Business Forecaster and Leadership-Management Expert
Named One of Successful Meetings Magazine Hottest Speakers, David Goldsmith is both an executives and a meeting planners dream. Jeff Hurt of PPAI writes, “You generated some of the highest ratings, buzz and most positive feedback I have seen in my many years of organizing and planning educational programs. The impact you had on our Board of Directors and members was profound and many on our Board stated that your information directly affected their decisions for the future of the association. I have never had so many participants seek me out and tell me that you were the best speaker they have ever heard…Your presentations were content-rich and created some major paradigm-shifts for the audience. You were nothing short of genius and worth every penny we spent!”
Some History: Over the past 27 years David has founded or co-founded nine businesses ranging from distribution to manufacturing to advertising. David in 1999 sold his Syracuse, NY based Image Promoters, Inc. which he co-founded in 1986 to Proforma Associates a 400 location franchises after 14 years in business. He has been a consultant to various industries including telemarketing, logistics, retailing, hospitality, tourism, manufacturing, and high tech. Working with business owners, corporate upper and mid-level management, David rapidly creates strategies that win in the marketplace.
Speaking for over two decades David has covered topics that include: change management, strategic and tactical planning, technology, leadership, marketing, innovation, new product and service development, alliance development, and predicting the future for industries. He’s worked with various organizations and business such including Infosys, Harley-Davidson, The Hartford Insurance Company, Wipro, and Wharton School of Business.
His contributions have lead him to sitting on the Board of Directors of the Veterans Outreach Center, EMA Society/Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, Board of Governors of the Citizens Foundation, American Society for Training and Development, the Leadership Council and Training and Education committees for the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. David’s past has been littered with awards including the prestigious honor of The Citizens Foundation Central New York Entrepreneur of the Year. David’s accomplishments have appeared in written media around the world, including the Japanese version of Entrepreneur Magazine and the Financial Times of London. He’s also published over 500 articles globally on every issue raised by those in leadership and management. His diverse background gives him the ability to deliver content that radically improves the organizations he works with. Set up a conference call and you’ll quickly see why he was named one of the hottest speakers in the industry!
Available Programs:
Enterprise Thinking: An Integrated Approach to Leadership and Management - Speak with any CEO or business owner and they are looking for leadership. Business Week, The New York Times, Fortune and Forbes all confirm the need for leadership tools and better management processes. Our educational system does not understand it, our business environment tries create it and yet we are falling short continually. ENTERPRISE THINKING takes management through the process of understanding what it takes to grow in management and in leadership and then develops individuals through a better understanding of the roles the individual play in the organization. The presentation uses real company examples, analysis of corporate needs and a process for understanding the four key elements needed to create first an understanding then action.
Creating New Opportunities By REDEFINING the Future - If you could have only one tool in your tool bag, it should be what your about to learn in this presentation. Redefining is a rapid tool to always develop better solutions to challenges and opportunities your facing everyday. It's a tool that helps you address the right challenges and deliver the right actions for everyone in your organization to be focused. In just about an hour you will be able to learn how to do more with less, how to focus meetings, how to be pre-active in your business and within the organization, how to eliminate fire fighting. The list is endless. From Cannon to Lockheed Martin, Met Life to the Swiss Bank, Redefining is altering management and delivering incredible returns.
Mastering the Art of Doing More with Less: Managing Projects, Life, and Time - If there was one challenge that all managers and leaders seem to face it's the battle with time. The fight to get as much done as possible to move your business and your career forward. In this segment you will learn and incredible approach focusing on both projects and time management. In this segment you will learn, how to manage others, how to manage multiple projects, where time manage falls into the leadership toolbar and how to accomplish more than you ever though possible. If you've taken, or not, a time management program in the past then your missing this special link.
- Our constant search for the better leader may mind that most of what we have learned has been rehashed from years gone by. Work with David to understand the development of leadership over the past 1000 years while embracing current business changes. In addition the presentation helps the audience walk away with real life methods of changing the work environment and empowering employees and them selves to be more productive and get a sense of control over the ever changing global marketplace.
ROI/Tangible Program Benefits:
- Understand What it Takes to Grow in Management and Leadership
Testimonials/Client List:
"To call you an innovator would be considered trite. Your brain causes people to think and in my oppinion there is no evelator speach for you."-Jeff Hurt Meetings Architect and Industry 2.0 Unguru
"You were definitely one of the highlights of the 3 day conference for me. I found your energy, your eye on the future, and your challenges to conventional thinking all very stimulating and thought provoking. I even put some of your problem-solving strategies to work TODAY and they helped me very much."-Mike Irwin Adventures in Advertising Director of Regional Sales
"I pulled two items out of your presentation that we will roll out globally through Johnson and Johnson. You've got me thinking about everything."-Zack Lemelle Johnson and Johnson
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