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With Pam’s coaching and mentoring, we increased our gross profits 300%.
Evan Chait,
President, Elite Athletic Performance Institute
and Kinetic Physical Therapy

Your facilitation enabled us to arrive at consensus on key strategic and business planning issues. Your insights helped us develop ideas and action plans for increasing our effectiveness as an executive team.
Mark Newman,
Chairman of the Board / President / CEO,
DRS Technologies

Pam Harper is a person whom I consider top-notch at asking the tough questions and helping organizations bring new strategies to life.
Tom Schlick,
Vice President, Service Operations,
Sterilmed

Over the years, your personal coaching enabled me to lead my organization to exceed performance expectations…, and to more effectively visualize and prepare for the unexpected moments that occur when engaging business relationships. I always felt like I walked away with a ‘nugget of gold’.
Dennis Gershowitz
Former Vice President
Alfa Wassermann US

I found your article on dealing with change to be spot on and full of good advice.
Scott Melville
President and CEO
Consumer Healthcare Products Association

Your session had rave reviews.
Faye Carter-Powell
Deputy Director
National Association of Elevator Contractors

You were informative, engaging, and witty, and you challenged us to expand our thinking… We look forward to having you as presenters at a future CHPA event.
Theodore L. Peterson
Vice President, Corporate Development
Consumer Healthcare Products Association

You brought enthusiasm, wit and hands-on insights to your presentation and you engaged and enriched our members with your skill….you are a fine speaker and an insightful coach, and I know from reviewing the session evaluations that our members were extremely pleased to have you with us.
Maureen Wild
Former Programs Director
Meeting Planners International – New Jersey

Pam has the strategic aptitude to help people think about their challenges and opportunities in new and unexpected ways. This leads her clients to discover more options, deploy new strategies and ultimately, achieve the results they seek.
Angie Katselianos
President
Platinum Performance International Srl.

It was a pleasure having you share your wisdom and expertise with me and my audience today. You inspired and helped many people around the world. Thanks for classing up my show.”
Jim Blasingame
Host
Small Business Advocate Radio Show

As a result of the leadership of Pam Harper, the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Accreditation for Home Care has bonded as a group as never before. New Trustees have been introduced to our vision and mission, and those who have served for many years see CAHC in ways never envisioned before.
Lita Talbot
President, Board of Trustees
Barbara Cording, Executive Director

I am very proud of the managerial and employee communications and feedback process, which we established through your consultation. This process could not have been achieved without your involvement
Sharon Brown, Former Vice President, JM Huber Engineered Minerals

As a result of Pam’s insights, our board was better able to develop new strategies expanding into areas we never thought we would be entering into. We have increased membership participation, knowing membership retention and growth will be following right behind.”
Joyce Burkard
Executive Director
Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA)

Pam Harper’s ideas and insights provide Dollars In The Bank for companies that want to accelerate progress from strategy to execution.
Gary Patterson, FiscalDoctor

If you are responsible for devising and/or implementing a business plan, then tune into Pam Harper. Like an ace traffic reporter, she will warn you about the organizational snarls that may lie ahead and help you plan any necessary detours.
Alexandra R. Lajoux,
Chief Knowledge Officer,
National Association of Corporate Directors,
Author, “The Art of M&A Integration”

Your presentation was very well received. Our members found you informative and insightful.”
Linda Klose,
Executive Director
AeA

The attendees enjoyed your presentation. It sounds as though you definitely gave each attendee something of value to use in their business.
Joyce Burkard, Executive Director, Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA)

Pamela Harper is an engaging and energetic presenter who is sure to enliven just about any panel or seminar.
Drew Neisser,
President & CEO
Renegade Marketing Group

Pam Harper’s insight into business growth issues and organizational dynamics make her a fantastic sounding board. Her input helps me think more clearly and make better business decisions, both on the day-to-day and the big-picture issues.
Jan Jasper, Jasper Productivity Solutions,
Author, “Take Back Your Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information & Technology,” (St. Martin’s Press)

Pam was able to gather very pertinent information about our company in a non-threatening focus group environment with very valuable results.
Ibis Valles
Vice President,
Jet Aviation, Inc.

Students in my senior management seminars are so fascinated by the Author’s no nonsense approach that many reported reading the entire book from start to finish without stopping. This is a powerful teaching tool.
Irwin N. Talbot, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
School of Business Administration
Saint Peter’s College

…a direct, thoughtful, and well-crafted book. No loose ends here. “Preventing Strategic Gridlock®” stands out among management handbooks for its pointed observations and thought-focusing useful exercises.
Joseph Berman
Dean Emeritus, Honors Tutorial College,
Ohio University

…Today’s upper level leaders will find the book insightful as a guide to future strategic planning.
CEO GO / Burson Marsteller

…Harper’s very mindful process will help you identify the “hidden roadblocks and avoid the ‘disconnects’ so that your organization has the best chance of achieving the level of high performance demanded today.
CEO Refresher

…This [book] is about taking real control of a company’s business agenda. It is filled with checklists, frequently asked questions, and try-it-out scenarios, and it delivers what it promises.
Bookviews

Highly recommended for managers who want to stop firefighting, or have change fatigue and feel they don’t have any practical ideas for doing things differently…..this is not a book to leave gathering dust on the shelf.
Review in ManyWorlds, Inc.

I absolutely love business books that include humor along with business lessons. Pamela Harper’s book does just that.
Digital Women

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This week, Newsweek released the results of the Newsweek-Intel Global Innovation Survey. The questionnaire, administered to 4,800 adults in the United States, China, Germany and United Kingdom, was designed to compare how people in different countries perceived the “innovation race.” Not surprisingly, the U.S. appears to significantly lag behind other countries when it comes to innovation .
While the authors make the case for more government funding to support research and development, along with placing more emphasis on developing “human capital” so that companies have a better supply of workers who are equipped to work in a knowledge-based economy, these approaches miss a fundamental component of innovation: incremental process improvement.
Don’t get me wrong – I believe that breakthrough innovation on products and services is a critical element of sustainability. However, it’s only one element. Equally as important is incremental process improvement (how ideas are brought to life)

Are you looking for ways to turbo-charge your progress in business and in life? Often times there are more possibilities to achieve success than appear at first.
In this one hour session, you’ll gain tips you can immediately use:
* Uncover the most common (but mistaken) assumption that gets in the way of finding new opportunities
* Gain wide-spread support of your ideas
* Use others’ resistance to change to your advantage
* Maintain credible communication – even when things don’t go well
* Minimize risk and maximize success of any new opportunity
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Most of us think we’re making smart, rational choices in our every day life.  At least I thought I was, until I finished ready Dan Ariely’s book “Predictably Irrational.”  Ariely is a behavioral economist from MIT who overturns the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways.
It turns out that our emotions play just as strong a role in decision making as logic.  As I think about this, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  Emotions keep us human.  Of course going overboard in either direction can create problems.  For example,

Listen to internationally known business performance expert Pamela S. Harper, Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., and author of the book “Preventing Strategic Gridlock” interview Gary W. Patterson, widely known as The FiscalDoctor®. Gary has more than 30 years of top management experience with companies in supply chain, technology, service and distribution sectors for companies ranging from startup to middle market to Fortune 500. Several reached 10x compounded annual growth in revenue. Gary holds an MBA in Finance and Operations from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BA in Accounting from the University of Mississippi, and is a Big 4 CPA.

Patterson, the author of Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health, provides insights on how business leaders can unlock value with operational assessments or risk management programs, and speaks on enterprise risk management, risk analysis, corporate governance, leadership, and the bottom-line impact of going green.

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[podloveaudio src=”/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pharper-08-26-09.mp3″]Accelerating Progress – Pam Harper Interviews Gary W. Patterson