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Jay Conger is the Henry Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership at Claremont McKenna College in California. Jay is one of the world’s experts on leadership. You will see him quoted in business periodicals analyzing people and trends in the executive suite and in the boardroom. In recognition of his extensive work with companies, Bloomberg’s Business Week named him the best business school professor to teach leadership and one of the top five management education teachers worldwide. The Financial Times ranked him as one of the world’s top management educators and advisors. He has worked with over six hundred organizations in his twenty-five year career. As an executive coach, he has advised hundreds of executives and high potential leaders and is recognized in The Top 50 Coaches website.

Author of over one hundred articles and fourteen books, he researches leadership, organizational change, boards of directors, executive teams, persuasion and influence. He is one of a handful of authors who have published multiple articles in the Harvard Business Review. His most recent book is The High Potential’s Advantage (2018) published by Harvard Business Review Press.

He has taught at the Harvard Business School, INSEAD (France), the London Business School, McGill University, and the University of Southern California. In 2019, he received the Best Practices Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of leadership development. He has been awarded by the Center for Creative Leadership their prestigious H. Smith Richardson Fellowship for his research on leadership. His insights have been featured in Bloomberg Business Week, The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The LA Times, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Training, The Wall Street Journal, and Working Woman.

Before his career as a professor, he led the international marketing function for the largest global photovoltaic cell manufacturer. His education includes a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, and a D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He received his training in executive coaching from Case Western’s Weatherhead Graduate Business School’s certificate program. He chairs the Board of Trustees at the Dunn School, a college preparatory school with a unique emphasis on leadership development. He is a trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America, the John J. Hopkins Foundation, and the Fine Arts Committee of the US State Department which oversees one of the largest collections of Americana art in the world.