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For past and upcoming public events please see below.

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John is in demand around the world as a speaker, facilitator and authority on leadership and business disruption.

John presents both live at business conferences and events around the world as well as virtually. He estimates he has spoken or held workshops more than 1000 times in his career.

He has presented at the Harvard Club of New York City, the Waseda Marketing Forum in Tokyo, the National Press Club in Washington, DC, IBM’s Global Innovation Outlook in Shanghai, Tokyo and New York, Consult-Con in San Diego, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, in front of various trade groups, on the radio and for podcasts.

More recently he’s held a series of well-attended business and leadership virtual seminars.

Drawing on his substantial experience and expertise, John’s presentations are often tailored to an audience’s specific interests and needs. He can shorten most topics to fit a 20 to 30-minute slot or fill an hour to an two-hour session with Q&A, with or without slides.

John also designs and facilitates highly interactive workshops that challenge his audiences’ assumptions and create new ways of thinking. Depending on the topic and goals of a workshop, sessions can run from just a few hours to several days.

Recent Speaking Events

Disruptive Leadership: Forcing Change at the Harvard Club of New York City

The Thin Line Separating Disruption and Destruction at The CEO Club of Baltimore

Client Relations in a Disruptive World at IMC’s Annual Meeting “Consult-Con 2018,” San Diego, California

The Learned Skills of Successful Entrepreneurs (podcast), The Clark Hulings Fund (CHF)

Book Signing event at Barnes & Noble, 555 5th Ave., New York City

Walking the Thin Line Between Disruption and Destruction at the Charter Member Dinner of the TiE New York Chapter

How to Own Tomorrow (podcast), Onward Nation

The Unstoppable Force of Disruptive Leadership at “Marketing with a Book Weekend” Retreat, La Jolla, California

Public Workshops

Introduction to Disruptive Leadership; workshop at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce in New York City

CEO Roundtable with the Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Corporation in New York City

TalentTalk Webinars

Is Your Business Prepared for a Post-COVID World?

Misbehaving at Work

Avoiding the Myths, Misconceptions and Mistakes of Marketing

If Your Sales Fail, So Does Your Business

At the moment John has no public appearances planned.

Please check back in a few weeks.

Enthusiasm for Owning Tomorrow
“John did a great job at our CEO Club meeting, He took what could have been an esoteric and/or theoretical conversation about business disruption and disruptive leadership and made it entertaining, informative and insightful. He also made sure the audience left with a few key how-to’s and ideas for their businesses. If your organization serves CEOs of small and medium-size businesses, you need to have John come speak to them.”
– Doug Strouse, President of the CEO Club of Baltimore
“In his recent presentation, John did a great job differentiating between highly successful CEOs whose companies transform the world on a major scale and those who end up destroying a significant amount, if not all, of the value of their businesses. John ensured that the audience picked up on the paradox that despite their mistakes when running a business, “destructive” leaders like Travis Kalanick, Uber’s former CEO, often transform the world just as much as their more successful counterparts. This and other thought-provoking ideas generated some very interesting questions and a lively discussion.”
– Walter Burr, Co-founder of AlertMe and The Accelerating Companies Fund
“Thank you so much for presenting at Consult-Con 2018. Featuring you in our agenda helped us get the best attendance in five years. You were one of our top ranked speakers and helped the conference earn an approval rating of 85%.”

– Henry DeVries, CEO, Indie Books International LLC

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