Client ResultsRich Horwath has helped the following organizations successfully guide and grow their business through strategy development, training programs and proprietary tools:
Client Comments and Results
"Thank you for the excellent strategic thinking workshops at our recent series of Leadership Seminars. These workshops have had instant impact on the organization. We are now using the GOST framework (goals, objectives, strategies, tactics) throughout the organization and will be altering several other templates and documents. The SWOT alignment approach has strengthened the effectiveness of our team and the Growth Matrix is leading our people to high impact customer solutions. These strategy seminars made a difference and were exactly what we needed to launch our new Market Planning approach."
James Immormino
I appreciate the Strategic Thinking Workshop you just completed with my team. You presented easy to understand strategy concepts with practical ways to implement prior to our yearly strategic planning meeting. I will use these ideas to help our team develop true strategies versus the annual tactical process we all have to guard against. Again, thank you for a great session.
Matthew Hodson "Rich is an exceptional talent and one I look to for expert advice on business strategy. In my role as Chair of the Executive Forum Planning Committee for the Health Care Administrator's Association, and Director of Marketing for EBMS, I hired Rich as a keynote speaker for two large conferences. In each event, Rich brought an astute knowledge of strategic thinking to the C-level attendees in the audience, and provided a clear action plan for how they could incorporate these principles into their daily activities to create a competitive advantage. From his content to his delivery, Rich's presentations are impeccable. I have never been more impressed with a keynote speaker."
LynAnn Henderson “In today’s quickly changing business environment, the development and utilization of strategic thinking and planning skills are essential. Rich Horwath helped us take all that is typically generalized by “strategy” and turn it into practical solutions for our management, and eventually, our entire company. In a relatively short timeframe, Rich helped us utilize a common set of tools and a common language to develop a consistent strategic understanding throughout our organization. We now have a repeatable process to capture key business insights, ensure strategic alignment, develop the company’s leaders of tomorrow, and most importantly, profitably grow our business. Rich did an outstanding job working with our strategic team. He allowed us to explore, question and learn, all the while pushing the team forward to meet our objectives and goals. Our efforts with Rich are already well worth it and we fully expect this work to pay very good dividends down the road.”
Tim O'Connor "Thank you for facilitating an outstanding strategic thinking session with our top CEO customers within our industry. The CEO's believe that the program provided them with tools that will allow them to be more effective strategists. In addition, we received a lot of praise about your knowledge in the field of strategic thinking and your ability to deliver the information at the right level. Thanks again for a great program."
Dean Gregory "Thank you for an excellent presentation on strategic thinking and strategic planning for Pfizer's management team. Your professional and engaging presentation style combined with an expert command of the subject of strategy met and exceeded Pfizer's high expectations. Most importantly, the region's managers were able to take the information and tools you presented and begin implementing them the following week to positively impact their business. I relied on you to set the stage for our region's strategic planning efforts and you successfully did so."
Dan Linden “Your strategy program was inspiring and right on point. I observed that my team was able to take the concepts and tools you presented and immediately apply them in our meeting. Your practical explanation of some rather intangible concepts made the difference. I honestly believe that all participants left this week as better "strategists" with a clear understanding of how strategic thinking is an ongoing process that, when properly employed, will lead us to the competitive advantage we seek.”
Steve Lamb "Thank you for delivering the Keynote Speech at our North American Partner Kickoff Meeting. Your session on Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage was entertaining, thought-provoking and yet practical for a large audience of senior executives. It was exactly what we hoped for and was a big hit with the audience."
Bob Palumbo "I brought Rich in to help create a new mindset for my senior staff relative to strategic thinking. My staff is highly competitive and very successful to begin with but needed to be challenged to take our organization to the next level. Rich accomplished this with his strategy content, interactive style and real world examples. The leadership team is excited and motivated to put his strategic thinking concepts into practice at our organization."
Bill Mosteller "Rich spoke to the Young President's Organization as part of our education series "What is mY POtential". Rich provided an outstanding presentation on strategic thinking and planning. The presentation was very interactive and we received tremendous feedback from our members. We would highly recommend Rich."
