Richard Nicolosi is a speaker with a reputation for breaking the mould. Nicolosi initially gained his business experience at Procter & Gamble, where he grew up in marketing and brand management, and then "graduated" into general management as: youngest-ever Sector President, youngest-ever Group Vice President, and youngest-ever Corporate Vice President. At P&G, he was charged with the oversight of many of its leading businesses: soaps, detergents, cleaning products, their soft drinks business and their full range of paper products.

Having succeeded in tripling the profits of P&G's global paper products businesses, he was then invited by Scott Paper to restructure and grow their global brands and to position the company for sale. At Scott, he initiated innovative business strategies, new products, new packaging and more effective advertising. His results were phenomenal: he doubled both operating profit (to $700+ million) and ROI (to an exceptional 23%) in less than two years. In 1995, Scott was then sold to Kimberly Clark in a deal, valued at $9.1 billion.

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