Denise Harrison - Professional Speaker
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"Hands on management experience combined with streamlined process add up to a common sense approach to business planning. Her fast-paced, insightful presentations use humorous examples to illustrate success and failure. Laugh at examples of plans gone awry, but leave with ideas for enhancing your company's performance."
Denise has been a successful business catalyst for over 20 years. She understands tough situations and envisions solutions in a variety of environments. As President of a financial services firm, Denise significantly enhanced profitability and improved cycle time by 60%. The key to this success is strategic alignment throughout the organization. Denise speaks not only on the importance of this strategic thinking, but also provides hands on practical ideas for promoting alignment.
As President of a division of a Fortune 500 information services company, Denise successfully developed the corporation's international expansion plan and installed disciplined systems for tracking and responding to competitive market conditions and changes. Other responsibilities included: VP Operations, VP Marketing, Sr. VP and General Manager of two operating divisions.
Denise's background includes "old" and "new" economy experience combined with diverse functional experience, which enable her to communicate with executives peer to peer using thought provoking real life examples. Her presentations energize executives to think strategically, execute efficiently, and capitalize on the intellectual capital resident in their organization. In addition to speaking, Denise consults to a variety of organizations. This hands-on experience gives her fresh insight into current business issues Executives take away practical ideas for enhancing their organization's performance.
Her clients include manufacturing companies ranging from specialty chemicals to computer storage devices, and service companies ranging from banks to software developers.
Denise graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in Economics and has a MS in Business Policy from Columbia University.
Denise Harrison is highly qualified and a FINE presenter!
Robert Seligman, Chief Operating Officer, Laughlin & Associates
Center for Simplified Strategic Planning Programs Include:
- Leadership Strategies for Turbulent Times

- Innovation - Where to Look for It
- Strategic Planning: Getting Real Results
- Strategic Alignment: Energizing Your Company to Execute
- Strategic Planning: Sometimes a Road Less Traveled is Best
- Turning Plans into Action
- Business Strategy for Turbulent Times
- Strategic Focus: The Key to Success
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Articles
How Does Strategic Planning Deal with Seismic Changes in an Industry? Business Survey Results Use the Recession to Trigger Rejuvenation: Develop a Strategy to Revitalize your Company Use the Recession to Trigger Rejuvenation: Develop a Strategy to Revitalize your Company Strategic Planning: What is the Board's Role? Acquisition Survey Results Acquisition Survey Results Strategic Planning: When Can Goals Be Bad? Acquisitions: 8 Steps to Success Acquisition Candidate Selection Ten Reasons for Strategic Planning How to Make a CEO's Life Easier WD-40 Finds Growth for 50 year-old Product When Is It Strategic to Say No to New Business? Coming in Out of the Rain Winning Companies Focus on Winning Customers Turn Your Threats into Opportunities Strategic Planning: Sometimes a Road Less Traveled is Best You are #1 in your Core Markets - Now, How Do You Grow? Turn Your Threats into Opportunities If you can't Beat 'em Join 'em. Working with/in China You Have Successfully Outsourced Lessons Learned in Aligning an Organization: Two Way Communication is Key Strategy Bits Innovation -- Where to Look for It Strategic Planning: Sometimes a Road Less Traveled is Best Recession! Recovery? Risks and Uncertainty Economic Commentary March to a Different Drummer Global Ties Buoy International Trade Emerging Trends as the Economy Turns the Corner Terrorist Attacks: The Aftermath Don't Disrespect the Tulip Hard Land, Soft Landing - What will the impact be on the rest of the world? The New Economy: What is it? How will it impact my business? US Slow-down; International Recovery Opportunities Abroad, Challenges with the Economy The New Economy: What Is It? Can Low Inflation and Strong Growth Continue in the US? Growth & Prosperity: Productivity & Demographic Factors Turbulent Times: The Global Economy Weathering Uneven Economic Growth Storm Clouds Looming?
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Denise's Contact Information:
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Denise A. Harrison
Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, Inc.
117 Ann Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Phone: 910-763-5194
Fax: 910-763-6087
Email: harrison@cssp.com
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Speaking Engagements
American Forest & Paper Association
American Society of Women Accountants
Seagate Technology, LLC
Association of Independent Mailing Equipment Dealers
Michigan State University
International Credit Association
Nondestructive Testing Management Association
Lotus Development Corporation
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
Young President's Organization (YPO)
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