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Michel (Mike) Robert
Founding Partner, DPI

Mike Robert is one of the most in-demand consultants in the field of strategy. Over the last twenty years, he has personally worked with the CEOs and management teams of over 250 corporations in 15 countries. These include major companies such as Caterpillar, 3M, Newmont Gold, Volvo, Pulte, FIAT, Castrol, GATX, DOW Corning, Visteon, Bekaert, Fagor and Hartford Insurance and emerging ones such as FLEXcon, American Precision, OMG America and Material Sciences.

Back in 1980, he coined the phrase "strategic thinking" which is now the rage among business strategy gurus and magazine writers. His concepts of strategic thinking, strategic heartbeat, areas of excellence and his views on strategic alliances and how to manage a competitor’s strategy are the most contrarian and provocative developed in the field today. Moreover, they are being adopted by many of his clients on their way to success. His concepts are unique and pragmatic because they were developed while being present in the "war rooms" of major corporations when their executives were debating strategy.

He has had many articles published in a wide array of business magazines and journals and he is the author of several books, all of which are best sellers:

• Strategic Thinking: Charting the Future Direction of Your Organization
• The Strategist CEO: How Visionary Executives Build Organizations
• The Essence of Leadership: Strategy, Innovation and Decisiveness
• Strategy Pure and Simple: How Winning CEOs Outthink Their Competition
• Product Innovation Strategy Pure and Simple: How Winning Companies Outpace Their Competitors
• Strategy Pure & Simple II: How Winning Companies Dominate Their Competitors
• The Power of Strategic Thinking: Lock in Markets, Lock out Competitors
• e-Strategy Pure and Simple: Connecting your Internet Strategy to your Business Strategy
• Strategy Pure and Simple, How to Build Your Own Strategy and Achieve Strategic Supremacy

Mike is also the Founding Partner of Decision Processes International, a worldwide consulting firm with 60 Partners in fifteen countries.

Considered the best kept secret in the field of strategy and critical thinking, Mike is a very dynamic and provocative speaker who will cause any member of corporate management to think twice about the strategy and direction of their organization by debunking fashionable concepts of strategy and exposing them as being conceptually flawed. His company has been engaged by clients in several instances in competition with, and instead of, better known consultants such as Michael Porter, McKinsey, A. D. Little, Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen, and Bain & Co.