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Biography of Stedman Graham
Stedman
Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates (SGA), a management
and marketing consulting company that specializes in the corporate and educational
markets. Clients include Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Georgia Pacific, Pro-Line
International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Manpower, CNN, GlaxoSmithKline, Plains
Capital Corporation, American College of Sports Medicine, YMCA, U.S. Olympic
Committee, U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps, Credit-Suisse First Boston,
Harvard and Wharton business schools and the U.S. Department of Education.
As a businessman, educator and speaker, he presents, consults and conducts
training with corporations, organizations and nonprofits on the topics of maximizing
leadership, achieving success, growing a business, embracing diversity, achieving
optimal health, and personal and professional branding. His corporate seminars
are driven by the proprietary Nine-Step Success Process™.
In addition, Graham educates individuals and industries on using Success Circles™
a work-life balance tool he developed to make information and experience relevant
to personal, professional and business growth.
Graham has authored nine books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You
Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen:
Nine Steps to Success. Build Your Own Life Brand explores the concept of personal
and professional branding. Move Without the Ball is a collection of principles
that teaches students that sports are a part of life, not life itself. His latest
release Who Are You? Building Your Life’s Foundation, focuses on success
through self-discovery. Coming in June 2006 is Diversity: Leaders not Labels,
which includes his unique approach to eliminate barriers to success.
Actively involved in education, Graham is currently an adjunct professor at
Temple University and a former adjunct professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago
where he taught a leadership course based on his Nine-Step Process. At the Kellogg
Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he taught a management
strategy course entitled “The Dynamics of Leadership.” He also founded
and directed George Washington University’s Forum for Sport and Event
Management and Marketing – the first of its kind in the country.
Graham has shown a lifelong commitment to youth and community. In 1985, Graham
founded AAD Education, Health and Sports, a nonprofit organization of athletes
and other civic leaders committed to developing leadership in underserved youths.
An organization with over 500 professional athletes, AAD has served over 15,000
students and has awarded $1.5 million in scholarships. Graham serves on several
boards to include the national board of Junior Achievement (JA) and the 7-Eleven
Education Is Freedom Foundation, and he is a member of the Economic Club of
Chicago.
Graham holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University.
He received a master’s degree in Education from Ball State University
and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College, where he is also
a distinguished visiting professor.
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