Robert Kriegel

Commentator, NPR’s Marketplace
Former All American Swimmer
Bestselling Author, If it ain’t broke...BREAK IT!, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers and How to Succeed in Business Without Working so Damn Hard

Dr. Robert Kriegel’s bold, innovative “out of the box” strategies for keeping ahead of the changes and challenges in today’s dynamic work climate have made him one of this country’s most in demand business speakers. His customized speeches and programs inform, inspire and entertain. He will teach you how to develop and lead Change - Ready© people and organizations. You will learn how to round up sacred cows that cost money and inhibit change and new opportunities. He also outlines strategies for gaining the competitive edge by not competing but changing the game, leading customers not following them and rethinking rules, redefining roles and reinventing the game. Each of Dr. Kriegel’s presentations is individually designed to reinforce the objectives of your meeting, to address the specific challenges and concerns facing the audience, and to have practical “take home” value.

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Past Hosts Include:

S.C. Johnson
Levi Strauss & Co.
GTE Corporation
Bank of America
The Clorox Company

UNISYS
Prudential Resources Management
Johnson & Johnson
Motorola General Systems Sector
Pat Riley, Owner of the Miami Heat basketball team

Rave Reviews About Robert Kriegel

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Your presentation was great. You have a very dynamic style and did a great job linking the presentation to the message and theme we discussed. All the feedback that I had from people was that they left reinvigorated and ready to tackle their jobs.

- Michelle Dauchy, S.C. Johnson

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More rave reviews

"Thank you for your outstanding presentation at GTECH's World Leaders Forum. Your high energy presentation was exactly what we needed to kick off the opening day of the event. "

- Director of Marketing, GTECH Corp

"Your speech at our kickoff was terrific. We all appreciated the time you spent with us in preparation. It made all the difference. "

- Senior Vice President, Allianz

"I couldn’t be more pleased. Your very lively presentation really connected with the audience… you covered many themes that were very relevant to what our professional sales reps encounter every day."

- Vice President, Merck

"Thank you for your excellent keynote presentation. You outdid them all, even Lou Holtz and Tom Peters!!!"

- Sterling Swartout, President, International Carwash Association

"Wow! That was a terrific program…high energy, lots of humor and excellent content with real life anecdotes."

- Kandace Laass, Director, Quality Learning Services, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

"Your presentation this year so inspired us that we not only read your book, but put together a NO BULL campaign for our company."

- Steve Cropper, President, Williams Pipe Line Company

"I wish you could have overheard the comments following your speech. You relayed a message which inspired and challenged everyone."

- Bill Disbrow, President, Val-Pack

"Your energetic, humorous and information-filled presentation was a terrific kickoff to one of our most successful conventions ever."

- Robert Rivinius, CEO, California Building Industry Association

"Great presentation at our annual sales conference. I am particularly pleased the way your message tied into their concerns and the objectives of the conference."

- Stuart R. Lindsay, President, Timex Sales Corporation

"Your message supported the objectives…we all came away feeling inspired and ready to meet the concerns and challenges facing us at Banc One Mortgage."

- Albert V. Will, COO, Banc One Mortgage Corporation

"…outstanding presentation to our group. Your segment consistently was rated a five of five with our franchises."

- Don Pierce, President/CEO, Arby's

"...makes you want to become a break-it thinker."

- Pat Riley, Owner of the Miami Heat basketball team

"over the years we have had a number of speakers but none have been more on target with this group than you were…attendees were delighted and energized by your uplifting and down-to-earth presentation."

- Dr. Edward R. Staiano, President, Motorola General Systems Sector

"Your speech was right on the button with what we are trying to achieve. Your energetic style and messages, short, striking stories and anecdotes were fantastic and a memorable way of motivating a team going through difficult times."

- Christian Koffmann, Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson

"Thank you for a powerful and energetic speech that supported the objectives of our meeting and helped to set the tone we wanted."

- T. Stephen Gross, President and CEO, Prudential Resources Management

"…excellent performance at our management meeting. Your content was right on target for the changing business environment in which we operate."

- James A. Unruh, Chairman and CEO, UNISYS

"Never have I heard a speaker who so mesmerized his audience. You entertained us. You enlightened us. You instructed us. Your message was right on point with the objectives of the meeting."

- Dr. Sheldon Lewis, Executive Vice President, The Clorox Company

"I have never seen 200 people more charged up and ready to conquer the world than after your talk."

- Luke S. Helms, Vice Chairman, Bank of America

"Great job! Your strategies for developing Change-Ready organizations were right on target for what GTE needs in the shifting tele- communications marketplace,"

- Charles R. Lee, Chairman & CEO, GTE Corporation

"...stimulating presentation. You really connected with our people"

- Robert D. Haas, Chairman & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.

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Innovate Or Else!

Re-thinking the Rules, Reinventing your game Winners don’t respond quickly to change and new opportunities, they create them If you use yesterday’s thinking in today’s game, you’re going to be in trouble tomorrow How to create the future rather than “wa ...

