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Aaron McDaniel

Aaron McDaniel is a globally recognized corporate manager, speaker and author with a passion for helping organizations innovate and attract, engage & retain top talent. Aaron began his corporate career at AT&T, as part of its flagship Leadership Development Program. He rose to become one of the youngest to serve as Regional Vice President (at age 27) and was part of AT&T’s Diamond Club, Top 1% of sales leaders worldwide. Aaron is currently one of the youngest faculty members at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business (where he is also an alumnus) and is the co-founder of 10X Innovation Lab, an international consulting firm helping corporations and governments across 4 continents build and leverage innovation ecosystems.

Aaron is a serial entrepreneur, having founded 3 companies that were acquired, one of which he turned down an offer for on ABC’s Shark Tank. Aaron is the author of The Young Professional’s Guide to the Working World (an international top 10 listed book printed in multiple languages, with a foreword by New York Times Bestseller Marshall Goldsmith) and The Young Professional’s Guide to Managing (foreword by co-author of The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes), has been featured in numerous media outlets including: Forbes, Inc., Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CBSRadio, and US News & World Report, and is trusted by top companies including: the Ritz-Carlton, Deloitte Consulting, Wells Fargo and UnitedHealth Group.

Categories: Creative Thinking and Innovation, Featured, Generational Differences, New to AEISpeakers, Workforce Issues

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The Global Class Mindset

Building the right mindset, team, culture and structures to enable your business to thrive at global scale

Attendee Benefits & Takeaways
*Understand how global business has changed and why today's best opportunities are in global markets
*Gain key insights into how the world's fastest growing company succeed at scaling globally (based on extensive research with 400+ executives from top brands)
*Learn WHO Global Class teams are made up of, Interpreneurs, and why they are the catalysts for scaling globally
*See HOW Global Class companies localize their business to find traction in new markets
*Learn the Global Agile Methodology and how to foster two-way innovation within your organization
*Implement flexible frameworks to navigate all aspects of global growth from market selection to effectively launching to ongoing management
*Understand and apply the 3 Pillars of Effective Global Growth Relevant case studies from top brands to lend context to core concepts

The INTERpreneur - Nurturing Globally Minded Leaders

Identify and nurture the next generation of global business leaders to be a catalyst for your company's growth

Attendee Benefits & Takeaways
*Learn how a new breed of business leader, The Interpreneur™ can be a difference maker in your company's growth
*Better understand the importance of a cultural mindset in scaling your business in new markets
*Get practical strategies to help manage a diverse and distributed workforce
*Master effective cultural conscious management tactics
*Implement the Global Class Team Building Framework to activate top talent and ensure you have a strong balance of local market and company knowledge
*Gain strategies for training and building cultural conscious leaders
*Activate innovative and entrepreneurial/agile thinking within your team
*Capitalize on differences in culture to localization and achieve growth

Rapid Global Growth

How to effectively expand into to new global markets and penetrate your existing international footprint

Attendee Benefits & Takeaways
*Learn how to balance the need to localize with the complexity created by these changes to your business
*Understand the 10 biggest mistakes companies make when scaling globally, and how to avoid them
*Hear case studies from the world's fastest growing companies, unlocking key insights to apply to your business
*Learn how to create a culture with universal appeal and build a best-in-class global team
*Get a playbook for how to uncover local market insights ("Localization Discovery"), build an ideal global strategy, and implement your internal expansion initiative - progressing from market entry to growth and global scale
*Gain strategies for how to capture and communicate best practices, creating internal structures and processes to support scale
*Implement the management model that unlocks global innovation

Ignite Your Innovation

Building an agile culture and processes to harness your organization’s entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in a rapidly changing marketplace

Attendee Benefits & Takeaways
*Make your organization and team more successful and adaptive in today's fast-changing business world
*Develop a culture that fosters growth, collaboration and intelligent risk-taking
*Understand how the most successful companies leverage new working models and strategies to engage employees
*Study emerging trends and technologies relevant to your business, and learn how to best integrate with innovation ecosystems
*Create an engagement plan that delivers measurable results
*Establish effective lines of communication through to create frictionless collaboration
*Implement frameworks that allow for stakeholder buy-in and participation in innovation initiatives
*Learn how organizations large and small can implement innovation strategies to grow their business

Thriving in a Multi-Generational Workplace

Amplify your ROI by engaging your younger employees and learn how to inspire Multi-Generational collaboration

Attendee Benefits & Takeaways
*Gain insights into how to empower a multi-generational workforce and inspire cross-generational collaboration
*Understand how to engage members of the youngest generations (Millennials & Gen Z)
* Learn how to improve the return on investment (ROI) from the resources put into top talent, improving retention and bolstering succession planning
*Make your product/service irresistible to the next generation of customers
* Get a deeper understanding of how to revamp your employee engagement methods to appeal to and leverage the best traits of employees from all generations
*Master techniques to leverage your younger employees to drive innovation and your organization's future vision
*Gain strategies to remove obstacles and maximize the value high performers provide

Books

Global Class: How the World's Fastest-Growing Companies Scale Globally by Focusing Locally

Global Class: How the World's Fastest-Growing Companies Scale Globally by Focusing Locally

Global Class is the playbook that teaches you how to build teams, manage a diverse international footprint, and balance cultural differences to scale globally by focusing locally. Through case studies and insights from more than 250 of the world's fastest growing companies, Aaron McDaniel and Klaus Wehage illuminate what this new class of business ("Global Class Companies") do to succeed, who are the catalysts of their growth ("Interpreneurs") and how they do it.

You can purchase this book here

The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World: Savvy Strategies to Get In, Get Ahead, and Rise to the Top

The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World: Savvy Strategies to Get In, Get Ahead, and Rise to the Top

College does not teach you how to be successful in the working world.

There is no course or textbook that explains how to create the fulfilling careers many aspire to.

The Millennial generation is 80 million members strong and each year more than 1.5 million enter the working world with little to no idea of how to succeed.

While companies spend millions of dollars scrambling to learn more about Millennials and adapt their work cultures to fit this generation, there are remarkably few resources dedicated to teaching young professionals the traits and techniques that will help them succeed in an ever-changing and always-challenging corporate environment.

The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World fills this void, offering relevant advice to young professionals seeking to build a strong career foundation. A fellow Millennial, McDaniel draws on personal experiences from the beginning of his own career to illustrate key lessons.

You can purchase this book here

The Young Professional's Guide to Managing: Building, Guiding and Motivating Your Team to Achieve Awesome Results

The Young Professional's Guide to Managing: Building, Guiding and Motivating Your Team to Achieve Awesome Results

One of the hardest challenges in anyone's career is transitioning from being a employee responsible solely for one's own work to a manager responsible for others' performance. New managers face the stress of giving up control while needing to drive results through others.

Many of the more than 80 million members of the Millennial generation are facing the challenge of managing others without a guide to success specifically tailored to them.

The Young Professional's Guide to Managing fills this void with a mix of relevant tips and stories, and a connection to rich online resources.

You can purchase this book here

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