Neil Ducoff
Founder & CEO
Strategies Publishing Group, Inc.

During the last 38 years, Neil Ducoff has coached more than 3,500 businesses, including Aveda, Gillette, Proctor & Gamble, Planet Wings, Canmeng International Taiwan, Profound Beauty Products, Kerastase Paris, EvelineCharles Canada and L’Oreal, on how to achieve the highest levels of success and profitability, while creating a positive, rewarding workplace. He has led more than 4,500 seminars throughout North America and such countries as Taiwan, Spain and Mexico – as well as served as a presenter at major Healthcare, computer, manufacturing and franchise conferences, including Jack Stack’s National Gathering of Games.

Neil is the founder and CEO of Strategies, the premier training and coaching company for small to medium sized businesses that he founded in 1993. Based in Centerbrook, Conn., Strategies’ cutting-edge curriculum of business courses is offered throughout the U.S. and Canada, led by a national network of certified coaches who have completed a rigorous three-year training program.  For 13 years Strategies published a monthly business magazine that provided real-world solutions to entrepreneurs.

Neil has gained international respect as the guru of team-based compensation. As well as the award-winning No-Compromise Leadership, he is the author of Fast Forward, the salon and spa industry’s only business reference manual.

He has been honored with the 2005 Art of Business Award, named one of 12 business “Legends and Icons” by the annual Serious Business Conference in New Orleans in 2006, and invited by the B.E.S.T Foundation and the Anderson School of Business at UCLA to serve as a judge for both the 2006 and 2008 Global Salon Business Awards in Barcelona.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:  No-Comprimise Leadership
No-Compromise Leadership is all about the thinking, behavior and accountability that support all leadership results and outcomes. Joined together, these two simple words immediately establish a higher standard of leadership thinking and behavior. They provide a powerful internal compass that keeps you and your company steadfastly on course. By design, no compromise cuts through the myriad excuses, emotional blockages and procrastination that silently infect leadership performance. When no compromise becomes your mandate - the guiding principle upon which all other leadership behavior emanates - the resulting business outcomes will be nothing short of breakthrough.

As a result of adapting no-compromise leadership, you'll:
· Experience a sharper, more focused sense of purpose
· Know what needs to be done - and get it done
· Tackle issues that you would ordinarily keep on the back burner where they fester and grow
· Be more decisive with your communication and how you relate to those you lead
· Make better decisions by focusing on details
· Lead your business, team or organization to great profitability and success