User:Gbradt

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George Bradt Stamford, Connecticut USA

Probably weighing in on leadership and onboarding issues given my background in corporate management (Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Disney, Coca-Cola, Guidance Solutions and J.D. Power's Power Information Network) and work in the field of onboarding since 2002-2003 (as founder and Managing Director of PrimeGenesis Executive Onboarding and Transition Acceleration)

I was born and brought up in New York City and went to school in New York (St. Bernard's), Connecticut (Choate), England (Winchester College), Massachusetts (Harvard), and then Pennsylvania (The University of Pennsylvania).

After about 20 years in sales, marketing and general management roles in the companies listed above, I started my own company, PrimeGenesis, in 2002-2003. (We incorporated in 2002, but didn't start operating until 2003.) That company, focuses on helping leaders accelerate their transitions into particularly tricky new roles and has reduced their rate of failure from 40% to 10% by helping those leaders and their teams get done in their first 100-days what normally takes 6-12 months.

In 2005, I and another partner, Kenny Beck, started CEO Connection, an organization that connects CEOs with other CEOs to build relationships and ideas to make them better.

I currently have one wife, three children, and two dogs. All of us, except the dogs, have dual U.S./European Union citizenships.

All these experiences have influenced the way I think. Through what I do day-to-day, my business, my books, my other writing, and my work on things like Wikipedia, I'm trying to make contributions to individuals, groups and knowledge.

Books

I am the author or co-author of:

"The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan" - George Bradt, Jayme Check and Jorge Pedraza (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, revised editions 2009 and 2011 - ISBN 0470485817)

"Onboarding: How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time" - George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut (John Wiley & Sons, 2009 - ISBN 0470407034)

"The Total Onboarding Program: An Integrated Approach To Recruiting, Hiring and Accelerating Talent" - George Bradt and Ed Bancroft (Wiley/Pfeiffer, 2010)

"Back-To-School Chats: Advice from Fathers to their Sons" - George Bradt (Durban House, 2006 - ISBN 193075487)

"Back-To-School Chats: Advice from Mothers to their Daughters" - George Bradt (Lulu, 2009 - ISBN 9780557062799)

The business books are findable at PrimeGenesis and various book stores. The Back-To-School Chats books are findable at Back-To-School Chats.com

Articles

I also write articles that appear from time to time in various publications. In particular, I do a weekly article for Forbes called "The New Leader's Playbook" that highlights examples of good things new leaders have done (and we are all new leaders all the time).