T. Boone Pickens
Request Availability

Travels From: Texas

Fee: 6

Ways to Connect

T. Boone Pickens

Energy Activist and Chairman, BP Capital Management
One of the world’s most successful and recognized business leaders, T. Boone Pickens shows how persistence, the ability to execute and an unyielding belief in his own entrepreneurial spirit brought him to the peak of success.
Exclusively WSB
Leadership and Getting Things Done
2012
Powering America's Energy and Economic Future
2012
The Politics of Energy
  
Powering America’s Energy and Economic Future: A Conversation with T. Boone Pickens
Topics:
Business Growth/Strategy/Trends
Economic Forecast
Energy - Alternative & Technology
Energy - Policy
National Security

All Americans are feeling the effects of the economic downturn. And addressing the economy is the top priority of our nation. To make a real and lasting impact we must seek to do more than create new jobs and opportunities today, we must build the platform on which our economy can continue to grow for decades to come—and there is nothing more important to the present and future of our economy than energy. Any effort to address our economic problems will require a thorough understanding of this issue and willingness to confront our dependence on foreign oil and what domestic resources we can use. As one of the world’s most successful and recognized business leaders, T. Boone Pickens delivers a comprehensive, forward-looking solution to enhance America’s energy and economic engine. Realizing the crisis is beyond politics and too large to be addressed in a piecemeal fashion, Pickens outlines a bold framework of coordinated steps that together form a comprehensive approach to America's energy needs—and the need to create jobs while encouraging economic growth.

Leadership and Getting Things Done: Reflections on a Lifetime of Comebacks
Topics:
Business Growth/Strategy/Trends
Energy - Alternative & Technology
Energy - Policy
Leadership

Legendary businessman T. Boone Pickens turned a $2500 investment into America's largest independent natural gas and oil companiesin the span of three decades. But Pickens’ road to success was not without challenges. When he left his company at the age of sixty-eight after a spectacular downward spiral in the company’s profits, many counted him out. Indeed, what followed for him was a painful divorce, clinical depression, a temporary inability to predict the movement of energy prices and the loss of 90 percent of his investing capital. Pickens went on to stage a remarkable late-life comeback that brought the famed maverick back to the top of global business. In this extraordinary presentation from one of the world’s most visionary leaders, Pickens shares his story and helps leaders understand the choices that they need to make to find their own path to success. Pickens uses his influence and role as a business leader to call attention to one of the most important issues of our time, America’s dependence on foreign oil and our need to do what’s right for America’s energy future. Beyond energy, Pickens reminds audiences that good leaders must be unafraid to make decisions and that it is both the procurement of ideas—and the cultivation of individuals—that are responsible for ensuring organizational success.

Meet T. Boone Pickens

One of the world’s most successful and recognized business leaders, T. Boone Pickens shows how persistence, the ability to execute and an unyielding belief in his own entrepreneurial spirit brought him to the peak of success.

A legendary oilman and philanthropist who has become the nation’s most effective energy expert, T. Boone Pickens is on a mission to develop energy policies to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil—which he views as the greatest threat to America's national security and economic well-being. Recently cited by President Obama for his leadership in developing The Pickens Plan for America’s energy future, Picken’s has long been an advocate harnessing domestic energy alternatives and developing even greater new technologies. In his keynote presentations, Pickens showcases his folksy, candid, no-holds-barred approach to solving America’s energy crisis as well as the lessons he has learned over the course of his astounding professional life. A folk hero in global business for his tenacity in the rough-and-tumble world of mergers and acquisitions, Pickens has sustained a career of staggering breadth, building and leading the largest independent natural gas and oil companies in the U.S. which he details in his best-selling 2008 autobiography The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future. Ranked by Forbes as one of the richest people in the world, Pickens is a committed philanthropist who has donated nearly $1 billion to charity.

Topics: Types:

Books

    

Websites