After Dinner Speakers: John P Kotter, Mary-Lou Retton, Roger Moore

He is a graduate of MIT and Harvard and has been on the Harvard Business School faculty since 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship at the Business School, making him one of the youngest people in the history of the University to be so honored. In the past twenty-five years, Professor Kotter has written seven business books that have received awards or honors, better than anyone else in the world. More than a half dozen of his books have also been business best sellers, including Leading Change, Corporate Culture and Performance, and A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management. He has also created two highly acclaimed executive videos and a CD-ROM. His educational articles in the Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period. The many honors won by Professor Kotter include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership, a McKinsey Award for best Harvard Business Review article, and a Financial Times Global Business Book Award for Matsushita Leadership. Professor Kotter is widely regarded as one of the best speakers in the world on the topics of leadership and change. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and on Squam Lake in New Hampshire with wife Nancy, daughter Caroline, and son Jonathan.