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JOANNA BARSH is the author of the business bestseller How Remarkable Women Lead and director emeritus at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, she led the creation of Centered Leadership in 2008. Joanna now helps governments and businesses grow the global community of Centered Leaders. She has spoken to groups in over 20 countries, including Australia, Brazil, China, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and the U.K., and Fortune 100 companies such as Citi, Danone, GE, Google, Time Warner, and Walmart. She has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, FT, Businessweek, and more. Joanna holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar. JOHANNE LAVOIE is a senior expert in McKinsey's organization practice; she serves as the dean of the Centered Leadership Program, the global leadership course for senior executives. Johanne mixes twenty years of business consulting with expertise in adult development and organization culture at Fortune 100 companies. In addition, Johanne serves on the advisory board and faculty of the Banff Leadership Center. She has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Centered Leadership is a personal and practical roadmap to taking on the challenge of leadership. - Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook and author of Lean In Many have tried to define the common characteristics of leadership, but few have applied the rigorous, research-based approach that Joanna Barsh takes in Centered Leadership. The result is a book that is both authoritative and actionable. - Dan Doctoroff, CEO & President of Bloomberg L.P. During in-depth interviews with over 165 men and women, [Barsh] gathered data on thriving and rising at work; she then articulated her newmodel for thinking about leadership development in two books: How Remarkable Women Lead and the upcoming Centered Leadership. They should be required reading for every young person- man or woman. -Jessica Bacal, director of the Smith College Wurtele Center for Work and Life and author of Mistakes I Made at Work Centered Leadership is the essential leadership guide for our times, as it puts personal development at the center of the corporate leadership endeavor. Here's a program that transforms your work and life balance from a challenge into a strategy. - Steven Pleshette Murphy, CEO Christie's International PLC Barsh s voice is original, authoritative, and above all extraordinarily practical regardless of where we are in our leadership journey. I read this book smiling it s a rare personal guide for every generation. -Andrea Jung, former Chairman and CEO, Avon Products Many of us in leadership positions tend to think that we instinctively know what it takes to inspire and motivate others. But CENTERED LEADERSHIP opened my eyes to the fact that great leadership is more a science than we realize. Barsh and Lavoie draw on deep research and fieldwork to genuinely help us build our capabilities. -GaryE. Knell, President and CEO, National Geographic Society The Centered Leadership Project may have begun as an investigation into what makes remarkable women leaders tick, but after reading Barsh s excellent second book, I have become convinced that she and Lavoie have their fingers on what anyone - woman or man - can do to become the kind of inspirational leader everyone will want to follow. -D. Ronald Daniel, Former Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company In Centered Leadership Joanna Barsh has given us a highly effective guide to building the more comprehensive, often deeply human, leadership skills that this complex, fast paced era requires. - Luis Ubinas, former CEO Ford Foundation
