Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker,
and author, and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc. has
attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State
Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times
Corporation, and over 500 other leading organizations. He serves on the boards
of directors of the Trinity Repertory Company, a Tony-Award-winning New England
regional theater, Festival Ballet, and the Newport International Film
Festival.
His speaking typically includes 30 keynotes a year at major conferences, and he
has been a visiting faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Boston
College, Tufts, St. John's, the University of Illinois, the Institute of
Management Studies, and the University of Georgia Graduate School of Business.
He has held an appointment as adjunct professor in the Graduate School of
Business at the University of Rhode Island where he taught courses on advanced
management and consulting skills. He holds the record for selling out the
highest priced workshop (on entrepreneurialism) in the 21-year history of New
York City's Learning Annex. His Ph.D. is in psychology and he is a member of
the American Psychological Society, the American Counseling Association,
Division 13 of the American Psychological Association, and the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology. He serves on the Board of Governors of
Harvard University's Center for Mental Illness and the Media. He has keynoted
for the American Psychological Association on two occasions.
He is a 2006 inductee into the Professional Speaking Hall of Fame and the
concurrent recipient of the National Speakers Association Council of Peers
Award of Excellence, representing the top 1% of professional speakers in the
world His prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 25 books,
including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting (from McGraw-Hill). His
newest is The Million Dollar Consulting Toolkit (John Wiley and Sons). His
books have been on the curricula at Villanova, Temple University, and the
Wharton School of Business, and have been translated into German, Italian,
Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Chinese.
He is interviewed and quoted frequently in the media, and is an active member
of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. His career has
taken him to 55 countries and 49 states. (He is afraid to go to North Dakota.)
Success Magazine has cited him in an editorial devoted to his work as "a
worldwide expert in executive education." The New York Post calls him "one of
the most highly regarded independent consultants in America." He is the winner
of the prestigious Axiem Award for Excellence in Audio Presentation.
In 2006 he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American
Press Institute, the first-ever for a non-journalist, and one of only seven
awarded in the 60-year history of the association.
He has coached the former and present Miss Rhode Island/Miss America candidates
in interviewing skills. He once appeared on the popular American TV game show
Jeopardy, where he lost badly in the first round to a dancing waiter from Iowa.
Mastering Change: The Seven Keys to a world that will never be the same
Why Winners Win: The secrets of outstanding performance
Making the fourth sale first: How to build winning relationships
Empowering the customer: How to allow the buyer to buy
Ethical Management: The keys to doing well by doing right
Strategic Management: How to see what the competition can't
