Andrew Bennett

Andrew Bennett's field of expertise is the intersection of management and psychology.  He believes if you connect people with the deeper purpose of their organization, they become more creative and inspired. Creativity leads to innovation, productivity, and fiscal success. In an entertaining and surprising presentation, Bennett reveals key questions that organizations should be asking in order to assess their work in a different way, and fine-tune their direction and goals. Only with a clear focus and direction will the workforce be imbued with the sense of meaning and motivation that leads to growth, innovation, and profitability. Using case studies from his successful consulting practice and stories from his own life -- a life of contrast between great personal loss and impressive achievement -- Bennett weaves together a compelling case about the need for focus and inspiration in our work. Achieving a shift in performance as the result of one presentation is a pretty tall order, yet the organizations Bennett works with regularly report notable changes after he speaks. 

The Perot Factor. Bennett is the former personal assistant to H. Ross Perot, and was selected at age 28 to manage the expansion of EDS, Perot's company, into Australia. During this assignment his team grew annual revenue by 1300% from $5 million to $65 million over two years without adding resources.  He did this by creating a new business model based on a partnership of risk and reward sharing with his client.  He returned to the US to teach this paradigm-busting model to hundreds of managers.  During this time Bennett attended New York University where he studied quality management and systems thinking under W. Edwards Deming.

Bennett founded Bennett Performance Group in 1997 to help leaders build inspiration into the fabric of organizations in order to achieve critical goals and growth. For more than 20 years he has been working in, and studying, organizational cultures at Abbott Laboratories, The City of Detroit Health Department, The Deming Institute, Ford Motor Company, Host Marriott, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, and Sun Microsystems, to name a few.  He's learned that most organizations spend their time on daily operations, neglecting the powerful force of inspiration.

Motivation Magic. Bennett is highly experienced on stage and in front of audiences, having been presenting for over 35 years. He began presenting at age seven as a magician, and today, as a member of London's prestigious Magic Circle, he uses world-class magic as a metaphor for the principles he teaches and to punctuate and energize his presentations. In 1992, he was awarded the EDS Great Communicator Award for being the best business speaker within the 70,000-person company.  He is gifted when it comes to developing trust and rapport, enabling audience members to relax, have fun, and open up to new ways of thinking and acting.