About Dr. Larry Baker
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Professional Background
Dr. Larry D. Baker, Certified Speaking Professional
(CSP), is an internationally known management consultant,
coach, speaker, author and publisher. His companies
are the Dr. Larry Baker Management Center and Time
Management Center, Inc. As a consultant, he is
sought after because of his special abilities to
help executives, managers and others adapt strategic
and operational concepts to resolve organizational
and personal performance and productivity issues.
His many clients among well-known firms include
Abbott Laboratories, ALCOA, Buckman Laboratories,
Corning Incorporated, Edward Jones, Environmental
Protection Agency, IVAC, May Company, Merck, Microsoft,
Motorola, Nabisco, National Basketball Association
and Nortel Internet Services.
Among the more than 200 publications that have
cited Dr. Baker are Avenue, Business Week, Fortune,
Los Angeles Times, Money, New York Times, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, Success, Time Magazine, Toronto
Star, Wall Street Journal, Women's Day, Working
Women and The Art of Managemnt in Russia.
Dr. Baker has more than 150 professional publications
to his credit. Among his articles, books, booklets,
tape albums, movie scripts, and educational software
programs are two “best sellers.”
Dr. Baker is a member of the Academy of Management,
American Psychological Association and National
Speakers Association (NSA). NSA has awarded him
its coveted “Certified Speaking Professional” (CSP)
designation - held by only 500 speakers, internationally.
Dr. Baker is also co-founder and Past-President
of the St. Louis Chapter of NSA.
Prior to founding his two companies in St. Louis,
he was a management professor at the University
of Missouri-St. Louis. Since 1978, his consulting,
speaking, writing and publishing have included
Strategic, Operating and Performance Planning;
Time and Performance Management, Personality-Work
Style Analysis and Organizational Structure and
Design. He also is a principle in a Marietta, GA
based wine wholesale company, Continental Beverage
Corporation.
For nearly nine years, he has been a Professor
on Shorter College’s School of Management
full-time faculty for the Division of Adult Studies
in its Atlanta program - teaching Senior and MBA
students. Dr. Baker also serves as a consultant
to four CEO Roundtables (55 CEOs in total) at their
monthly meetings.
Dr. Baker earned his BS, MBA and Doctor of Business
Administration degrees from Indiana University
School of Business. He is the recipient of many
scholastic, civic and professional awards including
a special achievement award presented at The White
House by the President of the United States.
Personal Background
When Dr. Larry Baker lost his sight at the age
of 25, he was married and had three children under
the age of seven. At that time, he was working
as a Laboratory Technician (an earned job title)
in a pharmacology-toxicology lab in veterinary
research, having only a high school diploma.
After a year of unsuccessful medical and surgical
treatment, he enrolled in the Indiana University
School of Business. He was the only blind student
among the more than 4,000 students in the Business
School.
The Time Management habits and skills he had to
learn to live a balanced family, social, community
and student life were numerous. A balanced life
for him involved making time to participate in
his wife’s and children’s activities,
maintaining a 100 year old eight bedroom home,
serving as a base-station radio operator as a volunteer
fireman, being active in the Junior Chamber of
Commerce’s numerous civic activities and
in his church’s activities.
Meanwhile, he focused on his academic objectives:
planning, scheduling and performing his daily school
work. That included attending classes and completing
all assignments early, never late; weekly scheduling
appointments with several volunteer readers, and
always arriving on time; arranging to have as many
text books as possible recorded months in advance
of when they were needed.
His setting his priorities and following
them led to his graduating in the top 1% of his
class, ranking 5th in a class of 783 Business majors.
Two years later, he earned an MBA and 2 years after
that a Doctors Degree in Business Administration.
None of this was expected of him by his high school
teachers, classmates and many others; he had graduated
in the bottom 50% of his high school class.
After graduating with his Doctorate Degree, he
began to write and speak about the Time Management
principles and practices that led to his daily
Time Management habits and skills. They were the
habits and skills that helped him live a balanced
life and sustained him through eight years of formal
education and his first professional position as
an Assistant Professor of Business Administration
at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.
His ability to help others recognize how they
could use those same Time Management habits and
skills in their own daily lives led to his becoming
recognized, internationally, as a Time Management
expert -– author, speaker, publisher, consultant
and coach.
Dr. Larry Baker
www.manage-time-better.com
Baker Management Center
770-218-8122
148 Helmswood Circle
Marietta, GA
30064
US
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