The Change Champion's Fieldguide: Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in Your Organization

Louis Carter is CEO and Publisher of Best Practice Publications. He is a leading authority in the field of best practices. Carter's work on leadership and organization development has been featured in numerous business journals around the world. He speaks at international conferences on best practices. His consulting projects have included varied industries for many Fortune 500 organizations: insurance, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, investment banking and health. He has co-authored and edited over 8 books in organization development, leadership development and change including Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook with Warren Bennis and Best Practices in Organization Development and Change with Richard Beckhard.

Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. In 2000, Forbes listed Marshall as one of top five executive coaches and Human Resources rated Marshall as one of the world's leading HR consultants. He has also been ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" executive educators. He has written and co–edited over 15 books on leadership development including "The Many Facets of Leadership" and "Coaching for Leadership."

Jim Bolt is Chairman and founder of Executive Development Associates (EDA). Jim was recently selected by the Financial Times as one of the top experts in executive leadership development. He is CEO of the Alliance for Strategic Leadership (A4SL). Jim is the author of the book "Executive Development: A Strategy for Corporate Competitiveness". He has authored more than 20 articles, including "Tailor Executive Development to Strategy" published in the Harvard Business Review.

Norm Smallwood is president and co–founder of Results–Based Leadership, Inc. Results–Based Leadership helps clients increase shareholder value through an innovative approach for improving leadership and organization capabilities. Norm co–authored "Why The Bottom Line ISN'T: How to Build Value through People and Organizations" (Wiley, April 2003). Norm also co–authored, "Results–Based Leadership" (with Jack Zenger).

Dr. W. Warner Burke is the Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University New York, New York. Dr. Burke is the author of more than 130 articles and book chapters on organization development, training, change and organizational psychology, and conference planning; and author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of 14 books. His latest book published by Sage is Organization Change: Theory and Practice. He designed and served as faculty director of the Columbia Business School executive program "Leading and Managing People" from 1988 to 1995. In 1989 he received the Public Service Medal from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in 1990 the Distinguished Contribution to Human Resource Development Award and in 1993 the Organization Development Professional Practice Area Award for Excellence--The Lippitt Memorial Award-- from the American Society for Training and Development. Dr. Burke has also served on the Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (1994-1996). He also received the first lifetime achievement award as a scholar- practitioner from the Academy of Management.