Tony Ford: Business Growth Expert

As one of America's most entertaining, award winning entrepreneurs, Tony Ford is on a mission to positively transform the lives of business owners everywhere using his proven tools and techniques to overcome tough markets conditions. Tony dedicates much of his time supporting the efforts of Chamber of Commerce Executives and Association Leaders by helping build their membership while adding value to their educational offerings.

Tony says, "Times are tough for everyone.  As business leaders it's our job to take care of our people, our company and our community.  My job is to provide the tools and training business leaders need to succeed.  For over three decades I have been gathering and applying these skills in my own companies.  Now, I am sharing them with business leaders nationwide.  My training workshops and presentations are content rich, very intense and extremely practical.  I appreciate how busy entrepreneurs are - we don't need alot of "happy talk", just real world answers to our important business questions."

Tony teaches how to adapt, overcome and win in tough times

As the only entrepreneur to be recognized by the White House for building; "The National Model for Business Innovation", Tony knows how to inspire vision and excellence in others. His presentations are filled will real life stories, successes, failures, triumphs and tragedies that teach people how to recognize opportunities and leverage their natural talents. He challenges and energizes every audience member to immediate action. Tony affects this transformation in two ways:

Tonys' Signature Keynote Speeches

"What Every Entrepreneur Should Know" 

In this presentation Tony shares the lessons learned from having worked with hundreds of world-class business leaders.  Audience members are immediately given a ring side seat to experience first hand the opportunities, obstacles and profound life lessons that can only be learned as the leader of the enterprise. For leaders and employees alike, this presentation will bring new emphasis to how inter-dependent we must become if we are to succeed in the future.

"Becoming a Courageous Entrepreneur"

In this presentation Tony takes listeners through the fast-paced, adventure filled story that has defined his personal and entrepreneurial journey. Along the way, each person is pulled into a series of heart pounding successes and spirit crushing defeats. As each triumph and tragedy is revealed, so too are profound lessons about courage, humility, determination,  and gratitude. Throughout this high energy, passionate delivery Tony challenges leaders to strive for personal excellence while seeking to improve the lives of their people.

Tony's Business Building Workshop Series

"Overcoming Tough Times"  Having worked directly with over 300 companies, Tony knows what business owners need in order to overcome tough economic times.  He offers four very different half or full day workshops filled with practical skills teaching and best practices for building high growth businesses.  Tony's teaching style is relaxed, highly interactive and answer driven.  His topics include:

• "Create the future YOU want"  - Participants build a 3-5 year "Roadmap to Their Future" for themselves and their organization using Tony's award winning practices and strategies.
• "High Impact -Low Cost Sales and Marketing" - Participants learn how to "Build Their Success Story" and increase  sales/profits by leveraging their accomplishments, relationships, product offerings and community leadership.
• "Finding, Retaining and Growing Great People" - Henry Ford said "The secret of success is to hire great people and then grow old with them".  Tony will teach you how to surround yourself with long-term high performers and build a winning culture.
• "Voyage to Answer Island" - This is Tony's most popular workshop.  Here each participant submits their most perplexing questions.  Tony draws on his own experiences and that of the other workshop participants to provide innovative, practical and actionable solutions that will have an immediate positive impact on their business and personal life.