Gerald M. Czarnecki
SAMPLE SPEAKER INTRODUCTION
Our speaker today is Gerry Czarnecki, who has had a full career
as a highly successful change agent in a broad range of organizations.
After going from failed student to graduate student (we can let
him explain that one); machinist to shop foreman; Army private
to Army Captain; he finally started his change agent career in
business as a banker which took him from Analyst to Supervisor
to Manager to General Manager to Vice President to CAO , CIO,
CFO, COO and eventually to CEO. Wow, how many of these "C" jobs
are there?
After a long career in banking, he made another job change when
Lou Gerstner asked him to help in the turnaround at IBM where
Gerry became the Senior Vice President of Human Resources and
Administration and Chief of Staff. Another "C" job!
After that stint at IBM where he was responsible for facilitating
the termination (nice word for firing) of over 60,000 employees,
he moved on to run an Aviation Company, even though he tells
me he knew virtually nothing about airplanes. Like every other
job he had, Gerry was thrown into a company that was losing money
and challenged to make it a company that worked and made money.
During those change agent years, most of the press reports and
much of the internal corporate mythology reflected his reputation
of being tough, maybe even ruthless, in his pursuit of results.
Nine companies and over 20 homes later, Gerry finally found
a job he could keep.In 1995 he formed his own company which he
named "The Deltennium Group." I'll let him try to explain that
name. Now he is an investor, business operator, franchisee, corporate
board member, university faculty member, university trustee,
author, consultant, facilitator, coach, seminar leader, professional
speaker, and who knows what else he will add tomorrow, but importantly...he
tells me that now nobody can fire him and any mess he cleans
up is his own and now he can talk about what he says is the "real
Gerry management philosophy."
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