Make Meetings Matter

About Charlie Hawkins, Author of Make Meetings Matter

Charlie Hawkins is the author of Make Meeting Matter, a resource for planning and running high-impact meetings that achieve results, and Turn On the Idea Machine, an audio program for people and companies who are looking to unleash and focus their creative potential.

Charlie has been associated with some of the most innovative and successful products and concepts of our time. At Procter & Gamble, he helped create and refine the marketing strategies for Bounty™ Towels when it was successfully introduced nationally. At the Mennen Company, he led the team that repositioned Skin Bracer™ ("Thanks, I Needed That!"), reviving a 75-year-old brand; and as vice-president, marketing services at Dr Pepper, he directed the efforts that led to the brand becoming accepted nationwide via the well known "Be a Pepper™" campaign.

Charlie is the founder and president of Seahawk Associates, a resource for companies and organizations that want to achieve better results in meetings and presentations. Seahawk helps management "plan well, think big and talk straight."

Charlie is a skilled facilitator, mentor and executive coach. He facilitates monthly business round tables as a chair for Vistage International, the world's leading membership organization for CEO's, business owners and key executives. He conducts workshops in communications skills for Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, professional services firms and nonprofits. For eleven years (1990-2001), he designed and facilitated communications skills seminars for MBA students at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Charlie holds an MBA in marketing from Columbia University (New York) and a BA degree from Florida State University in communications.

Learn more about Charlie at CharlieHawkins.com.

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