An incredibly popular speaker and author, Dr. Oren Harari's energetic, dynamic presentations excite and challenge audiences around the world with insight, humor and knowledge.

Dr. Harari brings provocative, new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. As a leading management consultant and bestselling author, he brings over 20 years of seasoned professional experience to the public speaking forum.

The Financial Times has cited Dr. Harari as one of the "Top 40 Business and Management Minds in the World," and featured him in the fall 2001 book, Business Minds.

Over the past 6 months, Oren has addressed or consulted with numerous health care institutions, including prestigious associations. He understands the unique structures (financial, political, cultural, organizational) that surround the health care industry. Dr. Harari emphasizes the kinds of innovative practices that hospitals can adopt both "above ground" (patient care, delivery of services, quality of intervention, technology opportunities, etc.) and "underground" (cost containment, operational efficiencies, supply chain management).

Dr. Harari's 2002 book The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell, reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall St. Journal. In this book, Harari applies 16 elegant principles of leadership to corporate and government arenas and demonstrates what transformational leaders do to take their organizations to new heights. In 2003, Harari wrote the follow-up corporate handbook The Powell Principles.

As a senior consultant with the Tom Peters Group from 1984-1996, Harari was one of its most requested speakers. From 1997-1999, he was the first designated "management expert" for Time Vista, Time magazine's direct resources interactive website for businesses around the world. Dr. Harari was a senior columnist for Management Review from 1991-2000, and for the following two years he was the lead columnist for the online magazine Mworld.org, the American Management Association's informational web site for the management community. He has also written articles for publications as diverse as Harvard Business Review, Business Strategy Review, Executive Excellence and many others.

From 2000-2004 Dr. Harari served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Management and Leadership for the U.S. State Department under Secretary of State Colin Powell. From 2004-2006 he served on the board of The Integrity Institute, dedicated to elevating the integrity of corporations and capital markets. Currently, he sits on the board of directors of several startup companies and is a co-founder of BSP Partners, a company which develops products and tools to help leaders position their organizations to "break from the pack."

Dr. Harari has spoken to premiere organizations worldwide, including Microsoft, Dell, Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Target, Novartis, Kimberly Clark, IBM, Wells Fargo, Cisco Systems, Kohler, British Petroleum, Daughters of Charity, Morgan Stanley, Wellpoint and AT&T. Harari consistently receives the highest ratings from clients and is considered one of the best business speakers in the industry.

Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and currently teaches in the MBA and executive MBA programs at the University of San Francisco.

• How to Lead Your Company UP, Even When the Economy is Down - In this speech, Dr. Harari summarizes the noxious financial forces which now surround us and their impact on individual companies. He concentrates on four action blueprints that leaders can use to position their organizations for success during these particularly challenging times:
  • Take Innovation Underground
  • Dominate or Leave
  • Build the Intangibles
  • Take Charge Now
  
  
• How to Break From the Pack - and Stay Ahead of It - In today's Copycat Economy, products are being commoditized, services are being imitated and traditional barriers to market entry are collapsing. Markets are becoming more crowded with "me-too" players and products. In this environment, it's harder to differentiate yourself from competitors, it's harder to keep profit margins and customer loyalty up and it's harder to grow market share and stock value. To sustain healthy growth and competitive advantage in today's Copycat Economy, your organization must break from the pack.
  
  
• The New Leadership Paradigm: What it Takes to Transform Companies and People - From his books and other research, Dr. Harari selectively draws from nearly 30 elegant, rigorous, "battle-tested" leadership principles that will help you lead your organization to new heights of competitive advantage and employee commitment.
  
  
• How to Create Fast, Agile, Innovative, "Road Runner" Organizations - Dr. Harari explains how to create fast, agile, innovative organizations that will thrive in today's globally networked, nanosecond marketplace. Some of the areas Dr. Harari covers include how to create an organization that quickly identifies and capitalizes on fleeting market opportunities and has technologies, systems, cultures and people that are all aligned towards big audacious, groundbreaking goals.
  
  
• Jumping the Curve: A New Business Paradigm for a New Marketplace - Dr. Harari describes why organizations and markets are now in a historically significant "age of transition" and why leaders must help their organizations "jump the curve," that is, make significant, discontinuous leaps in their products and business models. Oren includes the four critical strategic leadership imperatives: innovation, intelligence, coherence and responsibility.