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The Leadership Solutions Companies provide custom development of leadership communications products and services. To provide customers with a broad platform of service options, Founder Debbe Kennedy developed a ground-breaking approach and an award-winning track record since 1990 for developing, planning, implementing and achieving superior results in delivering custom communications solutions. She has achieved this through the formation of several flexible, focused, forward-thinking entities that comprise The Leadership Solutions Companies: Consulting Services, Publishing Services and supporting Leadership Resources. Formed in 1990, the Leadership Solutions Companies are women-owned and operated businesses. They have with a unique blend of talents and a lofty vision: Redefining excellence in partnership with the world's business leaders. At Leadership Solutions we fulfill this goal through innovative approaches used to customize communication services, products, solutions and individualized consulting services. Our specialty products and services help organizations enhance communication with managers and employees around the world. Each custom solution is carefully crafted by working closely with clients to fulfill their unique communications needs. Leadership Solutions' concepts have been developed by listening to managers and employees in Fortune 100 companies. We recognize that whether we are partnering with you to achieve any of the goals, designing a communication meeting crafting an executive message providing individualized leadership coaching partnering to expand your leadership influence helping you create a written, audio, video or electronic communication developing a custom leadership meeting developing a custom management or employee training program, the need is always for easy-to-understand, simple-to-implement, world class quality, customized solutions delivered at the right time and in a context that is aligned with the your organization's vision, mission, values, organizational style, philosophy and priorities. Debbe Kennedy, President of the Leadership Solutions Companies is an author, a leadership communications consultant, problem solver, change leader and group facilitator. Her lastest contribution is Diversity Breakthrough!® Strategic Action Series, seven books and tools published by Berrett-Koehler. Here are a few responses to the work... Reviews of Kennedy's New Work "Debbe Kennedy has given us multiple gifts--first, the gift of her deep experience with diversity work, and second, her creative gifts of presenting these ideas in a way that makes them intriguing and compelling. We have a great need for her work, because until we learn to work together in all our awesome, disturbing, and intriguingdiversity, we will not be able to create organizations that can dance through these turbulent days. Thank you Debbe!" ---Margaret J. Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science, co-author, A Simpler Way "Totally overwhelmed with the excellence of the materials. I think Diversity Breakthrough! is an enormous contribution." ---Frances Hesselbein, Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Peter F. Drucker Foundation "The topic of diversity has been an ongoing challenge to every element of modern society. Debbe Kennedy has taken on this challenge and produced, with her new book series, a process which, I think, does the best job of generating action and growth toward understanding diversity and utilizing its extraordinary advantages. Particularly important is the powerful and novel set of activities and exercises that draws in everyone and enables them to climb to a new plateau of understanding and commitment." ---Joel A. Barker, Futurist, Filmmaker and Author, Discovering the Future: The Business of Paradigms Kennedy's first book, Breakthrough! Everything You Need to Start a Solution Revolution® was awarded the Management General® 1998 InnoThink Award for "most far-thinking combination of message and media." Breakthrough! has been translated into Chinese and Dutch. It will be released in German in 2004. Leadership Solutions contributions include Debbe Kennedy serving as executive director, writer and developer of Hewlett-Packard's The Best Place: An HP Global Diversity Video package distributed throughout the world to facilitate manager/employee discussion. It was translated into Japanese, French and Spanish. Additionally, it was awarded a GOLD and two SILVER certificates at the International Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Regional Competition in the categories of Employee Motivation & Relations, Employee Communications, and Training Specific & Technical. It went on to win three GOLD CINDYs at the international level. The Best Place received its seventh award---The Communicator Awards Crystal Award of Excellence "presented to those whose ability to communicate elevates them above the best in the field." The Best Place was chosen for this honor for Internal Communications from among 3,209 entries from 47 states and 8 other countries. Debbe Kennedy has worked extensively with Joel Barker, futurist and author of Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future. Mr. Barker has chosen Debbe as a collaborator on several significant projects. She is the author of Joel Barker's Power of Vision Video Facilitator Guide and the Wealth, Innovation & Diversity Video Workshop. Kennedy's work and leadership influence have contributed to communications solutions for senior management across many corporate functions, marketing, professional services, diversity, women's issues, management development, employee development, human resources, strategic planning and implementation. She knows the leader's journey as you do. Kennedy has walked it as a successful entrepreneur, a change-leading partner for Fortune 100 executives and managers, and in a rewarding leadership career with IBM Corporation that included over 15 years as a manager of people and programs. There she built a reputation for creative leadership excellence and was recognized three consecutive years by IBM Management Development for her contributions and innovations in the area of leadership and human resource development. The Leadership Solutions Companies P.O. Box 371240 . Montara, CA 94037 Phone: 650-728-0909 . Fax: 650-728-0631
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The Leadership Solutions Companies provide custom development of leadership communications products and services. To provide customers with a broad platform of service options, Founder Debbe Kennedy developed a ground-breaking approach and an award-winning track record since 1990 for developing, planning, implementing and achieving superior results in delivering custom communications solutions. She has achieved this through the formation of several flexible, focused, forward-thinking entities that comprise The Leadership Solutions Companies: Consulting Services, Publishing Services and supporting Leadership Resources.

