John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on topics of Leadership and Change. He is the premier voice on how organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, Kotter's vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have been proven time and again.
When speaking to groups, Kotter draws on the history of recent successes and failures in the business world. He explores the new rules of leadership and the importance of lifelong learning in the post-corporate world. Kotter offers the leadership tools necessary to achieve success in a business world that reinvents itself every day. He continues to speak at Harvard Business School Executive Education Programs, including the prestigious Advanced Management Program (AMP). These highly competitive professional seminars were created by Kotter to teach the important steps needed for successful leadership and change.
When Kotter speaks to an audience he speaks with one and only one goal: to motivate action and get better results.
Kotter has authored 17 books, which have been printed in over 120 languages and sold more than 2 million copies. Over the past 20 years, his articles for the Harvard Business Review have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication in the same period. Kotter has been on the Harvard Business School faculty since 1972; in 1980, at the age of 33, he was given full tenure and a full professorship, making him one of the youngest people in the history of the University to be so honored.
The vast number of awards won by professor Kotter include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, a Johnson, Smith & Knisley Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership, and a McKinsey award for Best Harvard Business Review Article. Professor Kotter's Leading Change was named #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. In 2006, Kotter received the prestigious McFreely Award for "outstanding contributions to leadership and management development." Professor Kotter resides in Cambridge, MA.