ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Kevin Eikenberry is a two-time best-selling author, speaker, consultant, trainer, coach, leader, learner, husband, and father (not necessarily in that order).

Kevin is the chief potential officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group (http://KevinEikenberry.com), a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams, and individuals reach their potential since 1993. Emphasizing the power of learning, Kevin's specialties include leadership, teams and teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, training trainers, and more.

Kevin's philosophy in business and in life is that every person and every organization has extraordinary potential. Investments of time, energy, focus, and money are required for that potential to be realized. He believes learning is an active, ongoing process, not a passive, one-time event. Learning, work, and life should be fun, and if we are doing it right, work (and learning) is play.

Kevin's students and clients consistently rave about his effectiveness, many calling him "the best trainer I've ever experienced."

He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small firms, universities, government agencies, hospitals, and more. His client list includes the American Red Cross, A&W Canada, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, John Deere, Nexen, OPTI Canada, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Mint.

Kevin also is the creator and content developer of The Remarkable Leadership Learning System (http://remarkable-leadership.com), a continual leadership development process focused on developing the thirteen competencies of remarkable leaders with content virtually delivered to leaders worldwide.

He is the bestselling author of Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time, a leadership primer designed to help you learn and master the thirteen competencies of remarkable leaders; and Vantagepoints on Learning and Life, a collection of his e-mail essays on learning from everyday experiences. He wrote #LEADERSHIPTweet, based on leadership thoughts from his Twitter stream (@KevinEikenberry).

He also is a contributing author in The Handbook of Experiential Learning, Masters of Sales, 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, and the best-selling Walking with the Wise. Kevin also has been a contributor to thirteen Training and Development Sourcebooks since 1997.

Kevin also produces two e-mail–based publications: Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, a weekly publication read by more than 16,000 worldwide, to assist organizations and individuals in turning their potential into desired results; and Powerquotes Plus, a weekly publication read by more than 24,000 people worldwide, each one featuring a quote along with personal coaching.

As a speaker, Kevin gives keynotes for organizations and nonprofits on remarkable leadership, lifelong learning, developing human potential, teams and teamwork, creativity, and more. He has presented to the National Institute of Health, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Speaker's Association (NSA), the International Society for Performance Improvement, the National Association for Experiential Learning, the American Society for Training and Development, the International Society for Performance Improvement, and many more.

Kevin and his family live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up on a Michigan farm, Kevin says he learned some of his most important leadership skills working with his father. Kevin earned a B.S. with honors from Purdue University, collects antique John Deere tractors, is an avid reader, and loves his family and his boilermakers.

If Kevin or his team can help you in any way call (317.387.1424 or 888.LEARNER—toll free in the United States) anytime.

Guy Harris draws on more than twenty-five years of combined professional and military experience when he consults, coaches, and trains in the areas of team and interaction dynamics, communication strategies and tactics, and emotional intelligence.

Guy owns Principle Driven Consulting (www.principledriven.com), a training and development company focused on helping organizations and individuals improve results by reducing conflict and improving communication skills. He is also a master trainer and coach with the Kevin Eikenberry Group.

Prior to becoming a trainer, coach, and author, Guy served as a nuclear engineering officer in the U.S. Navy submarine force, and he worked in leadership positions in both large and small business environments.

As a consultant, trainer, and coach, Guy has worked with large and small clients, businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals from Boston to Brisbane and from Ottawa to Orlando.

Typical client concerns prior to working with Guy are forging a team from a group of individuals, moving a team past the conflict stage of team development, developing other leaders, expanding personal influence within the organization, communicating more effectively, and developing buy-in for new programs and processes.

With experience and training in technical disciplines and his further training in, and practical application of, human behavior and motivation principles, his unique skills include quickly connecting the technical and task accomplishment necessities of business operations with the human factors that often limit rapid implementation and results.

In other words, he helps people understand—and work through—the reasons that their relationships are getting in the way of getting things done.

Clients consistently comment on how quickly Guy helps them diagnose their "real" challenges and create plans for overcoming them. Workshop participants rave about the way his stories and experiences relate learning points in ways that are fun, engaging, and memorable.

Guy wrote a business parable titled The Coach: Conversations on Leadership, and he codeveloped a parenting system called The Behavior Bucks System to help parents reduce stress and frustration in their homes. He writes the Recovering Engineer Blog (recoveringengineer.com). He has also contributed to several books, including Sell Naked on the Phone and Presenting with Style.

He has both bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering. He was a qualified Engineering Department head in the U.S. Navy. He is a master trainer and coach in the DISC model of human behavior and a workplace conflict resolution expert.

Guy and his family currently live in a small town near Indianapolis, Indiana. He has lived, attended school, or worked in eleven of the fifty United States in the Southeast, Northeast, and Midwest in both small towns and large cities. In his professional life, he has travelled to Europe, Asia, and Australia, and throughout North America. And he has worked with people at all organizational levels from the shop floor to the executive suite. This combined living, working, and educational experience gives him a broad view of human nature and interaction that comes through in his approach to working with and leading people.

Although the engineer in him still enjoys alone activities like woodworking, fixing things, reading, and playing with computer code, Guy loves being with his family, learning from others, and cooking for a party.

Guy and Kevin codeveloped the content for the Bud to Boss Workshops (www.BudToBossWorkshop.com), marketed by the Briefings Media Group (www.BriefingsMediaGroup.com) and held in cities across North America.