John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard, 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 John Kotter speaks to an audience he speaks with one and only one goal: to motivate action that gets better results.
Kotter has authored 17 books, twelve of them bestsellers. His works have been printed in over 120 languages and total sales exceed two million copies. His latest book, A Sense of Urgency, focuses on what a true sense of urgency in an organization really is, why it is becoming an important asset and how it can be created and sustained. Just released in September of 2008, Urgency reached #7 on the New York Times bestseller list in early October.
John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change—which outlines an actionable eight-step process for implementing successful transformations—has become the change bible for managers around the world. Our Iceberg Is Melting, the New York Timesbestseller, puts the eight-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational transformations. His books are in the top 1% of sales on Amazon.com.
John Kotter’s articles in The Harvard Business Reviewover the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period. Kotter has been on the Harvard Business School faculty since 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship, making him one of the youngest people in the history of the University to be so honored.
The many honors 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 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. In 2003, a video version of a story from his book The Heart of Change won a Telly Award. In 2006, Kotter received the prestigious McFeely Award for "outstanding contributions to leadership and management development." In 2007, his video "Succeeding in a Changing World" was named best video training product of the year by Training Media Review and also won a Telly Award.
Professor Kotter resides in Cambridge, MA.
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Speech Topics
A Sense of Urgency
Clients will explore the importance of this seemingly easy to
express topic. What is the right way to create a sense of
urgency? What is a false sense of urgency? Where do you
go once the urgency is established? These and other
important questions will be answered as your company
explores how to follow the right path to establishing a true
sense of urgency and continuing down the road to successful
change.
Leading Change
This speech focuses on the eight-step process of implementing
successful transformation. You will learn how companies
can achieve their goals and how important it is to have
successful leadership in order to make change happen. With
personal attention to a company’s efforts and failures, John
Kotter can help to create lasting change as well as successful
leaders.
Our Iceberg Is Melting
When change is needed in an organization, sometimes the
hardest part is getting everyone to believe it. John Kotter will
introduce his eight-steps for successful change in an easy to
understand format. By providing the guidance needed in an
ever changing world, audiences will begin to see how dealing
with the challenges of change can be compelling when
presented in the right way.
Succeeding in a Changing World
As the economy and world change, so must organizations.
The pressure for organizations to modify their business will
only increase in the years to come. Many times a good plan
can get lost in the midst of implementation. The methods
used to restructure or reorganize often fail due to complacency,
loss of traction, lack of leadership and other barriers.
Learn from John Kotter how great companies succeed where
others fail to achieve lasting change in today’s world.
Leadership vs. Management
Many organizations today are over managed and under led
because people do not know the difference between
management and leadership. There are significant differences
and each have an effect, both negative and positive,
on a company’s performance. John Kotter will explain and
motivate the vital importance of the right leadership needed
for a company’s success.
Testimonials
“Many thanks for extending your Asia trip to attend our recent
conference. All the feedback suggests that you were the highlight of
the two days and you have kicked off our change programme
magnificently.”
Greg Dyke, CEO, BBC
“On behalf of our Management Board, I want to thank you
again for your outstanding presentation at our leadership team
meeting in Dallas on January 8. Celanese has worked hard over the
past couple of years to build a culture of performance and we
recognize that is possible only with enlightened leaders. I believe you
were successful in taking us to a new level of understanding of the
dynamics of leadership and in motivating many of us to ‘practice’ on
a more emotional level.”
William A. Stiller, Vice President
HR and Communications, Celanese
“Thank you for the brilliant job you did for us at Boca! You are
exceptionally skillful at conveying a powerful leadership message.”
R. J. Herson, President, EFI
Partial Client List
Agilent Technologies |
Logitech Maximum Impact McGraw-Hill Merck & Co., Inc. Mercuri International Ltd. Merrill Lynch MGMA Microsoft Corporation Mitsubishi Corporation MTV M & T Bank National Express Corp. Nedbank, South Africa Neoset Management Nielsen Media Research Norfolk Southern NOV Novell Novartis International Novartis, Switzerland One BBC Pick ‘n Pay Pink Elephant Inc. Prothesis Consultants S.A. Public Storage Ratech Corporation Robert Bosch S.p.A., Milan Rogers Wireless Safeco Insurance SAS Institute (Canada) Inc. S.C. Johnson Companies Sealed Air Sony Corporation of America Southwest Power Pool Standard Bank, South Africa Symantec TAP Pharmaceutical Products Teen Mania The Associated Press The Bank of Nova Scotia The Leadership Center The Siegfried Group The Titan Corporation The World Presidents’ Org. Training Magazine Transformation Partner Tremco Roofing Tribune Co., Chicago T. Rowe Price Tyco Healthcare VHA Southwest VWR International Warner Lambert Wells Fargo World Bank W. R. Grace, London Yahoo, Inc. YPO, Dallas Switzerland |
