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John Kotter is a highly-sought motivational speaker and expert covering such topics as leadership and change management. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and schools.
John Kotter is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He is also the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and the chairman of the Seattle and Boston-based management consulting firm Kotter International.
Professor Kotter’s education at MIT and Harvard gave him the skills he needed to make teaching, inspiring, and helping others his life’s work. In 1972, he became a teacher at Harvard Business School. Kotter was the youngest person ever to get tenure and a full professorship at the Business School, and he did this in 1980 when he was 33 years old.
John Kotter’s best international bestseller Leading Change is the bible of Change for managers worldwide. It describes an eight-step process for making changes that work. In the New York Times bestseller, Our Iceberg Is Melting, the eight-step approach is explained through an allegory. This makes it easy for a wide range of people who need to work together to make big changes in an organization to understand. Based on a study of 504 organizations, Business Week magazine named Kotter the #1 “leadership guru” in America in October 2001.
Professor Kotter has written eighteen books, and his work has won him more praise and awards than any other author who has written about Change and leadership. In the 1970s, he wrote five more books in addition, to Buy In (2010), A Sense of Urgency (2008), Our Iceberg Is Melting (2006), and Leading Change (1996). He also wrote Matsushita Leadership (1997), The New Rules (1995), Corporate Culture and Performance (1992), A Force for Change (1990), The Leadership Factor (1988), Power and Influence (1985), The General Managers (1982), and John P. Kotter on What Leaders Do (1982). (1989). Over two million copies of Professor Kotter’s books have been sold, and they have been translated into more than 120 different languages.
John Kotter’s articles from The Harvard Business Review have sold more reprints than any of the other hundreds of well-known authors who have written for that magazine in the past 20 years. His books are in the top 1% of bestsellers on Amazon.com.
His three executive DVDs, “Leadership” (1991), “Corporate Culture” (1993), and “Success in a Changing World” (2007), and the educational CD-ROM “Realizing Change” (1998), which is based on the book Leading Change, are all for sale.
Professor Kotter has won many awards, including the Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership and the Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design. Management General said that Professor Kotter’s book Leading Change was the best management book of 1996. In the 1998 Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biographies and autobiographies, his book Matsushita Leadership won first place. The plot of a 2003 movie based on his book The Heart of Change won a Telly Award. In 2006, Kotter won the prestigious McFeely Award for his “outstanding contributions to leadership and management development.” In 2007, his DVD “Success in a Changing World” won both a Telly Award and the award for the best video training product of the year from Training Media Review.
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