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Recently, John addressed the faculty and staff of Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois. He spoke about how to sustain growth during these times of tremendous change.

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John speaks at TEDx Danubia

Recently, John was among several innovative thinkers and doers who presented to nearly 500 curious and eager participants at the TEDx Danubia event in Budapest, Hungary.


John's Wife featured in Hungarian Womens magazine

John's wife, Christine, was recently featured in Meglepete's, a popular Hungarian women's magazine in Budapest, about what it is like being married to a disabled man. Check it out! (You'll need to be able to read Hungarian!)



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Help Your People
Make the Best of Everything They Have

(Even If They Don't Have The Best Of Everything!)

Are your people stuck?

Are you weary that your team doesn't get it?

Are you hampered by bureaucratic regulations?

Are you struggling to do the most under difficult cost restraints?

Are you tired of excuses?


If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you are not alone. Across the globe, CEOs are facing the same critical challenge--growth.  Look around.  Recent external forces throughout the globe—the Japan earthquake and nuclear threat, political distress in the energy-rich Middle East, labor unrest and wage pressures in Asia, and the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe—clearly reveal why crisis management, flexibility and agility skills must be encoded in to the cultural DNA of any relevant corporation or government in the years ahead.

Indeed, it's no secret external forces are threatening prospects for business expansion and forcing organizations to transform, but the secret is how to make change happen? 

The Have Trap

Countless organizations are still caught in a Have Trap; A non-starter paradigm common among employees where workers think they need to have optimal conditions, more time, money, technology, personnel, etc. in order to complete a task.  Once they do the task successfully, they believe they will be Number One, the industry leader, etc.  But, there's the problem. 

When people think they must have something to do something, they will never have enough.  Big visions remain out of reach—the trap is sprung. 

John Foppe is an expert on the human condition

Born without arms, John Foppe once approached life this way.  He led a miserable, dependent, and limited existence.  At ten-years-old, for example John couldn't put his own pants on.  Today, he travels the world as an author and owner of a successful international corporate motivation company.

Corporate leaders, managers and entrepreneurs find John's work creditable and compelling because he must live his message and work. He understands firsthand the difficult gaps between envisioning an outcome and achieving it.

He believes that a person's ability to do something is not dependent on having thoroughly conducive work environment or every resource.  Instead, making something happen has more to do with one's personal sense of value, vision, and valor.  

Achieving vision-based outcomes in any organization must then begin looking inward.  Visionary CEOs recognize that internally-focused actions of leadership development, growing talent internally, enhancing the effectiveness of the senior team, providing employee training and development and effective succession planning remain the critical strategies to achieving sustainable growth.

With new research, profiles and illustrations from his twenty plus years of corporate motivation experience, John Foppe shows how.

The Bottom Line

The upside of outcome-driven organizations speaks for itself: stock growth three times the rate of competitors, profits two times that of the S&P 500 as a group, and investment earnings 17.69% higher than the S&P overall.

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