Guest – Rich Horwath


Rich Horwath is the founder and president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, helping management teams develop their strategic thinking skills to achieve competitive advantage. He is a former Chief Strategy Officer and currently serves as professor of strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, with a 4.9 out of 5 rating for teaching effectiveness. Rich is the author of four books and more than 50 articles on strategic thinking.
Rich works with Fortune 500 companies located in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. He guides executive management teams through the strategy development process and has helped world-class organizations such as Abbott, Adidas and Pfizer increase their organizational competency in strategic thinking. Rich created the Deep Dive Learning System to help managers become truly strategic leaders through assessments, books, workbooks, software, group workshops, practical application exercises and one-to-one strategic counsel. His monthly e-publication entitled Strategic Thinker is read by thousands
of business leaders and academicians around the world.
Rich earned an MBA with Distinction from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and has completed post-graduate studies in strategy at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He resides in Barrington Hills, Illinois.
Contact: (847) 756-4707 [email protected]