Printable Biography of Glenn Llopis

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Glenn Llopis Mission Statement:   Trust Your Brand and Make Opportunity Matter (Moral Courage)
Helping individuals “trust their brand” and businesses “make opportunity matter” to create and sustain their momentum both in and outside of the workplace.

Current Situation:

Today’s global economic crisis has affected business and society; and has called for the entrepreneurial spirit from Fortune 500 C-Level Executives, Small Business owners and Citizens alike as we seek to create new industries and redefine the old industries that have lost their momentum.

Entrepreneurship is no longer just a business term any more, it now must represent a symbol for global prosperity, peace and social responsibility.  Innovation and Humanity must serve as one, in our undisputed and collaborative efforts to create new products & services, industries, leaders and opportunities the world-over.  We must all be entrepreneurs both in and outside of the workplace.   It is no longer a choice; it’s the “new normal.”

While we are not all born entrepreneurs, we all must now learn to embrace its new core principals; not only for the growth of the economy, but for humanity.   The characteristics of the “new normal” entrepreneur represents the following principals:

• Vision to See
• Courage to Sow
• Knowledge the Grow
• Wisdom to Share to Make the World a Better Place

Glenn Llopis Bio

Glenn Llopis, is the President/CEO of the Glenn Llopis Group (www.GlennLlopisGroup.com), Founder of the Center for Innovation and Humanity to be launched in October, 2009 (www.InnovationHumanity.com) and is known as “the opportunity expert”.  Mr. Llopis is the prototype of the new entrepreneur whose success lies in steadfast character, passion for life and an ability to marry social responsibility with ground-breaking products and services. He combines a celebrated UCLA education with fast-tracked years at the Gallo Wine Company and Sunkist where he became the youngest senior manager in the company’s 100+ year history. Leading the successful turnaround of Sunkist’s juice beverage division opened the door for his next endeavor, the vice president of the $1 billion Norway Seafood Co. at only 30 years old.

In the decade since, Llopis has parlayed his traditional experience into nontraditional ventures that have been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, The Financial Times, Advertising Age, Brandweek, MSNBC, Yahoo! News and others. He has also published more than 30 articles appearing in these and other business publications and has successfully launched (7) new business ventures.

Mr. Llopis has recently launched his highly anticipated new book, Earning Serendipity – 4 Skills for Creating and Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work (www.EarningSerendipity.com).   He also serves at the Chairman of the Executive-2-Executive Mentoring Program at the University of California at Irvine, and Faculty Lecturer at the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics at Chapman University, and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.  He also serves as a educator for Junior Achievement and is the founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership (www.CenterforHispanicLeadership.com).   Glenn actively serves on the distinguished (2) non-profit innovation think-tank groups:  Kellogg Innovation Network in Association with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (www.KINGlobal.org) and Renaissance Weekend (www.RenaissanceWeekend.org).

Glenn Llopis in the Media:

Opportunity Expert, and Author, Glenn Llopis has sparked quite the media hype with the launch of his highly anticipated book, Earning Serendipity: 4Skills for Creating and Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work, that was officially released on May 1, 2009.

Both media and corporate audiences have responded with high acclaim.  Llopis has participated in programs that have attracted both mainstream and Hispanic audiences. Llopis has been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox local Morning and Lifestyle shows in more than 20 markets and has been featured on  two of Univision’s nationally broadcasted shows - Al Punto, hosted by Jorge Ramos and Premier Impacto hosted by Satcha Pretto.   Llopis currently is featured on a weekly segment with Dunia Elvir on Telemundo, Los Angeles. Llopis’ views on entrepreneurship, trusting/redefining your brand purpose, the immigrant advantage in business and why women will influence and reshape the economy have captivated media audiences during these uncertain times.

