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Alan
Weiss, PhD, CSP, CMC
 Alan
Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant,
speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit
Consulting Group, Inc. has attracted clients such as Merck,
Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation,
Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times,
Avon, and over 400 other leading organizations. He serves
on the national board of directors of the Institute of Management
Consultants, as well as the boards of Trinity Repertory Company,
a Tony-Award-winning New England regional theater, and the
Newport International Film Festival.
His
speaking typically includes 30 keynotes a year at major conferences,
and he has been a visiting faculty member at Case Western
Reserve University, Boston College, Tufts, St. John's, the
University of Illinois, the Institute of Management Studies,
and the University of Georgia Graduate School of Business.
He has held an appointment as adjunct professor in the Graduate
School of Business at the University of Rhode Island where
he taught courses on advanced management and consulting skills.
He holds the record for selling out the highest priced workshop
(on entrepreneurialism) in the 21-year history of New York
City's Learning Annex. His PhDis in psychology and he is
a member of the American Psychological Society, the American
Counseling Association, and the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology. He was recently appointed to the Board
of Governors of Harvard Medical School's Center for Mental
Illness and the Media. He has keynoted for the American Psychological
Association on two occasions.
His
prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 23 books,
including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting
(from McGraw-Hill). His newest books are Organizational
Development (John Wiley & Sons) and Life Balance: How
to Convert Professional Success Into Personal Happiness
(Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer). His books have been on the curricula
at Villanova, Temple University, and the Wharton School of
Business, and have been translated into German, Italian, Arabic,
Spanish, and Chinese.
He is
interviewed and quoted frequently in the media and is an active
member of the American Federation of Television and Radio
Artists. His career has taken him to 54 countries and 49 states
(he is afraid to go to North Dakota). Success Magazine
has cited him in an editorial devoted to his work as "a worldwide
expert in executive education." The New York Post calls
him "one of the most highly-regarded independent consultants
in America." The National Bureau of Certified Consultants
cited him in 2003 as "the foremost consultant and author in
the country who is consulting to management."
He once
appeared on the popular TV game show Jeopardy, where
he lost badly in the first round to a dancing waiter from
Iowa.
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