About the Author

Mark Murphy is the founder and CEO of Leadership IQ (www.leadershipiq.com). Since its inception, Leadership IQ has become a top-rated provider of goal-setting training, leadership training, employee surveys and e-learning. As the force behind some of the largest leadership studies ever conducted, Leadership IQ’s programs have yielded remarkable results for such organizations as Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, MD Anderson Cancer Center, FirstEnergy, Volkswagen, and Johns Hopkins. Murphy’s cutting-edge leadership techniques and research have been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Business-Week, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, and hundreds more periodicals. He was featured on a “CBS News Sunday Morning” special report on slackers in the workplace as well as being featured on ABC’s “20/20.” He has also made several appearances on “Fox Business News.”

Murphy also authored the international bestsellers Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They’ll Give You Even More and HARD Goals: The Secret to Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

A former turnaround advisor, Murphy guided more than a hundred organizations from precarious financial situations to record-setting levels of prosperity. For these and other accomplishments, Murphy was a three-time nominee for Modern Healthcare’s Most Powerful People in Healthcare Award, joining a list of 300 luminaries including George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton. Only 15 consultants had ever been nominated to this list. He was also awarded the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Helen Yerger Award for Best Research.

A seasoned public speaker, Murphy has illuminated audiences for hundreds of groups and lectured at the Harvard Business School, Yale University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Florida.

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