Kevin Gazzara
"Wizard of Leadership"
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Kevin's passion for helping others and for sharing his deep knowledge on many leadership topics, is evident from his enthusiasm as a speaker. The connection he makes with his audience is equally evident from the level of engagement, discussion and activity he raises during each workshop and from the number of participants who stay after to talk with him personally. Kevin is continually introducing new discoveries and key learnings from the leadership field, all backed by his own or other academic research, while still ensuring that all participants leave with practical, real-world tools that can be implemented immediately. Although I've sat through many of Kevin's workshops, I learn something new each time as he is able to flex the format of his workshops on the fly to address the specific needs of each new audience and often interjects additional relevant information beyond the original agenda.
Multiple management/leadership workshops for first-level manager to director-level audiences
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Background and Experience
Dr. Gazzara is the co-author of the acclaimed book "The Leader of OZ - Revealing the 101 Secrets of Marvelous Leadership". This book has created fresh new leadership approaches for business results for a variety of Fortune 500 clients ranging from high-tech semiconductors/software to high-touch healthcare.
Kevin brings his insider views and unique management and leadership perspectives from 28 years of engineering, marketing and leadership development at Intel, Transamerica and IMO Industries and weaves these perspectives into all of his programs. He creatively demonstrates practical solutions to help others discover their true leadership potential on their path to extreme success.
Why choose Kevin?
If you want someone with a global perspective who has delivered programs in more than a dozen different countries and has spoken extensively throughout the US and Canada.
If you want your event to be high-energy, interactive, entertaining and most importantly overflowing with well researched compelling and convincing content.
If you want someone who has shown that when you have fun you can personally captivate your audience to realize that business can be serious, but people don't have to be.
If you want your audience to benefit from someone with vast experience from corporate start-ups and acquisitions, managing marketing/sales organizations, development teams for new products, engineering, and new businesses. Kevin makes a personal connection with the audiences that only this shared experience can bring.
Kevin's Presentation Philosophy
"It's Always the Good Samaritan's Business" - This is Kevin's leadership and presentation philosophy which he adopted from his father, Dominic; it defines the foundation for all of his groundbreaking management and leadership development programs. Providing audiences with not just what they want, but what they need to energize and, more importantly, inspire self-initiated immediate change in the workplace is the objective of every event.
What do audiences say about Dr. Gazzara's programs?
"A whole new outlook on Management and Leadership"
"Amazing! It was one of the best presentations I had ever attended"
"Dynamite, very innovative and I learned a lot"
"One of the first speakers I've seen that had the background and depth that left me with something I could truly use, I completely enjoyed the keynote speech"
"A great interactive program, we all had our "Blast" moments that made the information stick"
Outcomes
If you are looking for a catalyst to inspire your audience and create a buzz to give them something to talk about for the entire event, then Kevin is the right choice. Kevin's talks generate new thinking through a dialogue with the audience, not a monolog. This dialogue gets people to realize the value of building great teams and how to become a better team member through controversial ideas. Let Kevin leave your audience with simple, easy to use approaches and tools to release the full potential inherent in all technical and non-technical team members.
MOST REQUESTED PROGRAMS
The "Wizardry" Business Results Series:
The wizardry of leading for business results in the land of OZ
The wizardry of employee engagement for business results
The wizardry of leading cross-cultural organizations for business results
The wizardry of technology leadership for business results - Your "crystal ball" to reveal untapped innovation
The wizardry of building great global teams for business results
The wizardry of transforming managers into great leaders for business results
All presentations are tailored to each client's audience. More extensive customization is available upon request.
Magna Leadership Solutions LLC
Kevin is a senior partner with Magna Leadership Solutions LLC, which provides consulting, assessments, training, facilitation and executive coaching services to Fortune 500 companies as well as to smaller organizations. The firm's primary expertise focuses on the high tech industry and emerging technologies. Magna Leadership works with all levels of an organization from first-line managers and their direct reports, to senior and executive management.
