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About
John Kuypers
From high-flying marketing & sales executive
to leadership results expert, John Kuypers has led a fascinating career. One
theme dominates his career – successful change. As a marketer, he led bold
marketing campaigns to change consumer behaviour in beverages, snacks and
household products. As a strategic change consultant, he helped transform
one of Canada’s largest investment banking groups into a customer-driven,
sales-focused organization. As a person, he tackled the most difficult
change of all – himself.
Author of three books, John Kuypers is an expert in helping leaders get
the best from others. Quite
simply put, John says, “No strategic change can be successful
without changing the way things get done.”
As a young marketing manager, John drove the Mott’s Clamato brand to year over year
growth exceeding +25% each year. He was awarded employee of the year by
his employer, Cadbury Schweppes, for his efforts at making the Bloody
Caesar, Canada’s favourite mixed drink. As VP Sales, John led a turnaround
in the soft drinks division from -10% to +4% during a tough recession by
changing the culture from old-time schmoozing to modern business discipline.
As a strategic change consultant, John helped TD Bank’s Treasury and
Investment Banking group achieve $20 million (+15%) in growth after three
years of flat results. This came just one year after leading senior and
middle managers through a comprehensive planning process. John helped
management create a customer-driven culture that broke down the silos of
product-centric empires over a three year period.
As a person, John looked in the mirror to re-examine his own values and
beliefs. After a blackout on the living room floor at age 34, he
discovered the practical truth that focusing on the present is the key
to being both happy and successful in life. His first book, What’s
Important Now, has sold over 4000 copies on how to create personal change
in the present moment.
John’s latest book has been in testing and development for over five
years. In
Who’s The Driver Anyway? Making The Shift To A Collaborative Team Culture,
John outlines his proven method for helping leaders get better
results...now. His work creates
organizations that are engaged, productive, accountable and collaborative.
Using a simple metaphor of the relationship between a driver and a
passenger, John’s book asks one central question: who gets to decide? John
has helped companies reach new levels of success in engineering, marketing
services, not-for-profits, consumer goods and health care by shifting the
culture, developing the leaders and building organizations that deliver on
both short term and long term results. |
John Kuypers is
a
leadership results expert.
 He
is the author of three books and has worked in dozens of industries and
clients. His core value is to be in the present!
- John has a
broad executive
background...
- Marketing director & vice-president
of sales by the age of thirty-four with Cadbury Schweppes Canada
- Strategy &
organizational development consultant for TD Bank's Global Treasury &
Investment Banking Group
- Mergers &
acquisition, strategic consulting & facilitation services to Canadian
Tire Acceptance, Associated Brands & Corby Distilleries and others
- Interim Executive Director of Toronto City Mission,
working with urban poverty
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A wide range of management consulting,
training & leadership experience
- Founder of
Performance Shift
Consulting
- Wide variety of client experiences
including large corps to small, fast-growing organizations
- Carlson Marketing, Rogers
Communications, SC Johnson Wax, Sara Lee
- City of Hamilton, Gov't of Ontario,
St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital,
- Engineering, automotive, retirement homes,
retailing and others
- See client
list
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Long service on numerous
Not-for-Profit Boards.
- Chapter Leader, Cursillo Movement
of Hamilton
- Past member, Toronto City Mission
Board of Directors (2 years)
- Past member, Oakville United Way, Metro
Toronto Area-Wide United Way (4 years)
- Past Chairman of Community Out Reach in
Education (CORE) in North York, Ontario (3 yrs)
- Past member of
Strategic Revenue Committee, Canadian
Cancer Society of Ontario (2 yrs)
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John
is an author, coach, consultant and professional speaker
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