Kevin Freiberg

After 20 years of exposing the unconventional success strategies of businesses that are booming, Kevin Freiberg has distilled this collective wisdom into seven essential choices for building cultures of commitment and accountability. BOOM! 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual!, follows the Freibergs' hugely successful, award-winning, best sellers NUTS! Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-as-Usual, and the forthcoming publication, NANOVATION: How a Small Car Can Teach the World to Think Big.

Recently named one of the top “30 Best Minds on Leadership” by Leadership Excellence Magazine, Dr. Kevin Freiberg is among the most influential voices on the speaking circuit today. He is also among a select group of thought leaders working with Collective IQ, the top corporate venture advisor and platform in the world, to bring growth and innovation to their clients. His book NUTS! was hailed by the Financial Times as one of the top five global business books of the year.
 
As the founder and CEO of the San Diego Consulting Group, Inc. and its professional speaking firm, freibergs.com, Dr. Freiberg helps business leaders translate the winning strategies from enduring great companies into their own models of success. He is widely acknowledged for his expertise in helping clients build strong, purposeful cultures.
 
Dr. Freiberg helps business leaders better understand the impact of their choices, attitudes and behaviors on corporate culture and organizational performance. He has challenged corporate leaders all over the world to create unmatched productivity, customer service, and profitability by becoming faithful, devoted, hardworking servants of the people they lead. Dr. Freiberg has a global practice working with firms in Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, India, the Middle East, Central and South America, as well as companies throughout the United States and Canada.
 
Dr. Freiberg has worked with some of the world’s most admired companies—companies on the forefront of a revolution driving the new economy. A partial list of the firm’s clients include: American Express, Bank of America, Caterpillar, Century 21, ConocoPhillips, Coors Brewing Co, Eli Lilly, Ernst & Young, FedEx, General Electric, General Motors, Jack-in-the-Box, Inc, Major League Baseball, Merrill Lynch, Minolta, Nestle, Southwest Airlines, Sprint, Staples, State Farm Insurance, Unisys, U.S. Marine Corps, and Universal Studios.
 
Dr. Freiberg has appeared on CNBC, CBS Sunday Morning, and the CBS Morning News for his views on the critical links between leadership, corporate culture and exceptional customer loyalty. His articles and interviews have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Investor’s Business Daily.

Before becoming a full-time speaker and consultant, Dr. Freiberg taught for eight years at the University of San Diego and San Diego State University. He has a Master’s degree in Communication from San Diego State University and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of San Diego.

The Freibergs are active supporters of Voices for Children, an organization dedicated to defending foster children in the courts, and of Monarch High School, a first-of-its-kind high school for homeless children.

• 4. NANOVATION

  The international story of how Tata Motors and its young, whatever-it-takes, design team was able to accomplish the impossible through innovation, leadership, culture and laser like customer focus.  NANOVATION takes you behind the scenes and shows you how team Nano pushed itself to innovate beyond customer expectations, overcome adversity, and risk despite fear of failure to find elegant solutions to seemingly impossible problems; budget constraints; design restrictions; rising material costs; political agitation; and even consumer concerns.

• 3. LEGENDARY CULTURE

  Unleash Passion, Move with Speed, Create More Profit!
  
  Every organization has a culture. Is yours purposeful or accidental?
  
  What if your company had a reputation for being the BEST PLACE, where the BEST PEOPLE, could do their BEST WORK?
  
  We're talking serious competitive advantage! Your competitors would find it impossible to replicate the esprit de corps and productivity that comes from impassioned employees who proudly own your brand.
  
  In this presentation Kevin shows you what great companies do to build a branded YES-FAST CULTURE. Branded cultures are famous for being extraordinary magnets for world-class talent—places where the culture is as well known as the company's products and services. They are also places where people find a way to say YES fast—to each other, to the customer and to new ideas! YES-FAST inspires teamwork and radical collaboration, energizes employee engagement, creates speed-to-market, and inspires customer loyalty.
  
  Does your culture have a reputation for YES or NO?

