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The Leadership Challenge: Jim Kouzes and Barry
Posner
  Jim
Kouzes and Barry Posner are preeminent researchers, award-winning
writers, and highly sought after teachers in the field of leadership.
Their groundbreaking studies, pioneered in 1983, led them to create
a model of leadership that has been embraced by more than 1 million
people around the world.
For information about how to get Jim or Barry to speak at your
organization, email them directly at jim@kouzesposner.com or bposner@scu.edu.
Writers
Their first book, The Leadership Challenge,
was named book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health Care
Executives, received the Critic's Choice Award from U.S. book
review editors, and has been translated into more than 15 languages.
Credibility, their second book, was named one of the five top
business books by Industry Week.
Researchers
As they have continued to expand their research and writing, all
their leadership guides and teaching tools have attracted a wide
audience and consistent praise. The Leadership
Practices Inventory (LPI) and LPI Online are powerful instruments
that make leadership teachable and learnable and have set the
industry standard. LPI has been used successfully by businesses,
schools, and nonprofit organizations and has been verified and
validated by more than 100 independent researchers.
Teachers and Leaders
Jim Kouzes is chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company. He
is also an executive fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. Barry
Posner is dean of The Leavey School of Business and Professor
of Leadership at Santa Clara University (Silicon Valley, California),
where he has received numerous teaching and innovation awards,
including his school's and his university's highest faculty awards.
Jim and Barry were named by the International Management Council
as the 2001 recipients of the prestigious Wilbur M. McFeely Award.
This honor puts them in the company of Ken Blanchard, Stephen
Covey, Peter Drucker, Edward Deming, Francis Hesselbein, Lee Iacocca,
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Norman Vincent Peale, and Tom Peters, earlier
recipients of the award. Jim and Barry are frequent conference
speakers and each have conducted leadership development programs
for hundreds of organizations, including:
- Alcoa
- Applied Materials
- ARCO
- AT&T
- Australia Post
- Bank of America
- Bose
- Charles Schwab
- Cisco Systems
- Conference Board of Canada
- Consumers Energy
- Dell Computer
- Deloitte Touche
- Egon Zehnder International
- Federal Express
- Gymboree
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM
- Johnson & Johnson
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- Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
- Leadership Greater Hartford
- Levi Strauss & Co.
- L. L. Bean
- 3M
- Merck
- Mervyn's
- Motorola
- Network Appliance
- Pacific Telesis
- Roche Bioscience
- Siemens
- Sun Microsystems
- TRW
- Toyota
- U.S. Postal Service
- United Way
- VISA
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Jim Kouzes' Upcoming Events:
November 2004
November 19, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
December 2004
December 7-8, Haas Center, Stanford University, Stanford,
CA
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Barry Posner's Upcoming Events:
December 2004
December 6: Cardinal Health Care Leadership Seminar, San Francisco,
CA
December 13: Northrop Grumman Leadership Seminar, San Francisco, CA
January 2005
January 6: California Agribusiness Leadership Conference, Santa Clara,
CA
February 2005
February 4, Keynote for 2005, Institute on College Student Values, Tallahassee,
FL
March 2005
March 21: Northrop Grumman Leadership Seminar, San Francisco, CA
April 2005
April 29: Lipscomb University Leadership Keynote, Nashville, TN
May 2005
May 11-13: The Leadership Challenge Workshop, Santa Clara,
CA (with Jim Kouzes)
May 25: Nursing Leadership Institute, Toronto, Canada
September 2005
September 28-30: The Leadership Challenge Workshop, Santa Clara, CA
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