Dr. Dave Logan

Dr. Dave Logan

Author of New York Times #1 Bestseller "Tribal Leadership", and Bestseller "The Three Laws of Performance", TED Speaker with over 1 Million views, Cultural Transformationalist

ABOUT

Dr. Dave Logan is the bestselling author of Tribal Leadership(#1 New York Times) , The Three Laws of Performance, and four other books. Speaker Dave Logan is a consultant to dozens of Fortune 500 companies and is endorsed by some of the most successful Leaders in the world.  Dave is called an expert in organizational management, a guru in leadership, and a cultural transformationalist. He has served in executive roles in many companies, and is currently CEO of Well Physician California, a joint venture between Stanford University and the California Medical Association.

He has been interviewed on CNN, Fox, National Public Radio and most major networks. His CBS MoneyWatch blog has been read by over two million people, and his TEDx Talk (selected as an official TED Talk) has been seen by over a million people.

Dave has been on the USC faculty since 1996, and served as associate dean for four years. He teaches in the Executive MBA, Executive Master of Leadership, and Master of Medical Management programs. He is also on the faculty of the American Association for Physician Leaders (formerly ACPE), the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate School, the Global Institute of Leadership Development (Linkage) and over a dozen corporate universities around the world. He has guest lectured at many major business schools around the world.

Dave’s business is business culture. He brings culture into sync with markets, strategy, and all parts of a business, resulting in high performance, energized customers, vibrant employees, and centers of innovation. The research for his company was published in 2008 as Tribal Leadership(Collins).

Dave studies how people communicate within a company – and how to harness our natural gifts to make change within organizations. He looks at emerging patterns of corporate leadership, organizational transformation, generational differences in the workplace, and team building for high-potential managers and executives. Dave has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from the Annenberg School at USC.

VIDEOS

Dave works with Fortune 500 companies, including Qualcomm, Intel, Charles Schwab American Express, and Prudential.  His testimonials of endorsement read like a who’s who of CEOs and Leaders; from Tony Hsieh to Reid Hoffman to Desmond Tutu.  Dave and his book even influenced Phil Jackson in a major way helping Phil lead his 2009 Los Angeles Laker team to the NBA Championship. From 2001-2004, he served as Associate Dean of Executive Education at USC. During that time, he started new programs for major defense contractors and governments around the world. 

Dave writes a blog which goes viral with regularity for CBSNews.com Money Watch and writes for several other business related publications.  He has given interviews to many major cable news networks, newspapers, and magazines and has spoken at hundreds of events around the world as the keynote speaker, giving workshops and facilitating training sessions.  His most well known speech was given at the first ever TEDx event in the world, an experiment by the founders of TED at the time.  The video of that speech has been seen by almost one million people on the web.  The topic was Tribal Leadership

Dave’s latest book is The Best Medicine, A Physician’s Guide to Effective Leadership, which provides a theoretical framework for visionary leadership as well as specific management techniques to achieve success. The authors focus on maintaining a consistent set of behavioral characteristics for both the leader and the organization as a whole. The text is written in a conversational style using the authors’ personal experiences and case studies to illustrate the principles and practices of successful leaders. When helpful, the large body of observational work on professional group dynamics is referenced. The text also provides ideal supplemental material for the many leadership programs offered by physician organizations and health care systems. Developed by Dave and his co-author Dr. Bruce Gewertz, an accomplished physician leader from one of the nation’s finest hospital systems, The Best Medicine: A Physician’s Guide to Effective Leadership is of great value to physicians of all levels who are interested in improving their understanding of leadership styles and tactics.

PRAISE

SPEAKING TOPICS

01

Be This Not That

People become managers by going through a process of identifying their strengths, planning a course of study, and executing it with discipline. When it comes time for people to become leaders – and amplify their impact – most people try to use the same process, and it fails. Leadership development does follow a flow, but it’s opposite of what people think. 

In this session, Dave will share simple guides from his upcoming book Be This, Not That: Turning Managers Into Leaders, curated from the best leaders of the past 100 years that helped each make lasting changes in impact and the world. Largely based on 30 years of consulting research and his long-time friendship with transformational leadership guru Warren Bennis, this book provides guides of leadership that have the power to transform careers, businesses and lives.

02

Tribal Leadership

Every organization and company is a tribe, or a network of tribes—groups of 20 to 150 people that form naturally, in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of them. In this highly interactive session, speaker Dave Logan show participants how to upgrade their organization one tribe at a time. The result is unprecedented impact, innovation, and success at hitting key performance goals. At the heart of this session is the principals’ ten-year study on 24,000 people (published in 2008 by HarperCollins as Tribal Leadership by Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright) that mapped, for the first time, five stages of corporate culture and the unique leverage points to nudge a group forward.

The result is industry-leading productivity, innovation, collaboration, and job satisfaction. The other benefits include that participants will be able to:

  • Assess their culture’s effectiveness level.
  • Improve the effectiveness of their culture.
  • Take the first critical steps in building a higher-level culture.
  • Identify shared values in their organization.
  • Build upon values to overcome lack of consensus.

03

The Best Medicine

Most leaders agree that culture is the critical factor in performance, but can’t define it, measure it, or change it. As a result, the few organizations that get culture right seem magical, and people who try to replicate their success usually end up frustrated and cynical.  Dave shows two simple steps-diagnosis and then the best treatment that leaders take to build cultures that can do things most people think is impossible: out-innovating, outperforming, creating an immunity to scandals, and having mountains of fun in the process.

ENDORSEMENTS OF SPEAKER DAVE LOGAN’S BOOKS

Tribal Leadership:
Tribal Leadership is the best book on cultural transformation I’ve read in many years, maybe ever.”
— Mark Goulston“Leading Edge” columnist at Fast Company magazine and bestselling author of Get Out of Your Own Way at Work

 
Tribal Leadership presents a clear road map for the new reality of managing organizations, careers, and life. This book points to a new paradigm in not just information technology, but also business. It explains what to do in a world where every professional will have an electronic shingle on the Internet to create a vibrant, active, network.”
— Reid HoffmanCofounder, LinkedIn
 
 
The Three Laws of Performance:
“This book filled with insights, real-life encounters and experiences shows us how we may do the work of transformation. Steve and David have written an inspiring, practical book, applicable in the corporate, labour, political, and civil society sectors, that will assist all who seek to rewrite the future of our world.”
– Archbishop Desmond TutuNobel Laureate, Former General Secretary, South African Council of Churches “Change doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it happens when people see and hear a future they can get excited about. Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan show how true leaders sidestep stumbling blocks to articulate visions that inspire.”
— Ken BlanchardCo-author of The One Minute Manager© and Leading at a Higher Level
 
Dave Logan is exclusively represented by CAL Entertainment
 

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