To see some of Mr. Llopis’ media clips go to: www.glennllopisgroup.com/GLG-press-room.php

Keynote / Training Topic Summaries

1. Moving through Changing Times and Finding Your Competitive Edge

I have often said that the immigrant (people from developing countries that have made the United States their home) can teach us all lessons about moving through changing times. The immigrant has lived through uncertain times most of their lives and have been forced to operate with the "entrepreneurial mindset" just to survive. These uncertain times have forced us all to change the way we live, work, eat and breathe. Think about it – the world will never be the same. So the question is – how do we move through these changing times to see and seize opportunities? How do organizations lead, grow and prosper by accepting "the new normal." First and foremost, "the new normal" during these uncertain times is defining your business as one that serves a civic duty towards building global prosperity. Businesses are no longer about the bottom line – but rather about making the bottom line matter; making opportunity matter to make the world a better place.

Moving through changing times is about understanding that change without strategy is substitution; not evolution. That leading companies must start to think differently about the role of their business in propelling positive social impact/change. Companies must rethink / retool their workplace culture that incentivizes their people to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset to propel innovation and initiative. A mindset that respects the corporate guidelines and infrastructure while allowing its people to navigate fresh / new opportunities that matter for the betterment of society.

This keynote / training session will include (but are not limited to):

• What is change and how to make change your best friend?

• Building global prosperity through innovation, action and the power of positive
   serendipity

• How to best see and seize opportunity during times of change.

• Social responsibility: its new role in defining the 21st century workplace culture.

• The new roles, responsibilities and capabilities of leaders and managers

2. Opening Doors for a Positive Lifestyle

With the news, images and realities of what is now and what will forever be characterized as the global economy; people are seeking a positive lifestyle that is attainable and sustainable. Opening Doors for a Positive Lifestyle means learning how to see and seize opportunities for a healthier, wealthier and stimulating life. With the uncertainties of the day, new opportunities abound and are more plentiful than ever before. Organizations’ must become more attuned to providing their employees an environment that breeds inspiration, motivation and hope. Offering channels to seek new and exciting activities (both in and outside of the workplace) to propel creativity and unlimited opportunity for personal and professional development, is the key.

Opening Doors for a Positive Lifestyle should become the core of what an organization stands for its employees. An environment that breeds "lifestyle development" and that extends towards creating a more balanced approached to ones everyday both in and outside of the workplace. A big part of the process requires that organizations provide their employees the tools and environment to "trust their brand." Trusting your brand is about opening doors for a positive lifestyle and learning how to navigate the potential that lies within you – through others. It’s about having the courage to live your brand and the positive lifestyle that you have always dreamed of living.

This keynote / training session will include (but are not limited to):

• Personal development and the role of a positive lifestyle and its impact on 
  workplace productivity

• What it means to have the courage to live the lifestyle that you seek and how to
  attain it both in and outside of the workplace.

• How learning to see, sow, grow and share opportunities represents the path to a
  lifestyle of prosperity

• What it means to Trust Your Brand and how adversity reveals the lifestyle that you
  may have never imagined.

• Create Purpose for a Positive Lifestyle that benefits you and those around you.

3. Multigenerational Workforce and the Changing Landscape of America’s
    Corporations

Without question, the workplace is changing in a direction most would have thought unimaginable 18 months ago. The economy has created a domino effect of change management requirements that have included but are not limited to: the role of technology, environmentally-friendly products/services, new supply-chain collaboration and cost-cutting methods, global trade, resourcing and outsourcing, etc. Yet, the most impactful change management requirement has been the emergence of the multigenerational workplace (ie. Boomers, Gen X’ers and Millennials) - and the soon to be inclusion of the multicultural workforce. A multigenerational workplace does not only represent (3) clusters of multigenerational people that co-exist at work; it’s about blending multiple personalities, age groups, styles, cultures and technological requirements all under one roof – while still keeping the organization focused, stable and growing.

