Rodd Wagner Email & Phone Number

Excelsior, Mn, Us

Belleville, Ontartio

My colleagues and I combine the best external evidence with research at the clients' facilities to determine the optimal strategies for improving performance and safety. I speak often at industry conferences and company all-manager meetings. Whenever possible, I spend extensive time on site talking to the employees who get the job done.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Rock Solid Strategy combines the most reliable data, diagnostic analyses, and expertise to guide its clients through their most sensitive and pressing issues. We conduct uniquely insightful, client-specific research and analyses. We see the patterns and the implications that others miss. We advise senior executives on strategies for improving enterprise performance through improved leadership effectiveness, collaboration, and employee commitment. We go on site in every environment from a client's undisclosed facilities to a U.S. Navy submarine. And we do our work with the highest levels of confidentiality.

- Author of frequent columns for Forbes on the unwritten social contract between employees and the companies where they work.- Author of occasional guest columns for publications such as Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and USA Today.- Presented guest lectures at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Minnesota, University of Utah, University of St. Thomas, and University of Illinois.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Author of the book "Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They're Real People" (McGraw-Hill).- Author (with Gallup Vice Chairman Gale Muller, Ph.D.) of "Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life." Narrator of the "Power of 2" audiobook (Audible).- Author (with James K. Harter, Ph.D.) of the New York Times bestseller "12: The Elements of Great Managing," sequel to "First, Break All the Rules." Narrator of the "12" audiobook (Simon & Schuster).- Contributing author, "Collaboration in the National Security Arena: Myths and Reality."- Contributing Author, Best of the Gallup Management Journal, 2001 - 2007 (Gallup Press).