About Chris O'Leary

I am a man of many, very different talents and don't fit easily into any one box. That probably explains why my personal hero is Leonardo da Vinci.

On the one hand, I am an author, speaker, and consultant in the areas of communication, entrepreneurship and innovation, marketing, and new product development.
     I have recently completed a book entitled Elevator Pitch Essentials that explains how to get your point across in two minutes or less. I have been interviewed about the elevator pitch by a number of publications, including Inc magazine and Money magazine.
     My communication and innovation consulting clients have included the Boeing Chairman's Innovation Initiative and the Boeing Leadership Center. I frequently speak about the relationship between pain, change, and innovation to students in entrepreneurship, new product development, and marketing classes in the MBA program of Washington University in St. Louis.
     This knowledge grows out of my experience working for companies like SalesLogix, the leading middle-market CRM system. SalesLogix grew from $0 to $100 million in annual sales in just 5 years and was sold to The Sage Group in 2001 for $263 million. I have also worked for a number of other startups including Heuris and Tsunami Research. Earlier in my career, I was a consultant for Cambridge Technology Partners, Ernst & Young, and Andersen Consulting.

Over the past few years, I have developed a good understanding of pitching mechanics and hitting mechanics and have leveraged my communication skills to help explain how the best pitchers and hitters actually do what they do.
     As part of this effort, I have put together a rotational hitting DVD and a pitching mechanics DVD that explain rotational hitting and pitching mechanics.
     My work on baseball pitching and hitting is followed by a large number of major league scouts, cross checkers, coaches, and player development people. In addition, my work with Andres Torres of the San Francisco Giants has been covered by Sports Illustrated, my ideas have also been covered by Salon.com, and in 2008 I helped the Cincinnati Enquirer put together an analysis of the swing and hitting mechanics of Ken Griffey Jr. as he approached his 600th home run.
     If you are interested in learning more about my baseball background, I have put together a document that describes who I am and how I got here.