology to Get Your Message Heard
Ever since Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in 1450, there has been an accelerating proliferation of communication platforms – from books to newspapers to magazines to movies to radio to television to the internet. And, with the development of each new platform, the conventional wisdom has invariably determined that all prior media outlets have become obsolete. MICHAEL EISNER exposes how unwise the conventional wisdom tends to be, and offers insights on how to leverage all media technologies – old, new, and yet to come – in order to effectively get your message heard.
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner shares his Premier League plan
Former Disney CEO MICHAEL EISNER will “do what I had done my whole career” by taking over Portsmouth F.C. and helping the team reach new athletic and economic success, as he told The New York Times. Already a smashing success, Eisner’s work with Portsmouth F.C. is a lesson in building from the bottom-up to create long-term, sustainable organizations. In his live engagements, Eisner discusses the mindset necessary to help legacy brands stay at the forefront of culture.
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Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner receives rave reviews for his live events
Former CEO and Chairman of Walt Disney (1984-05) and CEO and Founder of The Tornante Company, MICHAEL EISNER teaches audiences how to develop corporate creativity and strategically invest in innovation, receiving consistent trave reviews:
Watch Michael Eisner in conversation with the Drucker Business Forum >>
For five decades, Michael Eisner has been a leader in the American entertainment industry. He began his career at ABC, where he helped take the network from number three to number one in primetime, daytime and children’s television with such landmark shows as Happy Days, Barney Miller, Laverne and Shirley, Schoolhouse Rock, Rich Man, Poor Man, and Roots. In 1976, he became president of Paramount Pictures, turning out hit films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Terms of Endearment, Ordinary People, Airplane and Beverly Hills Cop. This string of critically acclaimed and blockbuster films led the studio to become number one in box office and profitability in both theatrical movies and network television production. In 1984, Eisner assumed the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company and, in the ensuing 21 years, transformed it from a film and theme park company with $1.8B in enterprise value into a global media empire now valued at over $180B.
In 2005, Eisner founded The Tornante Company, a privately held media & entertainment holding company. Tornante purchased and subsequently sold Topps, Inc. Today, Tornante owns Portsmouth Football Club in England, with men’s and women’s clubs, and has a large and growing television division including ownership of animated series BoJack Horseman, Tuca & Bertie, and Undone. He and his wife, Jane, founded The Eisner Foundation in 1996, which, in 2015, became the only U.S. funder investing exclusively in intergenerational solutions.
