Getting Started in Consulting, 4th Edition

Appendix D Sample Long Biographical Sketch

Alan Weiss: Biographical Sketch

Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, the Times Mirror Company, the Federal Reserve, the New York Times Company, Toyota, and over 200 other leading organizations. He has served on the boards of directors of the Trinity Repertory Company, a Tony Award–winning New England regional theater, and of Festival Ballet Providence, and has chaired the Newport International Film Festival.

His speaking typically includes 20 keynotes a year at major conferences, and he has been a visiting faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Boston College, Tufts, St. John’s University, the University of Illinois, the Institute of Management Studies, and the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He has held an appointment as adjunct professor in the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island, where he taught courses on advanced management and consulting skills. He holds the record for selling out the highest-priced workshop at the time (on entrepreneurialism) in the (then) 21-year history of New York City’s Learning Annex. His PhD is in psychology. He has served on the board of governors of Harvard University’s Center for Mental Health and the Media.

He is an inductee into the Professional ...