Dr. Nick Bontis
Leading Strategy & Management Expert
Dr. Nick Bontis is recognized internationally as a leading strategy and management guru. With humour and passion, he empowers individuals, teams and organizations to build their brainpower for high performance and sustainable competitive advantage. Results and benefits include: an improvement in the ability to manage change, increased productivity and efficiency, accelerated innovation, a decrease in cost and duplication, enhanced team collaboration and coordination, and retention of loyal and committed talent.
Dr. Nick Bontis is recognized internationally as a leading strategy and management guru. With humour and passion, he empowers individuals, teams and organizations to build their brainpower for high performance and sustainable competitive advantage. Tom Stewart, former editor of Fortune Magazine and Harvard Business Review, states that “he is not only a pioneer in the field of intellectual capital, but one of its real experts as well”.
Bontis’ expertise has been tapped by several Fortune 500 companies and even the United Nations who hand picked him for a high profile initiative. His ground-breaking doctoral dissertation is the #1 selling thesis in Canada, in all fields of study. He is an award-winning tenured professor of strategy and Maclean’s magazine has identified him as one of McMaster University’s most popular business professors for six years in a row! He has won dozens of teaching and research awards and is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, an exclusive honour only bestowed upon the top university professors in the country!
As a speaker, he delivers dynamic, high-energy presentations for both public and private sectors. His customized programs are a mix of entertaining humour, practical managerial tools, rigorous academic research, strategic consulting, and youthful exuberance. With wit and enthusiasm, Bontis captivates and enlightens audiences with his unique ability to cleverly disguise critical business content with an entertaining delivery. He provides personal, and team recommendations for improving individual, team and organizational effectiveness, leaving audiences with the tools, inspiration and impetus to accelerate their performance.
A Competitive Edge for Leaders
The average Fortune 500 company loses $64 million dollars a year because of ineffective knowledge sharing. Firms generally leverage only 2% of their employees' talent, which is also the #1 reason why employees leave their jobs. As your organization's leader, it is your responsibility to make sure that your firm is fully engaged and operating at optimum capacity. Unfortunately, some leaders misallocate their resources. Or worse, some leaders have no clue what strategic initiatives are necessary to achieve great performance. Let Dr. Bontis navigate you towards the best performance you have ever experienced. Using a unique causal modelling methodology he developed you will learn how to:- Understand exactly what impacts revenue and profit
- Decrease expenses by reducing waste
- Retain loyal and committed employees
- Appreciate exactly which investments are worth making
- Optimally allocate your scarce resources
Combating the Biggest Threat Ever! Organizational Dementia
Baby-boomers carry a massive amount of know-how in their heads and are generally responsible for the smooth functioning of almost every organization. They hold a lifetime of experience and expertise, and soon they will simply walk out the door. Capturing this intellectual capital (brainpower of the organization) before the imminent threat of retirement is a crucial task for every manager. However, do Gen Xers and Gen Yers realize their role in sustaining the memory of every organization. Furthermore, does your organizational leadership appreciate that something must be done now instead of later? During this presentation you will learn:- How to turn this pending threat into an advantage
- What challenges lay ahead
- How to ensure a smooth transition
- Why various scenarios of knowledge loss affect performance in different ways
- What you can do to retain more critical knowledge in the face of major turnover
Selling in the Nick of Time
Today's sales environment is competitive and complex, with businesses selling through many channels including direct marketing, value-added resellers and e-commerce. To stay ahead of the game you need to learn how to sell "in the Nick of time". The days when customers relied solely on the salesperson for information are long gone. Information is abundant and at everyone's fingertips. Successful salespeople use customer knowledge as their main competitive weapon for nurturing long-lasting relationships. Learn how to attain loyal and committed customers, with less effort then ever before.- Discover tomorrow's trends today, keeping you ahead of the curve
- Embrace the concept of "Re" which will keep you current and topical
- Learn the one sales tool that will have you working smarter not harder
- Empower the analytical skill within you to provide more than just information
- Experience synergies never before realized with your sales and marketing team
The Ultimate Performance Accelerating Activity for Teams
Employees spend in excess of 50% of their time looking for answers and then spend 20% of their time replicating answers for others. Is your team suffering from the same dilemma? Does your team seem to be spinning its wheels? High performance teams are supposed to harvest the synergy embedded in all of their members to create value above and beyond what each person could do on their own. During this inspirational and engaging presentation you will learn how to achieve your team's full potential as well as:- Enhance team collaboration and coordination
- Avoid waste and duplication costs
- Promote knowledge sharing vs. hoarding
- Accelerate your team's productivity
- Unleash new ideas and creativity
Think Ahead! Take a Knowledge Journey
Are you overwhelmed by information bombardment? Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? By the 1930's, all the information that existed in the world doubled every 30 years. By the 1970's, this rate shrunk to 7 years. Today, all the information that exists in the world, doubles every 11 hours! Information bombardment is the single most damaging threat to productivity. But, it doesn't have to be this way. Why not transform this threat into a sustainable competitive advantage for you and your firm? During this enlightening and action-packed presentation you will learn how to:- Cope with information bombardment
- Improve your ability to manage change
- Lift productivity and efficiency
- Speed up innovation
- Achieve industry leading competitiveness
“Immediate feedback indicates it was one of the most well received presentations we have offered in many years. The subject matter was fresh, the pace was perfect and your own energy level was infectious. For the duration of the convention, delegates were quoting your presentation and engaging in considerable discussion about it.”
