His pioneering research in interviewing over 50 leading innovators was published in the book Winning the Innovation Game in l986. Since then, he has continued to publish widely on the subject, including his international bestseller, Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change for the New Century, which has been translated into 13 languages.

  As one of the thought leaders in the growing Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, and Harvard Management Update. He has appeared on CNBC, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the PBS series, Taking the Lead. 

  The Innovation Resource, based in Santa Barbara, California, is a consulting firm devoted exclusively to assisting companies seeking to improve top and bottom line performance via systematic innovation. 

  Tucker is a much sought after speaker at conferences and company convocations. Clients range from Fortune 500 companies to national and international trade associations. He has been a consultant to Taiwan's Economic Development Ministry, and the Japan Marketing Association, and has traveled to every continent to share his ideas and strategies with global business leaders. 

Robert Tucker resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife, Carolyn McQuay, and daughter Cara Rose Tucker. 
 

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Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures
In this dynamic presentation based on three years of in-depth research, Robert B. Tucker will take you and your audience on a guided tour behind the scenes inside 23 Innovation Vanguard companies. You’ll discover their secrets for building innovation into a powerful source of growth, profits, and competitive advantage. You’ll learn unconventional methods to turn innovation into a systematic, imbedded process, and be stimulated to take action in your firm. learn more 

Innovative Thinking
Looking for an uplifting, entertaining, audience-involving session for your meeting? This program, based on Tucker’s interviews with over 50 leading innovators, will definitely get the creative juices flowing. Based on the acclaimed book, Winning the Innovation Game and Tucker’s 15 years of experience as a professional speaker, your attendees will leave with powerful, yet surprisingly simple methods for dramatically improved thinking, decision-making and problem solving.

Managing the Future: Capitalizing on the Driving Forces of Change
Are your attendees as open and receptive to change as they need to be? Are you searching for a way to stimulate thinking beyond the here-and-now? If so, this is the presentation to choose. Based on Robert Tucker’s best-selling Managing the Future, this futuristic but intensely practical session identifies key deep-seated directions everyone in leadership must respond to, in order to avoid being blindsided by change.

Customer Service for the New Millennium
In this practical, example-filled program, Robert Tucker reveals essential strategies for succeeding in today’s crowded, maturing, and consolidating marketplace. Specifically designed for business owners, top managers and key associates, attendees will learn new marketing, sales and service approaches that build loyalty in customers and employees alike. 

The Intelligent Talk Show
Ever wished there was a way to spice up those important, but often boring, panel discussions at your trade association meeting? Now there is. Recently, some of your fellow meeting planners have embraced an exciting new format, organized and hosted by Robert B. Tucker, that says good-by to snoresville, hello packed house. Panelists become “guests” on a “live show,” and are more animated, more willing to tackle the tough issues that create industry buzz – and keep attendees coming back for more. 

Managing & Motivating Today’s Workforce
Lack of work ethic in today’s employees got you down? Having trouble finding and keeping employees with the skills you desperately need to run the business? If so, this session will teach you powerful new methods of attracting, motivating and retaining qualified, committed workers. You will learn powerful, practical techniques that will help you recruit the best, manage more effectively, lower turnover and improve service delivery. 

FEE RANGE: $7,500 - $10,000 (plus travel expense)

VIDEO & PRESS MATERIAL AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST