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Barry Wishner has served as
an adviser to business leaders since 1993 when he began his personal,
in-depth interviews with more than 350 Fortune 500 CEOs and another
2000 high-powered business leaders, news-making entrepreneurs, and
ground breaking mavericks and in the process he has identified The
DNA Of The World's Most Admired Leaders and How They Get To The
Top And Stay There.
His ongoing research studies include: How Remarkable CEOs Use
Business Execution As The Competitive Edge; How America's
Most Talented Presidents and CEOs Use Uncommon Leadership To Stay
On Top; Study of Executive Assistants to Fortune 500 CEOs;
and a Global CEO Study of Timeless Leadership Styles.
Barry has been a maverick in the business world for over 30 years,
a cutting edge entrepreneur who likes nothing better than creating
and running unique companies. After working for large organizations
(Saga and Marriott) he decided to pursue the American Dream and
started his own business, ProFormance, a management consulting firm
with over $50 million in revenues. His company owned and operated
a variety of businesses including management consulting for the
health care industry, an innovative and award-winning restaurant
in Santa Monica, California and designing, building and operating
retirement communities in California and Nevada.
From Brooklyn to the Boardroom, Barry's career has been a rags-to-riches
story. Growing up in humble circumstances, he adopted "Street Smarts"
to survive and to fight for what he wanted. Being a maverick came
naturally and B.S., "Brooklyn Smarts" have become his life lessons:
quitting is easy, living with the quitting is the hard part;
give it your best shot; take risks and laugh at failure.
Barry's belief that life is a do-over (just because you fail
once doesn't mean you don't get a second chance) has given him the
curiosity and courage to question everything.
He obtained scholarships to Pratt Institute and then graduate school
at CCNY (alma mater of Intel CEO Andy Grove and Colin Powell). After
college he joined the Air Force as a Captain where he was a hospital
administrator under the Surgeon General. He has been an adjunct
professor at Golden Gate University (where he lectured on High Performance
Leadership), City College of San Francisco's Business School, and
Canada College Management School.
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A civic leader who supports his community, Barry donates his
time and energy by serving as a Consultant to the American Heart
Association, and board member for the Santa Clara Methodist
Retirement Foundation, Jewish Welfare Federation, the Japanese
Federation, and the Elks.
Barry's fun and entertaining speaking style comes from his early
childhood performances on NBC doing juggling and magic with
his father, the original "Magic Clown," and Shari Lewis & Lamb
Chop.
He has been called the down-to-earth business speaker
who takes complex ideas and distills them into everyday language.
From the hundreds of engagements with thousands of business
people (senior executives, managers, top producers and entrepreneurs),
audiences have praised him with quotes like "Barry has the
passion of Tom Peters (In Search Of Excellence) and the
content of Jim Collins (Good To Great)." |
Barry Wishner Is A Business Agitator who provokes people
to take action as he challenges all their previously held assumptions.
An advisor and confidant to America's most successful business leaders,
Barry provides compelling observations on what makes them tick.
A newsmaker who is often featured in USA Today, The Los
Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and CNN Financial
News, Barry's forthcoming book, DONE! The Only Business Principle
That Matters, is scheduled for release in 2008.
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