Bud Bilanich

Bud Bilanich has a pragmatic approach to business, life, and the business of life that has earned him the title The Common Sense Guy, and made him one of the most influential success coaches, motivational speakers, authors and blogger consultants in the USA and around the world.

Dr. Bilanich helps people create the life and career success they want and deserve.He is Harvard educated, but has a no-nonsense, common sense approach to his coaching, speaking and writing that stretches back to his roots in the steel country of Western Pennsylvania.

Bud's coaching clients report that he is full of practical, useful common sense advice that they can put to work immediately. Audiences leave his Common Sense Keynotes armed with fundamentally sound, common sense ideas and the motivation to put those ideas to work.

Bud has 35 years experience in the career development field. He has worked with clients in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Australia and Asia. His clients include Pfizer Inc, Johnson and Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Schein Pharmaceuticals, Bristol Myers Squibb, Lonza Biologics, Merck General Motors, Citicorp, JP Morgan Chase, AT&T, Pitney Bowes, Dana Corporation and The Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

He is the author of six life and career success books:

* Climbing the Corporate Ladder

* Straight Talk for Success

* Your Success GPS

* 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success

* Star Power: Common Sense Ideas for Life and Career Success

* I Want YOU...To Succeed in Your Corporate Climb

He is the creator of the popular Success Tweets series:

*Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less

*Success Tweets Explained: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice Explained in Detail

* Success Tweets for Sales Professionals

* Success Tweets for Finding a Job and Excelling in it (with Billie Sucher)

* Success tweets for Administrative Professionals (with Kettie Ortega and Chrissy Scivicque

* Success Tweets for Speakers and Information Marketers (with Dave Vanhoose and Dustin Mathews)

In addtion, Bud has authored seven Leadership and Organization Effectiveness Boooks:

* 4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations

* Leading With Values

* Fixing Performance Problems: common Sense Ideas That Work

* Using Values To Turn Vision Into Reality

* Solving Performance Problems

* Supervisory Leadership

* Common Sense Ideas for Building a Dream Team

Bud is a prolific writer. He updates his popular life and career success blog five days a week. You can find if at www.BudBilanich.com.

Dr. Bilanich received an EdD from Harvard University with a concentration in Adult Education and Organizational Behavior and Intervention. He also holds an MA in Organizational and Interpersonal Communication from the University of Colorado, and a BS in Human Development from Penn State.