Jim Welch Biography

Jim is a member of the National Speakers Association and the President and Founder of "The Growth Leader, Inc." He works with many Fortune 500 global clients and organisations across several industries as the President and Founder of "The Growth Leader, Incorporated" Jim has over 25 years of marketing leadership experience with Hallmark and Procter & Gamble, two of America's most recognisable brands. Jim's hands-on leadership experience and track record of effectively implementing proven techniques has consistently resulted in winning top line and bottom line results. His teams have consistently ranked in the top 5% of Gallup survey results for engaged employees at every level! Jim was appointed to the position of Corporate Officer as the Senior Vice-President of Marketing by Hallmark's Board of Directors. He is responsible for brand strategy as well as portfolio management, advertising, promotion, the Hallmark Hall of Fame, market analysis, Hallmark.com, licencing partnerships, retailer marketing, and customer loyalty programmes. Jim and his teams developed compelling and inventive advertising strategies with key partners, including the Hallmark Gold Crown independent store network, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, Disney, Mattel, Warner Brothers, and many others, that consistently delivered strong retail results. Jim's new book, "GROW NOW: 8 Essential Steps to Flex Your Leadership Muscles," was published earlier this year. Jim has recently appeared on the Lifetime Radio Network, The Voice Of America, and The Oprah & Friends Radio Network to promote his book. The book is widely available, and can be found on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. TOPICS MOST REQUESTED Leading Growth During Economic Downturns. Jim Welch will take your audience on a journey, delivering 8 Real World Leadership Techniques to encourage your leaders and teams right now in order to grow your business during the most difficult economic times. Jim will also highlight the five critical growth barriers that must be avoided if growth momentum with your leaders and employees is to be maintained. These methods and barriers are directly related to our difficult economic times. Jim's real-world insights, wit, and energy will make your event memorable. More importantly, Jim's real-world leadership and growth techniques will provide your team with immediate top-line and bottom-line value that they can put to use the next day. Sail Through The Seven C's Of Emotional Team Building Connections. How do you engage your front-line employees? How do you keep and win your team's hearts so that they can emotionally connect with your clients every day, building and sustaining their loyalty? Prepare to sail the Seven C's of Emotional Leadership, where you will discover new ways to build team loyalty on a daily basis. This will be a vibrant, high-energy, interactive, and enjoyable leadership session in which you will learn new techniques with real-world applications that you can put to use the next day. Cutting-Edge Generational Leadership Development How do you enable your company to outperform its growth targets in the face of a rapidly changing workforce that spans multiple generations? Specific creative leadership concepts and practices will be shared to assist employees of all generations in building great teams, exceeding growth targets, and having fun while doing so! This session focuses not only on generational differences, but also on how similarities can be leveraged across the organisation to create long-term growth. Developing into a True Growth Leader What are the five key steps to successfully leveraging "what matters" and becoming a true growth leader in your organisation? What are the distinguishing characteristics of winning growth leaders? We will create an effective growth leader blueprint that can be applied directly to your business. You will discover the key characteristics that the most successful growth leaders use to achieve results. Outstanding Innovation Driven by Customer Insight. How do you "Ladder up" to more in-depth customer insights? How does one foster growth through innovation? In this session, we will go over a template for discovering new customer insights in a rapidly changing marketplace. These are not your typical customer insights that you use to run your business on a daily basis. They are discovered by focusing on expansion through new forms of innovation while still leveraging your core competencies. Find New Emotional Connections That Increase Customer Loyalty/br> How do you build and maintain customer loyalty? Do you have a strategy in place? We will go over the steps for developing a high-impact customer loyalty growth strategy centred on unique, higher-level emotional connections with your customers. You will learn how to implement cutting-edge, long-term growth strategies that produce real-world results. Dynamic Expansion Through Employer Branding/br> How can Employer Branding help you win on the front lines? This has a direct impact on your organization's acquisition, engagement, and retention of top talent.vFind New Emotional Connections That Increase Customer Loyalty/br> How do you build and maintain customer loyalty? Do you have a strategy in place? We will go over the steps for developing a high-impact customer loyalty growth strategy centred on unique, higher-level emotional connections with your customers. You will learn how to implement cutting-edge, long-term growth strategies that produce real-world results. Dynamic Expansion Through Employer Branding/br> How can Employer Branding help you win on the front lines? This has a direct impact on your organization's acquisition, engagement, and retention of top talent. Several studies show that front-line employee engagement and dedication to your brand has a direct impact on innovation, execution, and customer loyalty. You will create a detailed work plan outlining how you will use Employer Branding to drive long-term growth throughout your organisation. Workshop on Sales Training. How do you generate sales on a daily basis? Sales Training from a seasoned professional with over 3 decades of real-world experience and instant audience credibility. Jim Welch began his career with Procter & Gamble, carrying a sales bag, and rose through the ranks to become a Hallmark Marketing and Sales Vice-President, responsible for over $2.5 billion in sales. Jim was personally responsible for leading over 600 salespeople who were committed to achieving exceptional results. Jim has also worked with and trained over 3500 Independent Gold Crown Retailers on how to create a selling advantage in order to attain maximum impact, measurable results. Jim is THE Practical Growth Leader who will show you 8 effective techniques for increasing short-term sales while also increasing long-term brand loyalty. Jim will also discuss the 5 Sales Sand Traps that cause problems with customers and kill sales momentum. Learn from someone who has been doing it for 30 years and can help you gain a real sales advantage for your independent business. Jim's book Grow Now will be published by Henchard Press. The book, 8 Essential Steps to Flex Your Leadership Muscles, will be available in bookstores on October 1st. Jim is a high-energy, interactive speaker who uses humour and powerful content to emotionally connect with audiences. Workshop on Strategic Planning/br> Jim Welch leads a Real World Strategic Planning Workshop for Independent Businesses to help them focus on What Matters. This is not an academic or theory-based approach to strategy that includes a lot of jargon and leaves the attendee with another binder to put on the shelf. It is a dynamic, step-by-step construct that builds on the seven strategic growth drivers that make a difference. Learn how to go Speeding with Your Strengths and find the Fast Strategy Passing Zones to finish first in your business by chasing the Gold Segments. Also, learn how to avoid the 6 Reefs and Barriers that will derail your strategic plan. Learn how to strategically leverage your long-term competitive advantage by directing your resources toward the top two to three key growth drivers. Jim Welch is currently a Strategic Planning business advisor who advises with Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries such as agriculture, internet shopping, quick service restaurants, and many more. Learn how to create a strategy for your business and also how to bring it to life throughout your company with 30, 60, and 90 flex strategy implementation plans from THE Practical Growth Leader. Jim Welch leads an actionable Strategic Planning Workshop, delivering a construct that the business owner can start using the next morning.

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