Expert on management,
leadership & leadership development.

Highlights

Very few speakers offer the breadth of experience or the depth of knowledge and insight on management, leadership and leadership development as Jay Conger.

His past research is very extensive and he always does custom research for his presentations.

Add to this his gift for engaging audiences and you have a truly unique offering: a broad foundation of knowledge, a strong customer focus, and superlative skills on the platform.

He is a prolific writer, having written or co-written more than 90 articles and 12 books. Jay has two new books in progress, on best practices in leadership, and CEO leadership.

His most recent book is The Practice of Leadership.

Jay Conger is the Henry Kravis Research Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College.

He is also Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School.

Jay is an extremely effective speaker—warm, relaxed, engaging, interactive. Always very well prepared on the customer’s situation and goals. He is excellent with senior executives and managers.

Executive Education

Jay is very good with senior executives and has a lot of experience with executive education, for which he has won several awards. He was the top-ranked professor at USC’s core MBA program. Harvard Business School invited him to help redesign the school’s organizational behavior course around leadership issues and was ranked in the school's top ten percent of faculty for teaching. Jay has consulted with a worldwide list of private corporations and nonprofit organizations.

Capabilities

Jay Conger offers custom-researched keynotes and working seminars up to several days in length.

Topics by the Book

Jay has written books on an impressive range of topics. These do not exhaust the subjects he could address for your audience at all, but they do represent areas of special expertise. So these are just suggestions. For more detail on these books and subjects, see Jay’s Books page on our website.

Leadership and management — the whole body of work

Best practices in leadership— forthcoming

Persuasion and strategic communication — Winning ‘Em Over

Change management — The Leader’s Change Handbook

Leadership development — Building Leaders, Learning to Lead, Growing Your Company’s Leaders

CEO leadership / senior executive success — forthcoming

Succession planning — Growing Your Company’s Leaders

Corporate governance — Corporate Boards

Credentials

• Henry Kravis Research Professor of Leadership Studies, Claremont McKenna College
• Visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior, London Business School
• Senior Research Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California
• Former executive director, Leadership Institute, University of Southern California
• Associate editor, Leadership Quarterly
• Former teaching positions at Harvard Business School, INSEAD (France), and McGill University
• Two-time recipient, McGill University’s Distinguished Teaching Award
• Recipient, H. Smith Richardson Fellowship, Center for Creative Leadership

Books

The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders (Ronald E. Riggio, co-editor; 2006)

Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (Robert Fulmer, coauthor; 2003)

Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership (2002)

Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top (Edward E. Lawler III, David L. Finegold, coauthors; 2001)

Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop the Next Generation (Beth Benjamin, coauthor; 1999)

The Leaders’ Change Handbook (1999)

Winning ‘Em Over: A New Model for Management in the Age of Persuasion (1998)

Charismatic Leadership in Organizations (1998); received the Choice book award

Spirit at Work: Discovering the Spirituality in Leadership (1994)

Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers into Leaders (1992)

Charismatic Leadership: Behind the Mystique of Exceptional Leadership (1989)