Warren Bennis is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business, and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute, USC.  He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School.  He has written over two dozen books and many articles on leadership, change, and creative collaboration. He is a consultant for Fortune 500 companies and has served as advisor to four U.S. presidents. His book, Leaders, was recently designated by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 business books of all times. An Invented Life was nominated for a Pulitzer. Forbes Magazine refers to him as the “Dean of leadership gurus.” His recent book, Geeks & Geezers examines the differences and similarities between leaders 70 years and older and 32 years and younger.  In 2005, HarperCollins published his series of conversations with the late Bob Townsend, Reinventing Leadership. He is now completing a book on leadership judgment (with Noel Tichy). In May 2000, the Financial Times referred to Bennis as “the professor who established leadership as a respectable academic field.”