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Friday, February 12th, 2010

Corporate Author Series - Deep Dive

7:30 AM - 9:15 AM


The Hyatt Lodge at McDonald's Campus
2815 Jorie Blvd.
Oak Brook, IL

The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action

Rich Horwath is the Founder and President of the Strategic Thinking Institute, a former Chief Strategy Officer, and Professor of Strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Rich is the author of four books and more than fifty articles on strategic thinking and has been profiled in business publications around the world, including Investor’s Business Daily. Rich is a national television thought-leader on strategy, having appeared on NBC, WGN, FOX and the Chicago Tonight Show to discuss the strategic aspect of current issues. Rich is ranked the #1 speaker on strategy by the Society for Healthcare Strategy and his new book, Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy has been described by the Director of Worldwide Operations for McDonald’s as "… the most valuable book ever written on strategic thinking."

 

Rich works with Fortune 500 companies located in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. He guides executive management teams through the strategy development process and has helped world-class organizations such as Abbott, Adidas and Pfizer increase their organizational competency in strategic thinking. Rich created the Deep Dive Learning System to help managers become truly strategic leaders through assessments, books, workbooks, software, group workshops, practical application exercises and one-to-one strategic counsel. His monthly e-publication entitled Strategic Thinker is read by thousands of business leaders and academicians around the world.

 

Rich earned an MBA with Distinction from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and has completed post-graduate studies in strategy at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.