Mission: "to help management teams take a company to the next level using: peer group think-tanks, personal coaching, culture shaping workshops, keynote speeches, and on-line publishing."

Art McNeil is:

• A keynote speaker who has inspired business leaders all over the world. more

• Creator of Setting P.A.C.E. how to take a company to the next level—a one day workshop designed to help management teams introduce strategic process management, continuous improvement, and values-directed leadership. more

• Chairman of several CEO think-tanks (TEC groups) in and around Tampa Florida. more.

• An advisor  on the creation of  high-performance cultures more

• An internationally experienced executive coach.  more

• Author of several books on leadership and the development of high-performance cultures, including his #1 best seller, The "I" of the Hurricane: Creating Corporate Energy. more

Art McNeil has:

• coached CEO’s to improve their management effectiveness and leadership skills.

• helped management teams around the world reinvent themselves by shaping a high-performance culture (his client list includes many of America’s best known Corporations)

• founded a consulting company called Achieve whose namesake, Achieve Global, went on to become one of the world's largest management and sales skills training companies.

• published a syndicated newspaper column called Life is Not a Spectator Sport

• completed a mid-career graduate degree in applied behavioral science, specializing in the elimination of group dysfunction.

• built an exclusive executive retreat center, where he coached executive teams on implementing total quality, the clarification and use of cultural-values, and how to focus corporate vision.

• served as Director of Sales and Marketing of a telecommunication company.

 Setting P.A.C.E. how to take your company to the next level

A synopsis of Art’s most current work

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P.A.C.E. management is about orchestrating positions to produce...it controls the organization's capacity for quality and productivity.  

Like jazz groups, smaller companies succeed because a limited number of positions really get to know each other.  They know how to shoot from the hip, change direction on the fly, multi task, cover for each other, and do whatever it takes to succeed.  Strategy is usually carried around in the head of an entrepreneurial founder and planning takes a back seat to situational reaction.

To take a company to the next level, entrepreneurs must in effect "replace themselves" with disciplined plans and processes.  Building on the metaphor, musicians in large orchestras, unlike their free wheeling jazz counterparts, play from a documented musical score.  Reading music is a disciplined process that demands absolute compliance.   For example, a symphony conductor can’t allow the tuba player to blow a spontaneous  lick.  Performing excellence demands that each orchestra musician play exactly what is written.  Because they trust the process, the orchestra leader's protocol for changing tunes is not complicated—simply replace one score with another. In orchestras, the composer, conductor, and each musician have a specific role to play.  Everybody trusts that colleagues will play their part.  Collaboration fosters passion and pride, even though individual assignments may not always be challenging or exciting.

P.A.C.E. leadership is about inspiring people.  Executed well, it fosters creativity and generates the organizational energy that drives will to win and  desire to belong.

 A plethora of innovative technologies and management processes continue to come and go but the principles of effective leadership remain constant—that's because leadership is founded on timeless truths regarding what goes on within and between people.     The impact of globalization and a digital revolution have irrevocably altered our perceptions of location, distance, speed, and time. Most of us either grew up in the industrial-age or were influenced by role models who did. Unfortunately, even well intentioned organizations are impeded by “industrial-age ghosting.”  This handicap leaves otherwise talented executives, managers, and key employees, struggling to make sense of markets and competitors through an outdated perception of what makes today’s world go around.  Coping with this mega shift makes leadership everybody's business.

P.A.C.E. how to take an organization to the next level is available in a one day implementation-oriented workshop.  A book and DVD based self-led workshop is in the works.   more