About the Authors
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Richard Boyatzis teaches in the departments of organizational behavior, psychology, and cognitive science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of more than 150 articles and books on leadership, competencies, EI, and change from a complexity perspective. Prior to becoming a professor in 1987, Boyatzis was president and CEO of McBer and Company. He received a BS in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from Harvard University in social psychology.
Sydney Finkelstein, the author of Why Smart Executives Fail and Think Again, is Stephen Roth Professor of Management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. An expert on leadership and strategy, he regularly gives lectures across the country. He has participated on numerous CEO forums, been interviewed or had his work appear in numerous leading media outlets, and served as consultant and speaker for major companies around the world, including Aetna, American Express, Barclays, Boeing, Chevron, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, GE, Glaxo, JP Morgan Chase, McGraw-Hill, and Morgan Stanley, among others.
Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of thirteen books and lectures frequently to professional groups and business audiences and on college campuses. He cofounded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center, now at the University of Illinois, at Chicago.
Annie McKee is cofounder of the Teleos Leadership Institute and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She has coauthored a number of bestselling books, including Primal Leadership, Resonant Leadership, and Becoming a Resonant Leader. McKee also serves on the board of the Center for Social and Emotional Competency at the University of the Pacific and the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. She received her doctorate in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University and her baccalaureate degree from Chaminade University of Honolulu.