Peter Johnson, Ph.D.

Dr. Pete Johnson is an internationally acclaimed strategy expert.  His unique combination of natural instincts, hands-on experience and practical methodology shows your audience how to turn challenges and change into opportunities for growth and accomplishment.  His track-record of results is a matter of record.

Today’s top business professionals are already over worked and overwhelmed with existing priorities.  What they want are direct answers and solutions on how to solve their issues faster and permanently.  As a strategist, Dr. Pete immediately cuts to the core of their issues and outlines innovative solutions that will be the absolute “Finishing Touch” for your next conference.  

 A Track-Record of Results: 

• Twenty-six year veteran of the professional speaking and consulting industry, Dr. Pete has addressed more than two thousand audiences worldwide and consistently earns the audience’s highest ratings.
• Worked exclusively for the past six years under direct contract U.S. Army’s advanced technology command working strategic plans for Homeland Defense.
• Corporate job experience / credentials include a long running information technology career with IBM, General Electric, Litton Industries, Data General and McDonnell-Douglas. 
• Vietnam Veteran with two tours of duty back in the 60s.  Educational background includes degrees in Electrical Engineering, Business Management (MBA) and a PhD in Human Resource Development. 

Unique Audience-Interactive Delivery Style:

Dr. Pete’s distinctive “in-the-audience” speaking style captivates and involves his audiences from the moment he’s introduced.  This unique, group-discussion format combined with his up-tempo, high energy delivery make participants feel like they are an active part of the presentation and not just observers.  It’s been said repeatedly that time seems to fly by when he’s in front of the audience which is what keeps his audiences consistently asking for more.

Here‘s the Practical Take-Away Your Audience Can Use Right Now: 

• The Current Critical Issues Impacting Your Industry as of Today.
• The Top 20 Best Ideas Compiled from the Best Minds Attending Your Conference.
• The Top 10 Specific Priorities That Will Produce Measurable Results for Your Audience Over the Next Four to Six Weeks Following Your Conference. 
• The Top 3 Actions Your Attendees Will Need to Initiate During Their First 7 Days.
• Comprehensive Audience Hand-Out Materials to Organize and Track Results of Follow-up Actions.

         Some people speak for others to learn… yet some people speak for others to use!                                                                                            Obviously… Results Count. 

Detailed Customization For Your Unique Audience

Whether he’s leading a debriefing with a unit of the US Army returning from the front lines of battle in Iraq or addressing the currently changing issues facing leaders of today’s business community, Dr. Pete Johnson has the experience and know-how to accomplish the mission.  From his years of engineering background his attention to detail and highly strategized approach will impress and amaze you when it comes to integrating your specific goals and input into the final presentation.  Promise a lot… deliver even more.

MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Turning Change Into A Competitive Advantage
“In today’s arena it’s not about the Big eating the Small but rather... the Fast eating the Slow.” 

There is not a business professional in the world today who is not currently experiencing the frustration and exhaustion from the expanding demands on both their time and their focus.  Plans and strategies that seemed a sound decision even as recent as six months ago, today seem somewhat obsolete and marginally effective.    

Face the facts… change is a disorienting element affecting every one of us but in very different ways.  While some seem to defend their position or opinions based on facts several weeks old… others knowingly look for any excuse to modify their opinions and position at the very first opportunity.  Getting or keeping a competitive edge in business today is not about change or adaptability… but rather just how fast can you initiate change accurately and effectively.  It’s not about guess work but rather about science!

• What are the current challenges and issues facing your industry or profession today?  One year from now?
• What are the challenges and issues impacting your marketplace and key customers today?  Next 6 months?
• Who are the fastest advancing organizations in your industry today and why?  Where do you rank?
• What cutting edge innovations in technology have taken place in your industry in the past 6 months?
   

The Power Of Execution
"The Ideal Kick-Off / Wrap-Up Program for Your Next Conference - It’s All About Priorities and Results.”

Your audience will see how to rapidly transform follow-up information and ideas into predictable results.  Imagine a fast-paced, audience-interactive session that literally shows participants a streamlined method for identifying, compiling and organizing what they feel are the Top 100 greatest ideas gleaned from all of the talented speakers and experts of your entire conference.  Even better yet, each attendee leaves with their own individualized Top-10 conference Follow-Up Action Plan. 

The best part yet... it’s highly organized 45-day post conference follow up process helps review “Progress-On-Plan” to clearly demonstrate the bottom-line value of transforming ideas into measurable results.  Sounds like a tall order?  After reviewing a sample of Pete’s preview video and audience handout material, you can see why this program is unprecedented for takeaway value.

Adapting Leadership Skills for Tomorrow’s Changing Environment
 “Success By Design for Growing an Organization to Higher-Levels of Achievement.”

There is not a business or organization in the world today that has not experienced the challenges of growth through evolution that continuously taxes the skills and talents of its leadership.  What separates the consistently successful organizations from those fighting their way through frustration and survival is the ability of their leaders to listen, learn, observe and grow.   

This is not just another philosophic leadership program that talks about the behavior styles of motivating people but rather an actual strategy discussion focused on how we as smart leaders adapt for the continuous challenges our environment tends to keep throwing at us.  It discusses some of the lessons learned from decades of “in the trenches” experience and years of working shoulder to shoulder with business leaders who have adapted their skills and talents to the mission at hand.   

Smart leadership is as much an issue of team synergy and communications as it is about any one individual’s personal leadership characteristics.  But attracting, grooming and retaining highly talented managers/leaders are what inevitably make the difference in every organization’s continued success.

Twenty-six years as a professional speaker with a list of past clients that reads like a Who’s Who of Business