Ken Majer

Ken Majer has been a successful consultant and senior executive for over thirty years, with extensive experience as an author, consultant, and speaker focusing on change management, corporate culture, communications, values-based leadership, and organizational alignment. He is best known as a leadership specialist skilled in corporate strategy, identity/branding, reskilling, and corporate communications. Majer emphasizes using corporate values as a method for aligning culture and improving corporate environments, underlying his belief that values-driven companies outperform their competition.

Dr. Majer is founder and CEO of San Diego-based MajerStrategies, Inc., whose mission includes helping companies stay ahead of the curve and adapt to new realities in today’s changing business world. He serves as a key advisor to the Leadership Institute for Entrepreneurs at the University of San Diego. Previously, Majer has also been a professor and administrator at Indiana University and the University of California-San Diego.

Majer's clients include high-profile organizations such as Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), AT&T, ARC International, Citibank, GTE, Intel, Motorola, NAVTEQ, Nissan, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sharp HealthCare, State Farm Insurance, Toyota Financial Services, and the US Government. He has also worked as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development, designing basic skills education programs in southern Africa. Notably, Majer has been an invited speaker to numerous conferences, including two addresses at White House conferences. His presentations, which cover topics like Values-Based Leadership and Corporate Alignment, are known for their interactivity and are customized based on pre-interviews with key client participants. When not engaged in his professional work, Majer is interviewing values-based leaders for his upcoming book "Values-Based Corporate Leadership: Valuable Stories From America’s Top Business Leaders."