Bruce Piasecki Speaker & Booking Information

Bruce Piasecki is an expert at facilitating new forms of competition in our swift and severe world. For thirty years, he has built a general management consulting firm, The AHC Group, based on principles of frugality, global competitiveness, and competing on sustainability. The environment of global business is ever changing, and Dr. Bruce Piasecki is an intrepid forecaster of things that must change in firms, governments, and the NGO community. One of the leading corporate strategists and governance advisors in the world that bases his practice on environmental andbusiness needs, Piasecki has built his reputation through aiding corporations move beyond compliance to align their operations to both respond to and capitalize on society's rising expectations of business. Piasecki has helped the global car giant Toyota, for example, pursue the hybrid power train family of more fuel efficient cars. His firm has helped the Warren Buffett firm Shaw Industries create this Growth and Sustainability leadership council in its move to bring recycled content and energy savings to this world's largest maker of carpet and flooring. Piasecki is now helping FMC move its Growth and Sustainability Council in the direction of more seaweed and bio-based chemical feed-stocks. Piasecki is able to relate the new realities of the swift and severe world of the 21st century to both business leaders and casual society, providing an optimistic yet grounded vision of the future along the way. A Trusted Advisor in the Corporate Mansion. Piasecki is the president and founder of The AHC Group, Inc., a top energy and environmental strategy consultancy to companies such as Toyota, BP, Chevron, DuPont, and Dow Chemical. The firm has specialized in energy, materials, and environmental corporate matters since 1981. Piasecki and his staff have run hundreds of benchmarking workshops for numerous multinational Corporate Affiliates since 1990, involving key executives in site remediation, power markets, emerging issues, and governance concerns in the evolving global marketplace. A Universal Way Forward. In his latest work, Doing More With Less: The New Way to Wealth(Wiley, January 2012), Bruce introduces a new framework to build competitive advantage in the swift and severe world of the 21st century – innovation and growth through frugality. Bruce convincingly lays out the case for a return to frugality, providing relevant examples from his thirty years of experience as a management consultant and change agent. He deftly explains how this approach to competition is applicable not only to business leaders, but individuals as well. In combination with his previous seven works on business strategy and corporate change, Piasecki has laid out a complete and compelling vision of how we all can thrive in a world that presents both endless opportunity for innovation and harsh repercussions for inaction. A Map of the Business World. With his previous books, World Inc (2007) and The Surprising Solution (2010), Piasecki examines a striking new phenomenon in what he coins as “social response capitalism”. The concept took off, translating his work into numerous languages and settings. As power moves increasingly into the hands of business, the world is looking to corporations instead of governments to solve its problems. Gone are the days of focusing solely on technical quality and price. One must center their competitiveness now on “social response,” and product positioning is an entirely new ball game in the practice areas of Bruce Piasecki and his firm.