"Conor, you did a terrific job at the Brands in Foodservice conference on Tuesday. ...I just wanted you to know you were the outstanding speaker on the day - and received rave reviews."
Brands in Foodservice Conference, London England
Contact IrishmanSpeaks Conor Cunneen: Email or Phone 630 718 1643
KEYNOTES (customized to your conference and event) include:
*Leadership Lessons from the McDonald's Turnaround (Read NRN article)
*The Gift of GAB: How Goals, Attitude, Brand provide a Top o' the Morning Customer Experience
*Don't Believe your own Blarney and other Lessons to BEAT the Recession
*Adden Humur two you're Presentashun! (Good speling costs moor!)
Conor Cunneen is an Irishman happily exiled in Naperville where he says the Guinness is drinkable, he’s had more corned beef than he ever had in Ireland and the natives are friendly! Conor has presented as keynote speaker to foodservice conferences in USA, Spain, Ireland, England, Finland, Scotland. Published foodservice articles by this speaker include Leadership Lessons from McDonald’s Turnaround where he outlined key foodservice leadership and marketing concepts on Foodservice Vision, Branding, Bench Strength and Innovation. Variously described as “James Joyce meets Tom Peters” and “Mark Twain with a brogue,” this motivational sales and marketing executive has worked in senior foodservice roles in Ireland, UK and USA where he was VP Marketing, Unilever Foodservice. Conor is an award winning keynote speaker whose accolades include Chicago Humorous Speaker of the Year for a speech—would you believe on—Customer Service in San Quentin Jail.
Contact Conor Cunneen who has worked in Ireland, UK, USA in senior Foodservice roles:
General Manager, Bestfoods Foodservice Ireland
Marketing Director, Bestfoods Foodservice UK
VP Marketing, Unilever Foodservice USA
"Some of the comments received in regard to your presentation were: ‘Worth attending for this alone’ ‘Easy to listen to/ motivational, interesting’ ‘Excellent presentation and delivery’ / ‘Interesting and inspirational- thought provoking’ "
Below you can read one of a large number of book reviews on business and innovation by IrishmanSpeaks - Conor Cunneen, former VP Marketing Unilever Foodservice.
To see clips of this Chicago-based Irish Foodservice Keynote Speaker and Motivational Humorist Conor Cunneen in action, hit these video links showcasing Conor's unique combination of Substance WITH Humor
*Leadership Lessons from the McDonald's Turnaround (Read NRN article)
*Don't Believe your own Blarney and other Lessons to BEAT the Recession
*The Gift of GAB: How Goals, Attitude, Brand provide a Top o' the Morning Customer Experience
*Adden Humur two you're Presentashun!
Conor has worked in senior marketing and sales foodservice positions in Ireland (General Manager Sales & Marketing, Bestfoods Foodservice), UK (Marketing Director, Bestfoods Foodservice) and USA (VP Marketing Unilever Foodservice) prior to becoming an in-demand keynote speaker offering Substance WITH Humor.
His foodservice articles on McDonald's, Starbucks, Darden, Applebee's have been published in Ireland, UK, Australia and USA. Read Conor's article on Leadership Lessons from the McDonald's Turnaround published in Nation's Restaurant News.
“You did a terrific job at the conference on Tuesday. ...I just wanted you to know you were the outstanding speaker on the day - and received rave reviews. Some of the comments received back on the questionnaire in regard to your presentation were: ‘Worth attending for this alone,’ ‘Great Content,’ ‘Easy to listen to/ motivational, interesting’ “
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Welcome to the website of Irishman and Chicago based humorous business keynote speaker, award winner humorist, former VP Marketing Unilever Foodservice and a man who apologizes regularly for the ludicrous level of hyperbole in relation to phrases like:
"Humorous keynote speaker on business, marketing and life whose humorous, motivational, inspirational, funny, substantive keynote speaker skills results in his audience saying things like – ‘What a wonderfully funny business marketing and branding keynote speaker,’ or ‘the best humorous, inspirational, motivational keynote speaker I have seen today’ (or any other today hopefully).
This Chicago based keynote speaker – Cancer, Financial Services, Foodservice, Marketing, Branding, Business Growth – blames it all on search engines. This Irish keynote speaker (based in Chicago) has spoken in places as diverse as Helsinki, Madrid, London, Dublin, Glasgow, Toronto and many cities in the United States. Conor says "Search engines are a key part of my marketing mix. Many clients have found me by keying in phrases like 'Keynote Speaker Restaurants,' 'Foodservice Keynote Speaker,' ‘funny keynote speaker marketing’ or ‘humorous keynote speaker cancer,’ (Conor is a two time cancer survivor) or ‘keynote speaker Ireland,’ or "Award winning humorist and humorous keynote business or marketing speaker who has a wonderful Cork accent.’ Well, actually no one has keyed the last search term, but it did allow me to put the following words – humorist, humorous, funny keynote business, marketing keynote speaker - once again into a sentence so that search engines might find this website.
If you are seeking any of the above or you are looking for a speaker whose Brand Promise is E4: Energize, Educate, Entertain AND Easy to Work with, a humorous funny keynote speaker who is deadly serious about doing a good job for you as a meeting planner and would be thrilled if your boss says to you following Conor’s presentation, "You are just the best meeting planner in the world to have booked such an inspirational, funny, humorous keynote business speaker on Marketing, Foodservice, Cancer, Business Growth, Teamwork who has no shame about using over the top descriptions," well this keynote speaker from Midleton, Co. Cork Ireland can be contacted at his Chicago office - 630 718 1643.
