ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Cohen is president of the Institute of Leader Arts at www.stuffofheroes.com and has spoken and given workshops around the world. Executives and managers from more than fifty countries have heard him speak. He has taught in the graduate schools of California State University Los Angeles, University of Southern California, TUI University, and the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of books translated into eighteen languages, including A Class with Drucker, The New Art of the Leader, The Stuff of Heroes, and The Art of the Strategist.

Cohen is also a retired major general from the U.S. Air Force Reserve and has previously held executive positions in several companies and was also president of two private universities. In addition to his B.S. in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. in management from Claremont Graduate University. He is a distinguished graduate in residence of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C.

Cohen’s awards include the Outstanding Professor’s Award at California State University Los Angeles (1982), the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge George Washington Honor Medal for Excellence in Economic Education (1985), and the California State University Los Angeles Statewide Outstanding Professor Award (1996). In 1999, he was named one of four “Great Teachers in Marketing” by the Academy of Marketing Science from nominees from around the world. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the International Academy for Integration of Science and Business in Moscow, Russia. Cohen was the 2006 Goolsby Distinguished Visiting Professor in Leadership at the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Alumnus Service Award from Claremont Graduate University. Cohen has served on various city, state, national, corporate, and trade boards and boards of directors.