George Morrisey

Biography

One of the top authors, speakers, seminar leaders and consultants in the field of management, George Morrisey is Chairman of The Morrisey Group, a management consulting firm based in Central Florida, that specializes in helping organizations get the involvement and commitment of their key people in an effective planning process that leads to totally focused long- and short-term results. His background includes more than 20 years as a practicing manager and key specialist with several organizations in both the private and public sectors in addition to his service as a full time consultant since 1972. He has personally assisted more than 200 business, industrial, service, governmental and not-for-profit organizations in the areas of strategic and tactical planning. The author or co-author of 19 books, including a three-book series, Morrisey on Planning, based on his extensive consulting experience. Their individual titles are: A Guide to Strategic Thinking: Building Your Strategic Foundation, A Guide to Long-Range Planning: Creating Your Strategic Journey, and A Guide to Tactical Planning: Producing Your Short-Term Results. In addition, he has written Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals, that takes the Strategic Planning Process which works so effectively in business and applies it to that most important business of all -- the planning of your career and your life. A professional's professional, George Morrisey received the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation in 1983 and is a member of the National Speakers Association's CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame. In addition, in 1994 George was the 16th annual recipient of the Cavett Award, named in honor of that association's founder, Cavett Robert. He is formerly a member of the Boards of Directors of the Association for Management Excellence (originally the International MBO Institute) and the National Speakers Association.

Publications

A Guide to Strategic Thinking -- for public and private sector CEOs and senior executive teams, and strategic planning teams at the corporate, division, or department levels -- helps get the planning team started on determining the organization's principles and values, mission and vision, and strategic direction. Other Publications: A Guide to Long-Range Planning -- Creating Your Strategic Journey A Guide to Tactical Planning -- Producing Your Short-Term Results Creating Your Future - Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals

Titles

Strategic Planning: How You Can Make It Work Describes the principles and techniques of strategic planning and how they can work in any size or type of organization. Tactical Planning: How You Can Make It Work Provides solid tools for making short-term planning a vehicle for achieving the critical results needed to make an organization successful. Linking Strategic and Tactical Planning: A Team Development Approach Focuses on how the planning process can be used to build an executive team that will function effectively together as they carry out the organization's mission. Practical Self-Management (for Organizational Effectiveness) Has a touch of time management in it but goes beyond that to show how individual managers can establish clear priorities on specific goals that will meet personal as well as business needs. Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals Shows individuals how to apply the principles and techniques of strategic planning to their careers, business, finances and personal lives, thereby working to achieve a more balanced life. Getting Your Act Together: Goal Setting for Fun, Health and Profit An entertaining and provocative program that provides practical principles and techniques that will help anyone achieve anything that is important to them. It includes a delightful 17-minute film and is especially appropriate for audiences that include spouses and other family members.