Joey Fitts

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Joey Fitts has spent his personal and professional helping people and organizations achieve their goals. Fitts’ focus is on bridging the gap between people, information and performance. His passionate insights and unwavering drive have guided the information and performance development efforts of many of the world’s leading organizations.

Fitts is recognized as an authority on business intelligence, performance management, and strategy execution. A frequent international speaker, Fitts has presented in over 20 countries and been featured in newspaper, radio and magazine media across North America, Europe and Asia.

Fitts has consulted over 25 of the Fortune 500, guest lectured Harvard Executive Education programs and the Stanford Executive Briefings, been featured in the SuccessFactors Research Thought Leader Network, raised over $16M in venture capital, and served on the Board of Advisors for InterVivos and the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA)
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Joey Fitts is co-author of the best-selling book, Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution. Critical acclaim for Fitts’ work includes:

• Analytics guru Tom Davenport’s testimony, “If you want to understand, explain, and predict your company’s performance, buy and read this book.”
• Drs. Kaplan & Norton, of Balanced Scorecard fame, praise Fitts for moving “the field of performance management forward in important new directions.”
• Business Finance Magazine cites Fitts as a “recognized authority on business intelligence and performance management.”
• Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell says, “Providing everyone in the organization with a clear understanding of how day-to-day decision making and tactical execution relate to organizational success is critical to running a high performing business. Drive Business Performance provides specific and easy-to-follow guidance to deliver results. A must read for any organization seeking to win.”

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‘Leaders Presents’ is a new division of IIR Middle East designed to provide the IIR delegate a new level of conference experience. Born from the success of the Annual Leaders in Dubai Business Forum, Leaders’ events stand out from the rest by providing a superior level of speaker, ensuring up-to-date topics and maintaining an all-around level of excellence throughout the execution of their events. The flagship event – Leaders in Dubai – is a meeting of over 1,500 of the regions’ most eminent business leaders from across all industries who come together with some of the most popular business, economic and political leaders from across the globe – to network, learn and debate on the future of business and to share their experiences. Leaders Presents has launched a number of other highly successful events recently including the acclaimed Management Innovation Forum, which was launched in 2007 and met with rave reviews, and the Middle East Business Achievement Awards which honors regional business leaders for their excellence and contribution to business. 2009 sees the development of a variety of ‘Leaders Presents’ events – all of which promise to evoke thought and creativity, and give real value to the delegates who attend. Speakers, current and past at ‘Leaders Presents’ events include, Colin Powell, Jack Welch, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Kofi Annan, Michael Porter, Her Majesty Queen Noor, Tom Peters, and Malcolm Gladwell.