Richard Boyatzis

Richard Boyatzis is one of the world's leading experts in leadership development and emotional intelligence (EI). Gregarious and humorous, he is a charismatic speaker whose research on human behavior has revolutionized management education. His work has had an impact on the management of human resources around the world and helped spawn a whole new industry of competency consultants, researchers, academics and executive coaches.

His latest book, Resonant Leadership (Harvard Business School Press, October 2005), written with Annie McKee, outlines concrete ways to create the resonance that fuels great leadership. According to Boyatzis, resonant leaders, by establishing deep emotional connections with others, bring out the best in their people and build resilient, adaptive organizations.

Richard Boyatzis is also the author, with Dan Goleman and Annie McKee, of Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, which unveiled new scientific evidence demonstrating that a leader's emotional competencies have an enormous impact on effectiveness and an organization's bottom line. A Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and New York Times business bestseller, Primal Leadership has been translated into 26 languages.

Richard Boyatzis is a Visiting Professor at ESADE in Barcelona, one of the top business schools in the world, and a frequent guest lecturer at management schools throughout Europe and the U.S. Stressing "emotional competencies" as a way to succeed in any job, Boyatzis teaches how to become an effective leader and how to develop others into great leaders. Dan Goleman, author of the bestseller Emotional Intelligence, credits Dr. Boyatzis as a major influence in the development of his groundbreaking work.

He holds a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard. He has written over 100 articles on motivation, self-directed behavioral change, competencies and leadership.

Boyatzis describes his work as an exploration of how and why people change. It is a way of thinking about your talent, who you are, and what you want to do with it. My hope, he says, is that we can rediscover the power of the human spirit. His highly interactive style draws audiences into new levels of Awareness.