Dan Coughlin is a student and teacher of practical processes that improve business performance. His purpose is to work with executives and managers so they achieve great performances. He defines a great management performance as significantly improving an organization's most important desired outcomes in a sustainable way.

For more than a decade, he has invested over 3,000 hours on-site observing and advising executives and managers in a wide variety of business functions and in more than thirty industries. He and his clients constantly worked to hone simple processes that could improve performance throughout their organizations.

As a business keynote speaker, Dan combines real-life stories from his management consulting work with in-depth research of the audience he is speaking to. He then delivers penetrating and practical insights that attendees can use immediately to improve their performance and results.

His clients include Toyota, Abbott, Marriott, Shell, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, St. Louis Cardinals, Boeing, Prudential, IKON Office Solutions, Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Osram Sylvania, Young Presidents Organization, BMC Software, American Bar Association, American Management Association, AT&T, Jiffy Lube Association of Franchisees, and more than 150 other organizations.

Dan has provided hundreds of customized presentations on business acceleration across the United States. His keynote topics include leadership, branding, sales, and innovation. He is the author of the book, The Management 500: A High-Octane Formula for Business (2009) and Accelerate: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum (2007). Dan has been quoted in the USA Today, the New York Times, and Investor's Business Daily, and has had articles published in more than 100 trade publications.

ACCELERATE THROUGH THE STORM
The past ten years have been filled with rhetoric about the new economy, reengineering, cutting-edge technologies, and a manic obsession with getting rid of anything related to the past. It's become enormously clear that surviving this economic storm and thriving in the future requires a return to the business basics of the past. In this practical, highly relevant session for business managers and executives, Dan Coughlin provides user-friendly processes that can be applied immediately and over the long term to deliver great management performances.

ACCELERATE YOUR IMPACT AS A LEADER
Take out your business card, and cross out your title. It has nothing to do with your ability to lead. In this high-energy, high-impact session, Dan Coughlin gives the TEN LEADERSHIP ACTIONS necessary to influence key decision-makers at all levels. He debunks the traditional myths of leadership, and shows how every employee can impact the way other people think and drive better sustainable results through more effective teamwork. Customers don't care about which department was most successful. They only care about the value the departments deliver collectively to them.

ACCELERATE INNOVATION
Innovation does not equal technology. Innovation is about finding better ways to boost productivity, performance, and profitability. Dan Coughlin demystifies the process of innovation, and makes it simple, clear, and practical. He shows how every employee can generate breakthrough ideas to increase efficiency, expedite execution, and boost the bottom-line. From scheduling thinking time to using the observation tower to using OPS (Other People's Successes), audience members will walk away with ideas they can use today to generate powerful innovations.

ACCELERATE YOUR BRAND
Your brand is your reputation in the marketplace. It's not what you want to be; it's what customers believe you are right now. Dan Coughlin, who has worked with such world-class brands as Toyota, McDonald's, Marriott, Coca-Cola, and the St. Louis Cardinals, provides penetrating insights into the dos and don'ts of building the brand you want. He shows the critical and integrated relationship between purpose, business research, strategy, planning, execution, and marketing that ultimately determines the brand you have.

ACCELERATE SALES
Sales are the cash flow engine in every organization. Sales people impact not only short-term cash flow, but also long-term customer relationships and the equity in the business. In this presentation, Dan Coughlin guides sales people to leverage their strengths and passions, deliver dramatically differentiated value to their customers and prospects, and generate the sales they need to make this quarter a success. And he goes deeper into showing how great relationships create a steady flow of profitable sales. This is not a rah-rah sales rally, but rather an intensely practical session for sales people in all industries.

Read Dan Coughlin's article, The Secret of the 10,000 Hour Rule

Read Dan Coughlin's article, How Saying No Drives Great Careers

Read Dan Coughlin's article, The Art of Branding and Other Management Lessons

Read Dan Coughlin's article, Selling Across the Globe