JIM KOUZES AND BARRY POSNER have been working together for over forty years, studying leaders, researching leadership, conducting leadership development seminars, and providing leadership, with and without titles, in various capacities. They are coauthors of the award‐winning, best‐selling book The Leadership Challenge. Since its first edition in 1987, The Leadership Challenge has sold nearly three million copies worldwide and is available in more than twenty‐two languages. It has won numerous awards, including the Critics’ Choice Award from the nation's book review editors and book‐of‐the‐year awards from both the American Council of Healthcare Executives and Fast Company. The Leadership Challenge is listed in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, as one of the Top 10 books on leadership.

Jim and Barry have co‐authored more than a dozen other award‐winning leadership books, including Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership; Leadership in Higher Education; Stop Selling & Start Leading; Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals for Becoming an Exemplary Leader; Turning Adversity into Opportunity; Finding the Courage to Lead; Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces; Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It; The Truth About Leadership: The No‐Fads, Heart‐of‐the Matter Facts You Need to Know; Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others; A Leader's Legacy; Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand; Making Extraordinary Things Happen in Asia; and The Student Leadership Challenge.

Jim and Barry developed the widely used and highly acclaimed Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), a 360‐degree questionnaire assessing leadership behavior. The LPI has been completed by over five million people around the globe. Over 900 doctoral dissertations and academic research projects have been based on their The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® framework. More information about their publications and research is available at www.leadershipchallenge.com. You can also sign up on the website for their monthly newsletter.

Among the numerous honors and awards that Jim and Barry have received is the Association for Talent and Development's (ATD) highest award for their Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance. They have been named Management/Leadership Educators of the Year by the International Management Council; ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine in the top 20 on their list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders; named by Coaching for Leadership as two of the Top 50 Leadership Coaches in the nation; considered by HR magazine as one of the Most Influential International Thinkers; and listed among the Top 75 Management Experts in the World by Inc. magazine.

Jim and Barry are frequent keynote speakers, and each has conducted leadership development programs for hundreds of organizations, including Apple, Applied Materials, ARCO, AT&T, Australia Institute of Management, Australia Post, Bank of America, Bose, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Clorox, Community Leadership Association, Conference Board of Canada, Consumers Energy, Deloitte Touche, Dow Chemical, Egon Zehnder International, Federal Express, Genentech, Google, Gymboree, HP, IBM, Jobs DR‐Singapore, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals, Intel, Itaú Unibanco, L.L. Bean, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Merck, Motorola, NetApp, Northrop Grumman, Novartis, Oakwood Housing, Oracle, Petronas, Roche Bioscience, Siemens, 3M, Toyota, the U.S. Postal Service, United Way, USAA, Verizon, VISA, Westpac, and the Walt Disney Company. In addition, they have presented seminars and lectures at over 100 college and university campuses.

Jim Kouzes is a fellow at the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University and has been the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, at Santa Clara University. He lectures on leadership around the world to corporations, governments, and nonprofits. He is a highly regarded leadership scholar, an experienced executive, and the Wall Street Journal cited him as one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States. Jim has received the Thought Leadership Award from the Instructional Systems Association, the most prestigious award given by the trade association of training and development industry providers, and the Golden Gavel, the highest honor awarded by Toastmasters International.

Jim served as president, CEO, and chairman of the Tom Peters Company for eleven years, and led the Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University for seven years. He was the founder and executive director for eight years of the Joint Center for Human Services Development at San Jose State University and was on the staff of the School of Social Work, University of Texas. His career in training and development began in 1969 when he conducted seminars for Community Action Agency staff and volunteers in the war on poverty. Following graduation from Michigan State University (BA with honors in political science), he served as a Peace Corps volunteer (1967–1969). You can reach Jim directly at [email protected].

Barry Posner holds the Michael J. Accolti, S.J., Chair at Santa Clara University and is Professor of Leadership with the Leavey School of Business, and chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. He previously served for six years as Associate Dean for Graduate Education, six years as Associate Dean for Executive Education and twelve years as dean of the school. He has been a distinguished visiting professor around the globe: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sabanci University (Istanbul), University of Western Australia, and University of Auckland. At Santa Clara he has received the President's Distinguished Faculty Award, the School's Extraordinary Faculty Award, and several other outstanding teaching and academic honors. An internationally renowned scholar and educator, Barry is author or coauthor of more than 100 research and practitioner‐focused articles. He currently serves on the editorial review boards for Leadership and Organizational Development and The International Journal of Servant‐Leadership, and is a recipient of the Journal of Management Inquiry's Outstanding Scholar Award for Career Achievement.

• Barry received his baccalaureate degree with honors in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara; his master's degree in public administration from the Ohio State University; and his doctoral degree in organizational behavior and administrative theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Having consulted worldwide with many public and private sector organizations, he also works at a strategic level with a number of community‐based and professional organizations. He has served previously on the board of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Santa Clara County, Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay, Public Allies, San Jose Repertory Theater, SVCreates, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Uplift Family Services, and several startup companies. Barry can be reached directly at [email protected].