Ken Blanchard

Few people have impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent author, speaker and business consultant, Ken is universally characterized by friends, colleagues and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful and compassionate men in business today. When Ken speaks, he speaks from the heart with warmth and humor. He is a polished storyteller with a knack for making the seemingly complex easy to understand.

For nearly four decades Ken Blanchard has been recognized and read as a premier thinker and writer on leadership. The Situational Leadership model that he developed with Paul Hersey has endured the test of time. The three-dozen or so books (including The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans and Gung Ho!) he has authored or co-authored find places of prominence on bookshelves and bestseller lists here and abroad. He is a coveted and celebrated guest in national media and in major conferences and conventions. Many of the most significant national and international corporations engage Ken Blanchard for strategic counsel at the most critical levels.

Since coming to a personal faith in Jesus Christ - "suiting up," as he terms it - Ken Blanchard's passion and priority has become inspiring and equipping people to lead like Jesus. Ken has come to recognize and lift up Jesus as the greatest leadership role model of all time. Along with Phil Hodges, his friend of many years, he founded The Center for Faithwalk Leadership in 1999, now better known as Lead Like Jesus. The mission of this ministry is "to glorify God by inspiring and equipping people to Lead Like Jesus." Out of this small, not-for-profit organization, a movement - Lead Like Jesus - came to life with Ken as its chief champion. Visit the website at www.leadlikejesus.com.

Through the years since, Ken has crisscrossed the country and even beyond to "preach" this important message of servant leadership as taught and lived by Jesus of Nazareth. In the process, his passion has proved contagious capturing the hearts, imaginations, and resources of leaders "great and small" across America and beyond. His definition of leadership includes and embraces anyone who influences another person. For Ken, this movement is about demonstration, about leading like Jesus in every aspect of life and work.

Ken Blanchard has "suited up" for a challenge greater and more rewarding than anything in his remarkable life. The "lead like Jesus" message is bringing transformation in the lives of people and is impacting individuals, homes, churches, businesses, and communities everywhere. Ken may be remembered in this world for his numerous, insightful books and his theory of leadership, but throughout eternity he will be celebrated as a humble man who "suited up" to lead like Jesus and inspired and influenced a generation to do the same.

Born in New York, Ken and his wife Margie now call Southern California home. He is founder and Chief Spiritual Officer of the Ken Blanchard Companies which is a global leader in workplace learning, employee productivity, leadership and team effectiveness. Their goal is to move every organization to a higher level of leadership. For more information about The Ken Blanchard Companies visit the website at www.kenblanchard.com.

In preparation for his ownership and leadership of The Ken Blanchard Companies as well as co-founder of Lead Like Jesus, he earned degrees including a Ph.D. from Cornell University. In addition, he has been a college professor, an imaginative entrepreneur, and a much sought after business guru. He is an avid golfer and a friend to anyone who crosses his busy path!