University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
phone: +1 213 740 0766
fax: 213- 740- 9725
email: warren.bennis@gmail.com
Website: http://cet.usc.edu/faculty/bennis.html
Warren Bennis is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of
Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership
Institute at the University of Southern California. He also serves as
the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership
at Harvard University's Kennedy School and is the Thomas S. Murphy
Distinguished Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He is
Visiting Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter and a
Senior Fellow at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research.
He has written or edited 26 books, including the best selling
Leaders and On Becoming a Leader, both translated into 21 languages.
The Financial Times recently named Leaders as one of the top 50
business books of all time. In 1993 Addison-Wesley published a book of
his essays, An Inverted Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change,
which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 1998, Jossey-Bass
republished his 1968 path-breaking book, The Temporary Society,
co-authored with Philip Slater. His recent books, Organizing Genius,
1997, Co-Leaders, 1999, and Managing the Dream, 2000, summarize
Bennis's major interests: Leadership, Change, Great Groups and Powerful
Partnerships. Bennis's latest book, Geeks & Geezers, 2002, examines
the differences and similarities between leaders 30 years and younger
and leaders 70 years and older.
Bennis has served on the faculty of MIT's Sloan School of Management
where he was Chairman of the Organizational Studies Department. He is a
former faculty member of Harvard and Boston University, former provost
and Executive Vice President of State University of New York at Buffalo
and President of the University of Cincinnati from 1971-1978. He has
received 12 honorary degrees and has served on numerous boards of
advisers, including Claremont University, American Leadership Forum,
the American Chamber of Commerce and the Salk Institute. He has served
on 4 US Presidential Advisory Boards and has consulted for many Fortune
500 companies, including G.E., Ford, and Starbucks. The Wall Street
Journal named him as one of the top ten speakers on management in 1993
and in 1996, Forbes magazine referred to him as the "Dean of Leadership
Gurus."
Bennis is proud of the four years he served in the U.S. Army,
1943-1947; he was one of the youngest infantry commanders and was
awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
To contact Prof. Bennis, please call Marie Dolittle at (213) 740-0767
or email her at marie.dolittle@marshall.usc.edu.