Mark Samuel is a thought leader and the CEO of IMPAQ, an award-winning international consulting firm that helps organizations and leaders worldwide to produce measurable results that transform their businesses and culture. He's the author of Creating the Accountable Organization: A Practical Guide to Improve Performance Execution and Making Yourself Indispensable: The Power of Personal Accountability, once named the Best New Business Book by the International Book Awards. Samuel has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Forbes, and in Fortune magazine as a top authority on accountability, teamwork, and leadership.
"B State resonates strongly with me because it's a practical
approach to transformation. Mark helped our organization focus on
the Collective Execution and the future state of what needed to be
done--the "B State". We have transformed to a new B State, and it
is like being a new organization. This is a model that works and a
book that can transform your organization and/or your personal life
very quickly."
--Ron Peterson, President and CEO of Baxter Regional Medical
Center
"B State describes in detail the approach used by Mark to transform
my leadership team and company. It's practical, fast, and got us
through a difficult transition with alignment and cooperation in
which everyone felt safe."
--Praful Kulkarni, PhD, CEO of gkkworks, Principal & Director of
Integrated Services for CannonDesign
"B State energized me. Mark Samuel captured the path to
breakthrough transformation through this book and its message."
--Michael van Praag, President of the Royal Dutch Soccer
Association
"B State is a roadmap to transformational change, dealing with all
aspects of accountability and change. The 'Middle Management
Miracle' alone can create lasting change--quickly--in an
organization."
--Mark Jesty, Chairman, Institute for Management Studies,
Canada
"B State shows leaders and managers the power of breaking out of
silos to communicate and collaborate in a new way, leading to the
sustainable results organizations are starving for. Mark Samuel
proposes a simple, revolutionary mind-set shift and an approach
that is life-changing for all leaders, managers, and the companies
they work for on all levels, professionally and personally."
--Rúna Bouius, transformational leadership expert, speaker, and
author
"B State takes accountability to higher breakthrough levels and is
a must-read for all leaders at any level of the organization. While
the subject is complicated, Mark Samuel makes it simple and easy to
follow. His use of real life stories, personal and professional,
truly delivers the message of breakthrough performance. It provides
a practical roadmap to creating the future rather than trying to
predict it, a future with outstanding results and high-performing
culture. I was energized and inspired by the many golden nuggets of
learnings in this book."
--Fadi Diya, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer at
Amaren, Corp.
"I have focused on business and organizational transformations for
the last 25 years, and I can attest that the key levers that Mark
describes in this book actually do work: a powerful shared purpose,
collaborative vs. siloed priorities, a forward focus on building
positive energy, and scale vs. dwelling on the problem--these are
the pillars of a successful transformation."
--Victor Cho, CEO of Evite(TM)
"I'm thankful for Mark's wisdom and insights on transforming
organizations, bringing them to higher levels of awareness and
success. B State shows how positive, honest, and reflective
practices can bring out the best in individuals, families,
businesses, and our society. Mark Samuel lays the framework for
bridging learning and leading with courageous loving!"
--Stu Semigran, Cofounder and President of EduCare Foundation, Los
Angeles' largest after school program provider
"If you're tired of the same repetitive loops, personally or
professionally, it's time to come up for a breath of fresh air with
B State. Mark Samuel reveals a truly breakthrough way of leaving
behind the endless loops of frustration that I call Conscious
Business. Break on through to the other side!"
--Russell Bishop, author of Workarounds That Work and CEO of
Conscious Living
"Looking for a way to build self-awareness in an impactful way?
This book provides abundant practical and savvy advice, for leaders
and individual contributors alike, on how to move with confidence
toward desired outcomes. It's a home run!"
--Gene Gerrard, Vice President of Human Resources, TOTE
"Mark has brought us a powerful concept and methodology for getting
unstuck and moving to a new future. This system is keenly focused
on the future we want and goes deeper into shaping that future,
complete with our attitudes, motivations, clarity of behaviors, and
new desired states. Then Mark adds the lasting ingredient of
accountability. He always gets me to think on the next level."
--Craig Robbins, Coach, Advisor Development, and formerly Chief
Knowledge Officer of Colliers International
"Mark is a visionary and an original thinker. He can walk into any
dysfunctional situation and diagnose the root cause of it. He sees
the best possible outcome and knows how to get you there faster
than you expected. This book teaches you how to do that for
yourself, your team, and your company."
--Sophie Chiche, Founder and CEO of Shape House
"Mark uses authentic and tangible examples--like stories about
drumming, baseball, and how these relate to business--to bring
important business concepts to life. How we work together, our
attitudes, behaviors, and actions are the key to our
transformation. The concepts in B State are timely and applicable
to the multiple generations in the workforce. I believe they can
bring people together to change the world."
