LARRY ACKERMAN

Senior Strategy Consultant

Larry’s purpose in life is to help organizations find their purpose.

Talk about living a purposeful existence.

As a Senior Strategy Consultant at Siegelvision, Larry addresses the most complex challenges facing large organizations and helps them discover what they need to do to thrive in today’s complicated and competitive environment.

He has helped AARP, Alcoa, Boise Cascade, Dow Chemical, Fidelity Investments, Lockheed Martin, Maytag, National Geographic, Norsk Hydro, and State Farm Insurance, among others.

He is not just a leading authority on organizational and personal identity, but, in fact, he wrote the book (make that “books”) Identity Is Destiny: Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation and The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World.

One of Larry’s favorite places in the world is standing in a rushing mountain stream while fly-fishing. For Larry it’s all about the bass.

Larry’s Special Talent

He follows a strict Paleo “caveman diet” and can start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

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Larry Ackerman

Senior Strategy Consultant

Recent Insights
A World Where Every Child Succeeds
A World Where Every Child Succeeds

27 million Americans can’t read a bedtime story to their children. Children from low-income families hear 30 million fewer words by age 3 than their affluent peers. The sad truth is that by the time they’re two, many children are already falling behind, and they struggle to catch up.

Complexity is the coward's way out
Complexity is the coward's way out

A recent  NY Times article pointed out the convoluted rules of frequent flier programs and variety of formulas to compute them suggesting that qualifying for tiered status levels required a “Ph.D.”   However, airlines are not the only offenders.

Go Forth and Simplify...But How?
Go Forth and Simplify...But How?

Companies need to teach their in-house teams to simplify existing communications and to create new ones through the lenses of empathy, distillation and clarity. As Chief Clarity Officer at Siegelvision, I have found that companies can benefit from “Simplification Workshops” that explore these three principles in depth.