DAN STAMP
Dan Stamp is chairman and founder of Priority Management Systems, Inc. and the Atheneum Learning Corporation (ALC), leading worldwide management training organizations with over 350 companies owned and franchised offices in 17 countries. His companies' client base of more than 450,000 individuals come from both small businesses and Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Sony, Microsoft, Ford and AT&T.
Since its founding in 1984, Priority Management has expanded from Canada and the United States to Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., Ireland, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Italy.
Stamp, nominated by the Arthur Young organization as Entrepreneur of the Year, is in demand as a speaker and has recently spoken to audiences in Tokyo, Milan, Madrid, Sydney, London, Chicago and Los Angeles about future business trends, essential management skills, "white collar" productivity and how to survive and thrive in today's demanding business environment.
Dan Stamp's informative and motivating message focuses on the Accelerating Pace of Change, Proactive Futuring and the Empowered Individual, and Boosting Productivity in the Workplace. Books to date include Overcoming Barriers to Personal Success, and his latest, The Invisible Assembly Line - Boosting White Collar Productivity in the New Economy.
Educated in England, Stamp was a university professor in the 1970s, lecturing in Europe and across the South Pacific and Australia.
A popular media guest, Dan Stamp has been featured internationally in publications such as Business Week, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Jerusalem Post, and The Globe and Mail. He is also a frequent guest on television and radio networks, the CBC and BBC.
Moving to Canada, Stamp started a career in management training. He launched Priority Management in 1984 and Atheneum Learning Corporation in 1990. Sales have reached $60 million and, for the past six years, Priority Management has been named the #1 management training company in the world by Entrepreneur Magazine.
Stamp lives with his wife and four children in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, where he is active in the community.