Yahoo! is the world’s most visited website, providing vast amount of edited content to a global audience of more than a billion people. Yahoo!’s internal guide to optimal style for writing on the web has been evolving for years. Thought Leaders Intl. guided Yahoo!’s top team into transforming that internal guide into the first guide to Global English, for individuals and organizations all over the world who need to be accurately understood, earn credibility, and be easily discovered.
Accenture. Thought Leaders Intl formed a joint venture with Accenture to develop the first fully interactive 3D, self-building simulation of change management using some 35,000 variables in a single system dynamics model. TLI was invited to demonstrate this model at the National Defense University in Washington, for the Dept of Defense and several dozen other major United States Government agencies.
Laurence Ackerman founder of The Identity Circle is the author of Identity Is Destiny: Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation which has in just a few years let Ackerman design and lead organizational transformations at giants such as Dow Chemical, Norsk Hydro, and State Farm. Read his client story.
Hank Cardello, author of Stuffed: An Insider’s Look into Who’s Really Making America Fat has been President of Sunkist Soft Drinks, Inc., Director of Marketing for Coca-Cola USA, and is now Chairman of the annual Global Obesity Business Forum. His new organization, 27° North is dedicated to solving America’s obesity crisis via the stealthy transformation of mainstream foods and beverages.
Joanne Black is the author of No More Cold Calling (Warner Books, 2006). Ms. Black is considered the Queen of Referral Selling, delivering a complete breakthrough system for shifting an individual or an enterprise to referral selling. Joanne has built a national organization to help companies all over the U.S. shift to referral selling, and Warner Books believes that she has created what will become a perennial bestseller.
Susan Bethanis is the founder of Mariposa Leadership, a premiere senior executive coaching firm in the Silicon Valley. In developing her intellectual property and expressing it in her book, Leadership Secrets of a Corporate Sage, Ms. Bethanis built the platform for her firm’s rapid growth as one of the premiere executive coaching firms in the Western U.S.
Coca-Cola. We developed the first use of our patented One-Page Book for Coca-Cola’s exclusive use at the XXIV Super Bowl. The OnePage Book was the NFL Spotters Guide and created the identical broadcast announcer’s cheat sheet used throughout the game. The project was the first step in a plan to give Coke thought Leadership in many sports venues, including the World Cup.
Charles Curtis is the CEO of Valentine Radford, a premiere advertising agency in Kansas City Missouri and an Internet marketing expert. His book Hybrid Marketing was published in March 2003. Charles has been a featured speaker at more than 100 meetings of the American Marketing Association, the Direct Marketing Association, American Management Association and the American Advertising Federation.
Paul Dolan began to work with us when he was the CEO of Fetzer vineyards. Mr. Dolan needed a book to give Fetzer higher recognition for being the global leader in organic wine production, providing leadership in transforming California viniculture, and for beginning a revolution in Italy, Chile and elsewhere. The result is his book, True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution. Fetzer’s consumer marketing and shareholder communication will be coordinated with the development and release of the book.
Ken Dychtwald is the author of twelve books and of the forthcoming The Power Years: A User’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life. Mr. Dychtwald is often described as one of America’s best public speakers and is considered the world’s leading authority on the impact of aging Baby Boomers on society. Advisor to four presidents, frequently seen on television, his new book tells readers about the urgent decisions that must be made now if they are to enjoy the last third of their lives.
Maddy Dychtwald is a popular business speaker and the author of Cycles: How We’ll Live, Work and Buy which became an instant business bestseller.
Jeffrey Fox is the founder and CEO of one of the country’s most distinguished business to business marketing firms, Mr. Fox is the author of an ever-expanding shelf of business bestsellers, from How to Become CEO to How to Become a Rainmaker to his latest, How to Become a Marketing Superstar: Unexpected Rules That Ring the Cash Register. Read his client story.
Dutch Holland is the founder and CEO of Holland & Davis, a premier change management consulting firm in Texas. Dr. Holland’s company has earned a global reputation for on-time on-budget change management with some of the world’s largest organizations, from oil and gas giants like ExxonMobil, Pacific Gas & Electric, Marathon Oil Company and Schlumberger Geoquest to NASA.
Larry Oakner is a radio copyrighting guru, and the author of And Now a Few Laughs from Your Sponsor, which captured the stories and development process of the most brilliant comedic radio spots of the last three decades. Formerly director of Brand Culture at Interbrand, Larry works in advertising and brand culture for firms in New York. His book has positioned him the leading authority on the use of comedy in radio advertising.
Michael Salmon is the founder of M. Salmon & Associates a leading networking methodologies training and consulting company for business professionals. We have helped him develop a process called SuperNetworking a unique job-seeking methodology.
Jim Taylor is the author of Positive Pushing, which has recently been reviewed on Amazon as “This book is 2nd best to The Book of Proverbs.” Dr. Taylor now is at the stage of his career when he is welcomed widely around the world as an outstanding speaker and resource for parenting. His next book will expand his vision to focus on the issues of raising ethical children.
