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"Brent Filson doesn't just teach you how to lead. He inspires you to do it!" —Duncan Maxwell Anderson, Senior Editor, Success Magazine.

"What Brent teaches is simple yet profound in its implications. We need to motivate people to choose to be our cause leaders, not have people simply do things. Instead of telling people what you know and want them to do, we need to understand their motivation, tap their emotion, and enlist them as cause leaders to share a dream. I keep Brent's card in my wallet to remind me of the steps in the process. Every Leadership Talk that I give follows this process. I recently used this process to enlist the support in a campaign for corporate giving. As a result we increased the employee participation and realized an increase in the giving rate per employee by 10%. His approach had a positive impact on the results."

– David Goodnight, Vice President, Asia/Pacific & Latin America

"I've been using Brent Filson's methodologies for more than seven years. And they get results! They not only get results on a tactical level but a strategic level too."

– Richard Brown, President & Global General Manager, Fortune 100 Company.

Brent F. Filson’s Biography

Brent F. Filson is the founder and president of The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. His Massachusetts firm specializes in helping businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations worldwide achieve significant increases in hard, measured results -- far more results than what the organizations are presently achieving. These objectives are accomplished by having leaders institute special, results-producing methodologies Filson has developed while training and consulting in many business sectors. The methodologies are used daily by leaders of all ranks and functions to create motivational strategies, structures and systems generating what Filson describes as “more results faster, continually.”

He first learned about leadership as a Marine Corps rifle platoon commander. As a civilian, he has, during the past 21 years, helped thousands of leaders and scores of organizations worldwide boost results by enhancing leadership effectiveness. Working with leaders in many top companies, he has developed motivational leadership strategies, processes and skill sets, and created and instituted leadership educational and training programs. He has lectured at Columbia University, MIT’s Sloane School Of Business, Boston College, Wake Forest University, Williams College, Villanova, and more. He has spoken before many dozens of private, non-profit and government organizations.

Filson is the author of 23 books (some one millions copies sold) and more than 100 articles on leadership. His leadership books and articles have been featured some 300 magazines and newspapers. His book, Executive Speeches: 51 CEOs Tell You How To Do Yours, has been called “a classic” by the Public Relations Journal. Considered by experts to be a landmark in leadership communication, the book is being used in many educational venues worldwide. His latest book, The Leadership Talk: The Great Leadership Tool, has been selected finalist in the careers category of a national book award. During the past year, he has gotten rave reviews being interviewed on some 125 radio programs, discussing his leadership philosophy and processes.

He is a graduate of Wake Forest .

Some of the companies where key leaders are employing Brent Filson’s leadership processes.
Abbott, Ameritech, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, BancOne, BASF, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, Betz Laboratories, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Campbell Sales, CNA, DuPont, Eaton Corporation, First Energy, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, GTE, Hershey Foods, Houghton Mifflin, IBM, Merck, Miller Brewing Company, PaineWebber, Polaroid, Price Waterhouse, Roadway Express, Sears Roebuck, Spalding International, Southern Company, Unilever, UPS, Union Carbide, United Dominion Industries, U.S. Steel, Warner Lambert and more.