To understand this, one must live it. There is not enough empirical data to conclusively teach how to best lead and optimize the performance of a multigenerational workforce. However, we can conclude from the core characteristics that they represent - that the (3) generational clusters offer a powerful blend of minds, capabilities, raw talent and skills-sets that can surge companies in directions never thought possible in today’s global economy.

This keynote / training session will include (but are not limited to):

• The (4) C’s of Millennial Engagement: Career, Culture, Community and 
   Connectivity

• "Third-Age Boomers": Why the economy has forced those that were thinking about 
  retiring to extend their careers. What is required of employers / employees to
  reclaim the fire.

• The dynamic role of cross generational mentoring and reverse mentoring

• Why trust and collaboration serve to keep the Prophets (Boomers), Nomads (Gen-
  X) and Heroes (Millennials) in alignment.

• How social responsibility initiatives is a common thread to propel multigenerational unity

• Why knowing how to identify the 4 types of personality traits in the workplace (ie.
  leaders, lifters, loafers and leeches) can help propel teambuilding amongst the
  generational clusters.

4. Effective Teambuilding and Making Opportunity Matter

As companies work toward steering their organizational productivity in the right direction – the role of effective teambuilding is more critical than ever. Effective teambuilding is not quite what it used to be as survival, trust and loyalty serve as barriers toward development. Today, teambuilding is more a by-product of great hiring, training, independent thinking and personal development nurturing – especially at a time where multigenerational and corporate diversity is on the rise.

People thrive off of recognition, reward and the challenge to grow and prosper. However, the most effective teams are those that complement each other and can serve to work together toward a common goal and / or mission. Market and industry leading companies create a workplace culture to breed high performance, low maintenance teams whose personalities are balanced and from a collective nucleus that stems from the healthy whole of its individual parts. The goal is to assemble a team that can collectively see and seize the abundant opportunities that lie around, beneath and beyond the obvious to thus enlarge the field of opportunities. Effective teambuilding is about making opportunity matter to assure that "time & return" serve as two sides of the same coin. A team that works within the confines of structured methodology that rewards independent thinking to propel innovation and initiative is the key to productivity and an organization’s desired results.

This keynote / training session will include (but are not limited to):

• Highly interactive exercises that identify how one sees, sows, grows and shares 
  opportunity and how it can result into effective teambuilding for the organization

• The role of managers and leaders in sharing effective teambuilding across
  departmental and functional areas to key to propel innovation and initiative for the 
  organization.

• What it means to create and sustain teambuilding momentum and the role of
  each individual team member

• Why effective teambuilding propels sustainable productivity and contributes
  greatly to organizational performance.

5. Strategic Thinking and Decision Making As We Transition from a Knowledge
     Economy into a Wisdom Economy

The effects of today’s global economy have put many things into perspective. More than ever, we can sense change looming around us and how this change might impact the sustainability of an organization, its people; and the relevancy of its products, services and brands. The economy has made us all reflect upon what it means to be a strategic thinker and the role of strategic thinking in propelling innovation and initiative for organizations and industries the world over. Yet, one thing is certain: we are evolving from the knowledge economy to the wisdom economy. An economy that is not born from theory and rhetoric; but one that is reshaped from experience, trial and error and the lessons learned from missed opportunities.

Opportunity is by far and large the mother of success. Strategic thinking is no longer about how to find the opportunities – but how the opportunities find you. I call it the ability to "earn serendipity" - by learning how to think and lead like a seasoned entrepreneur that has mastered the 4-skills of seeing, sowing, growing and sharing opportunity. Strategic thinking (like earning serendipity) is both an art and science. At times we witness one who seems to be in the midst of a lucky streak. But what appears to be one opportunity, one windfall, one great experience after another is actually the natural byproduct of the 4-skills applied on a continual basis. Strategic thinking is not governed by chance alone as there are certain occurrences that cannot be fully explained or controlled. The key is how to apply and knowing when to deploy the art & science of strategic thinking as we transition into the wisdom economy.

