You know how even when you follow best practices, your company can run into economic snags:

• staying a best kept secret,
• stuck even stagnant or
• smugly coasting on past success?  

I help you solve this.

I do this by specializing in helping leaders strategically increase revenue profitably with less stress by uncovering Million Dollar Blind Spots(c) in time to avoid costly mistakes and make the best business decisions; carrying out rigorous due diligence, strategic enterprise risk management (ERM) and risk assessment reviews, and partnering with them on critical fiscal and financial projects.

Imagine Finding the million dollar blindspot, before it finds you. Unlike most speakers, I do not talk about risk for the sake of insurance, safety or ISO expertise. I speak about balancing strategic risk and reward from the perspective of achieving sustainable profitable growth and accountability to achieve your strategic goals.

Clients, past interviews and quotes include: National Speakers Association, Commerce Club, Reverse Logistics Association, Supply Chain & Transportation USA, Brightsource Energy, UIC, ExecSense, Proformative, MetricStream. INC, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Conference Board of Canada, Travelpro, Corporate Compliance Insights, Financier Global, Blue Ridge Inventory, NationaLease, APICS, FEI, JDEdwards (UK) Users Conference, and Association of Strategic Planners among others.

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Gary Patterson has learned one thing from analyzing and helping hundreds of companies: ""What You Don't Know That Your Don't Know About Your Business Can Cost You Your Business" which can mean the difference between life and death, in your product, business, department, life or job.

• Many business leaders focus diligently on their company's small, visible details only to be blindsided by the monumental and far more impactful events they didn't see coming such as the loss of a key customer, the departure of a key employee, or a harmful assault by a close competitor. Yes, the details are important, but leadership and vision are imperative to fostering continued growth and prosperity.
• Successful business leaders periodically examine and evaluate many aspects of their businesses, including employee morale and development; product and service quality; growth, profit margins and profitability; marketing and advertising; customer development and retention; data analysis and financial reporting; budgeting and cash flow forecasting; inventory management and supply chain automation; vision and forward thinking; ERM, operations risk management (ORM), governance, advisory and corporate board of directors and so on.
• Insider Gary Patterson challenges C-level executives to expose their books, reveal their true company financial health, and avoid disaster, with seven secrets! Many executives delude themselves into thinking their balance sheets and financial statements present an actual company financial picture.

Most requested topics:

• Business Boosters and Risk Reducers 402: Golden Concepts for Sustainable Profitable Growth
• Leaders: Regain Control
• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in a Box

Gary focuses on three components to add massive value to attendees:

1. Learn how to benefit from (a) 20/20 fiscal vision, (b) unlocking the vault, or (c) unswissing the cheese.
2. Spotlight the secrets most executives miss on growth.
3. Recognize those areas draining your company's profitability.

Through Gary's insight, you will command your audience's attention and deliver them from the deep and dark chasm of creative financing and Solipcism. You can love him or hate him, but one thing is sure, you can't ignore him when you want to control your financial future!

This commonsense approach unlocks added value both identifying formerly invisible opportunities and revealing key risk areas business unwittingly take.

Biographical Profile

Interviewed or presented internationally to over 145 publications and groups including INC, Entrepreneur, Best Manufacturing (AU), Conference Board of Canada, National Speakers Association, Guidestar, Directors & Boards, Financial Executives Institute, AMA, Agenda, 6 books available in 12 countries and More Magazine.

Gary W. Patterson, The FiscalDoctor(R) helps control your financial destiny, and capitalize on hidden high return opportunities, while limiting exposure to risk.

Patterson is the author of "Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health", "Fiscal Fitness System", "Million Dollar Blind Spots" and "Why Risk Management: Systems for Making Informed Financial Decisions."

• Honored as a published thought leader by Financial Time's ExecSense service.
• Serving as a National Virtual Business Advisor (VBA) in Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses.
• Leader at 2 international INC 500 companies.
• Former CEO,CFO,CTO,COO,CCO and Chief Xerox Operator
• Graduate of Jeff Justice's Comedy Workshop

Enterprise Risk Management Expert, ERM, Risk Assessment, Business Health Assessment, Strategy, Leadership, Operational Risk Management, and ORM.