GTDC successfully co-organized the John Kotter Asia Tour 2009 with Motorola and HBR, four full-day seminars at four different Asian cities, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing.

Topics covered in the full-day seminar are:

• 8 steps to successful change
• Practical tools to help lead your company and change processes for the future
• How to build and empower the team to lead the change
• Creating vision and strategy
• Communication- how do we get others on board?
• Empowerment- how do we get barriers out of the way of those who see the vision and want to make it a reality?

• Understand the change process
• Know how the 8 steps relate to management and leadership
• Learn what kind of change will create sustainable growth for your organization
• Be inspired by outstanding leaders to create significant influence and live a meaningful life.

About Professor John Kotter:

Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change.  He is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change.

In his latest work, A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shows what a true sense of urgency in an organization really is, why it is becoming an exceptionally important asset, and how it can be created and sustained within organizations.

John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change—which outlined an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations —has become the change bible for managers around the world. Our Iceberg Is Melt-ing, the New York Times bestseller, puts the eight-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational transformations. In October 2001, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises.

Professor Kotter's other honors include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In 1996, Professor Kotter's Leading Change was named the #1 management book of the year by Management General. In 1998, his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography. In 2003, a video version of a story from his book, The Heart of Change won a Telly Award. In 2006, Kotter received the prestigious McFeely Award for "outstanding contributions to eadershipand management development." In 2007, his video "Succeeding in a Changing World" was named best video training product of the year by Training Media Review and also won a Telly Award.

Professor Kotter talks to groups with one and only one goal: to motivate action that gets better results.

Dr. Kotter is a graduate of MIT and Harvard. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship.