William Malek has a very unique facilitation-training and business advisory practice working with management teams to plan and implement “executable” strategies and build capability for transformational business initiatives. William has spent over 10,000 hours in facilitated planning and action learning workshops. His innovative approach is derived from working with over 45 very successful businesses on 5 continents and in 12 major industries. William also debated management theory vs. actual practice with top Stanford University professors to gain deeper insights and know-how. More importantly, he have integrated my own career learning program leading up to and ultimately becoming a CEO.

William facilitates leaders to clearly define their strategy and the organizational capabilities required to execute that strategy. He is a speaker with passion and understands the implications of unique contexts, especially in innovative growth environments and leadership development. And, on selective engagements, he has also been in interim management positions.

As the former program director for the Stanford Advanced Project Management program at Stanford University, William’s pursuit in life has been the study of the interfaces between strategy, innovation, and execution.  It is only through effective product and project planning that drives innovative programs.  William also started teaching Design Thinking (aka the Deep Dive) in the year 2000 when it became public through the IDEO Shopping Cart Project that aired in 1999 on ABC with Ted Koppel.  This case study was embedded in the Stanford Executive Education course “Converting Strategy Into Action” and was used as a practice to innovatively design, plan and develop a project scope, quickly.

As one of the top-ranked instructors, William taught the award-winning Stanford courses that he helped refine and develop, including “Converting Strategy into Action,” “Designing Organizations for Execution,” “Mastering the Project Portfolio,” and “Leadership for Strategic Execution.” William has the ability to adapt to the cultural diversity required in today’s global market because he has had many client engagements outside the US, such as in India, South Korea, Thailand, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, South America, South Africa, China, Canada, and Europe.

I have held executive positions, including CEO of IPS Learning, as well as facilitated Fortune 500 senior management teams in companies such as IBM, Qualcomm, Cisco, McKesson, Wipro, and the US Library of Congress. William’s organizational learning and innovative thinking around the Strategy Execution Framework is discussed in the book he co-authored called Executing Your Strategy: How to Break it Down & Get it Done published by the Harvard Business School Press.