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"If we don't explicitly and intentionally choose a strategy -- and then execute it vigilantly -- we will lose. If we don't make tough choices as a leader, our people will lose. If we don't make explicit people, process, technology, and culture choices, our business transformation will lose."- Bill Marquard

Bill applies this central theme, choose or lose, to a wide variety of in-demand business topics:

Bill's sessions focus on sharing pragmatic, practical tools that leaders can implement immediately to improve their organizations and their teams. This isn't about the theory of management or the theory of strategy - it's about how to make it work today...and sustain it tomorrow.

Bill Marquard is uniquely qualified to connect with your audience...

  • ...because he designed and ran Wal-Mart's first-ever strategic planning process
  • ...because he's been in their shoes -- as the executive vice president of a Fortune 200 company.
  • ...because he's advised them -- as a consultant and partner for Ernst & Young and a Managing Director of Marble Leadership Partners
  • ...because he's taught them -- as an adjunct professor of finance at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management
  • ...because, like most leaders, he has succeeded - and he also has failed.

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Wal-Smart: What it Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World

For competitors, vendors, employees, and communities, whether directly impacted by Wal-Mart or not, this presentation lays out the clear case for explicit decisions that any company needs to make to survive and thrive in the Wal-Mart economy. The presentation is based on Bill's book of the same name which McGraw-Hill will publish later this year.

What Your Industry Can Learn from Wal-Mart

For organizations in other industries, this presentation relates many of Wal-Mart's key "choose or lose" leadership principles to a broad swath of industries and organizations.

The Holy Grail of Leadership: Lessons from Monty Python

This interactive session derives powerful leadership lessons from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the related Broadway hit Spamalot. The presentation connects with and entertains the audience via memories of this nostalgic cult classic. It also teaches several insightful lessons from leadership which are made even more memorable by their linkage to many movie scenes that are audience favorites.

Find the AND: The Emerging Role of Corporate Stewardship

Bill describes how corporations can satisfy their social and environmental responsibility and be consistent with their own corporate strategies and profit goals.

Strategic Planning: Strategy is the Elimination of Options

Bill's core message is that strategy is the elimination of options. Most companies have many more ideas than they have resources to implement those ideas. Effective strategic planning is not as much about creativity and expanding ideas as it is focusing on the limited set of "high impact" ideas that the company can successfully deliver during the current planning cycle.

Leadership Tools You Can Use Today

Bill focuses on practical tools such as his proprietary Leading with G.R.A.C.E.sm model to intentionally build accountability into the corporate culture by forcing choices; the P+V Modelsm, which enables a simple but very effective way to recognize and deal with the "passive aggressive" managers waiting in the wings to derail a change effort by assessing both their performance (the "P") and their value system (the "V"); and the "mentor test" to help executives choose the right leaders to drive their organizations forward.