ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Melanie Katzman, PhD, is a business psychologist, advisor, and consultant to the world’s top public and private companies, as well as governmental and nonprofit institutions. A sought-after expert in executive development, group dynamics, and leadership diversity, she founded Katzman Consulting in 1999 and has worked with businesses—including Accenture, Bain Consulting, Goldman Sachs, MTV, PwC, and Viacom—in 31 countries. A busy speaker, Katzman is also a founding partner of the global social enterprise Leaders’ Quest, which serves a community of 12,000 members and facilitates cross-sector strategic discussions on pressing economic and social problems.

Katzman has held faculty positions in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center and the University of London, was a senior fellow at Wharton Business School’s Center for Leadership and Change Management, and was a visiting professor at Bocconi Business School in Milan, the Henley School of Management in Henley-on-Thames, England, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She’s also on the international advisory board of Fundação Dom Cabral, South America’s largest business school. She cocreated and was cohost of the radio show Women@Work on Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, channel 132. She has been featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Vanity Fair, and O Magazine, as well as on ABC, CBS, and Lifetime.