Tracy O. Skousen Profile
Tracy O. Skousen is a seasoned veteran with over three decades of experience working with organizations, executives, and individuals to enhance their leadership effectiveness. He is one of the early creators of Partners In Leadership (now Culture Partners), a company that provides Accountability Training and Culture Transformation services. His leadership development has been utilized in over 50 countries and across a wide range of industries, including many Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies. Tracy places particular emphasis on interviewing, coaching, and consulting key executives who are looking to improve their performance. With a focus on personalized and customized engagements, Tracy is dedicated to ensuring that each client receives the attention they deserve.
Tracy's Impressive Accomplishments as a Business Executive and Thought Leader
Tracy has made significant contributions to numerous #1 New York Times Best Sellers with his work on clients' experience stories and outcomes. With vast executive experience, he has helped prepare a business for sale, lead the expansion into international markets, and served on a Board of Directors. As a thought leader in the industry, Tracy has delivered thousands of workshops and keynotes throughout his career.
Tracy has an impressive background in leadership development, organizational culture training, management development, and executive team coaching. He has worked with notable organizations such as PETRONAS, Hormel, Precor, GMAC, BP Oil, Clorox, Brinker International, Ventana, Roche, American Airlines, IRS, UnitedHealth Group, Farmer John, ADP, Johnson Controls, Credit Suisse, McDonald's, Ricoh, Credit Agricole, Turner Broadcasting System, UBS, McCormick, Philips, Audatex, California Pizza Kitchen, First USA/Chase, Marriott, Pfizer, Hospice of the Valley, Amer Sports, Office Comptroller Currency, Cox Communications, Marcos Pizza, Engen, and Kohler, among others.
Personalized Leadership Development: Helping Individuals, Teams and Organizations Succeed
Tracy's passion has always been leadership – both in developing leaders and following good leaders. Building a framework that takes into account personal circumstances, business realities, and individual purpose is key to creating strong leaders. With a personalized approach to leadership development and coaching, Tracy enables individuals to achieve their full potential. Remember, creating successful leaders requires a personalized process.
Expert Consultant Driving Unprecedented Organizational Performance
Tracy is renowned for being an industry expert, innovative thinker, and a crucial partner in guiding executives, teams, and organizations to achieve remarkable performance. He has helped businesses across the globe, spanning countries such as Germany, Poland, Malaysia, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Brazil, Scotland, Australia, Switzerland, Portugal, Jamaica, China, South Africa, and Canada. At UnitedHealth Group, Tracy contributed to preparing management teams for Medicare Part D certification and primary sources, resulting in a successful award. Additionally, he partnered with Hormel to implement the Partners In Leadership training, which led to their goal of one billion dollars in new product sales, achieved a year ahead of schedule – providing evidence that successful leadership impacts results. Notably, Tracy helped one of his long-standing clients reverse eight years of declining customer count and poor performance within the first 60 days. The results were sustained, leading to record performance.
Introducing Successful Leaders, LLC: Bridging the Gap in Individual, Team and Organizational Performance
Successful Leaders, LLC was created to help organizations close the gaps in performance and results. Every organization has its own unique culture, strategy and key results framework. It's up to every leader to adopt, demonstrate and develop this cultural attitude and behavior. Achieving this is not easy and often results in performance gaps, attitudinal gaps, and behavioral gaps. This is where Elite Organizational and Leader Coaching come in. Successful Leaders is committed to helping leaders in this situation by providing personalized and customized coaching services. By developing a trusted and effective relationship, Successful Leaders works hand-in-hand with its clients to help them achieve their goals.