Terry Jones

Terry Jones' Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Terry Jones is on the cutting edge of innovation and change. As founder of Travelocity.com, Chairman of Kayak.com, and Chief Information Officer at American Airlines/Sabre, Terry Jones has a proven track record of leading companies whose innovations have changed their respective industries.

More About Terry Jones . . .
Terry Jones has worked in small startups and the corporate world and has a unique perspective on innovation, offering audiences real world examples of how to create a culture of innovation in their companies.

A graduate of Denison University, Terry Jones entered the travel industry in 1971 as a travel agent. He later served five years as a vice president of a company specializing in business travel to Eastern Europe and the USSR, with offices in Chicago and Moscow.

• The Business of Innovation
  

  Growth. Every company has to have it. But in today’s hyper competitive environment and difficult economy how do you get it? Terry Jones, master of innovation took a team of 10 and built a multi billion dollar enterprise based on an innovative idea that most of his colleagues thought would fail. Terry created a culture of innovation where new ideas were celebrated, mistakes became fast learning loops, and employees learned that anyone can innovate. Terry will take your audience through the steps to nurture new ideas and the organizational structures, funding policies and team members required for success. Many speakers talk about the future, Terry gives audiences step by step plans to create it.

• Leadership In A Wired World
  

  It’s a new world out there….A world where ‘the office’ is anywhere and communication is constant; where the pace of change is staggering and the ‘wired generation’ is entering the work force. In this new world, how do you lead? The basic principles of good leadership haven’t changed in hundreds of years; but, in this new world, how we APPLY them MUST change. Today’s new worker has been raised in the digital age, has been multi tasking since the age of 3 and has been online for most of their life. How can companies most effectively communicate with, lead and leverage this very different employee base? Terry Jones has led both large corporations and small startup companies. As a CEO, a board member, and a consultant, his innovative leadership style has helped reshape the travel industry. In this program, he offers concise and actionable insights into how leadership is changing in this new technology-driven world.

• Building Digital Relationships with Your Customers
  

  Online research will soon influence over $1 trillion in offline sales, yet many companies are still optimized to deal with customers only over the phone or in the store. Terry will show your audience the importance of adding digital relationships to your company’s strategies. At companies such as Travelocity, Kayak.com, La Quinta Hotels and Earthlink, Terry has been involved in creating, leading and implementing CRM strategies that leverage the digital world. Terry will open the door to this new world with examples drawn from all types of online and offline companies. He discusses the latest techniques for emarketing, the evolution of search, and how broadband is changing consumer behavior online. Not just for consumer companies, these techniques are essential for the industrial buyer as well whose world is also being reshaped online. Participants will learn how to craft a multi-channel strategy to deal with tomorrow’s marketplace.

• Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur?
  

  The story of the entrepreneur in the garage is well known. But how does one build a startup inside a huge corporation? How do you successfully innovate in large and sometimes bureaucratic organizations? Terry started Travelocity.com as a department inside the multi billion dollar Sabre Corporation. Starting with an idea and a team of ten he grew the department into a multi billion dollar public company with over 35 million members and 1200 employees. Intrapreneurs face different challenges than entrepreneurs. Competitors are as likely to be internal as external. In this world, who you report to can be as important to an intrapreneur as building a brand is to the entrepreneur. His story of how one navigates the corporate power structure to turn an idea into a company has applicability for anyone with a new product or a new idea.

Your presentation was absolutely off the charts - exceptionally entertaining, tremendously informative, highly relevant and very motivational.

---Paciolan

"Your presentation was perfect! Your marketing approach rather than technology approach really hit home."

- International Car Wash Association

"Terry's willingness to share his knowledge and his ability to open the minds of our audience and focus on their future in the online world was remarkable."

- ADP

"Most importantly, Terry Jones offered real promise and hope for these struggling companies because of his success."

-Kleiner Perkins