| Barry Posner is Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. He is the co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book: The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations. Described as a groundbreaking research study, The Leadership Challenge combines keen insights with practical applications and captures both why and how leadership is everyone's business. With over one million copies in print, this book has been the featured selection of several book clubs, named book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health Care Executives, received the Critic's Choice Award from the nation's book review editors, and translated into over 15 foreign languages. The Leadership Practices Inventory has been called "the most reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today." Barry has also co-authored three other award-winning, inspiring and practical books on leadership: Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It; Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others; and The Leadership Challenge Planner: An Action Guide to Achieving Your Personal Best. Barry is an international renowned scholar who has published more than 80 research and practitioner-oriented articles, in such journals as the: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the like. He is currently on three editorial review boards: Journal of Management Education, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Journal of Business Ethics. |
| He serves on the Silicon Valley selection committee for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and has been on the board of directors for Public Allies (Silicon Valley) and The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits. Barry received his undergraduate degree in political science from UCSB, his master's degree from the Ohio State University in public administration, and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and administrative theory from the Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst. At Santa Clara he has received the Dean's Award for Exemplary Service, the President's Distinguished Faculty Award, and several outstanding teaching and leadership honors. He is a frequent conference speaker and workshop facilitator, and has worked with such organizations as: Merck, Hewlett-Packard, L.L. Bean, Alcoa of Australia, TRW, Mervyn's, Promus Hotel Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Levi Strauss, Kaiser Permanente Health Care, Ciba-Geigy, Motorola, Andersen Consulting, among others. He has made presentations and conducted workshops across the U.S., and around the globe, from Canada, Mexico and Europe to the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. |
