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| Oren Harari |
| One of the “Top 40 Business and Management Minds in the World. |
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An incredibly popular speaker and author, Dr. Oren Harari's energetic, dynamic presentations excite and challenge audiences around the world with insight, humor and knowledge. Dr. Harari brings provocative, new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change, and transformational leadership. As a leading management consultant and bestselling author, he brings over 20 years of seasoned professional experience to the public speaking forum.
The Financial Times has cited Dr. Harari as one of the "Top 40 Business and Management Minds in the World," and featured him in the fall 2001 book Business Minds. Harari believes that in the chaotic competitiveness of today's markets, bold and often-radical management approaches are the key to top performance. He has also found that long-term financial success depends primarily on leaders' abilities to capitalize on globalization and technological advance, and to launch dramatic breakthroughs in innovation, customer care, collaboration, mobility and speed.
Dr. Harari is the best-selling author of eight books. His most recent book, Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy is filled with hard data, exciting examples, and Harari's irreverent humor. Break From the Pack shows leaders how to propel their organizations to a position of uniqueness and competitive advantage in a tough marketplace where, increasingly, vendors see that their products and services are becoming imitated and commoditized at an accelerating pace. Throughout the book, Harari highlights innovative and profitable paths that leaders can take to build new markets, products, customers, talented people, dynamic partnerships, and vibrant growth. He also tells leaders how to execute innovation and change throughout the book, and he caps it off with his compelling "12 Step Recovery Program" for leaders.
Dr. Harari's 2002 book The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell, reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal. In this book, Harari applies 16 elegant principles of leadership to corporate and government arenas and demonstrates what transformational leaders do to take their organizations to new heights. In 2003, Harari wrote the follow-up corporate handbook The Powell Principles.
In 2000, Harari co-authored a revolutionary book, Beep Beep! Competing in the Age of the Road Runner. The book received rave reviews by Michael Dell, U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donahue, and Fast Company founding editor, Alan Webber, among others. The book focuses on creating fast, agile, innovative organizations that will thrive in today's globally networked, real-time "Road Runner" marketplace.
Dr. Harari also penned the 1999 bestseller Leapfrogging the Competition: Five Giant Steps to Becoming A Market Leader. The first edition was rated by Management General as one of the ten best business books of 1997 and was featured in a two-hour PBS special. Both editions received accolades from Colin Powell, Tom Peters, Michael Dell, Bill Marriott, and Target CEO Bob Ulrich, to name a few. Harari also co-authored the bestselling book Jumping the Curve: Innovation and Strategic Choice in an Age of Transition, which was rated by the prestigious Library Journal as one of the top 40 business books in 1994. Said Charles Schwab on the book jacket: "If I were to recommend that my managers read just one business book this year, Jumping the Curve would be it."
As a senior consultant with the Tom Peters Group from 1984-1996, Harari was one of its most requested speakers. From 1997-1999, he was the first designated "management expert" for Time Vista, Time magazine's direct resources interactive website for businesses around the world. Dr. Harari was a senior columnist for Management Review from 1991-2000, and for the following two years he was the lead columnist for the online magazine Mworld.org, the American Management Association's informational web site for the management community. He has also written articles for publications as diverse as Harvard Business Review, Business Strategy Review, Executive Excellence, and many others.
Dr. Harari currently sits on the board of directors of two startup companies and is also on the board of The Integrity Institute, which is dedicated to elevating the integrity of corporations and capital markets. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Management and Leadership for the U.S. State Department.
Dr. Harari has spoken to premiere organizations worldwide such as Microsoft, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, 3M, IBM, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, Toyota, Target, and General Mills. Harari consistently receives the highest ratings from clients and is considered one of the best business speakers in the industry.
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How to Break From the Pack--and Stay Ahead Of It
In today's Copycat Economy, products and being commoditized, services are being imitated, and traditional barriers to market entry are collapsing. Markets are becoming more crowded with "me-too" players and products. In this environment, it's harder to differentiate yourself from competitors, it's harder to keep profit margins and customer loyalty up, and it's harder to grow market share and stock value. To sustain healthy growth and competitive advantage in today's Copycat Economy, your organization must break from the pack.
