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Christopher DiCenso
Christopher DiCenso
 
Travels From State:  MA
Travels From Country:  United States
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Christopher is the Managing Partner and the founder of Growth Strategy Partners LLC, a consulting firm that accelerates the growth of entrepreneurially managed organizations by implementing the 7 Keys to Growth that Growth Strategy Partners has found to be instrumental for long term growth. It is Christopher’s passion for building successful businesses, his sense of humor, critical thinking skills and methodological approach to solving complex challenges that has made him very successful and sought after by his clients.

Christopher has focused the last ten years of his career on researching and quantifying the practices that have proven to grow businesses both large and small. It is through this research and his business experience that he can successfully advise clients on the practices that they should focus on to grow their business. Christopher doesn’t just want to fill a time slot. He wants to educate his audience while providing thought provoking, interactive and implement able activities. His outgoing personality, research and experience as a growth advisor and yearning to have each and every attendee leave with a few kernels of knowledge and wisdom makes him a very popular  speaker.

Christopher is recognized for his knowledge and experience in growth strategy development, performance management systems / Balanced Scorecard, process improvements both on the plant floor and in the office, product development and executive coaching. He was instrumental in reshaping Inc. Magazine’s consulting practice where much of his initial research was developed. He spoke at Inc. conferences and seminars on the topics of Developing Effective Growth Strategies and Linking Business Strategy to Technology Strategy while also advising clients. He was also a founding member of PricewaterhouseCooper’s Northeast Middle Market Consulting practice. In addition to developing these consulting businesses, Christopher was a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and lead Grant Thornton’s business process reengineering practice. His articles have been published in local and regional journals. He is also a guest lecturer on strategy at Babson College.

Prior to his consulting career, Christopher spent 7 years in industry where he co-managed a 120-person medical products research and development group, lead the engineering department for a textile machine design company and was a manufacturing engineer implementing modern manufacturing techniques for companies in a range of industries.

Christopher has an MBA from Northeastern University’s High Technology MBA Program and a Bachelor of Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in mechanical engineering. He coaches a girls soccer team, is the VP of Player of Coach Development for Marshfield Youth Soccer, President of the FBI Citizens’ Academy Alumni Association in Boston, enjoys motor boating, trying to stay in shape and competitive pistol shooting, yet is most happy playing games and enjoying life with his wife and two daughters.  

 
Program Topics
 
Taking Your Business to the Next Level-The 7 Keys to Effective Growth - Groundbreaking research and extensive experience have identified that there are 7 keys to building a sustained growth business. In this interactive session, Christopher will define the 7 Keys and provide each attendee with the ability to conduct a self assessment to identify how well their company is implementing each one.
 
5 Steps to Building Talent in Your Organization - The ‘war on talent’ is a common headline these days, yet it is estimated that over 67% of employees are misplaced in their job. In this session, Christopher will walk you through the 5 steps every organization should follow to strategically build talent in their organization and show you some very successful tools to improving the ‘fit’ of your current and future hires.
 
Strategic Growth Planning for Entrepreneurial Organizations - How do you take the visions and ideas of success bouncing around in your head and translate them into actionable goals and strategies? Through a simplified yet robust planning process, Christopher will walk you through a proven process to build strategic tools and techniques to improve your growth performance.
 
Improving Execution--It's Not What Your Know, It's What You Do - How do you transform a company from being reactive to proactive? How do you build a culture of action, accountability and discipline? Learn what other successful organizations have done to become more action oriented and improve your ability to execute.
 
Other Speaking Topics - Defining your company’s mission, vision and values; Scaling your business through process improvement; Linking your technology strategy to the business strategy; Building Balanced Scorecards and dashboards
 
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