Robert B. Tucker

In this dynamic, interactive presentation, veteran keynoter Tucker teaches your employees how to master the seven essential I-Skills needed to think ahead of the curve, delight and challenge customers and colleagues, slash costs, and achieve unconventional results.

Based on interviews with 43 innovation-adept managers and contributors, Innovation is Everybody's Business guides you and your team in:

• Mastering the 7 essential I-Skills needed to become indispensable
• Unleashing the "mindset, skill-set, and toolset of the innovator" that enable you to anticipate and rise to the challenges your organization faces in a hyper-competitive era
• Building tools for work-life balance and creating your own job satisfaction

The presentation can be delivered as a one-hour keynote, 90-minute general session, or interactive half- or full-day session. Each program is customized to the specific client.

Based on three years of in-depth research, Tucker takes you and your audience on a guided tour behind the scenes of 23 Innovation Vanguard companies. You'll discover their secrets for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage. You'll learn unconventional methods to turn innovation into a systematic, imbedded process, and be stimulated to take action in your firm.

Looking for an uplifting, entertaining, audience-involving session for your meeting? This program, based on Tucker's interviews with over 50 leading innovators, will definitely get the creative juices flowing. Based on the acclaimed book, Winning the Innovation Game, and Tucker's 15 years of experience as a professional speaker, your attendees will leave with powerful, yet surprisingly simple methods for dramatically improved thinking, decision-making and problem solving.

Are your attendees as open and receptive to change as they need to be? Are you searching for a way to stimulate thinking beyond the here and now? If so, this is the presentation to choose. Based on Robert Tucker's best-selling Managing the Future, this futuristic but intensely practical session identifies key directions everyone in leadership must respond to in order to avoid being blindsided by change.

In this practical, example-filled program, Tucker reveals essential strategies for succeeding in today's crowded, maturing, and consolidating marketplace. Specifically designed for business owners, top managers and key associates, attendees will learn new marketing, sales and service approaches that build loyalty in customers and employees alike.

Ever wished there was a way to spice up those important, but often boring, panel discussions at your trade association meeting? Now there is. Recently, some of your fellow meeting planners have embraced an exciting new format, organized and hosted by Tucker, that says goodbye to snoresville, and hello to a packed house. Panelists become "guests" on a "live show," and are more animated and willing to tackle the tough issues that create industry buzz – and keep attendees coming back for more.

Lack of work ethic in today's employees got you down? Having trouble finding and keeping employees with the skills you desperately need to run the business? If so, this session will teach you powerful new methods of attracting, motivating and retaining qualified, committed workers. You will learn powerful, practical techniques that will help you recruit the best, hire smarter, manage more effectively, and lower turnover and poor service delivery.