This keynote / training session will include (but are not limited to):

• Strategic thinking and the paradigm shift for the global economy: why we all must
  be thinkers

• Knowledge vs. Wisdom Economy: the impact on the way with think, act and
  behave as leaders and managers

• Building global prosperity through innovation, action and the power of positive
  serendipity

• Interactive exercises that feature timeless lessons learned from Google, Amazon,
  IKEA, Costco and Thomas Edison.

6. Trust Your Brand and Redefine Your Purpose

The most valuable asset any organization has is its people. Today, however, most employees are being utilized to "do," not "think." During today’s uncertain times, organizations must better understand their people, their talent, skills sets and how they might play a more productive and rewarding role, maximizing their contribution to their companies. Trust Your Brand is a method of teaching that personal empowerment is about building momentum through others for the betterment of a healthy whole. Trust Your Brand allows leaders and managers within an organization to better assess the strengths and weaknesses of the teams they lead. Understanding this means deploying a team that is happier and better suited to their assigned tasks; which means greater productivity and return on a company’s labor investment.

Trust Your Brand is also about optimizing ones personal brand within the workplace. Everyone seeks an identity and for most, their identity is misrepresented. With organization’s attempting to reinvent themselves, the first place they should start is with their people. Companies are in the process of reinventing themselves and this should start from within. People desire growth and development. If leaders create systems that promote "Trust" - from the bottom-up - a more prosperous and productive workplace will emerge.

Trust Your Brand is teaching individuals how to maximize the value, inherent strengths, capabilities and overall performance of one’s personal brand to reach their dreams and improve their quality of life. For organizations, the Trust Your Brand is designed to help managers give their employees personal relevancy and purpose in order to optimize their performance and profitability for the company.

This keynote / training session will focus on how and why organizations must view people as not only their most valuable asset, but as brand extensions of the organization. Key topic themes include (but are not limited to):

• The Power of Aligning Your Personal Brand with Your Company’s Mission, Values
   and Culture

• Create Purpose for Your Brand through and for Others

• Build Brand Momentum Even When You Think You Can’t

• Confidence vs. Self Trust: How they Both Play in the Equation

• When Living Your Brand, Opens New Opportunities that you Previously Couldn’t
  See and Seize

7. Advancement of Women in Business: The Essential Difference

It has been said time and time again that women have come a long way. In business we now consider this to be fact. Nearly 51% of women are in managerial or professional occupations, according to Catalyst (2008). More women are obtaining MBAs than ever before in history and the landscape of Corporate America has changed drastically. Yet, although major strides have been made by women in every industry - there are only 28 female CEOs in the Fortune 1000 companies (Catalyst, 2009).

Companies are more inclined, than ever before, to promote women knowing the benefits and profitability that entails. In a recent study by Pepperdine University women in top positions reported beating the industry average in terms of productivity and profitability (Womenomics, 2009). It is clear that women, unequivocally, are reshaping the landscape of business. After decades of misrepresentation and isolation, it is becoming quite evident that women are redefining themselves both in and outside of the workplace. From their relationship development skills, to their emotional intelligence savvy (amongst many others innate talents), women are reintroducing the fundamental success principals into business.

This keynote / training session focuses on the advancement of women in both leadership and management positions – and why their inherent capabilities provide the essential ingredients for success during today’s changing times. Key topic themes include (but are not limited to):

• Principles of Leadership: the qualities necessary for leading others, gaining the
  respect necessary to influence your team, focusing on your strengths to determine
  which leadership style best suits you, learning how to manage different
  personalities, identifying your personal brand and how that relates to others.

• Communication and Interpersonal Skills – conversation as a coaching and
  performance resource, oral and written business communication skills, body
  language and conflict resolution.

• Performance Management – successfully managing yourself, your team and other
  coworkers, techniques to help you focus strategically, emotional intelligence,
  delegation and motivation.

• Opportunity Experts – why women are inherently gifted in seeing and seizing
  opportunity.

