Today's Top Leaders Have it...Do you?

Many of today's world-class CEOs are turning to a new breed of adviser - the Thinking Partner - to enhance their own leadership decisions. Thinking Partners provide a valuable third opinion - frank feedback, insightful questions, multiple-company experience, and bold challenges - with no agenda other than making the CEO wildly successful. In short, they provide Outside Insight.

It truly is lonely at the top...

Outside Insight is critical for a CEO who wants to overcome obstacles to effective strategic and operational decision-making:

• The most effective strategies incorporate insights from many vantage points outside the firm.

• Management - sources of the CEO's second opinion - have vested interests. Frank, agenda-free feedback is impossible.

• The confidentiality of some critical issues precludes discussions with the inner-company circle - or even the board.

• Making oneself vulnerable to the team can undermine a CEO's perceived leadership.

It truly is lonely at the top... without a Thinking Partner.

...without a Thinking Partner like Bill Marquard

Bill Marquard has served as a Thinking Partner in some of the world's greatest firms, including Meijer, McDonald's, and Disney.

• As a consultant, he designed and ran Wal*Mart's first-ever strategic planning process.
• As a Fortune 200 executive himself, he has walked the C-level executives' path.
• As an author, his book Wal-Smart: Insider Strategies for Profiting in a Wal*Mart World will redefine corporate strategy.
• As an adjunct professor in Kellogg's top-ranked MBA program, he taught corporate restructuring to 2nd-year MBAs.
• As a Thinking Partner, he has served in the corner office and the boardroom for numerous top leaders.

Click here for Bill's bio.