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 Biography: John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. John Kotter's international bestseller, Leading Change--which outlines an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations--has become the change bible for managers around the world. In October 2001, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises. His newest work, the New York Times bestselling Our Iceberg Is Melting, puts the 8-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to affect major organizational transformations. John Kotter's articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period. He has published 16 books, 12 of which have been business best-sellers and 6 of which have won awards or honors. His books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com and have been printed in over ninety foreign language editions, with total sales exceeding two million copies. Dr. Kotter is a graduate of MIT and Harvard. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship. Professor Kotter's honors include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In 1996, Professor Kotter's Leading Change was named the #1 management book of the year by Management General. In 1998, his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography. In 2003, a video version of a story from his book, The Heart of Change, won a Telly Award (an "Oscar" for short video). In 2006, he received the prestigious McFeely Award for "outstanding contributions to leadership and management development." In 2007, his video "Succeeding in a Changing World" was named Best Video Training Product of the year. Professor Kotter talks to groups with one, and only one, goal: to motivate action that gets better results. |
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Programs: Professor Kotter's goal is to mobilize an audience to action, spurring them to reexamine their practices and provide more leadership in their spheres of activity. Because this is obviously an ambitious objective, the process Professor Kotter uses is not the norm at business meetings. His method is both intellectual and emotional. It involves audience participation as well as one-way lecturing. He uses humor, videotape, prepared slides, case studies and a little theatrical flourish. Professor Kotter presents to groups as small as ten and as large as many thousands. He rarely accepts time slots less than two hours and usually presents a two-day seminar at least once a year. Audience members are quite often senior executives in their organizations but may also be middle managers, staff, or mixed groups. Regardless of the group size or make-up, audience feedback is consistently positive and enthusiastic. LEADING BOLD CHANGE An On-Site Learning Experience An interactive workshop experience that teaches leaders at all levels to drive change through the practical application of proven principles. The experience connects the heart of those who must embrace and lead change with the mindset necessary to ensure future success. Learn to ▪ promote change in a way that wins allies throughout the organization which will accelerate positive results and outcomes. ▪ overcome the eight common errors in organizational change efforts. ▪ understand the critical differences between managing change and leading it and why leading is so vital to success. ▪ build leadership throughout the organization and translate the leadership agenda into productivity. ▪ create a roadmap for leading change, effectively adapt to meet new challenges and move in the desired direction of the organization. ▪ make change stick and integrate it into your corporate culture. |
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