Tom Oliver (Photo from the website of the Tom Oliver Group)
MANILA, Philippines — A new economic world order will emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, with a very uneven distribution of winners and losers.
Global management guru Tom Oliver will help clarify to Inquirer readers this new environment as he starts today his weekly column “Profit Push.”
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Oliver will focus on easy-to-implement, practical tools, insights and strategies on how business owners, entrepreneurs, CEOs and family enterprises can recover fast amid the challenges in this pandemic, reposition and future-proof their businesses and profit from new and unique opportunities on the face of crisis.
‘How to manage change’
Who is Tom Oliver and what is the Tom Oliver Group?
CNN describes Oliver as a “world-famous management consultant.” Bloomberg calls him a “global management guru” and an “expert in empowering companies [on] how to manage change, times of uncertainty, and crisis.”
Fortune magazine said Oliver “has worked with the world’s most important entrepreneurs such as the family of Warren Buffett, business leaders like the president of eBay [and] with the world’s most famous brands from Johnson & Johnson to Pepsi and Google.”
Oliver is also a professor, international author, coach to Fortune 500 CEOs and consultant to presidents of some of the world’s largest companies.
He has received praise for his work from Nobel laureates, heads of state and leaders in business and finance like the CEO of Coca-Cola CCI, the World Bank Group, board members of Ernst & Young and self-made billionaire entrepreneurs from Asia to the United States.
The Tom Oliver Group is the trusted adviser to many of the world’s most influential family businesses, market leaders and global conglomerates.
It provides 360 degrees management and strategy consulting, executive training and C-suite coaching services to business owners and entrepreneurs across many different industries, with a special expertise in family businesses.
The global and local
The group also creates uniquely customized business booster programs for medium-sized companies. It combines global expertise and experience with an intimate knowledge of local markets, including the Philippines.
The group accepts only a limited number of new clients per year.
In the words of the first president of eBay, internet entrepreneur Jeff Skoll: “Tom provides the tools to show you that nothing is impossible when realizing your vision!”
In the Philippines, Oliver and his group have worked with such diverse enterprises as SM, Asia United Bank, Rebisco and Jollibee.
What has inspired Oliver to write this column?
In his words, “I know how challenging the last two years have been for many businesses in the Philippine economy. The… pandemic has brought many new challenges but also offers many new and unique opportunities. I know the great potential of the Philippine business community. With my weekly column in the Inquirer I want to give back to that community by empowering business leaders with the tools they need for a slingshot recovery and for profiting from the unique opportunities for growth that exist in these times of change.”