8. Entrepreneurship: the New Normal for Today’s Workplace Culture

When you ask people the words they associate with Innovation, they say "creativity, new, different, and risky." Yet, the most compelling association with the word Innovation is Courage. The greatest innovations of our time were born from people that had the courage to sow their ideas / ideals and give them life. Could you image what the world would be like if we all had the courage to sow our ideas / ideals? Innovation would be abundant, new communities would form; we would all live in a much happier and wealthier place.

Having the courage to innovate is being able to embrace the Entrepreneurial spirit; allowing risk to become your best friend, responsibly. People from developing countries are known as informal entrepreneurs because they had to innovate and create new opportunities, just to survive. In the US, we have had the privileges of education and a system of capitalism to avoid daily survival tactics and thus have viewed Entrepreneurship as a strategic opportunity for wealth creation.

With the recent economic crisis in the United States, that has affected the world economy, there is a new found demand for the entrepreneur as we seek to create new industries as the old ones have lost their momentum. However, entrepreneurship is no longer than about innovation and wealth creation. It is now the symbol for global prosperity, humanitarianism, social responsibility and the formation / creation of new products, industries, and opportunities for the world. We must all be entrepreneurs both in and outside of the workplace. It is no longer a choice; it’s the "new normal."

While we are not all born entrepreneurs, we all must now learn to embrace its new core principals; not only for the growth of the economy, but for humanity. The characteristics of the "new normal" entrepreneur represents the following principals:

• Vision to See
• Courage to Sow
• Knowledge to Grow
• Wisdom to Share

This keynote / training session will teach individuals and organizations what it means to be an  entrepreneur and how the emerging role and characteristics for manager and leaders. Key topics for discussion include (but are not limited to):

• Why We Have All Been Shaped to Be, But Not Act Like Entrepreneurs

• How Managers can Propel Innovation, Initiative and High-Performance within the
  Organization

• The Emerging Role of Crowdsourcing and its role in Teambuilding, Ideation and 
  Performance Stimulation

• Why We are Transitioning from a Knowledge Economy to a Wisdom Economy

• The New Normal role of C-Level Executive in Leading a More Forward-Thinking 
  Organization

9. Leveraging Technology to Build Loyal Communities for Your Products/Services

The role of technology has changed the landscape of business models, communications, client relationships, brand-building and the formation of social networking communities. Technology has forced us all to rely on automated systems; and the impact of technology has changed the face of the workplace (ie. “the millennials”). But the reality is that technology represents the “new normal” and organizations must learn to embrace technology in order to grow and compete.

While technology represents one of the largest paradigm shifts in recent history; it is too powerful a tool to ignore. As such, more than ever, companies large and small are learning to embrace technology as part of their everyday. However, few quite understand the breadth and depth of what technology can deliver to help streamline operating functions, costs and the efficiencies of an organization to help build long-lasting client loyalty.

This keynote / training session will helps transition a company from a traditional brick & mortar operation to one that is more digital / technology-friendly. Key topics for discussion include (but not limited to):

• How the process of leveraging technology in the workplace has more to do with
  eliminating the fears associated with the “unknowns” that technology brings to an
  organization. The focus should be in teaching companies and its people how to
  see and seize the opportunities that technology presents.

• Social Networking & Emerging Internet Technologies: The role of social
  networking in the workplace and how it can deliver new opportunities to increase
  output, cost efficiencies, project management productivity, spark teambuilding and
  relationships.

a. Note: Mr. Llopis was a lead panelist for IBM’s 2009 Global Entrepreneurship
    program titled: Emerging Internet Technologies. Please listen to the following
    link:
i. http://www.glennllopis.com/digital-webcasts-archive.php

• Multigenerational Workplace Culture

a. How technology has accelerated the skill-set requirements in the workplace and 
    how multigenerational cultures are growing and breeding new levels / types of
    talent. How technology can serve to unite these groups to more effectively work
    and engage more productively.