• 2. GUTSY LEADERSHIP!

  A Call to Action for Changing Your World!
  
  Are you worthy of the employee and customer loyalty you desire?
  
  What if your leaders had the GUTS to move your organization in bold new directions, to get out on the lunatic fringe where new innovations are found? What if they could inspire employees to be champions of change rather than shrinking from it? What if they could equip people at all levels of the business to think and act like owners, to create a sacred bond with customers that inspires lifetime loyalty?
  
  In this speech Dr. Freiberg reveals the strategies employed by leaders who dare to be radically different, leaders who refuse to be held hostage by history (that's the way we've always done it) and the status quo. They are famous for creating cultures of freedom where creativity, experimentation and pushing the envelope are encouraged. Admired by their customers and envied by their competitors, these winners are establishing the NEW RULES by which others must play the game. Find out what it takes to be a leader people love to follow and create the kind of company everyone wants to work for.
  
  If you were going to be really brave today, what would you do?

• 1. BOOM!

  Be a Player. Think Big, Act Bold. Own Your Success at Work!
  
  The speech every leader wants to give, every employee wants to live.
  
  What if every person in your organization stopped making excuses and started making a difference? What if everyone in your company refused to be a victim and chose to be part of the solution—regardless of market conditions or circumstances? You would have a business that's BOOMING!
  
  BOOM! is about creating a culture of commitment and accountability—one choice at a time! It shows leaders how to inspire people to assume responsibility for the success of the business. It shows employees how to build a reputation for being indispensable—for "bringing it!"
  
  Leadership is a CHOICE, not a position or title. That's why your company's success is as much the will of the people as it is the will of the CEO. Kevin will inspire your people to step up to the plate of leadership, choose to become a positive force for change and do something extraordinary.

• Simply put, your presentation blew everybody away! As you know, our goal was to kick off our initial CFO Symposium series with a high impact, energetic speaker who would leave the audience wanting more. You fit that to a tee!
  Ernst & Young
• Kevin spent a great deal of time getting feedback with key leaders in our organization to ensure that he was addressing our issues precisely and targeting his message specifically to our audience. Kevin did a great job making his experience with Southwest Airlines, and other companies, relevant to our group. He inspired the group and, for two hours, took them outside the world of advertising to a different level of perspective. Kevin's presentation received the highest rating of the three components that were graded. Believe me this is high praise from a pretty critical bunch that do a lot of presenting themselves. We would highly recommend his presentation for groups that are interested in elevating their thinking about how to create a corporate culture that is rewarding to employees, clients and the bottom line.
  Integer Group
• Kevin Freiberg was sensational. He took key elements given in the presentations prior to his, regarding our industry's challenges, and was able weave them into his own message. I watched the room closely during his presentation and saw every face engaged. He spoke from the heart to the heart of our most important customers and our own corporate leadership.
  Interstate Hotels & Resorts

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  October 2007

  Boom!: 7 Choices For Blowing The Doors Off Business-As-Usual

  You are DESIGNED to choose and DEFINED by your choices. In front of you are seven choices waiting to be made. Whether you are the leader or those being lead, these choices will determine the quality of your life and the significance of your contribution to the world in which you work. These 7 choices are your wake-up call to freedom, and it's your invitation to create a community of like-minded people who will create unique organizations.

  
  
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  December 2003

  Guts! Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-as-Usual

  Although the leaders in the book represent a wide-range of industries, they share a common vision: They see business as a heroic cause and understand that good leadership isn't a matter of position, but of influence. They reject hierarchical rules, rituals, and expectations, and have replaced in-the-box management with a culture based on passion and innovation. They regard their employees not as "human resources," but as individuals with unique gifts and talents. And make everyone in the company responsible for the company's brand and culture.

  
  
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  November 1998

  Nuts! Southwest Airlines Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

  With unlimited access to the people and inside documents of Southwest Airlines, authors Kevin and Jackie Freiberg share the secrets behind the greatest success story in commercial aviation. Read it and discover how to transfer the Southwest inspiration to your own business and personal life.