Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change.　 His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually “do” change. Professor Kotter is the author of seventeen books, a collection that has given him 　more honours and awards than any other writer on the topics of leadership and change. John Kotter’s 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. His books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com. Professor Kotter’s honours include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. Professor Kotter talks to groups with one and only one goal: to motivate action that gets better results. Dr. Kotter is a graduate of MIT and Harvard. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33, he was given tenure and a full professorship.