Rich Horwath

Founder & CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute

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Rich Horwath Biography

Rich Horwath is the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute where he serves leadership teams as a strategy workshop facilitator, strategic executive coach, and keynote speaker. His mission is to help executive teams think, plan, and act strategically to set direction, create advantage, and achieve their goals. Horwath is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestselling author of eight books, and his work has been featured in publications including Fast Company, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. He has been described by Chief Executive Magazine as “the world’s foremost expert on strategic thinking.”

As a former chief strategy officer and professor of strategy at the graduate level, he is able to bring a practical, real-world approach based in strong foundational principles to help executives develop their strategic capabilities. Horwath has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX TV to share his perspectives on current business strategy issues. In addition to his work facilitating strategy workshops for leadership teams and providing executive coaching services and strategic counsel, he is a highly sought-after keynote speaker for groups ranging from 10 to 10,000. Horwath has helped more than a quarter million leaders around the world develop their strategic capabilities in pursuit of his vision to teach the world to be strategic.

Horwath served as a professor of management at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, where he was consistently ranked a top strategy professor by students. He earned an MBA with Distinction from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and has completed postgraduate courses in strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He resides in Barrington, Illinois.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/01/2024.

Rich Horwath Videos

  • Rich Horwath on Developing Your Strategic Capabilities
    Rich Horwath, CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, shares his approach to helping executive leadership teams develop their strategic...

Rich Horwath Books

  • Elevate: the Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking
    Elevate: the Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking
  • Strategic: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence
    Strategic: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence
  • Strategy For You: Building a Bridge to the Life You Want
    Strategy For You: Building a Bridge to the Life You Want
  • Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action
    Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action
  • Strategy Espresso: Triple Shots of Strategic Thinking to Energize Your Business
    Strategy Espresso: Triple Shots of Strategic Thinking to Energize Your Business
  • Sculpting Air: The Executive's Guide to Shaping Strategy
    Sculpting Air: The Executive's Guide to Shaping Strategy

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