Speaker Biographies


Jason Jennings
Authority on Business Leadership

Jason Jennings is one of the most successful and prolific business and leadership authors in the world. He has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and teaching other companies how to achieve their full economic potential.

Jason was the youngest radio station group owner in the world and his legendary programming and sales strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry. Later, he founded Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, a consulting firm that became the nation's largest media consultancy.

He traveled the globe in search of the world's fastest companies for his landmark book, It's Not The Big That Eat The Small - It's The Fast That Eat The Slow. Within weeks of its release it hit the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and New York Times Bestsellers Lists. Now published in 32 languages, USA TODAY named it one of the top 25 books of the year!

His last book, Think BIG - Act Small, profiled the leadership of the only ten companies in the world to have grown both revenues and profits by double digits every year for ten consecutive years. Like his previous books it debuted on all the bestseller charts.

His new book, Hit the Ground Running, A Manual for New Leaders was released in April 2009. The book reveals the tactics and strategies of the ten American CEO's who've created the greatest amount of economic value since the year 2000 and builds a case for a new kind of leader. The Street.com calls it, "an excellent book for leaders who are trying to gain respect and develop relationships." Leading Blog.com calls it, "insightful and crisply written." BizEd, the magazine of business schools says that, "Hit The Ground Running offers an intriguing behind the scenes look at America's best CEOs," while Publisher's Weekly says, "the book makes a smart appeal to the new generation of leaders."

When not traveling the world on research and adventure travel, Jennings delivers 80 keynotes annually with USA TODAY naming him one of the three most in-demand business speakers on the planet alongside the authors of Good to Great and In Search of Excellence.

Quint Studer
CEO & Founder of Studer Group

Quint Studer, CEO & Founder of Studer Group, is considered by many to be the main impetus for developing tools and techniques for organizations attaining great results. The systems he and the Studer Group have invented hardwire techniques and behaviors to sustain these great results. Quint has done it.

After ten (10) years teaching special education, Quint entered healthcare as the Community Relations Representative with Parkside Medical Services.

He then went to Mercy Health System in Janesville, Wisconsin, working his way up to Senior Vice President of Business Development. For the next 6 years, Quint was instrumental in taking Mercy Health System from a single location to a large vertically integrated system and was placed in charge of focusing on employee satisfaction.

In 1993 Quint served as COO of Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His focus on patient care helped Holy Cross gain a national reputation in operational excellence by being named Hospital Magazines ‘Great Comeback Winner’ in 1994.

In June of 1996, Quint was named the Administrator of Baptist Hospital, Inc. in Pensacola, Florida. While President, Quint used his past experiences to lead this organization to unprecedented success. In 1997, Baptist was named by Modern Healthcare magazine to be their Service Excellence winner and Voluntary Hospital Association awarded them their celebrated Leadership Award. In 1999, inc. (pronounced Ink) magazine named Quint its March Master of Business, making him the only healthcare leader to have ever won this award. In 2002 and again in 2008, Quint received the honor of being named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.

Today, Studer Group is considered to be the leading company in assisting organizations to achieve their desired results. In improving healthcare nation wide, Studer Group proudly partners in co-sponsoring the National Quality Award with the National Quality Forum in Washington D.C. and the Best Places to Work with Modern Healthcare.

Along the way, Quint has written two (2) best selling books. Hardwiring Excellence is a leadership book written for healthcare and has over 300,000 copies in print. His latest book, Results That Last, is a general leadership book published by Wiley and came to print in October of 2007. In just four (4) weeks after publishing, this book hit the Wall Street Journal’s best seller list of business books. Look for his new book, Straight A Leadership, to hit the shelves in September this year!

Most importantly, Quint stays in the field creating tools and techniques to make organizations better. Today, Quint will mix passion with prescriptions to help us achieve our goals and connect to purpose. Quint is called ‘healthcare's fire starter’ for igniting the flame in each of us to make a difference.