Motivational Speakers

"Business simulation tools can help people learn new skills and map out decisions. Managers and hourly employees alike can learn what it's like to run a project team or a company--or just how to cope successfully with the next problem that's likely to present itself--in a risk-free environment where participants don't need to worry about losing capital or their livelihood." -- Harvard Business Review

Looking for something new? Constructively fun? Thoroughly engaging? Over the last 25 years, George Smart has wowed audiences of 12 to 400 through leadership development simulations. Unlike many conventional presentations or training sessions, simulations provide extraordinary interaction and a bottom-line focus praised by business, scientific, and technical participants alike. Much like airline pilots fly simulators before handling the controls of a real plane, your audience builds management skills and knowledge without the risk and cost of on-the-job trial and error.

With an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, George was the National Speakers Association Carolinas 2004 Member of the Year. He has received additional professional training from the Center for Creative Leadership, the NTL Institute, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, and the N. C. State University Training and Development program. He was a Chapter President and charter National Advisor for Chapters for the American Society for Training and Development, the world's largest training association. He has personally coached CEO's since 1991 and is on the faculty of the NC State University Coaching Certificate Program and Duke's Leadership and Business Performance Group.

Clients include Boeing Leadership Center, Bayer, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Red Hat, IBM, Duke University Medical Center, Crane, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University Leadership, The Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Business School, Nortel, Suffolk University, GMA, ASCE, NSPE, TLC Engineering, GlaxoSmithKline, RH Donnelley, Research Triangle Institute, the NIEHS, the CIA, and many more.

Away from the platform, George is an avid researcher of the Knights Templar, special agents of the Pope in the 12th century. A documentary based on his bestselling book, The Knights Templar Chronology, airs on the History Channel almost every month.