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Stedman Graham
About Stedman Graham :
Stedman Graham delivers his powerful message throughout the country and abroad to corporations, government and civic organizations, colleges and universities, community groups and professional associations.
Stedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates (SGA), a management and marketing consulting company that specializes in the corporate and educational markets. As a businessman and educator, Graham lectures and conducts seminars for businesses and organizations around the country. Content is driven by his proprietary Nine-Step Success Process™. Clients have included Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, CVS Pharmacy, Georgia Pacific, PRO-LINE International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Manpower, CNN and GlaxoSmithKline among many others.
Graham has authored ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success. Build Your Own Life Brand! explores the concept of personal and professional branding. Move Without the Ball is a collection of principles that teaches students that sports are a part of life, not life itself. Who Are You? A Success Process for Building Your Life’s Foundation focuses on success through self-discovery. His latest release, Diversity: Leaders not Labels – A New Plan for the 21st Century, shares his unique approach to eliminate barriers to success.
Actively involved in education, Graham is a former adjunct professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago where he taught a leadership course based on his Nine-Step Process. At the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he taught a management strategy course entitled “The Dynamics of Leadership.” He also founded and directed George Washington University’s Forum for Sport and Event Management and Marketing – the first of its kind in the country.
Graham has a lifelong commitment to youth and community. In 1985, he founded AAD Education, Health and Sports (formerly, Athletes Against Drugs), a nonprofit organization with over 500 professional athletes and other civic leaders committed to developing leadership in underserved youth. AAD has served over 15,000 students through scholarships and education. Graham is also actively involved in leadership efforts and programs in South Africa and is Founder of Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro, NJ, and Concerned Citizens of Lake Waccamaw, NC. He serves on several boards, including the national board of Junior Achievement (JA) and the 7-Eleven Education Is Freedom Foundation, and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University. He received a master’s degree in Education from Ball State University and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College, where he is also a distinguished visiting professor.
His professional speaking, leadership development workshops and seminars based on the 9-Step Success Process™, which was first introduced in You Can Make It Happen—A Nine-Step Plan for Success and also Teens Can Make It Happen—Nine Steps to Success. Mr. Graham's written speaking and workshops are tailored for audiences to include the various content of each. Programs are designed and implemented to help individuals, businesses, and organizations excel and achieve success.
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• Leadership
• Diversity
• Branding
• Health and Lifestyle
• Business
• Personal and Professional Development
• Marketing and Sales
For more in-depth educational instruction, Graham conducts seminars and workshops based on the client’s preference and needs. His speeches and seminars are supplemented with his books, including two New York Times bestsellers.
Any business or professional interested in improving their performance and sustaining achievement will benefit from participating in an SGA Success Process Speaking Event or Seminar. Whether a client is interested in a workforce or personal development solution, a method of educating a prospect group or organizing their community, Stedman Graham and S. Graham & Associates offer relevant programs for our clients. Our audiences include world leaders, corporate and business professionals and diverse organizations. Each keynote address and seminars is tailored for the particular audience in attendance or the specific needs or goals set out by the client.
• You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success*
• Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success*
• Teens Can Make it Happen Workbook
• You Can Make It Happen Every Day: A Motivational Guidebook
• Build Your Own Life Brand!
• Move Without the Ball: Put Your Skills and Your Magic To Work For You
• The Ultimate Guide to Sports Event Management & Marketing
• Diversity: Leaders, Not Labels
• Who Are You? A Success Process for Building Your Life’s Foundation
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Books by Stedman Graham :
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Build Your Own Life Brand!: A Powerful Strategy to Maximize Your Potential and Enhance Your Value fo
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From traditional corporations to the Internet, from top executives to people trying to make a difference in their communities, branding has become one of the most important concepts in professional and personal marketing today. In this groundbreaking work, bestselling author Stedman Graham shows readers how to use branding -- the technique employed by major advertisers to distinguish their products -- for their own benefit.
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Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for a the 21st Century
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In Diversity: Leaders Not Labels, Graham teaches that in the 21st century your talent and skills above all else will define your value. He shows you how to break out of the box that keeps you from growing to your full potential, and reveals that success is truly based on results, performance, and excellence.
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Move Without the Ball: Put Your Skills and Your Magic to Work for You!
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With his trademark charisma and compassion, Stedman Graham offers cautionary and hope-inspiring real-life stories from both his own life and through profiles of professional athletes with different backgrounds and life experiences (e.g.,Serena Williams, Mia Hamm, Wayne Gretzky, Kevin Johnson, Greg Norman, Byron Russell, Alex Rodriguez). They share how their vision and commitment to self-development led not only to their success in sports, but also served them well.
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Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success
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From the prominent businessman and author of "You Can make It Happen" comes a new personal success guide aimed at the booming teen audience. With refreshing honesty, Graham relates stories from his own experience and stresses the importance of self-esteem as the way to overcome peer pressure and daily stresses. Illustrations throughout.
Comprehensive text that guides youths to a better understanding of themselves, their strengths and their desires, while helping them to set goals and devise and achieve plans for realizing their visions. Content includes practical exercises that help bridge the gap between education and the real world. Lessons are designed to provide teenagers with the means to boost self-esteem, avoid peer pressure, and handle the daily stresses that come with being a young adult. With the Nine Steps to support them, teens will find and follow their own road to success – with conviction, perseverance, and pride.
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Who Are You?: A Success Process for Building Your Life's Foundation
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In his latest release, Stedman Graham, New York Timesbest-selling author, educator and businessman, provides a step-by-step process to help readers explore the process for self-discovery as the starting point to defining your vision for personal and professional success. (Hay House)
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You Can Make It Happen: A Nine Step Plan for Success
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Graham's professional development has been guided by his nine-step empowerment philosophy, designed to manage both professional and personal situations. You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success details Graham's system for personal growth. This book was published by Simon & Schuster in March 1997 and was a New York Times bestseller
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