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Vistage Hosts Larry O'Toole In The Northwest

Orange County, California

Business owners and executives from privately held companies in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington attended events in October and November hosted by Vistage (Vistage)  Vistage is a leading global peer to peer executive development organization and invited Larry O'Toole to keynote their events with his topic, "Strategic Planning That Grows Company Worth". 

Over 200 participants representing businesses in manufacturing and service industries attended workshops put on by O'Toole. The workshops introduced a new, more effective definition of what strategic planning is and provided participants with a 4 part campaign for developing an actional plan to help build the worth of their companies.  As one participant shared, "strategic planning isn't something I'd ever say I considered exciting but now after attending this workshop, I am jazzed to execute on many of the actionable insights Larry provided".

Mr. O'Toole shares practical and actionable strategic thinking and planning insights with business owners and key executives to help them build their company worth and strengthen as leaders. O'Toole shared, "many executives don't have a good definition of what strategic planning actually is so they then struggle doing it. My job is to remove the mystery of what a strategic plan is, what it should answer for them and how to go about building a plan that they look forward to implementing - knowing it will build the overall worth of their company."

Larry O'Toole is a frequent speaker invited to Vistage events around the country. Contact him to schedule your group event or even a private company workshop.

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