Liam Fahey

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About Liam Fahey

Liam's consulting, teaching, research & writing help companies win in the marketplace through enhanced intelligence and insight. He advises leaders, conducts workshops, consults to analysis specialists, and engages with teams in all facets of generating and leveraging marketplace intelligence and insight. He brings to bear an extensive academic background and 30 years of practical experience in a variety of industries around the world. His custom designed intelligence and insight workshops have enabled organizations to develop deeper understanding of their emerging and potential competitive environments—understanding that makes a real difference in their thinking, decisions and action. The difference is reflected in the development of new points of view about the future, new strategy options, new modes of strategy execution and new organization-wide capabilities. He is the founder and leader of LFI’s Intelligence Leadership Forum. The Forum allows intelligence and insight practitioners to learn from each other, to hone their personal and professional skills and to augment their organizations’ thinking and decision capabilities. Liam is the author or editor of eight books and more than 50 articles or book chapters. His book, The Insight Discipline, will appear in early 2018. He has won awards for his teaching (Teacher of the year at Kellogg School of Management), research (six best paper awards), and professional service (the first winner of the Meritorious Award for Distinguished Service from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals). His corporate clients include some of the world's best known brands and he has delivered executive education for more than 10 universities around the globe. Prior to co-founding LFE, he taught at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and at Boston University. He serves as Professor of Management Practice at Babson College. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh