Stedman Graham - Author * Lecturer * Businessman

Stedman Graham

Author - Lecturer - Businessman

About Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates (SGA), a management and marketing consulting company that specializes in the corporate and educational markets.

As a sought-out businessman, educator and lecturer, he presents, consults and conducts training with corporations, organizations and nonprofits on the topics of maximizing leadership, achieving success, growing a business, embracing diversity, achieving optimal health, and personal and professional branding. Some of his clients include: Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Georgia Pacific, PRO-LINE International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Manpower, CNN, GlaxoSmithKline, PlainsCapital Corporation, American College of Sports Medicine, YMCA, U.S. Olympic Committee, U. S. Department of Labor's Job Corps, Credit Suisse First Boston, Harvard and Wharton business schools and the U.S. Department of Education just to name a few.

Graham has authored a number of books. His books include two New York Times Bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success, You Can Make It Happen Every Day, a motivational pocketbook, and Build Your Own Life Brand, which explores the concept of personal and professional branding. Graham’s most recent book, Move Without the Ball, is a collection of principles that teaches students that sports is a part of life, not life itself.

Actively involved in education, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches a leadership course based on his Nine-Step Process. At the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he taught a management strategy course entitled “The Dynamics of Leadership.”

Graham has shown a lifelong commitment to youth and community. In 1985, Graham founded AAD Education, Health and Sports, a nonprofit organization of athletes and other civic leaders committed to developing leadership in underserved youths. An organization with over 500 professional athletes, AAD has served over 15,000 students and has awarded $1.5 million in scholarships. Graham serves on several boards to include the national board of Junior Achievement (JA) and the 7-Eleven Education Is Freedom Foundation, and he is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.

Graham holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University. He received a master’s degree in Education from Ball State University and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College, where he is also a distinguished visiting professor.

Stedman's Speaking Topics

Leadership

Diversity

Branding

Health and Lifestyle

Business

Personal and Professional Development

Marketing and Sales

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