Formed in 1990, the Leadership Solutions Companies are women-owned and operated businesses. They have with a unique blend of talents and a lofty vision:

At Leadership Solutions we fulfill this goal through innovative approaches used to customize communication services, products, solutions and individualized consulting services. Our specialty products and services help organizations enhance communication with managers and employees around the world. Each custom solution is carefully crafted by working closely with clients to fulfill their unique communications needs. Leadership Solutions' concepts have been developed by listening to managers and employees in Fortune 100 companies. We recognize that whether we are partnering with you to achieve any of the goals,

designing a communication meeting
crafting an executive message
providing individualized leadership coaching
partnering to expand your leadership influence
helping you create a written, audio, video or electronic communication
developing a custom leadership meeting
developing a custom management or employee training program,

the need is always for easy-to-understand, simple-to-implement, world class quality, customized solutions delivered at the right time and in a context that is aligned with the your organization's vision, mission, values, organizational style, philosophy and priorities.

Debbe Kennedy, President of the Leadership Solutions Companies is an author, a leadership communications consultant, problem solver, change leader and group facilitator. Her lastest contribution is Diversity Breakthrough!® Strategic Action Series, seven books and tools published by Berrett-Koehler.

Reviews of Kennedy's New Work

"Debbe Kennedy has given us multiple gifts--first, the gift of her deep experience with diversity work, and second, her creative gifts of presenting these ideas in a way that makes them intriguing and compelling. We have a great need for her work, because until we learn to work together in all our awesome, disturbing, and intriguingdiversity, we will not be able to create organizations that can dance through these turbulent days. Thank you Debbe!"
---Margaret J. Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science, co-author, A Simpler Way

"Totally overwhelmed with the excellence of the materials. I think Diversity Breakthrough! is an enormous contribution."
---Frances Hesselbein, Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Peter F. Drucker Foundation

"The topic of diversity has been an ongoing challenge to every element of modern society. Debbe Kennedy has taken on this challenge and produced, with her new book series, a process which, I think, does the best job of generating action and growth toward understanding diversity and utilizing its extraordinary advantages. Particularly important is the powerful and novel set of activities and exercises that draws in everyone and enables them to climb to a new plateau of understanding and commitment."
---Joel A. Barker, Futurist, Filmmaker and Author, Discovering the Future: The Business of Paradigms

Kennedy's first book, Breakthrough! Everything You Need to Start a Solution Revolution® was awarded the Management General® 1998 InnoThink Award for "most far-thinking combination of message and media." Breakthrough! has been translated into Chinese and Dutch. It will be released in German in 2004.

Leadership Solutions contributions include Debbe Kennedy serving as executive director, writer and developer of Hewlett-Packard's The Best Place: An HP Global Diversity Video package distributed throughout the world to facilitate manager/employee discussion. It was translated into Japanese, French and Spanish. Additionally, it was awarded a GOLD and two SILVER certificates at the International Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Regional Competition in the categories of Employee Motivation & Relations, Employee Communications, and Training Specific & Technical. It went on to win three GOLD CINDYs at the international level. The Best Place received its seventh award---The Communicator Awards Crystal Award of Excellence "presented to those whose ability to communicate elevates them above the best in the field." The Best Place was chosen for this honor for Internal Communications from among 3,209 entries from 47 states and 8 other countries.

Debbe Kennedy has worked extensively with Joel Barker, futurist and author of Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future. Mr. Barker has chosen Debbe as a collaborator on several significant projects. She is the author of Joel Barker's Power of Vision Video Facilitator Guide and the Wealth, Innovation & Diversity Video Workshop.

Kennedy's work and leadership influence have contributed to communications solutions for senior management across many corporate functions, marketing, professional services, diversity, women's issues, management development, employee development, human resources, strategic planning and implementation. She knows the leader's journey as you do. Kennedy has walked it as a successful entrepreneur, a change-leading partner for Fortune 100 executives and managers, and in a rewarding leadership career with IBM Corporation that included over 15 years as a manager of people and programs. There she built a reputation for creative leadership excellence and was recognized three consecutive years by IBM Management Development for her contributions and innovations in the area of leadership and human resource development.

The Leadership Solutions Companies
P.O. Box 371240 . Montara, CA 94037
Phone: 650-728-0909 . Fax: 650-728-0631