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Barry Posner is the Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, where he also served as dean of the school for 12 years. He has been a distinguished visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sabanci University (Istanbul), University of Western Australia,and the University of Auckland. At Santa Clara, he has received the President’s Distinguished Faculty Award, the School’s Extraordinary Faculty Award, and several other teaching and academic honors. ABarry received ATD's highest award for Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 research and practitioner-focused articles, and more than a dozen books on leadership. He currently serves on the editorial advisory board for the Leadership & Organizational Development Journal and the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, and received the Outstanding Scholar Award for Career Achievement from the Journal of Management Inquiry. Barry received a BA with honors in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara; an MA in public administration from The Ohio State University; and a PhD in organizational behavior and administrative theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Having consulted with a wide variety of public and private sector organizations worldwide, Barry also works at a strategic level with a number of community-based and professional organizations. He has served on the board of directors of Uplift Family Services, Global Women’s Leadership Network, American Institute of Architects, SV Creates, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Santa Clara County, Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay, Public Allies, San Jose Repertory Theater, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, and several publicly traded and startup companies. Barry can be reached at bposner@scu.edu.

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A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders mobilize others to want to accomplish extraordinary things in organizations. It’s about the things leaders do to transform values into actions, vision into realities, and challenges into opportunities. It’s leadership that makes a positive difference in the workplace, creating a climate where collaboration and innovation drive remarkable results. Join bestselling co-author Barry Posner as he presents the latest data on the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership (the framework for the Leadership Challenge) and the Leadership Practices Inventory.
As a result of participating in this webcast, you will learn:

leadership’s critical role in organizational health
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the latest data and research presented in the upcoming book The Leadership Challenge, 6th edition.
 


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Jim Kouzes is the dean’s executive fellow of leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, and the co-author with Barry Posner of the internationally award-winning and bestselling book,  The Leadership Challenge, with more than 2 million copies sold. He has co-authored more than 30 other books, including  The Truth About Leadership, Credibility, Encouraging the Heart and A Leader’s Legacy, as well as the  Leadership Practices Inventory—the top-selling off-the-shelf leadership assessment in the world. The  Wall Street Journal has recognized Jim as one of the 10 best executive educators in the United States. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award from ATD, and was presented the Thought Leader Award by the Instructional Systems Association. Jim was also named one of  HR Magazine’s Top 20 Most Influential International Thinkers from 2010 to 2013 and one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America from 2010 to 2015.

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