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Allen E. Fishman, world renowned business advisor and bestselling author, is Founder and Chairman of The Alternative Board® (TAB), the world's largest franchise system providing peer board and coaching services for business owners. Allen’s passion for entrepreneurship and desire to provide his proprietary processes and tools to privately owned businesses, lead to his forming TAB in 1990.
Allen developed TAB’s premier coaching process, Strategic Business Leadership® (SBL), an easy to use strategic planning process that has helped thousands of business owners each define and achieve their unique strategic vision for their companies. The SBL coaching process is used by TAB facilitators throughout the world to coach their business owner members.
Today, TAB is a global organization operating in more than 450 cities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. TAB is also pursuing expansion into additional regions. Through his interaction with TAB business owner members, Allen recognized common challenges faced by most business owners. As a result, he has authored such books as 7 Secrets of Great Entrepreneurial Masters: The GEM Power Formula for Lifelong Success (McGraw-Hill, 2006) and 9 Elements of Family Business Success: A Proven Formula for Improving Leadership & Relationships in Family Business (McGraw-Hill, 2008). Both books have been USA national best sellers with 9 Elements of Family Business Success becoming a top ten Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Allen’s ability to guide businesses to higher levels of success has been consistently recognized in the world’s most influential media, including: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune Small Business, Business Week, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune. A frequent business contributor on radio and television, he brings real world value and timeliness of his counsel as an authority on issues faced by business owners. He has been a guest on such media as Public Radio International’s Marketplace, CNBC, Bloomberg, and CNN.
An energetic, captivating and thought provoking speaker, Allen has given presentations in 10 different countries. He has spoken at such international conferences and conventions as International Management Association, Consumer Electronics Show and Mobil Oil Distributor Association always leaving his audiences with valuable take-aways proven to help business owners seize opportunities and address challenges. His three primary talks are based on the following topics: 7 Secrets of Great Entrepreneurial Masters; 9 Elements of Family Business Leadership; and Strategic Business Leadership: The Proven Formula for Greater Business Success. Allen holds a finance degree, Magna Cum Laude, and a J.D. law degree from St. Louis University. Prior to creating TAB, he was Co-Owner and President of Tipton Centers Inc., which he guided to becoming a publicly traded corporation.