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ARTHUR CARMAZZI JAMES KOUZES James Kouzes is both a top leadership speaker and trainer and an experienced executive. The Wall Street Journal pro- claims him as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. He is also the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leader- ship in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Jim has coau- thored with Barry Posner more than a dozen books on leadership, including the award-winning and bestselling, THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE, with over 2.5 million copies sold. As a leadership guru, he has been researching, writing about, and facilitating leadership development for four decades and has won numerous awards. In addition to the Top 30 Lead- ership Rank, some of his other honors include ASTD’s Distinguished Contribu- tion to Workplace Learning, the Thought Leader Award from the Instructional Systems Association, HR Magazine’s Top 20 Most Influential International 50 | HELLOBIZ NOV 2017 Thinkers, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Trustworthy Business Behavior from Trust Across America. Jim Kouzes applies his vast business experience to support his research and writing as a leadership thought leader, and he leaves his audiences with nuggets of wisdom, evidence-based practices, real-life examples, and immediate applications. His and Barry’s valid and reliable 360-as- sessment LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (LPI) helps individuals to discover and develop their own leader- ship strengths and areas of development. His mission is to liberate the leader in everyone so that they can make extraor- dinary things happen and to support youth leadership development through educating educators. He is mostly known in North America. Arthur Carmazzi has made his biggest impact with his Directive Communication Psychology, a group dynamics discipline used in rapid organizational culture change and leadership development. His re- search and contributions to the lead- ership development community got full marks for uniqueness including his Environmental (Culture Based) Leadership model, his Coloured Brain Communication model and various psychology based leadership development tools. The models and tools of Arthur combined into the Di- rective Communication system that has literally transformed thousands of companies through his licensed trainers, culture change consultants and personal involvement. Arthur wrote six books and two of those are international bestsellers and are available in most Asian Languages. The foundational philosophy of Ar- thur Carmazzi is that there is no one leadership model that fits everyone and by understanding how we affect and are affected by others in multiple environments, we can make small modifications to create our own personal leadership identity model to have a bigger more sustainable impact. As a speaker he is dynamic, energetic and inspirational. Arthur Carmazzi is well known in Asia and the Middle East.