JOHN P. KOTTER is internationally regarded as the foremost authority on the topics of leadership and change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard, his groundbreaking work on how to successfully accelerate organizational change has been confirmed time and again across industries and cultures. He is the creator and cofounder of Kotter International, a leadership organization that helps Global 5000 company leaders accelerate the implementation of their most critical strategies and lead change in a complex, fast-moving business environment.
Kotter has authored eighteen books, twelve of them bestsellers. His works have been printed in over 150 foreign language editions, and his books are in the top 1 percent of business book sales on Amazon.com. His articles in Harvard Business Review have sold more reprints than any of those by the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period.
Kotter has been on the Harvard Business School faculty since 1972. In 1980, at the age of thirty-three, he was awarded tenure and a full professorship, making him one of the youngest people in the history of the university to be so honored.
In 2009, Professor Kotter received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society for Training and Development, in recognition of his body of work and the significant impact he has had on learning and performance in organizations.