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Randy Street      

Vice Chairman of ghSMART, Leadership Expert & Bestselling Author

Randy Street is Vice Chairman of ghSMART, a leadership advisory firm whose mission is to use its expertise in human behavior to help CEOs, boards, and investors build valuable companies. He has advised leaders for over 30 years and regularly helps them to build the teams they need to execute their strategies with confidence. He specializes in CEO succession, executive selection and development, management due diligence, and optimizing leadership teams to execute strategy.

Prior to becoming Vice Chairman, Randy served for 12 years as ghSMART’s first Managing Partner. During that time, the firm grew tenfold while setting industry standards for client and team satisfaction. Forbes rated ghSMART one of America’s Best Consulting Firms from 2017-2020, and Vault ranked ghSMART the #1 Boutique Consulting firm and #1 in overall team satisfaction, client interaction, and level of challenge in 2021. In collaboration with Geoff Smart, the firm’s chairman and founder, Randy co-authored Who: The A Method for Hiring (Random House, 2008), which went on to become a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly best seller. Soundview Executive Book Summaries gave Who the “Best 30 Business Books Award;” Shanghai Daily named it a “Top 5 Best Book in China;” Canada’s Globe and Mail named it the “#1 Best Business and Management Book of 2009;” and The Wall Street Journal named it a top seven “Best Advice” book for leaders in 2011. Randy also co-authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success (Random House, 2015).

Prior to joining ghSMART, Randy was the EVP of Sales & Marketing and EVP of Corporate Development & Strategy for EzGov, a software company that was named the fastest growing company in Atlanta during his tenure. Before that, Randy was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company where he led projects and advised senior executives of Global 1000 companies in a wide range of industries, including aviation, automotive, manufacturing, defense, and more.

Randy earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. He and his wife live in Atlanta and have three daughters.

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Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success

Randy shares what all successful leaders do to succeed. Based on the largest leadership database of its kind and brought to life through entertaining stories and examples, Randy highlights how great leaders set the right priorities, pair those priorities with the right people (“who”) and create an environment where relationships can work. Priorities. Who. Relationships. Putting them together enables the world’s best leaders to run their team at full PWR (pronounced “power”).

Twenty years of research and consulting, deep analysis of over 15,000 leaders, and field interviews with hundreds of billionaires, CEOs, and successful investors all tell us that leaders who practice these three disciplines are 20x more likely to succeed than those who do none of them. 20x! No other leadership approach is this simple yet this powerful. Attendees come away from this experience able to maximize their team’s results, their company’s financial performance, and their own career success.

Who: The A Method for Hiring

Randy solves every manager’s #1 problem: making hiring mistakes. He presents stories and advice drawing from some of the most extensive research, interviews, and experience ever assembled on the topic of talent management.

  • What are the costs of making hiring mistakes?
  • Why are most people bad at hiring?
  • SCORECARD: How to create a blueprint of who to hire?
  • SOURCE: How to generate a flow of the best candidates?
  • SELECT: How to identify the right one?
  • SELL: How to sell the ideal person on accepting a job at your company?

The session includes a significant amount of audience interaction including live demonstrations of the interview techniques, audience Q&A, and simple “takeaway tools and templates” to help attendees

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