Gerry Faust

Dr. Gerry Faust is a highly energetic and content rich presenter on the topics of management and leadership. Dr. Faust is CEO of Faust Management Corporation which he founded in 1983. His distinguished career as an entrepreneur, business founder and leader, scientist and professor provides a unique background for his 20-year career as a business consultant and speaker. During his presentations, Gerry shares his vision of innovative new ways to analyze organizations, design strategy and manage change.

Gerry received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois and has held professorships at the University of Illinois, University of Texas, Brigham Young University, and for the past 15 years has been a distinguished member of the faculty of UCLA's Graduate School of Management. He has also had an outstanding career as an entrepreneur, hands on business leader, scientist and coach to a broad range of business, professional and government organizations. He has founded and led a number of organizations and is now President of Faust Management Corporation, an international management-consulting firm dedicated to helping business and their leaders succeed. His credentials include a B.A. from St. John’s University, Minnesota, and an M.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign.

Gerry has often been called the country’s “most invited back speaker.” He combines an awesome wit, imaginative story telling, practical insights and innovative business thinking, to keep audiences laughing, sitting on the edge of their seats and always wanting more.

Areas of Expertise: Leadership, Management and Strategic Planning--Dr. Faust's programs in the areas of Responsibility and Organizational Development get to the root of many leadership challenges facing organizations today. Responsibility in particular appears to be becoming a rare commodity--one that is often abandoned in favor of an "it's not my fault" or "I can't do anything about it" attitude. Gerry has a knack for showing leaders who are ready to create positive change, for both themselves and their organizations, an easy-to-understand road map to success.

Most Requested Topics:

Business Life Cycles: Organizations go through predictable patterns of growth and development. Learn how to identify these patterns, where your company is in its life cycle, and how to manage your business or department to its PRIME phase. This dynamic program will give you new insights into your organization, what makes it tick and what makes it succeed. A must for business owners, senior managers, department heads and those who want true executive education. Seminar/Principal Points: You will learn about the true purpose of organizations, the power of the customer, and how to assess an organization’s culture, and how organizations must be led if they are to change.

Management Roles: In this captivating session, Dr. Gerry Faust will share with you how every organization, whether it is a team, a department, a company or an entire country, must balance four basic roles. He will propose that if an organization balances these roles, they provide both necessary and sufficient conditions for success. That is, if all four roles are kept in balance, the organization will be optimally managed and will be successful (profitable) over both short and long-term. You will learn about Producing Results (P), Administering (A), Entrepreneuring (E), and Integrating (I) and how understanding these four roles is critical to understanding an organization’s culture and its structure. Seminar/Principal Points: Organizations must balance the four critical roles of management in order to be successful. If one role is underplayed the company will be seriously mismanaged.

Management Styles: Your work style colors how you interact with your colleagues, customers and work place. In this dynamic session, Dr. Gerry Faust will introduce you to the Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur and Integrator management styles. As individuals we generally have some capability to fill each of these roles, but people have a tendency to be more capable in or to emphasize one or two of these four roles more than the others. This tendency gives each and every one of us a distinct work style. It is this difference in emphasis that creates differences of perspective. Learn how to use the concept of work styles to help you understand and work better with people by recognizing their work style. Seminar/Principal Points: Understanding the differences in work style can help you to predict how you and others will react in specific situations and can help you decide how to manage, motivate, communicate with or sell to all four management styles.

Responsible Managers: In this fast paced and powerful presentation, Dr. Gerry Faust discusses the concept of responsibility. Responsibility is a very common word, and we all have a basic understanding of what it means to be responsible. But, Dr. Faust will explore this concept even further. He will share with you his insights that the challenge of responsibility is actually set by two small words, “to” and “for”. He will explore what it means to be a responsible manager/worker, what role empowerment plays in responsibility, what barriers we might face, and some solutions to creating an empowered and responsible work force. Seminar/Principal Points: Responsibility is a valuable concept for living our lives with purpose and direction. It is a very basic concept that we all too often lose sight of. Dr. Faust helps put its importance into perspective and gives you something to take home and use immediately.