Ram Charan

"Among the world's most sought after CEO advisers," according to Newsweek, Ram Charan is the business and management consultant who has helped some of the world's most powerful companies-GE, Home Depot, Bank of America-develop, shape and implement their strategic direction.

For over forty years, Ram Charan has earned a peerless reputation for seeking out and solving some of the toughest problems facing businesses. His accessible, relevant solutions work, in part, because they take into account the real world complexities of business. Fast Company calls him "One of the world's most renowned management consultants," who, "helps demolish organizational silos [and] persuades entrenched executives to change their points of view. Companies seek him out for his 'wise man' approach rather than choosing a consultant with a narrow specialty."

In the past two years alone, Charan's books-which include Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done and Confronting Reality (both co-authored with Larry Bossidy)-have sold over two million copies. Charan's latest, Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't, is his grand theory of leadership, which finds the missing links between personal attributes and business success. Stephen Covey (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) calls Know-How, "Brilliant, immensely practical, and comprehensive-with almost self-evident prophetic wisdom."

Ram Charan earned MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard, and served on the HarvardBusinessSchool faculty. He also contributes articles to Harvard Business Review, TIME, and USA Today. Charan is a director of the SixSigmaAcademy, serves on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance, and was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. Named by Fortune as the leading expert in corporate governance, he was recently included in Business Week's top ten resources for in-house executive development.

An engaging presenter, Charan delivers high-energy keynotes that offer cutting edge insights into leadership, innovation, execution, and global strategy-insights that have made him, as Fast Company reports, "an indispensable right-hand man for hundreds of top managers."