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Beverly Behan has worked with more than 85 boards of directors over the past decade on issues including CEO succession planning, board engagement in strategy, board and director evaluation and general consulting to boards and CEOs on maximizing board effectiveness. She can be reached through her website: www.boardadvisor.net.
Jim Champy is chairman of Perot Systems Corporation's consulting practice and head of strategy for the company. His latest book is Outsmart!: How To Do What Your Competitors Can't. Champy is also the author of the 3 million-copy international best-seller, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, as well as Reengineering Management, X-engineering the Corporation, The Arc of Ambition, and Fast Forward. Champy earned a BS and MS degree in Civil Engineering from MIT, as well as a JD from Boston College Law School, and lives in Boston.
Ram Charan, co-author of the international best-seller Execution and an adviser to business leaders and corporate boards worldwide, is the author of Leaders at all Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, to be published by Jossey-Bass in December, 2007.
The Corporate Executive Board (EXBD) drives faster, more effective decision-making among the world's leading executives and business professionals. Powered by a member network that spans over 50 countries and represents more than 80% of the world's Fortune 500 companies, the Corporate Executive Board offers the unique research insights along with an integrated suite of members-only tools and resources that enable the world's most successful organizations to deliver superior business outcomes.
Kevin P. Coyne is senior teaching professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and a co-founder of The Coyne Partnership, a boutique consulting firm focused on top management and board issues. He was formerly a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. He writes The Strategist monthly for BusinessWeek.com/Managing.
Julie Daum is practice leader for the North American Board Services Practice for Spencer Stuart, the leading executive search firm in the boardroom.
Mark Foster is Accenture's group chief executive, Management Consulting & Integrated Markets, with overall responsibility for the development of the company's management-consulting capabilities. He leads Accenture's involvement with the World Economic Forum and is also a member of the board of the International Business Leaders Forum of the Prince of Wales Trust, which supports business development in the developing world. Foster joined Accenture in 1983 and became a partner in 1994. He holds a degree in classics from Oxford University.
Bruce F. Freed is executive director of the Center for Political Accountability. Karl J. Sandstrom of Perkins Coie is a former vice-chairman of the Federal Election Commission.
Bill George is professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and author of the new book, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis. The former chair and CEO of Medtronic, he currently serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs and previously, Novartis and Target.
Lindsey Gerdes is a staff editor for BusinessWeek, a position she assumed in June, 2006. Previously, Gerdes was an intern at Newsweek. She has done freelance assignments for Fortune Small Business. Gerdes is a graduate of Stanford University.
Marshall Goldsmith is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Succession: Are You Ready? as well as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, a Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year. Marshall's newest book, MOJO, will be published February 2010 and is available now for preorder. He can be reached at Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com, and he provides his articles and videos online at MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com.
Joseph Grenny is the co-author of three immediate New York Times bestsellers: Influencer, Crucial Conversations, and Crucial Confrontations. He is cofounder of VitalSmarts, an innovator in corporate training and organizational performance, and a consultant to the Fortune 500. Learn more about the Influential Leader at www.vitalsmarts.com/influentialleader.
Ben W. Heineman Jr. is GE's former senior vice-president for law and public affairs and is currently a senior fellow at Harvard Law School and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of the book High Performance with High Integrity (Harvard Business Press, June, 2008).
William J. Holstein is the author of Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon (Walker & Co., 2009). For more of his work, visit www.williamjholstein.com.
Alaina Love is a consultant, writer, speaker, and the president of Purpose Linked Consulting, a leadership and organization development firm. She is co-author of the new McGraw-Hill book, The Purpose Linked Organization: How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results. The book identifies and explores the impact of the "Passion Archetypes" of great leaders, provides a process for leaders to maximize the individual passions on their teams, and offers free access to The Passion Profiler online tool, where readers can discover their own passions and how to apply them to their roles at work.
G. Michael Maddock is founding partner, and Raphael Louis Viton is president, of Maddock Douglas, a company that invents, brands and markets products for "companies driven by innovation".
Joseph Daniel McCool is a writer, speaker, and consultant on executive recruiting and corporate management succession best practices. He is the author of Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent, a book exploring the global executive search consulting business and its impact on corporate leadership, executive compensation, and organizational culture and performance. It has been recognized as "one of the 30 best business books of 2008" by Soundview Executive Book Summaries and as a top pick by Business Book Review.
A leadership consultant, Nikos is author of the book Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies and can be reached at Nikosonline.com.
Thomas J. Neff is chairman of Spencer Stuart U.S., a global executive recruiting firm. His consulting practice focuses on CEO and board of director consulting and searches.
James O'Toole is Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Denver, and co-author (with Edward Lawler) of The New American Workplace. He was formerly executive director of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California, and executive vice-president of the Aspen Institute.
Aileen Pincus is president of The Pincus Group Inc., an executive firm coaching firm that offers training in presentation, speech, media, and crisis communications.
Kurt Ronn is the president and founder of HRworks, a national recruitment firm that helps major companies acquire talent to build their organizations. He is a contributing columnist for BusinessWeek.com.
Randall Rothenberg is the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for interactive marketing in the U.S. The IAB represents more than 300 leading interactive companies. Members are responsible for selling more than 86% of online advertising.
John R. Ryan is president of the Center for Creative Leadership, a top-ranked, global provider of executive education. He previously served as chancellor of the State University of New York and superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He was a pilot during a 35-year in the Navy, retiring as a vice-admiral.
Liz Ryan is an expert on the new-millennium workplace, a former Fortune 500 HR executive, and the author of Happy About Online Networking: the Virtual-ly Simple Way to Build Professional Relationships. Liz speaks to audiences around the world about work, life and networking, and works with employers on attracting and retaining world-class talent.
Dan Schawbel, personal branding expert for Gen-Y, is the best-selling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 2009), as well as the publisher of both the award-winning Personal Branding Blog and Personal Branding Magazine. Schawbel is a social media specialist for EMC Corp., has a syndicated column for Metro US, and writes for Mashable, Lifehack, and Mediapost. He has been featured in over 100 media outlets such as BusinessWeek, The New York Times, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal.
Dov Seidman is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of LRN, a company that helps businesses develop ethical corporate cultures and inspire principled performance, and the author of HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything…in Business (and in Life). LRN recently announced the acquisition of leading green strategy firm, GreenOrder.
Harold Sirkin is the global leader of Boston Consulting Group's operations practice. He is co-author of Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in accounting and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Sirkin is a columnist for Asia Insight.
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean of the Yale School of Management for Executive Programs and Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice as well as co-author of Firing Back: How Great Leaders Overcome Career Disasters. He can be reached at jeffrey.sonnenfeld@yale.edu.
Rick Wartzman is the director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. He spent the first 20 years of his career as a reporter, editor, and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. His most recent book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, was published by PublicAffairs in September 2008.
Michael Watkins professor of general management at IMD (www.imd.ch) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and co-founder of Genesis Advisers (www.genesisadvisers.com), a leadership development consulting firm. He is the author of The First 90 Days and co-author of Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them.
Dr. Bruce Weinstein is the public speaker and corporate consultant known as The Ethics Guy. His new book, Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught?, (Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press) shows teens how to solve the ethical dilemmas they face. Follow Weinstein on Twitter at TheEthicsGuy. For more information, visit TheEthicsGuy.com.
Lauren Zander is the co-founder and chairman of the Handel Group, an executive coaching and personal life coaching company based in New York City. Lauren has developed and is currently in her third year teaching a popular and groundbreaking course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called Designing Your Life. The Education Division of Handel Group will soon be implementing similar courses at New York University and Rutgers University.
Shoshana Zuboff is the author of The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. She was the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
