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Joel Kurtzman is one of a handful of top experts on management and leadership in the world today.  In addition to being a thought leader, Kurtzman is a consultant, speaker and writer.  His unique and mainstream resume includes stints as an editor, reporter, and columnist for The New York Times; editor-in-chief, Harvard Business Review; founder of the business magazine Strategy + Business; and columnist at Fortune and Chief Executive Magazine.  He is also an advisor to the World Economic Forum (Davos), Whartons’ SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management, and on the board of MIT’s Sloan Management Review. He has consulted to Microsoft, Booz & Company, Knowledge Universe, and many professional services firms.

Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and a trustee of Sierra Nevada College, and a consultant to Korn/Ferry International.  His other credits include member of the board of Curative Health Services and owner of Townhall.com (now part of Salem Broadcasting).  He is the author of 24 books including the longstanding bestseller MBA in a Box (Crown Business, 2001).