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Jack has authored or co-authored 50 articles on leadership, productivity,
e-learning, training, and measurement. He is the co-author of four books on
leadership, including Results-Based Leadership (Harvard Business School
Press, 1999), voted by SHRM as the Best Business Book in the year 2000; the
best-selling The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great
Leaders (McGraw-Hill, 2002); and Handbook for Leaders (McGraw-Hill,
2004).
He is a co-author of three books on teams, including the best-selling Self-
Directed Work Teams: The New American Challenge (Irwin Professional Pub-
lishing, 1990), Leading Teams (Irwin Professional Publishing, 1993), and
Keeping Teams on Track (Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996).
He and his wife, Holly, reside in Midway, Utah.

Joseph R. Folkman

Joe Folkman is the co-founder and president
of Zenger-Folkman, a firm that uses evidence-
driven, strengths-based methods to improve
organizations and the people within them. He
is a respected authority on assessment and
change and an acclaimed keynote speaker at
conferences and seminars the world over. His
topics focus on a variety of subjects related to
leadership, feedback, and individual and orga-
nizational change.
As one of the nation’s renowned psychome-
tricians, his extensive expertise focuses on sur-
vey research and change management. He has
more than 30 years of experience consulting with some of the world’s most
prestigious and successful organizations. His unique measurement tools are
designed using a database composed of more than a half-million assessments
on almost 50,000 leaders. Because these tools specifically address critical busi-
ness results, facilitating development and change is the main focus of meas-
urement efforts.
Joe’s research has been published in several publications including the
Wall Street Journal’s National Business Employment Weekly, Training and
Development Magazine, and Executive Excellence.