Executive Connections LLC - Speaking Engagements

Jeff Gundersen is an experienced speaker offering insightful observations and in-depth information on a variety of topics of importance to executives as they seek to further their personal and professional growth.

"Jeff's presentation to CEO's and Presidents at the DMA Annual Conference included specific insights and actions steps to implement and create sustained growth. It is a must read speech and presentation for anyone running an agency business." Chairman, DMA Agency Council.

Jeff Gundersen, CEO and President of Executive Connections LLC, is an entertaining, results-oriented speaker who moves his audiences to action. As evidenced by his presentations, and by his active industry role as a high level executive search consultant, Jeff is committed to furthering knowledge and awareness of what it takes for today’s executive to succeed, both personally and professionally. He is a recognized leader on CEO leadership qualities and projects his personal brand of excellence in all of his presentations.

Because of his many connections and his reputation as an informative and entertaining speaker, Jeff is able to attract senior level audiences to the events in which he participates.

As a marketing and organizational consultant with over 20 years of experience, Jeff is an active participant as well as a significant contributor to the growth of the industries he serves, including Financial Services, Direct Marketing, Branding and Communications. Jeff is a student of industry “best practices" in areas including successful CEO leadership qualities, strategic planning in diversified marketing services companies, and achieving best-in-class performance in marketing and sales.

Jeff’s own professional connections are reflected in the content of his presentations where he often draws upon successful case histories usually involving his past clients, and including companies who are among the category leaders in their respective fields. Also, given Jeff’s broad access to senior executives, he frequently organizes and moderates panel discussions of senior executives discussing major issues including “how to excel at customer management", “building excellent marketing organizations in non-marketing cultures," and other similar topics related to growing businesses successfully.

Based upon his extensive experience, industry knowledge, and a wealth of connections, Jeff speaks insightfully and compellingly about a wide variety of topics, while also adapting his remarks, when needed, to the theme of a particular industry event or conference.

For booking information and fees please email us at:
connect@executiveconnects.com. Thank you for your interest!

Presentation Topics

Topics include:

What Every CEO Wants to Know
Are You the Breakthrough CEO Your Company Needs?
What It takes to be a Breakthrough Leader
Building a High Performance Marketing & Sales Organization in a Financial Services company
Managing your Personal Brand By Making Smarter Career Choices
Successful Career Strategies for Getting to the Next Level
Raising your Personal Brand Standards
Managing your Personal Career Search
Taking Charge of Your Personal Career Change Process
Leadership & Integrity: The New Paradigm

Key Note Topics

Jeff focuses on the following topics, among others, in providing Key Note presentations.

“Are You The Breakthrough CEO Your Agency Needs?"

Clearly, we are living in challenging business times that demand excellence and integrity from our CEO leaders. CEOs of agencies at every size level are evaluating what it takes to succeed in building and sustaining a successful business model. With this in mind, Jeff discusses the personal qualities that are most important in the success of the CEO. These include:

Being self-critical
Being a visionary and informed risk taker
Being a demonstrator of the agency’s core values
Having the right combination of ambition, tenacity and stamina

Jeff gives a clear definition of the questions that must be asked in order to move your company to the next level and the questions you must ask of yourself to understand if you are the person to lead this growth.

Building a World Class Marketing & Sales Organization

Are you trying to establish a marketing function in an organization which is finance or operations oriented? Does your company’s CEO say he wants to create a customer-centric business model but the company views marketing spending as a “nice to have" versus a necessary core competency?

Do you feel like marketing is a second class function in your company? Jeff gives tangible advice related to executives who have faced this very situation and successfully broken through to the next level. Jeff will share with you the insights from senior executives who have turned around marketing and earned a seat at the Board room table based upon demonstrating the value and profits world-class marketing can provide.

Company examples include AIG, IBM, and GE Capital, among others.

Managing Your Personal Brand - Making Smarter Career Decisions

What does it mean to manage your personal brand? Most of you are managing, or have managed, many large brands for a wide range of agencies, corporations and/or non-profit organizations. But have you ever applied this same thinking to you own career? How can this thinking help you to make smarter career decisions, especially decisions that will lead to a both a new beginning and an exciting and rewarding professional future.

Our experience suggests managing your personal brand requires an approach to making career choices consistent with a personal vision you create based upon your personal values.

Join Jeff as he shares how to begin the process of building your personal brand leading to living a values-based life created by the choices you make through having a clear and powerful vision.

For booking information and fees please email us at:
connect@executiveconnects.com. Thank you for your interest!