HOW YOU CAN DRIVE REVENUE AND PROFIT GROWTH WITH INNOVATION
Authors: A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan
This is a book that provides good insightful material for the keynote marketing and business speaker.
In the early 1990’s P&G was the number two laundry company in the world with a 19 per cent share. Today, it has a 34 share – nearly double its next competitor. Not bad, not bad at all. This book will help you understand how this consumer behemoth was able to achieve this result and many others.
I will be very surprised if THE GAMECHANGER does not become required reading in many Fortune 500 executive suites. It is not because there is anything dramatically new in it, but because it provides a good look at how Proctor & Gamble turned itself around from being a slow moving organization, poorly rated by analysts to one of the most respected consumer goods companies on the planet.
Credit for much of this turnaround goes to Chairman and CEO A.G. Lafley who took office in June 2000.
The co-authors, Lafley and Charan are corporate superstars. Lafley’s contributions to the book are particularly interesting as he provides some excellent case study material on how innovation drove growth for key P&G brands.
The most consistently captivating theme is the reference to “The Boss.” No, not Bruce Springsteen, good and all as he is. The Boss is the consumer and if Lafley is to be believed, Proctor & Gamblespends its life trying to satisfy the Boss. I particularly like his phrase of placing a “laser-sharp focus on consumers.”
The authors tell us that Innovation is an integrated management process with the customer absolutely at the center. Eight drivers work together to fuel profitable, customer oriented growth. These are
Motivating Purpose and Values
Stretching Goals
Choiceful Strategies
Unique Core Strengths
Enabling Structures
Consistent and Reliable systems
Courageous and Connected Culture
Inspiring Leadership
These eight drivers have fueled P&G’s growth as the company focused on two “moments of truth,” (Interestingly, no acknowledgement to former SAS CEO Jan Carlzon whom I thought was responsible for popularizing this concept in a book of the same name).These are at time of purchase and time of usage.
Appropriately, as one of the most global of companies, P&G examples come from many different countries and product categories. Immersive in-store and in-home research has gained in popularity at the expense of the standard focus group. This deep dive research allowed P&G to dramatically grow share for Downy Single Rinse (fabric softener) in Mexico, Hugo Boss fragrances and SK-II skin care brand in Japan. I write about the Toyota concept of Genchi Genbutsu (Go to the source and learn) in my book Why Ireland Never Invaded America
One of the underlying themes throughout the book is that Innovation is cultural. You either live it or you don’t. P&G’s commitment to innovation has even seen it create a joint venture with a major competitior – Clorox. The two got together to create improved product performance for the Glad brand of household bags.
This book is not just about P&G. Other companies referenced in some detail include Nokia, Marico India, Best Buy, Lego, Honeywell and HP. Charan devotes a full chapter to “How Jeff Immelt made Innovation a way of life at GE.” Given GE’s ongoing struggles, the most apt sentence in this chapter is “It has taken time for GE’s people and investors to be convinced.” Ya think! Maybe the key lesson in this chapter is Innovation is not easy, no matter what your financial and commercial muscle is.
Overall, a very good read. Whether it will change your company and business depends on you and how aggressively you buy into the cultural aspects of creating an innovative company.
Chapter titles
How and Why innovation at Proctor & Gamble changed its Game
What P&G's Innovation Transformation means for You
The Customer is Boss
Where to Play, How to Win
Leveraging What You do Best
Organizing for Innovation
Integrating Innovation into your Routine
Managing the Risks of Innovation
Innovation is a Team Sport
The New Job of the Leader
How Jeff Immelt Made Innovation a Way of Life at GE
Companies and brands mentioned which might be of interest to a keynote business speaker include:
Review written by Chicago based humorous business keynote speaker Conor Cunneen. Conor is a former VP Marketing Unilever, an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and award winning humorist who apologizes right now for the dreadful hyperbole that will follow. (It helps with search engines.)
So ...
If you are looking for an "inspirational, motivation, humorous keynote speaker," this Chicago based Irishman just might be the answer to your prayers.
If you are seeking a "Keynote Speaker Sales Conference," this inspirational, humorous, motivational, funny keynote speaker with a true Gift of the GAB, will have your audience enthralled and saying things to you like "You are just a wonderful person to have booked this funny, yet insightful keynote speaker," or "You deserve a raise for booking this humorous keynote speaker for our sales conference."
If you are seeking a "Keynote Speaker Foodservice," well, this Chicago based keynote speaker, foodservice will have your audience eating out of your hand!! Conor is a former VP Marketing, Unilever Bestfoods Foodservice, Marketing Director UK for Bestfoods Foodservice and General Manager Ireland for Bestfoods Foodservice. He has been keynote speaker at foodservice conferences in many countries including Spain, Finland, Ireland and UK. This "Keynote Speaker Foodservice" has been published more than forty times on foodservice issues writing foodservice articles related to McDonald's (Leadership Lessons from McDonald's Turnaround), Wendy's, Starbucks, Applebee's and many other companies which might be of interest to someone seeking a "Keynote Speaker Foodservice."
