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| Dan Coughlin |
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| Travels From State: MO |
| Travels From Country: United States |
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Author and Business Acceleration Expert
Dan Coughlin works with mid-size organizations, and mid-size business units inside large corporations, to improve their business momentum.
As a management consultant, business keynote speaker, and seminar leader, Dan's clients include Toyota, Prudential Capital Group, Marriott, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Boeing, AT&T, St. Louis Cardinals, Eli Lilly, and the American Bar Association. He has also worked with hundreds of CEOs and key executives in small to medium-sized businesses.
He has given over 400 presentations on business acceleration in more than 30 states, provided more than 1,500 executive coaching sessions, and invested more than 3,000 hours on site observing executives and managers in more than 30 industries.
Dan has been quoted in USA Today, the New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, and MWorld, which is the Journal of the American Management Association.
Dan's first book, Corporate Catalysts: How to Make Your Company More Successful, Whatever Your Title, Income, or Authority (Career Press, 2005, New Jersey) has been used in the executive education programs at Toyota, Boeing, McDonald's, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Marriott, GSD&M's Idea City, and a variety of other organizations.
His second book, ACCELERATE: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum (Kaplan Publishing, 2007, New York), is packed with practical insights to improve individual, group, and organizational performance and has been used in the executive development programs in more than a dozen companies including Prudential Capital Group, SolidWorks, Boeing, Marriott, McDonald's, and National Quality Review.
His third book, The Management 500: A High-Octane Formula for Business Success was published in June 2009 by AMACOM Books. It is a very practical book for business managers on how to win the Management 500, which is the three-year business race for significant and sustainable profitable growth. This book contains many management lessons from the history of professional auto racing.
His newest book, Find a Way to Win: Management Insights from Terry Michler, America’s All-Time Winningest Soccer Coach, provides great insights, practical methods, and wonderfully useful ideas that business managers and coaches alike can use in all different sorts of situations to build great teams. Read it and you'll know all the secrets to building an extraordinary team!
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ACCELERATE THROUGH THE STORM:
Survive the economic hurricane through
an obsession with improving business basics
- The past ten years have been filled with rhetoric about the new economy, reengineering, cutting-edge technologies, and a manic obsession with getting rid of anything related to the past. It’s become enormously clear that surviving this economic storm and thriving in the future requires a return to the business basics of the past.
In this practical, highly relevant session for business managers and executives, Dan Coughlin provides user-friendly processes that can be applied immediately and over the long term to deliver great management performances. Topics include:
•Take the hardest step in business: a step back to think through the alternatives.
•Strengthen your foundation first.
•Know why you do what you do.
•Manage talent, don’t abandon it.
•Steward through the storm and beyond.
•Review past successes, preview future ones.
•Use more focus, less frenzy.
•Take responsibility for your decisions.
•Provide direction, not dictatorship.
•Prepare with precision.
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| Accelerate Your Impact As a Leader - Take out your business card, and cross out your title. It has nothing to do with your ability to lead. In this high-energy, high-impact session, Dan Coughlin gives the TEN LEADERSHIP ACTIONS necessary to influence key decision-makers at all levels. He debunks the traditional myths of leadership, and shows how every employee can impact the way other people think and drive better sustainable results through more effective teamwork. Customers don't care about which department was most successful. They only care about the value the departments deliver collectively to them. |
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| Accelerate Innovation - Innovation does not equal technology. Innovation is about finding better ways to boost productivity, performance, and profitability. Dan Coughlin demystifies the process of innovation, and makes it simple, clear, and practical. He shows how every employee can generate breakthrough ideas to increase efficiency, expedite execution, and boost the bottom-line. From scheduling thinking time to using the observation tower to using OPS (Other People's Successes), audience members will walk away with ideas they can use today to generate powerful innovations. |
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| Accelerate Your Brand - Your brand is your reputation in the marketplace. It's not what you want to be; it's what customers believe you are right now. Dan Coughlin, who has worked with such world-class brands as Toyota, McDonald's, Marriott, Coca-Cola, and the St. Louis Cardinals, provides penetrating insights into the dos and don'ts of building the brand you want. He shows the critical and integrated relationship between purpose, business research, strategy, planning, execution, and marketing that ultimately determines the brand you have. |
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| Accelerate Sales - Sales are the cash flow engine in every organization. Sales people impact not only short-term cash flow, but also long-term customer relationships and the equity in the business. In this presentation, Dan Coughlin guides sales people to leverage their strengths and passions, deliver dramatically differentiated value to their customers and prospects, and generate the sales they need to make this quarter a success. And he goes deeper into showing how great relationships create a steady flow of profitable sales. This is not a rah-rah sales rally, but rather an intensely practical session for sales people in all industries. |
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| Accelerate Your Impact As an Executive - If you own a business, manage a business, or run a profit center, you're competing for sustainable, profitable growth. However, unlike a car race, everyone in the race can win, or lose. It all depends on how you guide your organization over the next three years. What do executives at Toyota, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Marriott, St. Louis Cardinals, and hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses have in common? They've all used Dan Coughlin to accelerate their business results. In this dynamic, highly practical session, Coughlin provides practical insights on how to increase the quality your customers receive, catapult performance, and boost profits. This is NOT a motivational speech. It is a session for motivated executives who want practical ways to propel their businesses and their careers to the next level. |
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| Audience Feedback |
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| Dan, thanks again for delivering the keynote to open our recent national Jiffy Lube franchisee meeting. I was impressed with both the friendly casual tone and knowledgeable informed perspective that you demonstrated in your speech. I was also pleased with the practical impact of your key messages. The feedback that I have received from the Jiffy Lube franchisees and our own JLI staff has been unanimously positive. I have heard quite a few "experts" and "leadership guru" types present at franchisee conventions before, but this was the most helpful and motivational content I have seen in that setting. Thanks again for creating such a nice start to the meeting. Your address really set the tone for the entire conference and I look forward to working with you again in the future. , Rick Altizer, President, Jiffy Lube International |
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| Dan Coughlin took time to understand our needs and challenges through interviews and discussion prior to the meeting, then tailored his talk on accelerating leadership to us in a very engaging manner and gave us approaches that we could readily put to use to improve our leadership skills. He received the most positive and highest remarks on our feedback survey for relevance and engagement. One attendee said, 'I have already used the information that was provided to us by the keynote speaker to accelerate the leadership of a new issue to help us move the business forward.' Thanks again for your excellent talk at our Global Regulatory Conference. , Cecilia Kimberlin, Ph.D., Vice-President, Abbott Laboratories |
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| As an executive I am always trying to improve results, whether it is business results or personal results. I would strongly suggest the use of a personal coach. I began working with Dan Coughlin in early 2000 and have found his guidance and perspective to be invaluable. He is trustworthy, credible, motivating and results oriented. Dan takes an individual approach with me that causes me to behave differently and be more productive. , Jan Fields, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice-President, McDonald's USA |
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