--Darwin Richardson, Senior Vice President of Quality and
Regulatory Affairs at BPL Plasma
"Mark Samuel has created a new paradigm in thinking about how to
address the major challenges facing businesses today. He provides a
step-by-step roadmap for companies to move from an 'A State' to a
'B State' culture, showing them how to achieve the kind of
inclusive environment that has engaged employees, leaders, and
loyal consumers. B State is a must read for business leaders and
anyone who wants to build a world class organization."
--Al Cornish, System Vice President of Learning & Organizational
Development and Chief Learning Officer at Norton Healthcare
"Mark Samuel has written a compelling, relevant, and engaging book
on how to move an organization from 'A State' to 'B State'. Beyond
organizational accountability, Samuel's practical tips and critical
insight help leaders effectively drive organizational performance
to meet desired outcomes and goals. Very seldom today do you read
business books that deliver an 'aha' moment. B State does not
disappoint; it is a must-read for any executive."
--Jim Barnes, CEO of enVista
"Mark Samuel is a proven expert on accountability. He wisely
recognizes that every great leader must set the right team and also
be decisive to be successful. Apply the wisdom of B State, and
you'll see the transforming effect on your team. If you really want
to achieve great results in your organization and to be able to do
it fast, this book will help you get there."
--Juan José Valdés Torres, CEO of Adama México
"Mark Samuel is a proven expert on leadership and breakthrough
results. His knowledge of the workplace, its challenges, and the
tools to overcome those challenges, leads to a powerful and
significant read for all business owners, managers, and
supervisors. His roadmap for success, "B State," helps teams break
down silo behavior, produces excellent teamwork throughout the
organization, and truly drives outcomes and results. Without Mark
Samuel's guidance using the B State concepts, our road to becoming
a Legacy Organization would not be nearly as clear as it is."
--Frank Dulcich, CEO and President of Pacific Seafood Group
"Mark Samuel provides a highly useful roadmap to a higher level of
functioning he calls 'B State.' Business leaders everywhere could
benefit from reading this book and applying its powerful tools. I
urge you to make it a priority to read this book and get to work
creating B State in your own life and work."
--Gay Hendricks, PhD, author of The Big Leap
"Mark Samuel's B State allows organizations to create a compelling
picture of the future. His book is the true source of clarity on
what leadership needs to focus on: the most critical and the most
cross-functional. Most accountability experts forget about the
cross-functional side--the key to Marks' model. B State blends
future focus, into measurable outcomes and habits of execution that
create the playbook for transforming leadership and results in your
organization. "
--Elaine Vincent, Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Okotoks
"Mark Samuel's B State is a paradigm shift to quickly transform
your business and culture. It's not only a refreshing approach that
gets measurable results but also a must-read for executives and
leaders."
--Joey Hubbard, Global Head of Trainings at Thrive Global
"Mark Samuel's model for achieving 'B State' is built on
methodically shaping an organization's leadership culture to
support the desired state. Using Mark's B State process, our
leadership team transformed its habits of execution, nurtured new
levels of accountability within mid-management, and significantly
exceeded our performance goals."
--Susan V. Juris, President of University Hospitals Ahuja Medical
Center
"Mark's book and work resonate strongly with me. The concept of
collectively achieving and executing on goals is reflective of the
goals of Best Practice Institute programs; you get the best and
most rapid results out of your programs not by over-analyzing your
current state but by focusing on your future state and what needs
to be done."
--Louis Carter, CEO of Best Practice Institute and coauthor of The
Change Champion's Field Guide and Best Practices in Talent
Management
"Reading Mark's real stories of people and organizations stuck in
the 'A State' will cause most readers to shudder from personal
recognition. But his journey of self-reflection and revelation
results in a unique process for escaping this state. Through the
clear illustration and results of his transformational process to
the 'B State, ' we begin to see how to exit our victim status and
create our own picture of success. Mark generously shares his
learning and discoveries in B State, empowering everyone who reads
it to know how to become 'unstuck.'"
--Sue Bingham, Founder of HPWP (High Performance Work Place) and
co-author of Creating the High Performance Work Place
"The B State methodology is fast and transformational. Our
worldwide marketing company with over 150 employees and contractors
streamlined our systems, improved our productivity, and provided
our customers with even greater responsiveness. And, many remarked
about the positive impact in their own personal lives."
--Sinan Kanatsiz, CEO of KCOMM
"When you go to the gym and are lifting weights properly, you feel
sore afterward and see transformation of the muscle. Welcome to the
journey to B State as Mark Samuel takes your teams on a leadership
transformation that produces rapid and measurable results!"
--Abbas Yar-Khan, Vice President of Manufacturing, Shire
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