Warren Bennis is an organizational consultant and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at USC.  He has served in an advisory capacity to four U.S. presidents and written 30 books, including the perennial bestseller On Becoming A Leader.  In the past decade, he served as chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government working with David Gergen. 

n 2007, Business Week named him one of ten business school professors “who have had the greatest influence on business thinking.” The Financial Times recently declared his classic book, Leaders (co-written with Burt Nanus), one of the top fifty books of all time.