Charles Garfield, Ph.D., is America's leading authority on high achievement and a strategy advisor to the nation's preeminent business leaders. His career as American's preeminent presenter on high achievement was launched by an unprecedented two cover stories in the Wall Street Journal. "He is a brilliant, one-of-a-kind speaker who profoundly inspires people to think outside-the-box."

Garfield himself is a study in peak performance. As a computer scientent, he led the team of engineers, scientists and support staff on the Apollo XI project - the first manned mission to the moon: he developed himself to world class levels as an athlete; and he founded the internationally acclaimed volunteer organization, Shanti Project.

He is the author of the highly successful Peak Performers trilogy, Peak Performers, Team Management, and Second to None. His classic book, Peak Performers, quickly became a Time bestseller and one of the most influential business books of the past two decades. It has been translated into twelve languages and continues to receive international acclaim as the most powerful and comprehensive statement to date on America's most effective business people. "Second to None" was the only book ever chosen as a main selection twice by the Executive Program, America's most prestigious executive book club. It has been called "a manifesto for organization high performance in our time." "Team Management", published in German, shows how the most effective leaders in the U.S. and abroad develop and manage superior teams.

Charles Garfield is also co-founder (along with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard) of Executive Excellence, one of America's most important executive newsletters.

His unique power as a speaker comes from his hands on experience as an executive and team leader in the profit and non-profit sectors - witnessing, learning and demonstrating the key skills of superior service, quality and performance.

• Technology, Change and Forward Thinking Outside the Box: Who Does It Best and How
Technology represents a vital source of competitive advantage, and technological change is accelerating at a mind-boggling pace. Yet, the more you introduce technology into the workplace, the more you need to emphasize and enhance human creativity. Technology can enable but it cannot create. People create and their ability to do so can be suffocated by an over-reliance on technology for solutions. Dr. Garfield will offer an action plan for developing creativity throughout the organization by integrating the power of technology and human ingenuity.
• Peak Performance: Building Best Practices and High-Performing Teams
Industry leader status demands a team-based approach and remarkable management/employee partnership. Dr. Garfield offers an action plan of best practices consisting of the ten points necessary for achieving top performance in the modern workplace. Included are leading edge approaches to recruiting, hiring, training and rewarding top performers.
• Second to None: The Productive Power of Putting People First
Rapid growth, globalization and downsizings along with change initiatives such as restructuring and redesign have challenged executives, managers and employees to do more with less, better and faster. Viewing change as an ally, not an adversary, is key to sustaining the pursuit of top superior service, profits and performance.
• A Higher Standard of Leadership: The 21st Century Manager
Many of us who swam with the sharks and studied the management approaches of Attila the Hun are looking for more positive and inspiring role models for effective leadership. We are learning that we can redesign organizations but we can't redesign people. The pendulum is swinging back to a model of inspired leadership that enhances credibility while unleashing human effectiveness.
• Competing for the Present: One-to-One Marketing, Speed and Superior Service
Today's smartest organizations create customer-inspired operations by using innovative, cost-effective technology and building enduring partnerships with employees, customers, suppliers and distributors¡Xall on a one-to-one basis.