Rob Wilson “I wanted to write and thank you for your superb presentation at last week's Society of Human Resource Management National Strategy Conference in Tampa, Florida. For me, it was by far the most memorable, most educational, and most dynamic of all the sessions I attended. You took a complex topic and condensed it into an easy-to-understand and entertaining event—a task not achievable by many. You are a gifted and dynamic teacher and I am thankful to have had the opportunity to sit under your instruction.”
Tami R. Spear, SPHR “Securing Rich Horwath for our keynote presentation and full day working session with association chief staff executives in July was the best decision I've made in a long time. He was superb to work with in preparing for the event and then gave such dynamic presentations that people were leaving wanting more. If you are looking for someone to help your audience be more successful, this is the speaker you need. He even tailored a program just for us!
Cheryl Ronk "I appreciated your ability to teach/facilitate/moderate and move us through the strategy development process in a productive fashion. Your modular and highly tailored approach of the process to our business fits our needs nicely. Thank you for your preparation and hard work in navigating our team through the strategy development process. One year later, I can say that your work had a dramatically positive impact on our business. In addition to the strong strategic plan we developed, you infused a new mind set into our organization that has created the strategic discipline to make important trade-offs and has unleashed a powerful energy of confidence. You’ve truly made a difference to our business.”
Don Pogorzelski “I recently attended Rich's keynote presentation at a conference for association executives. I couldn't have been more impressed, not only with the incredible content he delivered, but his engaging style and ability to captivate the audience. As a business person, I feel not only motivated, but empowered with some very useful tools that he shared. As an event producer who works with countless speakers, Rich will now be the first I would recommend to a client. I look forward to the opportunity to see him speak again.”
Heidi Brumbach “Rich's strong knowledge in the area of strategic thinking and how it applies to business has been invaluable. He has proved the organization with the blueprint for developing and executing a successful business strategy. I've worked with Rich on three separate occassions and wouldn't hesitate to use him again.”
Richard Locke
"At Baxter, we contracted with Rich Horwath to help us develop a robust strategic positioning and marketing strategy for one of our key business franchises within a 6-8 week period. Rich took our group through a variety of strategic exercises and templates that really flushed out a great deal of insights on our business, our customer base, our competition and the market environment. He then transformed this information into a very credible and most optimal strategic positioning for our business.
Rob Schneider
“Every senior executive who attended the "Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage" Workshop felt the workshop was extremely valuable. Through a series of activities and modeling, Rich’s workshop provides the tools for strategically thinking through the business and channeling the resulting insights into an action plan to achieve an organization’s goals and objectives. The C-Level executives rated Rich’s content and effectiveness as a presenter as ‘excellent’ across the board.”
Marti Hayes "Rich does an excellent job in assisting individuals throughout various levels of an organization understand that while strategy is an abstract concept, there are a variety of tools and methods available to guide teams through a definable process that leads to a well structured and focused strategy development effort. His materials are thoughtfully constructed, understandable and useful in leading a group through a comprehensive and objective analysis of their business that ultimately results in action plans focused on differentiating themselves from the competition. His grasp of the topic of strategy along with a comfortable and upbeat presentation style is effective in facilitating the overall strategic thinking and development effort."
Jerry Casey "Rich presented a program at Association Forum's Annual Meeting for CEO's and senior level association executives. His program was very well received and numerous attendees expressed interest in hiring him to do work for their organizations. I highly recommend Rich as a presenter and educator!”
Christie Tarantino "Thank you for leading a valuable session on strategic thinking and planning for Amgen's Rheumatology team. The presentation you delivered on strategy, critical decision making and the impact on resource allocation created a strong foundation for our group's strategic plan development. The combination of strategy expertise and professionalism you bring provided for a valuable contribution. The result of the session is a better prepared team that understands the importance of resource allocation at both the strategic and tactical planning levels."
Andrew de Guttadauro "Thank you for an incredible presentation last evening at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's FutureForum 2010 program. You have an excellent way of simplifying a serious subject. I have owned twenty-eight businesses over the past thirty-eight years and have always struggled with the goal/strategy concept. You clarified this."
Thomas Walter “Rich's skill in facilitation and leading teams is key in delivering his concepts on strategic thinking. He is creative in the approach and development of thinking tools but not intrusive. He encourages his clients to build the strategic process themselves, draw their own conclusions consistent with their business and follows up to make sure they are "living the process". I would recommend Rich to clients who want to build or readdress strategy and want value for their investment.”
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