Peter Guber Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment

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Divining and Designing the Culture of Innovation

Divining and Designing the Culture of Innovation

How do the most successful companies and leaders generate ideas, unleash the creative talent of their people, move innovative thinking throughout their organization overcoming resistance, and have an accelerated time to market that leaves competitors in the dust? Peter Guber draws from his four decades of successes in the creative industry of Entertainment, innovating on all sides of the food chain, from working with creatives, to corporate, to partners, vendors, and audiences; in addition to leading or investing in cutting edge early stage companies like Demand Media (where he’s on the Board of Directors) and Geek Chic Daily; as well as reinventing sports teams and stadiums in NBA basketball, baseball and hockey to share first person stories based on his demonstrated successes to provide the tools to change your Monday. Be motivated by a masterful story teller who will ignite and incite the culture of innovation and the tools to execute on it in your organization.
Leading in Uncertain Times - What's Your Story?

Leading in Uncertain Times - What's Your Story?

Be warned....in uncertain times, if leaders don't have a story that gives focus to their resources and resourcefulness, someone else will write their future - and it won't turn out well! In this compelling, transformative keynote, "StoryMan" Peter Guber empowers, enlightens and exhorts leaders to tap into their innate story telling ability and to use this skill to persuade others to act toward common goals. Often misperceived as lacking power, many leaders avoid story, employing instead soulless information, data, and PowerPoint bullets to motivate their listeners. Yet, when the chips are down, as they are in tumultuous times, it's the emotional power that counts. This explains the magic of great leaders like Steve Jobs, Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela who communicate through story. They connect to their listeners emotionally through purposeful story telling, impassioning them to viral market their stories as if they were their own. During this no holds-barred experience, Guber shares his methodology of how to use story to overcome the three navigation stakes challenging all leaders during trying times: • Fear • Uncertainty • Change And how to employ the power of story to catalyze: • Unity among disparate "tribes" • Resiliency during negativity • Perspiration into inspiration
Storytelling for Business Sucess

Storytelling for Business Sucess

Great story telling is more than just entertainment; it is a highly powerful and vastly underutilized professional business tool. It is indeed the secret sauce that can propel your success - whether you are an executive, entrepreneur, sales manager, marketing & communications expert, artist, consultant, inventor, HR professional or assistant. Unfortunately, by the time most people have entered business, stories, as professional tools, have been dismissed as too soft or suspect and have been replaced by soulless bullets and forgettable data. Yet, only stories and their telling can create the emotional experiences that make the important information embedded within the story memorable, resonant and actionable. In this entertaining, enlightening and informative presentation, "StoryMan" Peter Guber shares his methodology of how to employ the power of the oral story to: • Sell more products/services • Lead more persuasively • Manage more effectively • Inspire greater creativity • Foster deeper collaboration • Rebrand your product or company • Communicate change • Generate viral advocacy for your vision or mission • Overcome resistance

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2011 Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives and entrepreneurs in the entertainment and communications industries. Films he personally produced or executive produced, including Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing and Flashdance, have resonated with audiences all over the world, earning over three billion dollars worldwide and garnering more than fifty Academy Award nominations.

Guber led Sony Pictures as Chairman & CEO, Columbia Pictures as President, Polygram as Chairman & CEO and Casablanca Record & Filmworks as Co-Owner and Co-Chairman. While at Sony, the company achieved an industry-best domestic box office market share of 17%, and led all competitors with the highest four-year total of Academy Award nominations ever for a single company.

A passionate, humorous, and tireless motivator and speaker, Guber has dedicated himself to coaching current and future leaders about the importance of telling purposeful stories to propel their business success.

Guber has been a full professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for nearly four decades. Guber turned this legacy and experience in front of the camera where he was seen every Sunday morning for six years on American Movie Classics (AMC) cable network, as co-host of the critically acclaimed national TV show, Shootout.

In November of 2010, Peter Guber, together with Joe Lacob, Managing Partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, acquired the Golden State Warriors. Guber is owner and co-executive chairman of the NBA franchise that services the Bay Area.

A noted author, Guber co-wrote the best seller, Shootout. In December 2007, Guber wrote the cover article for the Harvard Business Review titled, “The Four Truths of the Storyteller.” He also authored op-ed pieces for the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Guber released his third book, Tell To Win - Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, which became a #1 best seller in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and on Amazon.com.

Peter Guber was recruited by Columbia Pictures out of NYU’s Graduate School of Business where he was pursuing an MBA.

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Storytelling for Business Sucess

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