Advisory Board
Dick Axelrod
Dick Axelrod co founded The Axelrod Group, Inc., a consulting firm that pioneered the use of employee involvement to effect large scale organizational change. He now brings thirty years of consulting and teaching experience to this work, with clients including Boeing, Coca Cola, Harley Davidson, and Hewlett Packard. Dick is faculty in Columbia University’s Professional Program in Organization Development, and the University of Chicago’s Leadership Arts Program. He serves on the Board of Directors of Berrett-Koehler publishers. Dick authored Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations, and co authored You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: How to Involve Others to Get Things Done, which the New York Times calls, “the best of the current crop of books on this subject.” His latest e-book is How to Get People to Care about What You Find Important.
Websites:
www.axelrodgroup.com
www.everydayengagement.com
Jim Kouzes
Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 1.5 million copies sold. He is also the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.
Jim and Barry have coauthored over a dozen other books including A Leader’s Legacy (chosen by Canada’s Globe and Mail as one of the top ten books of 2006), Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It (chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of 1993) and Encouraging the Heart (1999, 2003). The International Management Council (IMC) honored Jim and Barry as the 2001 recipients of the prestigious Wilbur M. McFeely Award for their outstanding contributions to management and leadership education. Past McFeely Award recipients include: Peter Drucker, Lee Iacocca, Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard, Norman Vincent Peale, Francis Hesselbein, Stephen Covey, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In 2006 Jim was presented with the Golden Gavel, the highest honor awarded by Toastmasters International.
The Wall Street Journal has cited Jim Kouzes as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. A popular speaker and seminar leader, Jim’s clients have included: Accenture, AT&T, Boeing, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Dell Computer, Deloitte Touche, Federal Express, Gap Inc., HSBC, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss & Co., 3M, Microsoft, Motorola, Siemens, State of New York, Toyota, and Wells Fargo. Jim served as president, then CEO and chairman of the Tom Peters Company from 1988-until 2000. Prior to his tenure at TPC he directed the Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University from 1981 through 1987.
Websites:
www.leadershipchallenge.com
http://leadershipchallenge.typepad.com/leadership_challenge/
Bob Wright
Bob Wright, CEO of the Wright Business Institute, Inc. was identified as one of the top executive coaches by Crain’s Chicago Business. He is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and expert on human relations, group and organizational dynamics.
Bob coaches and trains sales professionals, top executives, and management teams nationally for corporations in publishing, retail, manufacturing, service, and the not-for-profit sector. He is a master sales coach who blends strategy, skill development, and other elements of leadership for the success of his individual coaching clients and the groups he leads.
A successful entrepreneur since the 1970s, Bob’s innovative approach and dedication to excellence have led to the recognition of his businesses as tops in their field nationally. The author of books and numerous articles on people skills, purpose and personal development, Bob’s works have been translated into multiple languages and distributed around the world. Bob develops innovative programs that have been instrumental in training national leaders in a wide variety of fields from finance and economics to retirement and social reform.
Websites:
http://www.wrightexcellence.com/
http://www.wrightliving.com/
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