Scott Klososky

Who Hires Scott? His unique perspectives on technology, business culture, and the future allow him to travel the globe as an international speaker, consultant and author, working with senior executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to universities and nonprofits, including: Cisco, Newell Rubbermaid, Chick-Fil-A, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Chubb Insurance, Ebay, Volvo, The Hartford, Great Clips, Marriott, and national associations such as: International Franchise Association (IFA), Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) Korean Ministry of Information, Mortgage Bankers Association, American Payroll Association, Association of Equipment Manufacturers.

Experience: Scott is a former CEO of three successful startup companies. He was Founder and CEO of webcasts.com, an early producer of webcasted media ranging from corporate and government communications, to sporting events and entertainment. He sold that company in 1999 for $115 million. His expertise in leadership and his creative approach to business direction, inspired Critical Technologies to hire him as a turnaround CEO, where he completely rebuilt the underlying products and brought the company to profitability.

He also serves as founder and Chairman of the Board of Alkami Technology, a previous technology startup which has developed a second generation online banking platform that provides many new features that do not exist today in current online banking systems. It is a privately-owned software company focused on providing online account management solutions to the financial services industry.

Scott is the founder and CEO of Paragraph, Inc., a Soviet/American joint venture founded in 1988, despite international tensions. Half of the company was sold to Silicon Graphics and the other half is still expanding today (Parascript, Inc.).

Currently Scott is developing www.crowdscribed.com, a new publishing model for books that promotes and serves as the foundation for a range of publication types created by the crowd and for the crowd.

Scott also collaborated with H.R. Haldeman to publish his diaries of his years as an aide to President Nixon, which was a bestseller (Putnam Publishing) and involving Sony Interactive in the release of a companion CD-ROM.

Books:

The Velocity Manifesto: Harnessing Technology, Vision and Culture to future proof your organization – In this book, three new categories of talents are demystified for leaders that desire to stay relevant: 1) Not every leader needs to be a technocrat, but each one must understand the underlying architectural concepts of how to assemble valuable digital plumbing. 2) Every leader needs an ability to accurately predict how future dynamics will impact the organization. Absent a clear vision of the future, there is no ability to lead others to achievement. And 3) Leaders need an ability to migrate and construct an organizational culture that facilitates four different generations of workers with very different habits and strengths.

Enterprise Social Technology: Helping Organizations Harness the Power of Social Media, Social Networking, Social Relevancy – Social technologies have exploded into the business world, yet are vastly misunderstood. Many organizations are either blocking their use, or simply experimenting with how they might be of benefit. Little has been done to holistically address how social tools can be fully integrated into an organization. In addition, most leaders have little idea what the full collection of capabilities is that exist under the social umbrella. This book explains how these powerful new tools can be put to use and provides a twelve-step model for implementing social tech within any size of organization.

Manager’s Guide to Social Media (A McGraw Hill Brief Case Series Book) – Many books are being written that explain various aspects of how organizations can leverage social tools. What is much less discussed is the role managers now must play in leveraging this tool with their teams. Managing Social Technology is targeted specifically at giving managers a roadmap for implementing and using social tools in order to improve productivity and results.

Fee: $425/hour via phone, Skype, IM, or Face Time
Half Day: $8,000 at his location in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma