Jason Jennings

Biography

Jason Jennings, business thought leader and best selling author, has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and consulting other companies; teaching them how to achieve their full economic potential.

He traveled the globe in search of and digging deep inside the fastest companies in the world for his book, It’s Not The Big That Eat the Small – It’s The Fast That Eat the Slow. Within weeks of its 2001 release it hit the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and New York Times Bestsellers Lists. Published in 32 languages, USA Today named it one of the top 25 books of the year.

Next, he and his research team spent a year studying more than 40,000 companies and identifying the ten most productive companies in the world for his book, Less Is More, published by Penguin Putnam. In the book he reveals the secrets of the world’s most productive companies.

Following two years of research during which time he and his research team studied more than 72,000 companies, his latest book, Think BIG – Act Small, debuted in May 2005, profiling the leadership of the only 10 companies in the world to have grown both revenue and profits by ten percent or more annually for ten consecutive years without missing a beat.

He was the youngest radio station group owner in the world and his unique and legendary programming, sales and management strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry. Later, he founded Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, a consulting firm that, within three years, became the largest media consultancy in the world. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide have purchased his best selling videos on leadership, sales, management, and customer satisfaction.

When not traveling the world on research and adventure travel Jennings 80 keynote speeches annually for companies like Verizon, GlaxoSmithKline, General Dynamics, SunAmerica, Convergys, Hallmark, Sony, Lexmark, Ford, Wells Fargo and Time Warner.

Publications

Hit The Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders, is Jason Jennings brand new book from Portfolio, the business imprint of Penguin Group.

The book profiles and reveals the tactics and strategies of the American CEO's who've created the greatest amount of economic value since the year 2000. Companies and CEO's profiled include: JM Smucker, Harris Corporation, Mohawk Industries, Humana, Goodrich, Hanover Insurance, Allegheny Technologies, Staples and Questar.

Jason and his research team spent nearly three years identifying the companies and interviewing their CEO's. Jason says that as they studied the CEO's and companies three things became obvious:

• All of the CEOs produced results fast.
They didn’t dawdle around for an eternity before making things happen. They truly hit the ground running.
• Each is guided by rules that defy conventional thinking.
While they were able to diagnose underperformance quickly, stop any bleeding, build a plan, get buy-in and implement needed changes fast – their rules were different than those we’ve been told are the best practices of an aggressive, tough-minded, high achieving executive.
• They make everyone proud.
What each CEO did and the rules they used to do it were right for investors, right for employees, right for the community, right for the short run and right for the long run. They didn’t need any spin or any "the ends justify the means" rationalizations.

Titles

-Hit The Ground Running
Jason's new speech is based on the most important findings from the research for his latest book; Hit The Ground Running-A Manual For New Leaders.

Filled with rich stories, vivid examples and anecdotes that make the powerful information come alive; the speech contains the discoveries that allow companies and their leaders and workers to achieve results fast.

This speech can be customized for the following audiences:
Small business owners and managers
High level executives and CEO's
Association members
Sales conferences and meetings
Newly named managers and leaders as part of succession planning

-The Five Secrets of the World's Best Performing Companies
This is the crowd pleaser that's received standing ovations from hundreds of thousands of people in scores of countries around the world. After studying more than 100,000 companies for his best selling books on speed (It's Not the Big That Eat the Small…It's the Fast That Eat the Slow), on productivity (Less Is More), on growing revenues (Think BIG, Act Small) and his latest book, Hit The Ground Running, Jason works with the group sponsoring the speech and selects the five most important discoveries he's made that are appropriate for the audience and presents them in spellbinding fashion.

This speech can be customized for any audience composed of people wanting to improve their management and leadership skills and life skills and is especially appropriate for:
Small business owners and managers
High level executives and CEO's
Association members
Sales conferences and meetings
HR groups and associations