Speaker Profile

Brad Fregger

View a printable version of this profile. Location of Speaker: Austin, Texas Fees: $6,000 - $9,000

Specialties:  After Dinner Entertainer Keynote Seminar Leader Workshop Leader Topics:  Manage Change Project Management Leadership - Through Change Teambuilding Organizational Dynamics Speech Titles - One Shovel Full: Telling Stories to Change Beliefs, Attitudes, and Perceptions - Get Things Done: Ten Secrets of Creating and Leading Exceptional Teams - Lucky That Way: Stories of Seizing the Moment While Creating the Games Millions Play - Using Stories to Change Perception, Attitudes and Beliefs The Publishing Revolution, You, Too, Can be a Published Author Leadership Project Management Team Building About This Speaker: Client Comments About Brad Fregger: "Just want to thank you for your wonderfully presented and perfectly messaged Keynote Speech at the PlanView User Group Meeting this October. Everything we wanted of the keynote -- that it be on target, thought provoking, and high energy -- was there in spades. Plus you actually managed to add lots of heart and inspiration...We had a very positive response to the User Group event this year, and your keynote was a part of that success." Director of Marketing PlanView, Inc. ______________ "Brad's enthusiasm is infectious. He established training at Activision as a legitimate, valuable, function. He is a thinker with a bias for action--a powerful combination. He developed an interviewing course that was very valuable and an orientation program that was one of the best. He does an excellent job as facilitator and trainer, with an excellent feel for the creative process." Former Senior Executive, Silicon Graphics Former VP of Personnel, Activision, Inc. ______________ "As the luncheon keynote speaker, you captivated the attention of over 100 human resource professionals with your anecdotes of how you creatively built diverse teams throughout your career .... Your personal and professional success stories and suggestions will surely take us to a new level in creating diverse teams within our organizations." ______________ "Your stories were powerful and well received...whenever you came on the group listened raptly and with obvious enjoyment. One participant wrote, 'Mr. Fregger's presentations gave excellent examples easy to relate to.'...Additionally, you were a pleasure to work with due to your combination of professionalism and flexibility. We would enthusiastically recommend you as a speaker and story-teller." Director Training Section Texas Department of Health ______________ "You are at the top of the list of presenters for the Center for Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College.... Your numerous sessions to date, in addition to being amongst our most popular, were all powerful learning opportunities in their integration of skills, knowledge and experience. In each case you fully engaged all of the participants and made a real difference in their understanding...." Director Center for Community Based and Nonprofit Organizations Austin Community College ____________________________________ Media Comments About Brad Fregger: Tom Peters Liberation Management Fawcett Columbine, New York “Publishing International … is not like most companies, the Sunnyvale, California, computer-game producer is run by someone who knows the value of curiosity to the corporation. ‘Curiosity and creativity are a natural state,’ CEO Brad Fregger told us, “And our fear of getting stepped on dampens our curiosity, because we tend to want security first.” ______________ Dallas Morning News April 13, 1999 “Brad Fregger, a pioneer in the computer games industry invented computer solitaire as a playful way to prove his father wrong after the older man contended that he would never get addicted to a computer game.” “Brad Fregger is one of founding fathers of the computer/video game industry. He played a key role in the birth and products of Atari, one of the first home video game systems. He has spent much of his career helping to usher in what is now a multi-billion dollar industry. But most of us are more familiar with another of his creations – computer solitaire. Almost any adult who works – or plays – at a computer has spent some time at his game, which is touted as the most played computer game in the world.” ______________ Laura Barton The Good Life - Faces November 2002 “(Fregger’s) amazingly diverse career spans forty-five years in retailing, corporate training, publishing, and software development, during which (he) donned a variety of managerial hats, from retail store manager to producer to CEO.” “Along with an adventurous spirit and a high degree of inquisitiveness, Fregger recognizes the significance of whimsy and fortune. In this book Lucky That Way … (he) explores his adventure in the computer gaming industry during its genesis.” ____________________________________ Brief Biography on Brad Fregger: CEO of 1st World Library - An Author Services Book Publishing Company. Brad is author of: Lucky That Way Get Things Done One Shovel Full Master’s in Futuristics (1980), San Jose State University Global Leadership Trainer/Speaker - recently - Middle East, UK, British Columbia... Adjunct Professor (Current), Department of Management in the McCoy School of Business Administration at Texas State University - Introduction to eCommerce - Managerial Communications (Leadership) - Leadership & Imagination

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