Biography: Frances Hesselbein is president of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and chairman of the Board of Governors of the Josephson Institute for the Advancement of Ethics. She was chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from July 1976 to February 1990. President Bush appointed her to the board of directors of the Commission on National and Community Service in August 1991 and to his Advisory Committee on the Points of Light Initiative Foundation in 1989. Hesselbein has receive numerous awards, including nine honorary doctorates and the Excellence in Leadership Award from the National Women's Economic Alliance.
Marshall Goldsmith is a founding director of Keilty, Goldsmith & Company (KGC), a consulting firm based in San Diego, California; a partner in the Global Consulting Alliance; and a member of the board of governors of the Drucker Foundation. His clients have included many of America's leading corporations, and the leadership feedback processes that KGC has helped to develop have been used by more than one million people in seventy different organizations around the world. In 1994 his firm was recognized for being co-designers of one of America's most innovative leadership development programs. Goldsmith was rated by
The Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in the field of executive development.
Richard Beckhard is an organizational consultant who specializes in working with leaders in the area of organizational and institutional development and management of change and complexity. He is the author of
The Fact-Finding Conference, Core Content, Organization Development, and
Explorations on the Teaching and learning of Managing Large System Change. He is coauthor of
Changing the Essence: The Art of Making and managing Fundamental Change and
Organizational Transitions. Beckhard was a professor of organizational behavior and management at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served on the faculty for twenty-one years. The Sloan School honored him by creating the Richard Beckhard Prize, awarded annually for the best article on this subject in the
Sloan Management Review.
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