“Do NOT design a conference program without considering him as your main event keynote speaker. He is, defacto, the reason why any one should attend an event he speaks at!”
“Nick's reputation as a world expert in his field is indisputable. However, the real magic occurs when he steps in front of a crowd. His charisma acts like a magnet and captures everyone's attention.”
“Not a single person left the room without a vision and a commitment!”
“Bontis' talent for forcing the audience to think differently was of great benefit – a completely new view on how organizations can be left behind should they decide not to change.”
“I personally very much enjoyed his dynamic and refreshing presentation. His efforts and dedication are already showing rewards.”
“He delivers true wisdom. I felt motivated to carry the message to almost anyone who would listen.”
“Dr. Bontis is an enthusiastic and engaging speaker. He articulates leading edge thinking”
“You leave his sessions not only feeling energized but having also learned so much!”
“He was the funniest, yet most insightful business speaker I have ever heard!”
“You did an outstanding job! The best speaker I've seen in 15 years! From humorous to inspirational speaking you have offered a motivational message like no other. You have brought excitement, expertise, and inspiration to the members of our group. Your topics were key in opening the mind with refreshing thoughts and visual gestures.”
“Dr. Bontis is engaging, entertaining, informative and thoroughly enjoyable! With delegates from around the world, his topic was timely and opened the eyes of everyone in the room. His interactive approach had the audience completely mesmerized. He should be at the top of everyone's "must have" list of speakers.”
“It has been my pleasure and great fortune to work with Nick Bontis over the last few years on many occasions. He has presented and facilitated at our Inaugural Executive Forum, Keynoted at our Annual Conference and other professional development programs for HRPA. Nick takes a strategic yet practical approach - meeting the needs of Strategic HR Partners, and adding a cornerstone of development for Human Resource professionals - so important in today's uncertain workplace environment. Nick's consultative process is thorough and thoughtful. We look forward to future opportunities to work with Nick and recommend him highly to others.”
“Nick Bontis is brilliant! He is one of the most energetic speakers I have ever met. Nick has the ability to bring his sessions to life. He is provocative and pushes the envelope in our thinking and how we do things. He does an amazing job in helping people focus on issues which would otherwise be brushed off as "unimportant" or "irrelevant". I have seen Nick at a few events and after every event I am left in awe of how he manages his audience and how he is able to engage the entire room. For our session, he was able to engage all levels of the organization in a fun and interactive way. He manages to create a sense of urgency and priority to the issue he is presenting. It is difficult to capture Nick's essence into words, but when trying to describe him and his presentations, the words talented and thought-provoking definitely come to mind. ”
“I was impressed by Nick's website, which intrigued me to pursue the possibility of Nick speaking to our customers at our annual customer conference; I'm glad I made the choice to partner with Nick for our event. The website is impressive, Nick in person is mind-blowing! I say that because admittedly, I feel as though we provided Nick with a very challenging topic to present on, he not only educated our audience, he engaged them, he entertained them and he left them feeling comfortable enough to approach him and start up a conversation as though they'd known him for years! Nick is unique in his delivery whether he's on stage or conversing one-on-one, he's refreshing to listen to and speak with and will definitely leave a lasting impression on anyone you choose to have him speak to! It was a pleasure meeting Nick and I look forward to the next opportunity we have to work with him!”
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