Jim Kouzes is the co-author with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over one million copies sold. He’s also the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

The fourth edition of The Leadership Challenge was released in August 2007, twenty years since the publication of the first edition. The Leadership Challenge, available in fifteen languages including Chinese, was the winner of the James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrators’ Book, the Critics’ Choice Award, and was a BusinessWeek bestseller for three years. Kouzes and Posner’s book, A Leader’s Legacy was selected by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the ”top thirty books of the year.”  Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have also co-authored over a dozen other books including Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, chosen by Industry Week as one of the ”Ten best management books”. Among their other books are: Encouraging the Heart , The Leadership Challenge Workbook, and The Leadership Challenge Journal. Based on solid research involving over 70,000 surveys, 1,000 written case studies, and 100 in-depth interviews, these books describe the leadership practices that generate high performance in individuals and organizations.

Not only is James Kouzes a highly regarded leadership scholar and experienced executive, The Wall Street Journal has cited him as one of the ”twelve best executive educators in the U.S.” In 2006 Jim Kouzes was presented with the Golden Gavel, the highest honor awarded by Toastmasters International. A popular leadership speaker, Jim Kouzes’ clients include: Accenture, Applied Materials, AT&T, Boeing, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Consumers Energy, Dell Computer, Deloitte Touche, Egon Zehnder International, Federal Express, Honeywell, HSBC, Ingersoll Rand, Johnson & Johnson, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Levi Strauss & Co., 3M, Microsoft, Motorola, Roche Palo Alto, Siemens, State of New York, Thomson Corporation, Toyota, and Wells Fargo.