Jim Kouzes

Jim Kouzes is the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Together with Barry Posner, he is the coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen books in the Leadership Challenge franchise. Kouzes and Posner have conducted leadership development programs for hundreds of organizations, including Apple, Bank of America, Chevron, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, Google, Johnson & Johnson, L. L. Bean, United Way, Disney, and many more....See more

Jim Kouzes is the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Together with Barry Posner, he is the coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen books in the Leadership Challenge franchise. Kouzes and Posner have conducted leadership development programs for hundreds of organizations, including Apple, Bank of America, Chevron, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, Google, Johnson & Johnson, L. L. Bean, United Way, Disney, and many more. They have received the Association for Talent Development's Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance award; been named Management/Leadership Educators of the Year by the International Management Council; were ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine in the top twenty on its list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders; and listed among HR Magazine's Most Influential International Thinkers. Barry Posner is the Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Together with Jim Kouzes, he is the coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen books in the Leadership Challenge franchise. Kouzes and Posner have conducted leadership development programs for hundreds of organizations, including Apple, Bank of America, Chevron, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, Google, Johnson & Johnson, L. L. Bean, United Way, Disney, and many more. They have received the Association for Talent Development's Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance award; been named Management/Leadership Educators of the Year by the International Management Council; were ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine in the top twenty on its list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders; and listed among HR Magazine's Most Influential International Thinkers. See less