Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. He has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. John Kotter’s international bestseller "Leading Change" — which outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations — became 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. "Our Iceberg Is Melting" , which was released in fall 2006, puts the 8-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational transformations. John Kotter’s articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past 20 years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period. His books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com. He 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 is the author of 15 books, a collection that has given him more honors and awards than any other writer on the topics of leadership and change. In addition to "Our Iceberg is Melting" (2006) and "Leading Change" (1996), Professor Kotter is the author of "The Heart of Change" (2002), "John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do" (1999), "Matsushita Leadership" (1997), "Corporate Culture and Performance" (1992), "A Force for Change" (1990), "The Leadership Factor" (1998), "Power and Influence" (1985), "The General Managers" (1982), and five other books published in the 1970s. He has created two executive videos; one on "Leadership" (1981), and one on "Corporate Culture" (1993), and an educational CD-ROM (1998) based on the "Leading Change" book. His educational articles in the Harvard Business Review have sold a million and a half copies. Professor Kotter's books have been printed in over 70 foreign language editions, and total sales exceed two million copies. 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. Professor Kotter talks to groups with one and only one goal: to motivate action that gets better results. Titles Presentations are geared to each group Topics Celebrity, Change, Management, Business, Leadership, Performance, Strategic Planning, Success Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range Please call us. Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State MA Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.