Barry Conchie (Author) Barry Conchie is Founder & President of Conchie Associates, which currently has a database of over 58k global C-suite executives. Previously, Barry headed the Gallup organization's Global Leadership Research and Development business. He is the NYT and WSJ best-selling co-author of Strengths-Based Leadership. Born and educated in the UK with a Masters in Cognitive Psychology and PhDs in Cognitive Neuroscience and Statistical Modeling at Oxford, his work for Gallup began in London where he developed their leadership consulting business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, before moving to Washington, DC to assume global responsibilities in 2002. He has 40 years of experience in the areas of psychometric assessment and testing, executive coaching, top-level succession planning, individual and team optimization, organizational effectiveness, and strategic alignment. He has been ranked as one of the top 50 leadership thinkers in the world by Leadership Insights magazine. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Dalton (Author) Sarah Dalton is a Partner at Conchie & Associates. She is certified in conducting executive level talent assessments and advises leaders and managers to better understand the attitudes and behaviours that drive performance, and how to select for talent in the hiring process. She trains teams on interpreting talent assessments and using those insights to bring about greater confidence in hiring decisions. Sarah has a Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University and lives in Denver, Colorado
The Five Talents is one of the sharpest and most practical books on leadership I have read! If you lead others, you need to read this book. If you hire or develop leaders, read this book and use it as a daily guide. It is a roadmap for developing sustainable and high performing teams. * Tom Rath, New York Times Best-selling Author of Strenthsfinder 2.0 * Conchie significantly advances the science of leadership prediction and performance development. * Connie Rath, President of The Clifton Foundation * If you allow yourself to absorb the lessons in this book, there is no hiding from the truth and what is the right thing to do. * George Borst, former President and CEO of Toyota Financial Services * The Five Talents is a practical unlock around the dominant strengths that define truly standout leadership and takes this framework to how you can recruit for the five key talents using the same rigor you would use to make other critical decisions. It's a highly efficient and well-researched work that will take your impact as a leader to a new level. * John Clendening, Founder and CEO of Earned Wealth * I highly recommend this book, which will challenge and broaden your thinking of leadership. It is blunt, fact-based and provides piercing insights that I will incorporate into my own leadership journey. * Kevin Lobo, Chair and CEO of Stryker * This is a wise book that will change how serious people think about leadership. Conchie and Dalton bring refreshing clarity to a complex and convoluted field by elucidating the tortuous relationship between individual traits and organizational context. Their secret--meticulous science. * Don Ronchi PhD, Senior Advisor at White Wolf Capital *