Dan Coughlin is president of The Coughlin Company, Inc., a consulting firm at the forefront of work on business acceleration. The discipline of business acceleration examines how corporations can continually increase their rate of sustainable, profitable growth. The practice of business acceleration concentrates on the Role of the Individual, Role of the Group, and the Role of the Organization.  

As a speaker, author, and consultant, Dan Coughlin has written the book, Corporate Catalysts: How To Make Your Company More Successful, Whatever Your Title, Income, Or Authority (Career Press 2005) and more than 100 articles on business acceleration.  Corporate Catalysts attacks many widely held corporate fallacies and provides an enormously pragmatic approach to accelerating individual careers and high priority organizational outcomes. Dan is also the author of Enhancing Top Performers: 15 Ways to Be, Manage and Develop a Top Performing Executive and the Innovator's Fieldbook: How To Identify Opportunities and Generate Breakthrough Ideas In Any Organization.

Coughlin has given over 500 presentations on business acceleration in more than 30 states and provided more than 1,000 executive coaching sessions for presidents, vice-presidents and senior directors of Fortune 500 Companies and major privately owned firms. He has invested more than 3,000 hours on-site observing executives and managers deal with real-life business situations in more than 20 different industries.  

As a leading authority on business acceleration, Dan's clients include: McDonald's Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, Citigroup, Marriott International, GSD&M, a subsidiary of Omnicom Group, Inc., American Bar Association, Eli Lilly & Sons, SBC, IKON Office Solutions, and St. Louis Cardinals.  

Dan Coughlin holds a bachelor's of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in arts and teaching from Webster University. He has served as an adjunct professor on entrepreneurship and leadership for St. Louis University and Webster University's Graduate School of Business. He frequently contributes articles on business acceleration to trade journals.

ACCELERATE ENTREPRENEURIAL HABITS
Successful entrepreneurs have certain habits that generate on-going success. These critical habits can be applied by business owners, mid-level managers in medium-sized businesses, and senior executives in major corporations. In this high impact, highly practical session, Dan Coughlin explains the key entrepreneurial habits that employees at all levels and in all functions can master to drive their careers forward and generate sustainable, profitable growth for their organizations.

ACCELERATE THE DYNAMICS OF QUALITY
What do executives at Toyota, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Marriott, and the St. Louis Cardinals have in common? They've all used Dan Coughlin to accelerate their businesses. In this dynamic, highly interactive session, Coughlin provides practical insights on how to increase the quality your customers receive, catapult performance, and boost profits. This is NOT a motivational speech. It is a session for motivated people who want practical ways to propel their businesses and their careers to the next level

ACCELERATE YOUR IMPACT AS A LEADER
Take out your business card, and cross out your title. It has nothing to do with your ability to lead. In this high-energy, high-impact session, Dan Coughlin gives the TEN LEADERSHIP ACTIONS necessary to influence key decision-makers at all levels. He debunks the traditional myths of leadership, and shows how every employee can impact the way other people think and drive better sustainable results through more effective teamwork. Customers don't care about which department was most successful. They only care about the value the departments deliver collectively to them.

ACCELERATE INNOVATION
Innovation does not equal technology. Innovation is about finding better ways to boost productivity, performance, and profitability. Dan Coughlin demystifies the process of innovation, and makes it simple, clear, and practical. He shows how every employee can generate breakthrough ideas to increase efficiency, expedite execution, and boost the bottom-line. From scheduling thinking time to using the observation tower to using OPS (Other People's Successes), audience members will walk away with ideas they can use today to generate powerful innovations.

ACCELERATE YOUR BRAND
Your brand is your reputation in the marketplace. It's not what you want to be; it's what customers believe you are right now. Dan Coughlin, who has worked with such world-class brands as Toyota, McDonald's, Marriott, Coca-Cola, and the St. Louis Cardinals, provides penetrating insights into the dos and don'ts of building the brand you want. He shows the critical and integrated relationship between purpose, business research, strategy, planning, execution, and marketing that ultimately determines the brand you have.

ACCELERATE SALES
Sales are the cash flow engine in every organization. Sales people impact not only short-term cash flow, but also long-term customer relationships and the equity in the business. In this presentation, Dan Coughlin guides sales people to leverage their strengths and passions, deliver dramatically differentiated value to their customers and prospects, and generate the sales they need to make this quarter a success. And he goes deeper into showing how great relationships create a steady flow of profitable sales. This is not a rah-rah sales rally, but rather an intensely practical session for sales people in all industries.