Kevin W. McCarthy pioneered the conversation about purpose starting in the late 1980s. His books The On-Purpose Person (1992, 2009) and The On-Purpose Business Person (1998, 2013) provide readers a fully integrated life–work approach.
Kevin holds an MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia, and a BS in Business and Economics from Lehigh University.
Integrating Business, Marketing, Sales, Strategy | Author, Professional Keynote Speaker
Why America's Chief Leadership Officer? Leadership is ageless and essential, but an underdeveloped competency in the Digital Age and beyond when most needed. It is deeply personal, yet profoundly expressive through businesses and organizations. And, it starts with purpose—the answer to "Why ...?"
Most know me as the author of the leadership books
The On-Purpose Person The On-Purpose Business Person. Pioneering the purpose conversation started for me in the late 1980s and continues today as I speak, write, and consult. On-Purpose® is my approach; more importantly, it is my call to eradicate meaninglessness, articulate purpose and help people be on-purpose.
I'm a long-time business owner with a classic business education and entrepreneurial experience, but a gracious iconoclast about Corporate America and business, in general. For all its services rendered there's a dark side of destruction and disengagement. On-Purpose affords us to profit the world and gain our souls! Chief Leadership Officer extends this message and directs to the influencers of today and tomorrow.
Chief Leadership Officer challenges the previously unchallenged: the title, role, power, and posture of the CEO. Every business book being read today assumes a CEO-style led business. What if a CEO-led business is the problem and everything else is a symptom?
I relate to profit-makers, those who build-out ideas, take risks, make decisions, engage teams, and responsibly make their greater contribution to others. My unique gift—where most see chaos or confusion, I see repeating patterns against an invisible framework called On-Purpose that makes it all make more sense. I'm a leadership and organizational development designer with decades of evidence that On-Purpose works, really well. And I'm a written and spoken word communicator who actually writes his own books.
I am America's Chief Leadership Officer because we're heading into a new era—the Age of Purpose where leading trumps execution. The movement needs voice, a point person to cut the first path and invite others to follow and improve upon it. Prediction: CLOs will replace CEOs. Told you I am an iconoclast, who is preparing the leaders of tomorrow, on-purpose.
Learn a bit more about being on-purpose below by watching this video produced by The Big Thinker Series.
Additional Information about Kevin W. McCarthy is available here:
On-Purpose.com (http://on-purpose.com/kevin-w-mccarthy/)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwmccarthy)
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"Yes, Kevin, I'm with you!"
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+ Curious about being a CLO? Come to the CLO Foundry–the place to fashion your CLO talent! Learn first-hand from Kevin W. McCarthy for a 45-minute interactive, Angel Investors only seminar and Q&A via a live video conference. No questions will go unanswered!
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+ So you're planning a US-based convention for lots of business owners. You need a keynote speaker with substance and style who can get your audience thinking. Kevin W. McCarthy is a 20+ year Professional Member of the National Speakers Association. This rewards includes:
- 250 books for your attendees
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Do I really expect anyone to invest in this 1,000 book reward?
Yes! For the right leader, the ROI will be remarkable! You'll receive 1 full year of high access leadership coaching to help you make the very full transition from CEO to CLO!
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Thank you yet again for your encouragement and trust by investing in the creation of Chief Leadership Officer. What a blessing it has been to know that funds are there for production and marketing. So here's the time line:
Mid-May 2017
You will receive your pre-order. We're doing a limited run, softcover Angel Investors Edition. Books will be personalized and signed.
Between now and the official launch date we're building the CLO™ infrastructure and proprietary intellectual property that includes: downloadable free content, web sites, models, maps, marketing, PR, collateral, speeches, and such. We're looking at special events and the possibility of a CLO podcast. We're developing a website called, The Foundry for Leaders. This is the meeting place and membership-based community for CEOs to become CLOs and for CLOs to share best practices. Related parties such as c-suite executives, business owners of all sizes, consultants, b-school professors, students, and journalists will also be members.
Lot of "seeds" will be planted over the summer months. We'll be selectively sharing the book with key business leaders. Your introductions are appreciated. In addition, we're ramping up our consulting delivery and related training and development programs. CLO borrows heavily from On-Purpose® but much of that will need to be updated. We're revamping our licensing and training of trainers as well.
Hey, planning a business reformation involves people, time and resources!
September 8, 2017
is the planned official release date of the book to the public. At that time, I hope you'll continue your angel ways and be a part of the launch team that shares images and messages on social media. We will need help getting the word out and getting sales via amazon.com and other outlets.
This weekend I will complete my fourth round of deep edits on the manuscript. Then, off it goes to Julie Holzmann, my eagle-eyed wordproofer, who will clean it up even further and return it to me for one final edit before going to press. There's a reason why books are called works.
Thanks to the success of this Publishizer crowd sourcing venture I was approach by 6 potential publishers. After sorting and then careful consideration I decided to go the self-published route, yet leveraging the advice, talent and team of my dear friend and trusted colleague David W. Welday, CEO(!) of Higher Life. Every book production needs a quarterback and Dave is my starter.
So there you have the update on the past and the plans for the future. We're making progress!
Be On-Purpose!
Kevin
PS: Let me leave you with a prediction.
