Allen Fahden
Former stand-up comic Allen Fahden is an author, speaker, and creator of the 400,000 copy best-selling “HOTS Profile.” Allen also wrote several chapters for the best-selling "The One Minute Millionaire" by "Chicken Soup for the Soul" co-author, Mark Victor Hansen. Allen has spent more than two decades working with Fortune 500 businesses to increase sales, efficiency, and morale.
Fahden has revolutionized work in the same way Henry Ford's assembly line did for production ... yet he presents it more like Steve Martin on steroids. Fahden's hilarious speeches and books reveal some of the secrets as to why teams and innovation are so frustrating. Some of his methods and techniques provide ideas to:
• Boost productivity by 500-800%
• Connect to your strengths
• Produce better results
• Free yourself from the work you hate
In the publicity for his first book, "Innovation on Demand," (The Illiterati, 1992), Allen appeared in People Magazine, ABC News, BBC-TV, countless television and radio broadcasts, as well as syndicated and local print media across the United States. Fahden has worked with such celebrity business owners as Paul McCartney and Bill Murray.
Co-author of the best-selling "Innovate with C.A.R.E. Profile," published by Carlson Learning Co., Allen has written articles on his work for such business periodicals as "Executive Excellence" and "Learning 2000." The profile system, identifying people as Creators, Advancers, Refiners, or Executors, and the work processes associated with it, have been implemented in businesses in the U.S., as well as Japan, Germany, England, South Africa, Malaysia, and Australia.
The innovation and team techniques featured in Allen's work have resulted from years of developing ways to create new ideas that will sell to both clients and the market. His experience in the field includes presiding over his own award-winning advertising agency, as well as serving as Vice-president and Creative Director of D'Arcy, Masius, Benton, and Bowles, and as Senior Writer for accounts such as Levi's at Foote, Cone, and Belding in San Francisco.
Working for over 30 years with teams as a corporate executive and trainer in Edwards Deming's Quality processes has helped Allen identify an understanding of people's strengths. These processes have allowed them to triple their performance in their initial planning and decision stages. By appreciating what a team member can do, and not expecting them to do what they can't, Allen has freed people to transform their work, relationships, and purpose.
Allen Fahden divides his time between writing, corporate consulting, innovation seminars, and giving keynote speeches. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Innovation Network.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Laugh
Once the audience laughs at SuckCess (the card/poster series), they're open to Allen's message. A big idea needs an Advancer to get it done. Most companies have these people (15% of the population) buried in the wrong work. That leaves Creators (35%) and Refiners (25%) locked in endless conflict, killing each other's ideas. The result? Nothing gets done.
Killer Ideas, Not Idea Killers
In his highly entertaining style, Allen demonstrates the way to have a big idea. His one-book bookstore got him in People magazine and on network TV. SuckCess has sold as cards, posters, mugs, T-shirts, and hats. Yet, nothing would have happened without the right people moving things forward.
Leap
Fahden's Warp-Speed Relay Team does for innovation what Henry Ford's assembly line did for production. Each person does what they do best, then hands off to the next person, tripling what gets done.
Launch
"People will do what they're inspired to do." --Allen Fahden
Your people will take home something they'll install the very next day.
Former stand-up comic Allen Fahden is an author, speaker, and creator of the 400,000 copy best-selling “HOTS Profile.” Allen also wrote several chapters for the best-selling "The One Minute Millionaire" by "Chicken Soup for the Soul" co-author, Mark Victor Hansen. Allen has spent more than two decades working with Fortune 500 businesses to increase sales, efficiency, and morale.
Fahden has revolutionized work in the same way Henry Ford's assembly line did for production ... yet he presents it more like Steve Martin on steroids. Fahden's hilarious speeches and books reveal some of the secrets as to why teams and innovation are so frustrating. Some of his methods and techniques provide ideas to:
• Boost productivity by 500-800%
• Connect to your strengths
• Produce better results
• Free yourself from the work you hate
In the publicity for his first book, "Innovation on Demand," (The Illiterati, 1992), Allen appeared in People Magazine, ABC News, BBC-TV, countless television and radio broadcasts, as well as syndicated and local print media across the United States. Fahden has worked with such celebrity business owners as Paul McCartney and Bill Murray.
Co-author of the best-selling "Innovate with C.A.R.E. Profile," published by Carlson Learning Co., Allen has written articles on his work for such business periodicals as "Executive Excellence" and "Learning 2000." The profile system, identifying people as Creators, Advancers, Refiners, or Executors, and the work processes associated with it, have been implemented in businesses in the U.S., as well as Japan, Germany, England, South Africa, Malaysia, and Australia.
The innovation and team techniques featured in Allen's work have resulted from years of developing ways to create new ideas that will sell to both clients and the market. His experience in the field includes presiding over his own award-winning advertising agency, as well as serving as Vice-president and Creative Director of D'Arcy, Masius, Benton, and Bowles, and as Senior Writer for accounts such as Levi's at Foote, Cone, and Belding in San Francisco.
Working for over 30 years with teams as a corporate executive and trainer in Edwards Deming's Quality processes has helped Allen identify an understanding of people's strengths. These processes have allowed them to triple their performance in their initial planning and decision stages. By appreciating what a team member can do, and not expecting them to do what they can't, Allen has freed people to transform their work, relationships, and purpose.
Allen Fahden divides his time between writing, corporate consulting, innovation seminars, and giving keynote speeches. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Innovation Network.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Laugh
Once the audience laughs at SuckCess (the card/poster series), they're open to Allen's message. A big idea needs an Advancer to get it done. Most companies have these people (15% of the population) buried in the wrong work. That leaves Creators (35%) and Refiners (25%) locked in endless conflict, killing each other's ideas. The result? Nothing gets done.
Killer Ideas, Not Idea Killers
In his highly entertaining style, Allen demonstrates the way to have a big idea. His one-book bookstore got him in People magazine and on network TV. SuckCess has sold as cards, posters, mugs, T-shirts, and hats. Yet, nothing would have happened without the right people moving things forward.
Leap
Fahden's Warp-Speed Relay Team does for innovation what Henry Ford's assembly line did for production. Each person does what they do best, then hands off to the next person, tripling what gets done.
Launch
"People will do what they're inspired to do." --Allen Fahden
Your people will take home something they'll install the very next day.
