Award-winning author, speaker and consultant, Louis Patler is president of The B.I.T. Group, an international consulting, strategic research, and corporate training company. Louis brings pioneering technologies for strategy formation, practical problem solving, and unparalleled quality service initiatives to Fortune 500 companies, multi-national corporations, and foreign governments. He writes frequently for newspapers, magazines, and management newsletters in the U.S. and abroad on the most innovative individuals and companies. England's BBC-TV and Canada's CBC-Radio praised him as one of America's new breed of business mentors. Recently, J. Walter Thompson Agency named him one of "The 20 Most Creative Minds in America."
Louis' latest book is Tilt! Irreverent Lessons For Leading Innovation In The New Economy (1998). Louis' message is clear and impassioned: the conventional ways of doing business no longer work in the fast-forward, global economy of today. He shows us how to break through old assumptions about competition, planning and leadership, in order to run a consistently successful business.
He is also co-author of the New York Times best seller, If it ain't broke… BREAK IT!: Unconventional Wisdom for a Changing Business World (1992) which has been widely acclaimed by reviewers such as Tom Peters, Steven Covey, and Paul Hawken, professional coaches Pat Riley and Tony La Russa, and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Coca Cola. It was the second best-selling business book of 1992, with a Spanish and Chinese edition published in 1994. Excerpts from the book have been translated into 17 languages and 28 million copies. His exciting training program, "Break-It!" Thinking, reveals the new mindset, skillset and toolset.
Louis is listed in several national and international Who's Who editions, has twice received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts for his writing, and was the editor of the prestigious American Trend Report.
A former professional baseball prospect, and member of several Community Boards, he lives with his wife and five children in Mill Valley, California.
If it ain't Broke... Break It!: and Other Unconventional Wisdom for a Changing Business World