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About Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a Chicago-based management and marketing consulting firm that specializes in corporate and educational markets.
Graham delivers his identity message throughout the country and globally to corporations, professional associations, government and civic organizations, colleges and universities, and community groups.
Stedman Graham has authored 11 books, including two New York Times Best Sellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success. His latest release, Identity: Your Passport to Success, was on the Wall Street Journal Best Seller list. He is currently working on his latest book, Identity: Passport to Freedom.
Clients have included Gulfstream Aerospace, Microsoft, Deloitte, Wells Fargo, Lenovo, General Dynamics, the US Departments of Labor, Education and Agriculture, CVS Pharmacy, the Indiana Pacers and the Sonima Foundation (through which he taught in 150 high schools in 2 years). He has also lectured or conducted workshops in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, China, Canada, the UK, the British Virgin Islands, Aruba, Bermuda, South Africa, and Africa.
Commitment to education and lifelong learning is central to Graham’s philosophy. He has served as an adjunct professor or guest lecturer at Northwestern, Harvard, Wharton, University of Chicago, the University of Illinois-Chicago, National University, Highpoint, Howard, Temple, Morehouse, and Pepperdine to name a few.
As a veteran of the United States Army, he has proudly served our active military, veterans and their families through programs at Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Bliss, Fort Jackson, NATO, the Military Child Education Coalition, and internationally at Landstuhl, Germany and the US Military Community in Rotterdam, Holland.
A proud native of Whitesboro, New Jersey, Graham has demonstrated an enduring pledge to youth and community. His Teens Can Make It Happen Program has been utilized in numerous middle and high school in the US and abroad, providing positive growth for our leaders of tomorrow, as well as their parents and teachers. With dedication to community development, Graham is the founder of the Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro and Concerned Citizens of Lake Waccamaw, NC and a co-founder of The Community Alliance for Youth Success. He is an ongoing contributor to the Cleveland Foundation Tru2U Project educating youth and their mentors, and to the organization MaDi through which he provides Identity Leadership education to thousands of refugees who are integrating into new communities and cultures.
Graham holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University, a Master’s degree in Education from Ball State University and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College.
Identity Development
Part of what makes us human is our ability to be aware of our own existence, to both live and to reflect on our own lives.
It is this capacity for self-awareness that allows us to see our authentic selves and build our own identity, rather than letting others dictate who we are and what we do with our lives.
Inevitably, however, the stresses and routine of daily life can get in the way of this self-reflection. We become caught up in the task of getting through the day—in surviving—to take time to cultivate that awareness.
But with the development of a strong sense of who we are and what we want to do in life, we naturally begin to take agency in our lives, and become successful no matter what challenges life presents.
Stedman Graham has made it his mission to bring Identity Development programs to people and organizations worldwide helping them strengthen who they are based on their interests, natural abilities, talents and passions. Through seminars, lectures, and workshops, Graham provides the tools for all people to determine their own identity and to open the door to a life of success.
Stedman Graham has taught Identity Development around the world and coached everyone from world leaders to small business owners to gain a better understanding of who they are, build a well-developed personal identity and become more focused as they work toward their goals. A strong identity gives you the freedom to realize your full potential and allows you to gain the personal wisdom to achieve success in life.
For more than 15 years, S. Graham and Associates has provided the ultimate in success training through the 9-Step Success Process developed by Stedman Graham. Now Graham introduces a process built on the 9 Steps to realize your leadership potential through Identity Development. The Identity Leadership Seminar challenges fundamental assumptions about leadership in the 21st century. Leadership is everything, and to lead others, you must first be able to lead your self: to reach your goals and realize your potential.
The Identity Leadership seminar uniquely focuses on helping participants develop their identity as a foundation for building a plan. Over the course of the seminar interactive exercises form the steps toward developing yourself as a leader. Designed to provide participants with an enhanced personal awareness and skills for leadership, the seminar will leave you with a strategy for success to develop as you navigate the future.
Identity Development focuses on the need for self-awareness and the skills of self-management, with Stedman Graham’s 9-Step Success Process as a basis.
Seminar topics include:
– Choosing a vision
– Goal setting
– Step-by-step planning
– Mastering adversity
– Exploring risk
– Managing challenges
– Forming personal networks
– Commitment to a personal mission
Identity Leadership Nine Step Success Process
The Identity Leadership Nine Step Success Process Focuses On Self-Actualization.
This process is designed to improve people’s potential for personal and professional success. Those who use this process as an ongoing resource develop their capacity to motivate themselves, and become more self-reliant.
They learn to execute thoughtful actions and innovative ideas that revolutionize their effectiveness. Identity Leaders are inspired to manage themselves and others with motivating values and standards.
Stedman Graham’s Identity Workshop is a powerful workshop, delivered live by its creator, Stedman Graham. It has inspired students, professionals, entrepreneurs and community groups across the globe.
Participants, without fail, leave empowered with a new sense of confidence, and feeling more at home with themselves than ever before.
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The Good News:
– It’s not your fault.
– You can do better!
– You’ve gotten really good at “hanging in there” until the weekend.
– You’re used to it.
However,
You don’t know what you’re missing, because you don’t know what there is!
Why stay in a box? The world is so round!
Take a leap. Be curious. Be surprised.
Find your IDENTITY
Take charge
See what you’re missing.
Know what there is.
Grow by creative leaps and bounds!
Make your Identity your own.
Ask…
– How can I focus?
– How can I learn?
– How can I make money?
– How can I expand and broaden my life?
– How can I build a strong family and community?
Stedman Graham Reveals His Secret
It’s a live story. I live it. It’s not about good or bad, it’s about physics – cause and effect. I’m asking you to participate.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Be curious. Ask questions. You’ll get smarter. Ask a question. You’ll get a response. Do good. You’ll receive good.
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffet
Testimonials
“I will walk out of this classroom a better student because of what I learned here. I greatly appreciate [the program] and the creators and presenters of this program for providing us with the opportunity to reach that dream that on Monday morning seemed so distant.”
– Carlsbad Unified School District Student
“Outstanding on showing a starting point and a process to the end destination.”
– Job Corps Student Participant
“I need to change my mindset, challenge what I know to learn something new. All nine steps put emphasis on me becoming the woman I can be.”
– Participant, Cuyahoga Community College CVS Pathways to Pharmacy Program
“Stedman is an artist with unique communication skills that so effectively helped reach these individuals on levels that possibly they have never previously experienced, and I believe that the candor, openness of communication, ‘tough love’ talk, and practical discussion on their skill development will lead to remarkable maturation and an appreciation of greater personal accountability and for their personal development.”
– Mike Fox, CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center
“Stedman Graham’s life planning program is a perfect fit for our youth when presented to them at the right time in their school career in a systematic and creative manner. Students delivered incredible testimonials on the new vision that they acquired about who they are and where they intend to go with their lives as a direct result of the reflections that Mr. Graham’s lessons sparked within them. Today’s youth are Tomorrow’s Leaders, Citizens and Parents. They deserve this opportunity to know the steps it takes to succeed in life!”
– Cheryl Ernst, Former Superintendent, Carlsbad Unified School District, San Diego, CA