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Dennis Stauffer
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Information Call: 651-735-2080
We live in an era when innovation is the lifeblood of any successful company or organization—and Dennis Stauffer knows how to achieve it. If you want to lead your people to fresh insights, boost innovation and promote effective practical solutions, he has the message and strategies you need.
Dennis Stauffer brings high content expertise from a 20-plus year track record of providing innovative insights. He’s an Emmy award-winning journalist and former business editor who pioneered a recurring feature series about what works instead of what’s wrong. As a senior executive, he envisioned unprecedented high tech solutions and made them a cost-effective reality. As a coach of competitive creative problem solving, he led his student teams
to consecutive championships and a special award for exceptional creativity. He’s an award-winning author who defied conventional wisdom—and reinvented it. His most recent book is,
Thinking Clockwise;, A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader.
Dennis is an experienced
platform professional whose many clients include General Mills,
Medtronic, Wells Fargo, Project Management Institute, The
International Association of Administrative Professionals and the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
Areas of Expertise:
Innovation
Leadership
Business
Creativity
Target Audience:
Lasting change requires buy-in at all levels. So Dennis combines his unique core concepts with your goals and needs to effectively reach any audience, from front line staff to senior management.
Top 3 reasons to have
Dennis Stauffer as your next speaker:
Unique
Dennis offers compelling insights and perspectives found no where else.
Engaging
He will make your audience think, help them learn and motivate them to act with enthusiasm to accelerate your company’s success.
Memorable
He’ll leave you with tools, skills and insights to sustain innovation and creative problem solving throughout your organization.
Fee Range:
$4,500 and up
Dennis' Most
Requested Programs:
The Game’s Changed
(45-90 minute keynote)
Objective: Employee Engagement
This interactive keynote will get folks thinking differently about how they
think, how they do their jobs, and how they relate to each other. They will
gain new insights and leave energized to find new and better ways to boost
your business and advance your mission. Innovation is no longer some nice
enhancement to your business or organizational strategy; it’s a critical
component. To be effective, it requires everyone’s involvement.
Building an Innovation Engine (2-4 hour workshop or expanded keynote)
Objective: Innovative Leadership Skills
Your leadership team is your most effective tool for promoting
innovation…or for killing it. The climate your leaders set is the single
most important factor in determining whether you have engaged employees and
effective sustained innovation. This expanded keynote/workshop will give
those with supervisory responsibilities the tools and insights needed to
meet that crucial challenge.
Clockwise Leadership Retreats (1 or 2 days)
Objective: Leadership Team Building
Would your management team benefit from an intensive immersion experience
to enhance their leadership skills? Dennis offers one and two day retreats
to renew everyone’s commitment to innovation, while gaining powerful
insights into how that can best be achieved. This longer format makes it
possible to achieve the same outcomes as the “Building an Innovation
Engine” workshops, while broadening and deepening the ability to implement
what they’ve learned, and creating a more cohesive team.
Clockwise Leadership Cohorts
Objective: Culture Shift
When your objective is to achieve a shift in the overall culture of your
organization or business unit, the approach needs to be equally ambitious.
A single event, no matter how well designed and implemented is rarely
sufficient. Even one lasting several days may not have a sustained impact
without some follow-up. To address this need, Dennis offers a series of
half-day leadership cohorts (2-4 hours) at intervals of two to three weeks.
This provides an opportunity for participants to actively apply what
they’ve learned, as part of a sustained intervention.
Clockwise Breakthroughs Methodology
Objective: Client determined
Are you confronting major strategic change in your business, or an imminent
challenge you’re not sure how to meet? Are your existing tools and
processes sometimes creating obstacles to innovation? Would you simply like
to expand your innovation toolbox? We can help you break through those
barriers and deliver truly breakthrough results.
An especially effective approach is to combine work surrounding a specific
business challenge with one or more of the keynote, workshop or cohort
offerings. Where a workshop or training approach may not be feasible,
facilitation around a recognized business issue can provide an alternative
opportunity to introduce these powerful concepts.
Testimonials:
Thank you
for your excellent and insightful presentation. The feedback from our
members has been overwhelmingly positive. Their comments include:
“Entertaining, thought provoking”
“Great topic, great speaker”
“Very entertaining way to get message across”
“Very timely, given my situation”
“Energizing”
“Dennis has a unique approach.”
“Makes me eager to go to work tomorrow and apply”
“Great speaker!”
Oded Galili, Project Management Institute
It was a light bulb going on for me.
Shawn Schow, 3M
Your talk inspired people to form an informal innovation group within the
company.
James Snyder, Medtronic
The feedback that I received from those in attendance was overwhelmingly
positive. Quote "Rick, you have brought in some really informative and
great speakers in the past. However, Dennis was by far the best.”
Richard Hatch, Spherion
Your upbeat enjoyable presentation got us all thinking. Your message and
strategies to release the energy of ideas for creative solutions was all
very thought provoking.
Barbara Obershaw, Twin West Chamber of Commerce
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