“Apply the principles in this impactful book and your life and

your organization will transform.”

— Mike Hoseus, Co-author of Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way, 2009 Shingo Research Award Winner

AMIR GHANNAD’S TOP KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: Extreme Leadership Makeover A compelling conversation, aimed at having every participant, regardless of where they are on the organizational chart, see themselves as a leader who can make a difference right where they are. The participants will walk away having experienced a shift in how they view themselves and the influence they have, and motivated to get in action.

The Transformative Leader's Role in Cultivating Engagement An insightful look into the role, mindset, behaviors, and habits of transformative leaders. The participants will identify specific opportunities to increase their effectiveness as a leader and leave the session compelled to get in action and engage their organization in pursuit of extraordinary results.

Leveraging Culture to Transform Results  A transformative learning experience regarding how the participants can personally unleash their own potential and that of their organization to deliver extraordinary results. The participants will gain insights on their unique opportunities to increase their effectiveness in addition to a wealth of suggested approaches to accelerate progress in their organizations.

AMIR GHANNAD LEADERSHIP & CULTURE TRANSFORMATION COACH AUTHOR OF THE TRANSFORMATIVE LEADER KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Amir is a captivating and sought-after keynote speaker on the topic of leadership development and culture transformation. Amir does not believe in cookie-cutter messages and tailors every presentation to the unique needs of the audience.

Amir unlocks leadership awareness and provides simple and effective approaches to allow any leader at any state in their personal development journey to make real progress in developing their intentional leadership self. — Greg Flickinger Ph.D., Vice President of Manufacturing and Corporate Engineering Snyder’s-Lance Inc.

Amir takes the essence of what would otherwise take years to learn and breaks it down into powerful, tangible, attainable behaviors that can be achieved by anyone strong enough to live by them. — Reut Schwartz-Hebron, Senior Consultant, Founder of the Key Change Institute, & Author of Making Difficult Change Simple

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2015 INTERNATIONAL SHINGO CONFERENCE “Amir was our No. 1 rated keynote presenter at the 2015 International Shingo Conference. His message on ‘Leveraging Culture to Transform Organizations,’ really resonated with our audience. His delivery and content was exceptional.”

Mary Price Events Manager, Shingo Institute

2011 AMERICAN MANUFACTURING SUMMIT (AMS), CHICAGO “As a conference producer it is my responsibility to identify thought leaders and persuade them to share some of their experience and expertise with a room full of strangers. Amir Ghannad is among the best, brightest, friendliest, and most enthusiastic speakers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Amir's dedication to personal and professional self-improvement as a vehicle to drive successful outcomes is both inspirational and empowering. His ideas about leadership as the root cause for achieving goals really do get to the heart of how people and organizations think, how they change, and how they grow. He's a clear communicator with a can-do attitude who loves what he does and is happy to share what is working for him with others. It is my pleasure to recommend him in very strong terms to anyone who has managed to read this all the way to the end: Please do take the opportunity to work with Amir; you will not regret it!”

Geoff Micks Head of Marketing & Research at Executive Platforms

“Amir is an effective organizational leader, result-getting continuous improvement guru, and captivating public speaker. He is personable, engaging, and charismatic.”

Scott Luton Managing Partner at TalentStream

WHAT BUSINESS LEADERS AND EVENT PRODUCERS SAY ABOUT AMIR GHANNAD

“Amir Ghannad was the highlight of the conference.”

“The best speaker was Amir. His delivery and content was excellent.”

“Amir Ghannad’s presentation really resonated with me.”

“I enjoyed that every presenter tied their content to the Shingo Model in some way or another. I thought Amir Ghannad had the greatest presentation technique. I am recommending him to speak at our company OPEX events this year.”

“I really enjoyed Amir Ghannad. He was the best presenter at the conference.”

Messages sent to Amir after various speeches:

“Your session yesterday really helped me re-center. Thank you for that.”

“Your presentation was very enlightening and well delivered. Thank you for taking the time to share with us your journey.”

“Your presentation was the best. Just went back through the slides. Great stuff!”

“It was a very good presentation but also enthusiastically presented. I was really impressed and was excited to listen to you.”

“Of all of the information I have seen during the AMS sessions, your presentation struck home the most and, most importantly, finally allowed me to solve a problem.”

“I was waiting in line to discuss your presentation today but thought it would be better (line was long) to write to you instead. I didn’t see any other folks lining up to talk to the presenters in any other sessions and I know you struck a chord!”

“Your session was the most energizing session of the two days. You kept it very interesting.”

“I have my 3x5 card with my action plan on my desk. Thank you!”

“You were the highlight of the conference for me.”

“Valuable insight, great speaker.”

“Very inspirational presentation.”

“Great job. Very well done. Falls right into where I want to take my management.”

“Excellent speech!”

“Amir, thanks a lot for the motivation.”

WHAT EVENT ATTENDEES SAY ABOUT AMIR GHANNAD

AMIR GHANNAD LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE TRANSFORMATION COACH, AUTHOR, KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Amir Ghannad is a leadership coach with 30 years of experience in leadership and organizational development. 

Amir’s corporate career began at Procter and Gamble, where he held a variety of positions in the US, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Amir also served as Plant Director at Sunny Delight Beverages Company, where he led the Atlanta plant operations and the company’s Workplace Excellence efforts, before taking on leading the Global High Performance Organization initiative at Campbell Soup Company.

A registered corporate coach and an accomplished trainer of courses such as Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The Speed of Trust, The Mind Gym, and many others, Amir has designed and delivered numerous customized sessions that have helped organizations successfully achieve results in a variety of business situations. 

In addition to designing and conducting training sessions, and facilitating numerous workshops in various locations in the US, Asia, and Europe, Amir has effectively led multi-national and multi-functional teams in delivering superior results through his ability to rally teams around a common vision. Having had extensive hands-on leadership experience in a variety of business situations, Amir is proficient in using an array of tools and methodologies to facilitate teams through the process of strategy development and deployment, organizational assessment and design, high performance organization development, transition management, and leadership development.  

As a highly sought after keynote speaker, Amir has had the pleasure of speaking on the topic of leadership effectiveness and culture transformation at conferences held in the US and abroad, where he is consistently rated the highest-ranked speaker at the event.

Amir’s commitment is to create a world in which everyone is in touch with their greatness and fully serves their unique purpose.

Amir holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a MBA from Wilmington University. Amir and his wife, Connie, live in Atlanta, Georgia, have been married for 33 years, and have a son (27) and a daughter (26).

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