The New Leadership Paradigm: What it Takes to Transform Companies and People
From my books and my other research, I selectively draw from nearly 30 elegant, rigorous, "battle-tested", leadership principles that will help you lead your organizations to new heights of competitive advantage and employee commitment.
How to Create Fast, Agile, Innovative, "Road Runner" Organizations
I explain how to create fast, agile, innovative organizations that will thrive in today's globally networked, nanosecond marketplace.
Jumping the Curve: A New Business Paradigm for a New Marketplace
I describe why organizations and markets are now in a historically significant "age of transition", and why leaders must help their organizations "jump the curve", that is, make significant, discontinuous leaps in their products and business models.
How to Build Superb Corporate Governance and an Outstanding Board-Management Partnership in Order to Spur Top Corporate Performance
I recently gave this presentation (through a speakers bureau) to a large group of BIG pension fund players. This was a tough audience (billions of dollars in the room), who had been sitting all day, and they had just finished chewing out their paid consultants for not giving them better financial planning advice. And then I came in: I gave them a tough, no-nonsense, inspiring 35-minute presentation on corporate
governance, board vs. CEO relationships, and how it all fits into their investment perspectives and fund performance. I spoke about topics as diverse as the financial impact of "intangible" factors, the issue of board composition, the tension between economic and noneconomic decisions, the dilemma of risk, and the dynamics of full disclosure leadership and board-CEO collaboration. The audience of CEO's, pension fund managers, chief investment officers, and trustees thought it was excellent--which was great feedback inasmuch as I spoke to them after they'd been sitting for
eight hours! I think this program may eventually grow into one of the more high-impact programs I offer.
How to Initiate and Execute Innovative Outsourcing and Off-Shoring to Build Profitable Growth.
For several years, I've been discussing and speaking about outsourcing and off-shoring impact on effective strategies, their upside and downside for individual companies and national economies, and what leaders need to know in order to capitalize on the opportunities of outsourcing and off-shoring while avoiding the pitfalls. I've just been invited again by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals to provide a keynote for their next annual conference--this will be my fifth major keynote for this global group! Drawing from my latest book, I will be discussing how leaders can carefully use outsourcing and off-shoring to help their companies break from the pack.
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"Oren Harari is fantastic! If you are looking to break through archaic management models, embrace change and inspire unconventional thinking within your organization, Oren Harari is the speaker for you ! He is a wonderfully engaging speaker who makes you think. He is an expert on what it takes to lead in the 21st Century."
- Debra Chandler, V.P. Business Development, Century 21 Real Estate Corporation
"I want to personally thank you for an outstanding opening presentation at our retreat. The feedback indicated you scored 9.99 on a scale of 1-10. But even more important, your message was right on target. I appreciate your efforts in making our retreat the best ever!"
- Gerald Fitzgerald, President & CEO, Oakwood Healthcare System
"What a fabulous job you did! We received so many kudos for your presentation. It was both informative and entertaining--exactly what we wanted. Thank you for your extra effort in customizing the speech, too."
- Laura Eppler, VP Marketing, Ben Franklin Technology Partners
"I can't tell you how many people came up to me and told me how much they enjoyed your talk. Having you kick-off the Summit set a tone that carried us throughout the event."
- Michael Corbett, Chairman, International Association of Outsourcing Professionals
"As ALFA's President/CEO, I'd like to thank you again for delivering the Keynote Speech at the ALFA National Conference. We have received overwhelmingly positive attendee response to your presentation on strong organizational leadership and how it can transform an industry such as assisted living."
- Richard P. Grimes, President/CEO, Assisted Living Federation of America
"I'm sure you hear this often, but your presentation was just outstanding. It not only contained timeless strategic information, it was perfectly adapted for the audience of policy-makers and customers which we had assembled."
- Stan Cavendish, Verizon.
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