Re-thinking the Rules, Reinventing your game

Winners don’t respond quickly to change and new opportunities, they create them
If you use yesterday’s thinking in today’s game, you’re going to be in trouble tomorrow
How to create the future rather than “wait and watch” it happen (for someone else)
5 strategies for developing innovative new ideas and opportunities
The 4 most common obstacles to innovation and how to overcome them
Don’t compete, change the game
Playing to win vs. playing not to lose
How to turn innovation into action

Sales Groups: Don't Satisfy The Customer, Surprise Them

Why the old conventional rules for selling don’t work in these faster, more competitive, rapid changing times How to keep out of ‘commodity hell’ Do the impossible for the customer How to win by out-thinking not outworking the competition How to keep yours ...

Why the old conventional rules for selling don’t work in these faster, more competitive, rapid changing times
How to keep out of ‘commodity hell’
Do the impossible for the customer
How to win by out-thinking not outworking the competition
How to keep yourself ‘up’ all day
How to get yourself in the ‘peak zone’
How to prepare for a major presentation
How to achieve goals by ‘trying easier’
How to motivate your customer

Recognition Events: Using Success As A Spring Board To Greater Heights

How winners stay on top; The two main characteristics of perennial winners Why some people keep winning and others don’t The most overlooked strategy for keeping on top How to conquer the sabotage thinking that traps winners Why you should always mess with success ...

How winners stay on top; The two main characteristics of perennial winners
Why some people keep winning and others don’t
The most overlooked strategy for keeping on top
How to conquer the sabotage thinking that traps winners
Why you should always mess with success

Leading In Turbulent Times

How to create a Change Ready© culture in which innovation flourishes, people are open and excited about change and performing at peak levels Three strategies for keeping people motivated and ‘up’ in tough times How to overcome the most common obstacles to change and ...

How to create a Change Ready© culture in which innovation flourishes, people are open and excited about change and performing at peak levels
Three strategies for keeping people motivated and ‘up’ in tough times
How to overcome the most common obstacles to change and innovate new ideas
Three steps for developing can do thinking that turns new ideas into action and increases confidence, commitment and momentum
How to coach people to excel under pressure

Developing A Change Ready Mind Set

Create change not respond to it, lead not follow, proactive not reactive How to out-think rather than out-work the competition Three characteristics of Change-Ready© thinking Three strategies for thinking ‘out of the box’ Sacred Cow Hunts, streamlining pr ...

Create change not respond to it, lead not follow, proactive not reactive
How to out-think rather than out-work the competition
Three strategies for thinking ‘out of the box’
Sacred Cow Hunts, streamlining productivity
Red/Green time - the 90% solution

If It Ain't Broke...Break It!

Surfer’s rules for riding the wave of change without wiping out Four Break-It! thinking techniques for developing bold innovative new ideas and opportunities: flipping rules looking outside working backward combining things that ...

Surfer’s rules for riding the wave of change without wiping out

Four Break-It! thinking techniques for developing bold innovative new ideas and opportunities:

flipping rules
looking outside
working backward
combining things that haven’t been
thinking like a beginner

Bold, innovative ‘out of the box’ thinking strategies for: ~ keeping ahead of the wave

solving old problems in new ways
creating new opportunities and possibilities
how to create the Future not respond to it

Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers

How to Round up Sacred Cows; outdated policies, practices, systems and strategies that cost money and prevent change and innovation How to eliminate thinking that creates sacred cows and enables them to 'graze' on profits and productivity Rules for a Sacred Cow hunt How to put s ...

How to Round up Sacred Cows; outdated policies, practices, systems and strategies that cost money and prevent change and innovation
How to eliminate thinking that creates sacred cows and enables them to 'graze' on profits and productivity
Rules for a Sacred Cow hunt
How to put sacred cows on a diet
The ripple effect
How to Streamline processes and operations
How to control email epidemics, paper piles and meeting mania
Cutting out vs. cutting down outdated policies and practices

Books by Robert Kriegel

If it Ain't Broke...Break It!: And Other Unconventional Wisdom for a Changing Business World

Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers: Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations

How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard: Rethinking the Rules, Reinventing the Game

Performance Under Pressure: Being at your best when it counts!

Biography

One of the most in demand business speakers, Dr. Robert Kriegel teaches bold, innovative, out of the box strategies for keeping ahead of the changes, challenges and competition in today’s dynamic marketplace.

A commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace program, Kriegel has done two specials for PBS. U.S. News & World Report called him one of the country’s leading authorities in the field of change and human performance. He has taught at Stanford University’s Executive Management Program and is a former advertising executive for Young and Rubicam where he managed Proctor & Gamble and Travelers Insurance accounts. Dr. Kriegel is the author of the national bestseller: If it ain’t broke...BREAK IT! and Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers, which made Business Week’s bestseller list. His recent book which focuses on innovation and out of the box thinking is: How to Succeed in Business Without Working so Damn Hard.

A former all American swimmer and co-founder of one of the first institutes of sports psychology, Bob has coached both Olympic and pro athletes and teams. The New York Times said his work “spurred a revolution in performance practices.” He is the co-author of The New York Times bestseller Inner Skiing which Ski Magazine said; ”set skiing ahead 10 years” and has done color commentary for the US Pro Ski Tour on ESPN. His new book, based on his 30 years as a mental coach for high performers, is: Performance Under Pressure; how to be at your best when it counts.

His customized speeches and programs will entertain you, inform you and inspire you. He will teach you how to develop and lead Change-Ready© people and organizations. You’ll learn how to round up sacred cows that inhibit change and new opportunities as well how to develop strategies for gaining the competitive edge by leading customers not following them and rethinking rules, redefining roles and reinventing their game.

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