Press & Event Kit

Speaker Intro

Our next speaker is known for helping top executive teams lead their companies for game-changing growth.

Maybe you’ve listened to her award-winning podcast Growth Igniters® Radio, which she started in 2015.

Maybe you’ve read an article featuring her insights in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Investor’s Business Daily, or Chief Executive Magazine.

Maybe you have a copy of her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock®, also read in business schools around the world.

But what you may not know is… she has a yellow belt in Aiki Jiu Jitsu. Don’t worry. She isn’t planning to use it today.

Please give a warm welcome to…. Pam Harper

Written Bio

Pam Harper is a global keynote and TEDx speaker, author, and Founding Partner & CEO of Business Advancement Inc. (BAI), a strategic growth advisory firm. She speaks about transformational leadership at in-person conferences and executive retreats and at virtual events. In addition, she co-hosts the award-winning Growth Igniters® Radio podcast, named a top business podcast by PopCon and Thinkers360, and featured in media including Morningstar, Seeking Alpha, and Yahoo Finance. She has also been featured on others’ leadership podcasts and has been quoted or featured in major media including Bloomberg Business Week, NACD Director’s Monthly (National Association of Corporate Directors), Investor’s Business Daily, Pharmaceutical Executive, PIA Magazine (Professional Insurance Agents Association) and FEI Daily (Financial Executives International). Her critically acclaimed book Preventing Strategic Gridlock®, has been used by business leaders and taught in universities worldwide. Pam draws her insights from client experiences and earlier leadership roles in private and public companies. Her insights have also been shaped by being on non-profit boards, including the Board of Directors of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) New Jersey and the Board of Trustees for The New Jersey Commission on Accreditation for Home Care (CAHC). Pam has a degree in Organizational Behavior from Northwestern University.

The Signature Experience

Break Orbit: Achieving Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World

As a top leader, you have a bold transformational vision for your company’s future. You may be focused on entering an emerging market, experimenting with AI and other technology, acquiring another company, or some other unique opportunity. Millions and potentially billions of dollars are at stake, and the clock is ticking.

You’ve done the listening tour, given speeches and interviews about how your vision fits with your company’s purpose, and you’ve demonstrated the potential ROI. Yet you’re facing mysteriously “knotty dynamics“ from your stakeholders: employees, customers, partners, shareholders, and others who seem more focused on short-term gains rather than on long-term growth. This can pull your company into what Pam Harper calls “the orbit of the status quo”: busy in the current business cycle but not truly focused on business innovation and transformation for growth.

In this compelling keynote, you’ll go behind the scenes as Pam shares the “break orbit” story of a top leadership team facing a major turning point on their company’s growth journey. Through their story, you’ll demystify the knotty leadership dynamics that can make or break success. You’ll become aware of three particular “Growth Igniters Paradoxes” that can naturally emerge in uncharted territory, and how you can untangle the knot to turn these leadership challenges into game-changing opportunities.

Come away with a unique model and principles you can apply to leading through the dynamics of uncertainty and complexity, to ignite the energy it takes to achieve transformational long-term growth, even in a short-term world.

Are you ready to break orbit?

Demystify the Tangle of Knotty Dynamics During Transformational Growth

Additional Signature Offering

As the world keeps changing, what does it take to reimagine your company’s future – and bring it to life? Even the savviest directors and CEOs can experience a gap between their bold vision and mission and the often “mysterious” responses that stakeholders can have to transformational growth: persistent conflicts, stubborn attachment to the current way of conducting business, and missed opportunities. This can create an “orbit of the status quo” (circling around being busy but not moving forward) that can put your company at high risk of disruption.

At the core of these knotty dynamics are three leadership challenges associated with moving into uncharted territory:

Facing open and hidden pushback to a bold vision for the future
Committing to a vision clouded with uncertainty
Accelerating momentum for transformational growth filled with complexity

In this highly interactive session, Pam Harper guides participants through a case study and peer conversation to “untangle the knot” of human dynamics and discover hidden opportunities for igniting game-changing growth

By the end of this session, your audience will:

Recognize the “Three Growth Igniters® Paradoxes” associated with the leadership challenges of moving into uncharted territory
Discover a strategic model for demystifying the tangle of knotty dynamics
Identify a starting point for applying the model during transformation