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“Steve Rutan has an excellent background and stands head and shoulders above the usual...presenter”
John Lanning - Manitowoc Cranes, Inc.

“...we discovered much about our business and ourselves which will help us to expand the firm and grow our market share while remaining true to our ethical management principles...”
Fred Peters - Ashforth Warburg Associates

“When I attended the seminar introducing the Simplified Strategic Planning process it was with the expectation that I would probably have to facilitate the process. Thank goodness that I quickly came to my senses! Hiring you as a facilitator introduced a myriad of advantages...”
Steven Ayres - Barrett Centrifugals, Inc.

Steve Rutan - Professional Speaker

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As an experienced and entertaining professional speaker, Steve has spent the last seven years engaging his audiences in stimulating topics and irresistibly interactive presentations. His programs always stimulate the best ideas in business management thinking and values-based decision making for the organization.

Each of his dynamic presentations is designed to teach, to explore and to provide attendees with the “how-to” experience that allows them to put valuable business planning concepts to use right away. His success as a master presenter has led him to provide speaking, teaching and group facilitation services on behalf of Michigan State University, the Chief Executive Network and many large and small organizations. Audience feedback consistently rates him as one of the top speakers in his field and his clients bring him back year after year.

Steve’s past management experience has been in such diverse industries as aircraft engine design, dental products distribution, metals and plastics packaging as well as consumer foods manufacturing and distribution. From engineering to operations to general management to strategic planning, Steve brings a broad array of experiences, expertise and insight to every speaking engagement. He has a finely tuned ability to quickly understand the business issues of each audience and applies his breadth knowledge in helping them uncover new ways to maximize their effectiveness.

“...your work...bordered on theatrics, dictatorship, ambivalence, compassion and, of course, more than a touch of intelligence.”
E. J. Blondell - The New York Blower Company

Center for Simplified Strategic Planning Programs Include:

• Simplify and Focus your Long Term Business Planning Process
• Strategic Thinking: Leverage the Energy of the Entire Organization in Your Long Term Business Plan
• The Most Essential Elements of Strategy: Strategic Focus and Competencies
• Effective Implementation: Realize your Strategy through Action Plans and Effective Project Management
• Core Business Strategies: How Market Segmentation Influences Business Focus and Results

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Articles

Get Ready for the Recovery
Three Strategic Tips For Your Recession Survival Tool Kit
Three Strategic Tips for Your Recession Survival Kit
Four Steps to Improving Human Capital
Four Steps to Improving Human Capital
Three Recession Strategies for a Strong Business
Three Recession Strategies for a Strong Business
Can HP teach an Old Dog New Tricks?
Export Now! Four great reasons to join the Global Marketplace
Are You Ready for the Challenge of Strategic Planning?
Should Your Organization be Ambidextrous?
Lessons for the Hedgehog
Four Keys to a Turnaround
Passion for Performance
What is the Key to Your Business Success?
Competing with a Market Leader
Tales from the Strategy Vault
Innovation for the Rest of Us
Building Advantage via Proprietary Positioning
Competing with China: Finding the Right Customers
Strategy Lessons - This Time It's Personal!
Troubled Times Call for Discipline
The Success Zone: Aligning Your Business Model and Risk Profile
Market Research An Update on Sources and Techniques for Your Strategic Planning Efforts
Strategic Management: 3 Steps to the Cycle of Success

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Steve's Contact Information:

Stephen A. Rutan Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, Inc. 55 Scarborough Park Rochester, NY 14625 Phone: 585-671-4670 Fax: 585-671-6145 Email: rutan@cssp.com

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Some Clients

Abbott Laboratories
Seagate Technologies
Michigan State University
The Chief Executive Network
Dunbarton Corporation
Applied Educational Systems
Yunker Industries

“...I was delighted with the rapport you developed with the group, with your ability to facilitate a sometimes raucous discussion, and with your understanding of the benefits of running a business through use of a strategic plan.”
Carol Wallace - Cooper Instrument Corporation

“...caused our management to formally embrace excellent management principles and practices enunciated by the program you introduced to our planning group...”
R. Bruce Mickey - CCPI, Inc.