 Ken Blanchard - Few people have impacted the
day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A
prominent, gregarious, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant,
Dr. Ken Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and
clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals
in business today.
When Ken Blanchard speaks, he speaks from the heart with
warmth and humor. His unique gift is to speak to an audience and communicate
with each person as if they were alone and talking one on one. He is a polished
storyteller with a knack for making the seemingly complex easy to understand.
From his phenomenal best-selling book, The One Minute
Manager, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 12
million copies and remains on best-seller lists, to the library of books
coauthored with Sheldon Bowles, Raving Fans, Gung Ho!, Big Bucks!, and
High Five!, Ken Blanchard’s impact as a writer is far reaching. His
latest book Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager, continues to
climb the best-seller charts. His book on spirituality in the workplace,
Leadership by the Book, coauthored with Phil Hodges and Bill Hybels, is
giving new meaning to servant leadership.
Ken Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard
Companies, an international management training and consulting firm that he and
his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979 in San Diego, California. He
is also a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, where he is a
trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. Ken Blanchard is cofounder of The
Center for FaithWalk Leadership, which is dedicated to helping leaders walk
their talk in the marketplace.
Ken Blanchard has received many awards and honors for his
contributions in the fields of management leadership and speaking. The National
Speakers Association awarded him its highest honor, the "Council of Peers Award
of Excellence." He was inducted into the HRD Hall of Fame by Training
magazine and Lakewood Conferences, and he received the Golden Gavel Award from
Toastmasters International. And in 2004 Ken Blanchard was awarded with The
Thought Leadership Award for continued support of work-related learning and
performance by ISA—The Association of Learning Providers.
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