David Nour

David Nour is a social networking strategist and one of the foremost thought leaders on the quantifiable value of business relationships.  In a global economy that is becoming increasingly disconnected, The Nour Group, Inc. is solving global client challenges with intracompany, as well as externally focused, Strategic Relationship Planning™.

A native of Iran, David came to the U.S. with a suitcase, $100, limited family ties and no fluency in English!  In the past 25 years, he has built an impressive career of entrepreneurial success, both within large corporations and early stage ventures. 

David is the author of Relationship Economics, a senior management advisor, and a featured speaker for corporate, association and academic forums, where he shares his knowledge and experience as a leading change agent and visionary for Relationship Economics® - the art and science of relationships.
 
In addition to serving his community as a former board member of the Center for Puppetry Arts, and a former co-chair of the United Way Tech Initiative, The Bridge, and the High Tech Ministries, David is also an active member of several professional organizations, including the Association for Corporate Growth, American Management Association, Institute of Management Consultants and the Society of International Business Fellows. 

David has been previously named to Georgia Trend’s 40 Under 40, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Up and Coming and Who’s Who in Atlanta Technology Awards.  His thought leadership have been featured in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, Georgia Trend, SmartMoney.com and Entrepreneur Magazines.

David earned an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University where he's often a guest lecturer, and a BA degree in Management from Georgia State University.

• 7. Introspective Leadership™ - The Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Next Generation of Leaders

  Learn what today's successful executives consider their most valuable lessons learned along the way. How do they define resilience? What are the biggest leadership challenges and opportunities of their generation? Who were their mentors and what did they teach them?

• 6. Flight Risk™ - Why Most High Potentials Leave!

  All of those A-players you've spent time, effort, and resources recruiting are walking out the door. Maybe not physically, but certainly mentally. Learn why they leave and how to keep four generations of diverse workforce wanting to stay.

• 5. The Immigrant Success DNA - What You Can Learn from Their Drive to Succeed

  First generation immigrants are four times more likely to become millionaires in this country than those of us who were born here. Why? This compelling presentation uses a series of immigrant success stories to convey their inherent drive, commitment, work ethic, and dedication to personal and professional development.

• 4. 7Ms of Intrapreneurial Success - How to Thrive Amidst Mediocrity

  Many of the "Must Have" characteristics and success factors we admire about entrepreneurs are applicable within large, complex organizations as well. Learn the actionable steps required to take any idea to a world-class product or service. Particularly relevant to organizations that have acquired smaller, more agile companies. Learn how to keep them thriving!

• 3. Adaptive Innovation™

  If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. True innovation requires invention plus implementation. Learn how to think beyond classical methodologies towards new approaches to fostering innovation and generating quantifiable results.

• 2. Social Networking: Best Practices for Personal and Professional Success

  In an unprecedented fashion, web-based social networking technologies are changing the very essence of many industries. Blogs and forums are being used to create awareness while social networking applications can be leveraged to create dialogue with customers, suppliers, investors, media and the like. These enabling technologies can create enduring and highly differentiated strategic success.
  
  Social Networking is enhancing the basic tenets of business-to-business interactions. Many of the processes and technologies you need to embrace as a leader are not only the future of delivering exceptional experiences tomorrow, but also best practices in how to engage a very diverse group of constituents today; diversity in mindset, toolset and roadmap! Social networking tools are helping clients such as Disney, Siemens, and KPMG to name a few, facilitate strong and meaningful collaboration, communication and relationships within and external to their teams and organizations.
  
  B2B Social Networking - from LinkedIn® to ZoomInfo, Spoke, Twitter, Second Life and Jigsaw, whether you're trying to attract and retain top notch talent, to prospect for new customers in new markets, or create alliance relationships to extend your market reach, social networking applications are here to stay! In this highly interactive session, the audience will be exposed to a series of best practices to incorporate social networking applications into their individual efforts.
  
  (Optional) In a hands-on, highly interactive, mini-workshop format, we'll critique your online presence, review templates of best practices, and discuss how to leverage article marketing via applications such as Twitter, Digg, Slideshare and multiple article distribution engines. We'll also discuss and review tools for you to build your own private social network via Ning and IntroNetworks to name a few.

• 1. Relationship Economics

  Your personal and professional success depends on the diversity and quality of your relationships with others. Yet most of us don't spend enough time building and nurturing the key relationships we need to achieve success. That's where Relationship Economics® comes into play.
  
  Relationship Economics isn't about networking. It's about learning how to invest in people for an extraordinary return. It's about exchanging Relationship Currency®, accumulating Reputation Capital® and building your Professional Net Worth®. It's about learning the art and science of relationships.
  
  David Nour, Founder of Relationship Economics has developed a unique transformation process of individuals, teams, and corporations in the way they build, nurture, and leverage their personal, functional, and strategic relationships. This framework provides a focused road map for individuals and organizations to:·Develop new skill sets in building productive and value-based relationships towards achievement of quantifiable goals
  ·Leverage personal relationships to convert strategies into execution
  ·Build a disciplined follow up plan to nurture and grow lasting relationships
  
  
  The results from implementing these methodologies provide the participant with changed behavioural skills in seeking contacts aggressively, finding ways to help others and capitalizing on diverse relationships.

• 
  March 2009

  The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Capital

  The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Capital, designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the money-raising maze, shows how to attract financing to fund the start-up and growth phases any business moves through. It answers the most common questions entrepreneurs have about financing a business. This book provides real-life, pragmatic advice from entrepreneurs who have raised money from friends, family, angel investors, and banks, as well as institutional investors such as venture capitalists and private equity firms.

  
  
• 
  September 2008

  Relationship Economics

  Relationship Economics takes a unique and strategic view of business relationships as a platform for long-term business growth and success. This goes far beyond simplistic

  
  
• 
  January 1998

  ConnectAbility: 8 Keys to Building Strong Partnershils with Your Colleagues and Your Customers

  Drawing from the powerful lessons of emotional awareness and relationship dynamics, ConnectAbility promotes a sophisticated yet simple method for developing superior partnerships guaranteed to create quality results on a consistent basis. Even the best-intentioned team players too often focus more on communicating their own ideas than hearing and understanding what others have to say.