Teaching and Education
Dr. Gazzara is a faculty member at three universities, where he teaches Leadership, Management, Business Development, Organizational Behavior and Marketing on a regular basis. He is an on-line and classroom instructor in undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs for programs across the US. He has been an invited lecturer on leadership at Stanford University and numerous global conferences. Kevin holds a B.S. in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, an MBA from Philadelphia University and a Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership from the University or Phoenix.
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Kevin's passion for helping others and for sharing his deep knowledge on many leadership topics, is evident from his enthusiasm as a speaker. The connection he makes with his audience is equally evident from the level of engagement, discussion and activity he raises during each workshop and from the number of participants who stay after to talk with him personally. Kevin is continually introducing new discoveries and key learnings from the leadership field, all backed by his own or other academic research, while still ensuring that all participants leave with practical, real-world tools that can be implemented immediately. Although I've sat through many of Kevin's workshops, I learn something new each time as he is able to flex the format of his workshops on the fly to address the specific needs of each new audience and often interjects additional relevant information beyond the original agenda.
Multiple management/leadership workshops for first-level manager to director-level audiences
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Kevin is dynamic in both content and delivery. His authenticity is evident, driven by his wealth of experience and research. Practical and transformational!
Partnered together on large client projects
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Kevin is a motivational speaker. His teaching style should be documented and show to other professors around the world. When you are with Kevin, you are not only learning but you are having fun. I am near my last residency and Kevin is the most influential teacher and person throughout my college career and that says a lot because I am friends with a lot of teachers. When you hear Kevin speak, learn from Kevin, and see how Kevin operates his classroom you will know that your life has changed for the better. Kevin is highly educated, classy, fun to be around, and very informative. Kevin is truly a person no one will forget.
I heard Kevin speak at my residency and seen Kevin speak at other residencies
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Kevin is a motivational speaker. His teaching style should be documented and show to other professors around the world. When you are with Kevin, you are not only learning but you are having fun. I am near my last residency and Kevin is the most influential teacher and person throughout my college career and that says a lot because I am friends with a lot of teachers. When you hear Kevin speak, learn from Kevin, and see how Kevin operates his classroom you will know that your life has changed for the better. Kevin is highly educated, classy, fun to be around, and very informative. Kevin is truly a person no one will forget.
I heard Kevin speak at my residency and seen Kevin speak at other residencies
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Kevin brings about a fresh new approach to leadership principles and has the ability to communicate those principles in a common sense manner, allowing individuals to relate to their own environment. His presentations are engaging and inspiring. He has the ability to incite new idea and presents information that stretches one's thinking.
University of Phoenix
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Listening to Dr. Gazzara brings to light a man having as many facets as a diamond. The communicator in him shines in his ability to be an empathetic listener. The researcher in him becomes evident through his no-nonsense style of thinking. The leader in him presents himself through the passion to immerse into problems affecting people and organizations. His wisdom stands out through his extremely rare ability to convey very complex ideas through simple words.
Lectures at School of Advanced Studies
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Kevin is brillant and fun. He involves the groups with his real life examples, his non boring data and his witty activities.He makes complex situations easy to understand and he provides great solutions.
Numerous times regarding Employee productivity
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Kevin is an engaging speaker who is able to tailor his material to what is most critical to his audience. He is especially good at relating to the highly technical engineering functions and pulling them into the usefulness of skills/tools that they wouldn't normally approach. His active learning approach is excellent at helping his audience apply their learning real-time, and retain it once back in the "real world".
Corporate talks over the past 2 years
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Kevin is able to convey information to all levels of the audience. He is clear, concise and a great judge of the needed pace of learning. His materials and breakout sessions really aid in the learning process. If given a choice between David Covey and Kevin Gazzara, I would definitely take Kevin's class -- I would learn more!
Various venues over the last five years
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