John Caslione is a highly respected thought leader, expert in global business strategy and the new global economy, and successful global businessman. He is Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC, as well as guest lecturer at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland and at Peking University in Beijing, P.R. China.

John is vigorously sought after by business and government leaders alike seeking a global perspective, including how U.S. - and European-based organizations can become more global, in today's the turbulent and low growth economies of the U.S. and Europe.

Having done business in 88 countries on six continents over the past 20 years including many high growth emerging markets in Asia, The Middle East, South America and Africa, John's dynamic and pragmatic approach to engaging an audience, with today's complex topics, has kept him in high demand as a premier keynote speaker worldwide. John's presentations address the most provocative and important business topics of the day that he presents to many forums including corporate Fortune 500 and FT 100 company events and notable industry conferences worldwide.

John's keynotes are widely applauded by business and government leaders alike. He is also a frequent keynote speaker and chairman of many leading conferences speaking on the global economy and global business development in many forums including: the Dubai Global Strategy Conference, the China Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference and many noted conferences and private business events in the U.S., South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Asia/Pacific.

John and his co-author, the noted marketing thought leader Philip Kotler, have collaborated together to write on their latest book, CHAOTICS: The Business of Managing and Marketing in The Age of Turbulence (AMACOM Publishing, 2009). CHAOTICS is published in 63 countries and in 30 languages. CHAOTICS now serves as a new platform for strategy development and execution for business enterprises and government agencies to more effectively hedge risk and confront uncertainty as they navigate through turbulence in the New Normality, i.e., unpredictable and intermittent spurts of economic prosperity intermingled with spurts of economic downturn.

John also has two top-rated books published in China, Going Global - How to Globalize Your Business and Developing Successful Global Sales and Distribution Channel Strategies (Economy & Management Publishing House, 2005), which focus upon critical global growth strategies for China's emerging international businesses.

John's earlier works include Global Manifest Destiny: Growing Your Business in a Borderless Economy, (Dearborn Publishing, 2002), which provides a competencies roadmap for middle market companies to successfully compete in the global business environment, and Growing Your Business in Emerging Markets: Promise and Perils, (Greenwood Publishing, 2001), a leading authoritative book on developing market entry strategies into emerging markets.

John is Founder, President, and CEO of GCS Business Capital, LLC (GCS) with offices in Chicago, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Milan. Founded in 2005, GCS is a cross-border mergers and acquisitions advisor to U.S., European and Asian middle market companies seeking to globalize their businesses through mergers, acquisitions and strategic joint ventures. Prior to founding GCS, John was the Founder, President and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc. (AWI), an international management consulting firm assisting U.S. and Europe firms to develop global marketing and sales and global distribution channel strategies, along with assisting clients worldwide in their M&A activities by conducting due diligence for business target acquisitions, and advising on turnarounds and restructurings. Founded in 1991, AWI was merged into GCS in 2008.

GCS and AWI clients include, ABB Semiconductors, Becton Dickenson Biosciences, Caltex Lubricants, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Philips N.V., R.J. Reynolds International (later JT International), Rockwell-Collins Commercial Aviation, Sandoz, Securitas A.B., and many large and middle market firms globally.

John serves as director and/or advisor for many U.S., European, Chinese and other Asian firms to globalize their businesses, including both large and middle market enterprises. He is a founding member of Rotary International's first English-speaking international member club in Frankfurt, Germany in 2006. John earned his Bachelors of Science and MBA from the University of New York (Buffalo) and his J.D. (Juris Doctor) from Chicago-Kent College of Law (Chicago). John resides in Chicago (USA) and Frankfurt (Germany).

John's Key Message - advises leaders how to drive high growth in Decade 2010, which is marked by low growth and lower consumer demand in the U.S. and Europe, high growth and rapidly rising consumerism in emerging markets, all characterized by unpredictable and oftentimes undetectable, waves of turbulence, chaos, risk and uncertainty. Key decisions must be made and executed faster, including new strategies hedging risk need to be in place to minimize a company's vulnerabilities and exploit the many new opportunities that will invariably arise in a now more turbulent and uncertain global economy.

DECADE 2010: The Shifting Path for Growth in The Age of Turbulence

John helps U.S. business leaders address one of their most perplexing questions confronting them today: How do I get my organization to understand that to be successful we must look beyond the U.S. (and Europe) and be committed to building our foreign business, especially in emerging high growth markets, to sustain our company's mid- and long-term growth?

Domestic consumption in the U.S. was large enough for U.S. businesses to concentrate on America's market. But that has changed. In the 2010 Decade there will be much lower growth in the U.S. and much higher growth abroad. Consumer spending between 2010 and 2015 will be down by more than $600 billion ? down to consumer spending levels of 1989-90. Consumerism in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and other emerging markets are rising fast. The U.S. is no longer the consuming giant in the world. In fact, in 2010 the U.S. will account for only 27 percent of total global consumption versus emerging markets at 34 percent ? roughly the reverse of their shares eight years ago.

According to a recent report from the National Association of Manufacturers, American manufacturers are the least likely of the top 15 world economies to export. Only 4 percent of all American firms, and just 15 percent of all American manufacturing firms, do any exporting at all. 80% of the U.S.'s total world trade is conducted by only 1% of U.S. firms. In Decade 2010 the U.S. economy will move from consumption and debt to exporting and savings. The Great American Shift is now underway. Is your company ready for it?

CHAOTICS: The Business of Managing and Marketing in The Age of Turbulence

All strategies wear out and do so even faster during times of turbulence. Chaotics is a disciplined approach for detecting sources of turbulence, predicting consequent vulnerabilities and opportunities, and developing critical, pragmatic and timely responses. Akin to continually "hitting the refresh button on your Internet browser", Chaotics ensures that business strategy and the organization's ability to execute that strategy are continually refreshed, relevant and revitalized. This presentation is based on John's book, CHAOTICS: The Business of Managing and Marketing in The Age of Turbulence co-authored by marketing guru Professor Philip Kotler. CHAOTICS defines the new era in which the world has entered, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence and chaos in the global economy.

Today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses and government agencies to develop a new mindset and a new strategic platform to more effectively hedge risk and confront uncertainty as they navigate through intermittent and unpredictable periods of turbulence and chaos, in what Caslione and Kotler call, the new normality, i.e., unpredictable and intermittent spurts of economic prosperity intermingled with spurts of economic downturn.

CHAOTICS represents a new system, a new set of strategic behaviors and guidelines designed to help business leaders and their companies navigate turbulence and uncertainty to ensure their companies' survival?and their ability to thrive?in The Age of Turbulence.

GOING GLOBAL: Mandate for Growth

Amelia Earhart once said that, "Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it." The same is true with globalizing. Our 30,000 foot perspective isn't the difficult part of globalizing; it is actually being on the ground and putting a global organizational execution and transition plan into action where it gets hard. If companies want to survive and thrive, globalization is not an option: it is a necessity for survival.

Globalize your company or expand your global presence; regardless of company size, you must understand the unique roadmap needed to gain competitive advantage and successful top-line as well as bottom-line results in the market place today. John is considered a leading authority on the globalization of business with a special focus on developing sales and distribution strategies in emerging markets. In his books, Global Manifest Destiny: Growing Your Business in a Borderless Economy, Growing Your Business in Emerging Markets: Promise and Peril, John provides critical insights and a competencies roadmap for middle market companies to successfully compete in the global business environment, and especially how to do so in high growth emerging markets. In this content rich presentation, John gives business leaders and their organizations specific approaches to successfully navigate the new world of high growth emerging markets.