DigitalNow: Association Leadership in the Digital Age

Stan Slap knows how to create ferocious commitment in your employee and customer cultures. He doesn't focus on anything else. Since these two groups decide the success of your business, he doesn't think there is anything else.

This unique expertise means that he knows how to cause corporate strategies to be implemented even better than they're planned, how to gain emotional commitment and full-tilt discretionary effort from managers, how to achieve dependable business gains driven by loyal customer relationships and how to create a wicked competitive edge for any company.

This is a critical difference in the quality and impact of Stan's keynote speeches. He doesn't just talk about results; he creates them—for many of the world's biggest, smartest and most demanding organizations. And he does it with a "Deadly Serious. Totally Twisted" attitude that is a compelling mix of provocative and profound, hysterical and heartfelt.

Stan has been a CEO himself for over 20 years. Prior to starting his own company 18 years ago, he was Executive Vice President of Mrs. Fields Cookies during their growth from a 19 store regional chain to 300 stores in 4 countries and he set performance records that have never been bested. He was brought in to helm 500-store retail franchisor WNS during their bankruptcy and steered that company out of Chapter 11 and onto record sales in just ten months—the shortest amount of time in history for a franchise company to successfully emerge from bankruptcy.

Stan is now president of the international consulting company called, by a remarkable coincidence, "slap." His solutions are the highest rated in many of the world's highest rated companies. A few examples: 

• Caterpillar credits Stan with helping to revitalize its entire truck engine division.
• Oracle hired Stan to create the plan that enrolled 40,000 employees in 167 countries in the company's critical strategic intent and Stan's training programs remain the most successful in Oracle's history since their introduction seven years ago.
• IONA, Ireland's largest software company says that Stan was directly responsible for increasing their market cap.
• Jacuzzi reports that he was instrumental in helping them achieve double-digit increases in the midst of a slumping market.
• Time Warner says that his strategic work helped them grow their most profitable music division by 300% in just three years.

Stan's training programs are taught in over 70 countries, his business videos have won many awards, and he will soon be publishing his first two books.