Making Extraordinary Things Happen: Leadership Makes the Difference

Join us as the Albers Executive Speaker Series welcomes Barry Posner, the Michael J. Accolti, S.J. Professor of Leadership and Chair of the Management and Entrepreneurship department at California's Santa Clara University, where he previously served as Dean of the Business School.

This live event will not be streamed. Audio will be recorded for a future episode of Albers' podcast, The Leadership Playbook.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Barry received the Association for Talent Development’s highest award for Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance, was recognized as one of the Top 50 leadership coaches in America, was ranked among the Most Influential HR Thinkers in the world by HR magazine, and was included among the World’s Top 75 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc. magazine.

He is the co-author (with Jim Kouzes) of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book The Leadership Challenge. With over three million copies sold, the book is described as a groundbreaking research study, combining keen insights with practical applications, and has been translated into 22 foreign languages. It is listed among The Top 100 Business Books of All Time, receiving book-of-the-year honors by the American Council of Health Care Executives and Fast Company, and the Critic's Choice Award from the nation’s book review editors.

As an internationally renowned scholar, Barry has published over 100 research and practitioner-oriented articles, in such publications as the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Selling, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has served on a number of public and nonprofit boards, such as the American Institute of Architects, Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, Global Women’s Leadership Network, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, SVCreates, and Uplift Family Services.

Barry received an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a master's degree from The Ohio State University in public administration, and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and administrative theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. At Santa Clara, he has received several outstanding teaching and leadership honors. Barry has been a visiting professor at the University of Western Australia, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sabanci University (Istanbul), and the University of Auckland (New Zealand).

Barry has worked with organizations such as Amazon, Apple, Australian Institute of Management, Conference Board of Canada, Genentech, HP, IKEA, Kaiser Permanente Health Care, L.L. Bean, Levi Strauss, Merck, NetApp, Northrop Grumman, Petronas, and Trader Joe's, and been involved with leadership development efforts at more than 75 college campuses. He has made presentations and conducted workshops across the United States and around the globe.

Barry has co-authored other award-winning, inspiring, and practical books on leadership: Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership: How to Make a Difference Regardless of Your Title, Role, or Authority; Leading in Law: Leadership Development for Law Students; Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a Difference; Stop Selling & Start Leading; Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals for Becoming an Exemplary Leader; Turning Adversity Into Opportunity; Finding the Courage to Lead; Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces; Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It; The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-of-the Matter Facts You Need to Know; Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others; A Leader’s Legacy; Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand; Making Extraordinary Things Happen in Asia; and, The Student Leadership Challenge.

Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) has been called “the most reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today.” The 360-degree online version has been completed by more than four million people around the world.

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