Robert S. Tipton

Yes, I've done a few things over the years and people often want to do some research about their prospective speakers. Here are some bio-related highlights (that's biographical, not biological!). Thank you!

I'm a popular and entertaining speaker:

I speak each year to national and international business groups, seminars, conventions, conferences and technology organizations around the world. Not trying to brag (really but some of you like to know things like this), my style has earned me numerous best speaker awards at these events. If you book me, you'll be able to choose among these presentation categories:

     Getting Your "Being Right" to Ensure Your "Doing" Matters

     Innovation

     Strategic planning

     Organizational development and design

     Leadership

     Personal effectiveness and satisfaction

Over the past 30+ years (wow, that must be a typo), I've been:

     CEO of my own change management consulting firm

     CEO of my own IT strategies consulting firm

     CIO of a $1B+ distribution company

     VP / managing director for the integrated marketing group for a major online agency

     VP of corporate capabilities and communications for a significant professional services firm

     SVP of a major technology, strategy and creative company

     Global vice president of industry technology a major technology consulting firm

     CTO of a significant IT consulting company

Additionally, I'm also an active writer and author. Here is some of the stuff I've written:

     Written the book JUMP! Get Unstuck, Extraordinary Life Breakthroughs Using Innovative Change (http://www.OurJUMP.com)

     Written the book Untangling IT: 25 Years of Lessons in Effective IT Leadership

     Written more than 300 articles for various business and IT-related publications

     Wrote a book related to database implementations

     Wrote a chapter for IBM's book The Business Case for e-Business

     Written more than 15 white papers related to IT and business effectiveness issues (more than 500,000 copies distributed worldwide)

     Received numerous awards for my writing (including the Award of Achievement and Award of Merit) from the Society for Technical Communications

Finally, I am a past president of the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP), and a professional member of the National Speakers Association