
Randy Pennington
CSP, CPAE
TX, USRandy Pennington helps leaders and organizations deliver positive results in a world of uncertainty and change. He is a twenty-plus year business performance veteran, award-winning author, and consultant who has worked with many of this country's best-known organizations including: Alabama Power Company, Azek Corporation, LaSalle Bank, SmithBucklin, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, Texas A&M University, Marathon Oil, Sprint, and Progressive Insurance, in addition to government agencies at the local, state, and national level. Additionally, he serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.
Pennington is a frequent radio talk show guest/commentator. His ideas and comments on leadership, corporate culture, and business transformation have appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Executive Excellence, on CNN, Fox News, the BBC, the ABC radio network, and in numerous professional and trade association journals. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post and CIO.com. He has been named as one of the Top 30 Global Gurus on corporate culture and change.
Randy's book, On My Honor, I Will, has been released in a third edition. In his endorsement of On My Honor, Ross Perot says "Randy Pennington has cracked the code of great leadership." His second book, Results Rule! Build a Culture that Blows the Competition Away, received the 2007 Best Books Award from USA Book News. His third book, Make Change Work, was released in July 2013 by Wiley and received the Best Books Award from USA Book News.
Randy's background is a unique blend of line, staff, and consulting experiences ranging from hourly employee to senior management. He holds a Bachelors and Master's Degree in Psychology and completed postgraduate work in Organization Administration and Management. He was the 1998-99 Chairman of the Board for the American Heart Association, Texas Affiliate, and a founding member of the Texas Council on Disease and Stroke. Randy has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation and has been inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame. He is Past Chairman of the NSA Foundation Board of Trustees and NSA Board of Directors.
Randy Pennington helps leaders and organizations deliver positive results in a world of uncertainty and change. He is a twenty-plus year business performance veteran, award-winning author, and consultant who has worked with many of this country's best-known organizations including: Alabama Power Company, Azek Corporation, LaSalle Bank, SmithBucklin, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, Texas A&M University, Marathon Oil, Sprint, and Progressive Insurance, in addition to government agencies at the local, state, and national level. Additionally, he serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.
Pennington is a frequent radio talk show guest/commentator. His ideas and comments on leadership, corporate culture, and business transformation have appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Executive Excellence, on CNN, Fox News, the BBC, the ABC radio network, and in numerous professional and trade association journals. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post and CIO.com. He has been named as one of the Top 30 Global Gurus on corporate culture and change.
Randy's book, On My Honor, I Will, has been released in a third edition. In his endorsement of On My Honor, Ross Perot says "Randy Pennington has cracked the code of great leadership." His second book, Results Rule! Build a Culture that Blows the Competition Away, received the 2007 Best Books Award from USA Book News. His third book, Make Change Work, was released in July 2013 by Wiley and received the Best Books Award from USA Book News.
Randy's background is a unique blend of line, staff, and consulting experiences ranging from hourly employee to senior management. He holds a Bachelors and Master's Degree in Psychology and completed postgraduate work in Organization Administration and Management. He was the 1998-99 Chairman of the Board for the American Heart Association, Texas Affiliate, and a founding member of the Texas Council on Disease and Stroke. Randy has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation and has been inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame. He is Past Chairman of the NSA Foundation Board of Trustees and NSA Board of Directors.
Leading in the New Next™
This session shares the specific mindset and strategies leaders need to prepare their organization to flourish in the face of upheaval and uncertainty. Most important, it provides a roadmap for developing and sustaining the culture you need to set yourself apart and rock the world.
This session will equip and inspire leaders just like you to:
- Help their team become comfortable with working and...
Make Change Work®: Staying Nimble, Relevant & Engaged in a World of Constant Change
Change no longer influences the environment-it is the environment. We can survive and flourish by learning to stay nimble, relevant, and engaged in a constantly changing world.
That's why this session is so important - it provides practical tools to help leaders and organizations meet the challenges of continuous change in these transformational times.
Participants in this entertaining, fast-paced session receive practical information based on Randy Pennington's 20 years of...
RESULTS RULE!® Build a Culture that Blows the Competition Away
Your organization is either a has-been, a wanna-be, or a hero in the mind of the marketplace. The difference isn't in your products and services. Those are commodities.
A compelling culture is the intangible that provides a sustainable advantage. It is the catalyst for creating value, engaging people, and achieving operational excellence that sets you apart from your competition. And, it is the tool for achieving results year after year after year.
This program will give you...
It' the Culture Stupid: Change Your Culture - Change Your Results
There are two types of organizations: those that lead their industry and those that don't. In both types, their culture enables exactly the results they are achieving.
Your culture is either the accelerator that propels you to succeed in a hyper-competitive world, or it is the anchor that holds you back. You can become the standard by which your competitors are measured when you stop being dragged down by the anchor of a faulty culture.
Great companies succeed in good times...
Integrity-Driven® Leadership
What if you could have a blueprint for becoming the leader you always wanted to be ... one who inspires trust, respect, commitment, and results from others?
Here's the good news - the blueprint exists.
This powerful program lays out a clear path for integrity-driven leadership in a turbulent, changing world. A new standard for responsibility, integrity and doing what's right is emerging. Leaders who measure up will enjoy a competitive advantage through stronger relationships,...




