Allen Fahden is an author, speaker, and co-creator of the best-selling Team Dimensions Profile. Allen Fahden is an author, speaker, and co-creator of the best-selling Team Dimensions Profile.
Allen also wrote several chapters for the best-selling The One Minute Millionaire by Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author, Mark Victor Hansen. Allen has spent more than two decades working with Fortune 500 businesses to increase sales, efficiency, and morale.
Fahden's hilarious speeches and books reveal the secrets to why teams and innovation are so frustrating. With his methods you can, Boost productivity by 500-800%, Connect to your strengths, Produce better results, Free yourself from the work you hate.
Fahden has worked with such celebrity business owners as Paul McCartney and Bill Murray, been featured by People Magazine, ABC News, BBC TV, and countless television and radio broadcasts, as well as syndicated and local print media across the U.S.
The innovation and team techniques featured in Allen's work have resulted from years of developing ways to create new ideas that will sell to both clients and the market. His experience in the field includes presiding over his own award-winning advertising agency, as well as serving as Vice-president and Creative Director of D'Arcy, Masius, Benton, and Bowles, and as Senior Writer for accounts such as Levi's at Foote, Cone, and Belding in San Francisco.
Over 30 years working with teams as corporate executive and as a trainer in Edwards Deming's Quality processes, Allen identified an understanding of people's strengths that allows them to triple their performance in the beginning creating, planning and decision stages. By appreciating what a team member can do, and not expecting them to do what they can't, he has freed people to transform their work, relationships and purpose.
Organizations that have adopted his books, seminars and methods include:
3M
Disney
Procter&Gamble
Coca-Cola
Hewlett-Packard
Paul McCartney
General Mills
DuPont
Maytag
GE
S.C. Johnson
Lockheed-Martin
Volvo
USWest
The Associated Press
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Tampa Bay Devilrays
Eastman-Kodak
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
JP Morgan Chase
GlaxoSmithKline
University of Minnesota
Deloitte Touche
United Health Care
American Ad Federation
Direct Marketing Assoc.
Crystal Farms Foods
Wells Fargo
Cargill
Saturn
U.S. Bank
Nissan
Gannett
Levi-Strauss
Imation
Medtronic
Bank of Boston
Ceridian
and more