Barry Posner, Ph.D., is Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University (located in the heart of Silicon Valley, CA), where he served for 12 years as Dean of the School. He, along with his co-author Jim Kouzes, received the American Society for Training and Development′s highest award for their “Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance.” The International Management Council named them as the nation’s top management and leadership educators, and he was recently recognized as one of the Top 50 Leadership Coaches in America.
Dr. Posner is the co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book The Leadership Challenge. Described as a groundbreaking research study, this book combines keen insights with practical applications and captures both why and how leadership is everyone′s business. With over 1.8 million copies in print, this book has been named one of The Top 100 Business Books of All Time, book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health Care Executives, received the Critic′s Choice Award from book review editors, and translated into over 20 foreign languages.
