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Edwin Miller      

Accomplished Four-time CEO and Author, 9Lenses - Insight Into Action: A Social Approach to Business Optimization

Edwin Miller, the CEO of 9Lenses, is an accomplished four-time CEO recognized as both a growth and a turnaround thought leader. His proven skills of leadership, motivation, and business model assessment and creation are demonstrated in both public and private theaters. He has successfully transformed domestic and international organizations through both organic and acquisitive means. His experiences span many different technological, horizontal, and vertical markets.

Drawing from these experiences, he created a new and innovative framework for assessing business, which utilizes the new concept of social discovery. This concept allows business leaders to gain insight into their companies by gathering real-time information from employees at every level, and across every practice area that drives their business. He founded 9Lenses to use this framework to help companies identify, educate, and resolve all information gaps in any aspect of business.

As a speaker, Miller specializes in high-energy presentations that motivate executive audiences about opportunities for transforming their enterprise. His presentations draw on his rural Georgia upbringing, his tenure as a four-time CEO of both public and private companies, and his experience creating high performance teams to drive innovation.

In November 2011, Miller published the book, 9Lenses - Insight to Action: A Social Approach to Business Optimization, which is a comprehensive guide to creating a social enterprise that is fully aligned toward business goals.

Miller serves as chairman of the Board for Callis Communications, as a board member of Spotlight Ticket Management Systems, as a managing partner of (i)SAGE and is an adjunct professor and research fellow at George Mason University.

Miller is the 2011 Chairman of MindShare, an exclusive, invitation-only organization for CEOs of the most promising, high tech, emerging growth companies in the Washington DC metro area and is a member of Young Presidents Organization.

Miller holds a BS in Management with dual minors in French and German, graduating Cum Laude, from Liberty University, where he was also a Division I scholarship athlete and an MBA from George Washington University.

Speech Topics


Social is Just Getting Started: Why Stigmas about Social Improved 2.0

When "Social" finds its groove, it will look less like five year olds chasing a soccer ball and more like a U.S. military common operating picture. This talk helps people gain clarity around what Social 2.0 is and is not. While many find Social to be cluttered, disorganized, and useless, it's because they've merely found the 75% crud that pervades. The heart of Social is technology meets design meets clarity it's empowerment.

Managing the Introverts: Why the best ideas are often silent, and how to get them heard again and again.

The best organizations have learned to listen to the people who aren't necessarily speaking the loudest. This talk helps leaders enable internal listening cultural structures that give a voice to the 1/3 of our population who feels they do not have one around extroverts. These individuals often have amazing ideas but perceive their ideas are "beat down," are uncomfortable giving a voice, or even completely disorganized because they haven't cultivated good habits of providing input. As a leader, Edwin has learned to excel in this area and so have leaders of the best businesses in the world.

The 21st Century Challenge: Accelerating Performance while Accelerating Listening

Organized, deliberate listening is the only way to meet the necessity of accelerating listening and performance at the same time, with fewer resources. This talk helps businesses navigate the landscape of the 21st Century and challenges businesses will face, from macroeconomic to cultural to competitor technologies and the latest management innovations. It won't be easy, but it's possible to excel.

Data: Your Only Real Competitive Advantage

There are few certainties in today's business world, but one certainty is that companies are drowning in volumes of data, and the tide of data continues to grow at an exponential rate. At the same time, it is harder than ever for executives to identify valuable signal amidst all the noise. Miller is the creator of a framework and a technology called the 9Lenses, which involves involves gathering real-time data from employees at every level and across every practice area in order to establish a comprehensive picture of a company's strengths and weaknesses. Whether the economy is booming or contracting, every business is capable of leveraging the knowledge of its team to drive growth. In this presentation, you'll learn:

How you can tap into the most important knowledge asset at your disposal: the knowledge of your team

What you need to do in order to align your company toward a common strategy

How to create new revenue opportunities for your company by fixing knowledge gaps, and leveraging knowledge assets.

How to Succeed By Creating High Performing Teams, Even in a Bad Economy

The recession and economic volatility that we have faced in recent years has forced many companies to cope with fewer resources for achieving their objectives. Edwin Miller contends that doing more with less is within reach of any company, if you understand how to create high performing teams that can propel your company forward. In a presentation based on his book, 9Lenses - Insight to Action: A Social Approach to Business Optimization, Miller shows how any leader can create a culture of high performance in five steps: (1) creating clarity inside their business; (2) fostering enthusiasm, collective learning, and teamwork; (3) shaping alignment toward common goals; (4) devising a measurable strategy, and finally (5) creating accountability, ownership, and empowerment inside the company.

In this energetic and inspiring presentation, Miller shows:

How high performance teams can propel a company toward its goals even in the face of a contracting economy;

How any leader can master the skills necessary to get more out of their teams;

Why technology has made it easier than ever to align your company toward a common strategy.

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