@harryscampbell
Harry S. Campbell
Meet the senior executive with a strong record of success over three decades.
Harry has been a president for two Fortune 500 companies, co-owner of an award-winning small business, CEO/board member of an Internet start-up and founding member of the industry-changing Wal-Mart/P&G Customer Team in Northwest Arkansas. He has driven exceptional people and business results in organizations of 25 to 3,500 employees in a broad range of industries -- from consumer packaged goods to telecom to sports marketing to digital media. Harry is known as an identifier, developer and motivator of exceptional talent at all levels of the organization.
Early on, Harry's views on leadership and business management were forged at Procter & Gamble, where he worked in brand management on notable products including Crest, Pepto-Bismol and Metamucil. While with P&G, Harry was hand-picked to be a founding member of the P&G/Wal-Mart Customer Team based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1992, Harry moved from consumer packaged goods to the telecom sector when he joined Sprint. While there, he served in several leadership roles, culminating in his being appointed president of the multi-billion dollar Consumer Long Distance unit in 2002. His final role with Sprint was leading the Emerging and Mid-Markets business unit, in which he was responsible for selling to and servicing all telecommunications products to business customers across the United States in the mid-market, small-market, SOHO and local government arenas.
Harry led the Consumer Markets division at Embarq, a spin-off from Sprint. Embarq, purchased by CenturyTel and now known as
CenturyLink, was a Fortune 400, NYSE-traded telecom company with annual revenue of $6 billion. As president of the Consumer Markets division, Harry was responsible for nearly half of Embarq's annual revenue and an organization of 3,000 employees. His group provided marketing, sales, service and operational support for a full line of communication and entertainment services to 4 million residential customers in 18 states.
His other senior management experience spanned two distinctly different small businesses. Harry served as president/CEO (and member of the board) of uclick. Uclick is a digital syndication company that packages and distributes branded content, comics and word games on the Web, representing more than 110 features such as Garfield, Dear Abby, FoxTrot and Doonesbury. He was also co-owner/EVP of a sports marketing agency that was recognized as the 1998 business of the year by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
Let's get real
Harry recently retired after 5 years as the CEO of Durrie Vision to focus on maximizing his charitable donations via speaking and book-writing.
Harry holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian History and Economics from Vanderbilt University (where he held the school record for the 10K for 35 years!) and an MBA with a concentration in marketing from Indiana University's Kelley Graduate School of Business.
Harry is active in several local charities and serves on the board of Head for the Cure, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising money to help cure brain cancer.
“Harry Campbell’s engagement and active participation with my team of senior leaders was authentic, energizing and over all educational on enabling and preparing for the future of business opportunities. His communication and attitude about real problems and issues helped us to see the potential. My leaders learned both practical general management and leadership skills that they can use in their daily interactions with employees and customers alike. Our motto after meeting with Harry: Get over it, get on with it, and make it a winner will always remind us of the lasting impact Harry had on the success of our team.”
Kind words about Harry
“Harry sums up leadership better than most. His candid and can-do attitude is contagiously fun and understandable. Today I am a better leader through Harry’s wisdom.”
“Harry’s energy and passion along with his approach to leadership is refreshing. Many of the leadership topics you presented provided clarity for how we are interacting with ourselves, our customers, our management, our directs, our family, and our friends. The whole room was on the edge of their seats! Your charisma and passion reignited the teams’ passion for their jobs and customers - what a great hour! We had learning from one of the greatest leaders of our industry! I am still getting fantastic remarks from all who were in the room.”
“Within minutes of first meeting Harry I knew we were kindred spirits. His philosophy on people, leadership, and organizations was in sync with those that I had developed after over 35 years in various companies. What was unique was seeing it from an individual that had ran a multi billion dollar company. Read Harry’s book and become inspired! Listening to him speak will take it to an entirely new level. I’m not sure there’s another one like him.”
“Harry offered many balanced and realistic ideas about leadership. I cant wait to share his book with up and coming leaders I know! I especially appreciated his attention to “work-life balance” as a leader, which can often be forgotten.”
“I have attended hundreds of presentations, and Harry Campbell’s presentation was in the top 1%. “Get-Real Leadership” is a 10 on content and delivery. It will be a hit with everyone from supervisors to CEOs. Managers who buy the book and implement his approaches will be more successful both at work and at home.”
“I had the privilege of hearing Harry speak at a breakfast meeting in St. Louis. His message was incredible! His delivery was real, energetic and inspiring! Every business has something to learn from Harry and his get real approach. I would recommend Harry and his book ‘Get Real Leadership’ to anyone that wants to get ahead in business.”