Ram Charan is a bestselling author, teacher, andworld renown advisor to CEOs and other business leaders of some of the world’sbest-known companies, including Toyota, Bank of America, Aditya Birla Group,Novartis, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), and Humana.
The author of close to forty books, four of which werebestsellers, he is known for providing real-world solutions— the kind of adviceyou can use Monday morning. His bookExecution, lauded for its practicality, spent more than 150 weeks on the NewYork Times best-seller list.
Ram has an MBA with high distinction and a doctorate degreefrom Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and faculty member.He was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of HumanResources, was on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance, andserves or has served on a dozen boards in the US, Brazil, China, India, Canada,and Dubai.
Geri Willigan is an independent content developer andbusiness writer who has worked closely with Ram Charan for nearly 30 years on arange of projects, including bestselling books. She first met Ram when she wasan editor at Harvard Business Review in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Geri helped numerous experts publish classic HBR articles,including Michael Hammer (father of reengineering), Stephen Roach (Yaleeconomist), Hermann Simon (co-founder of pricing consultancy Simon-Kucher &Partners), and Fred Reichheld (Bain & Company thought leader on customer loyalty),and interviewed prominent business leaders including Nike CEO Phil Knight andDisney CFO Gary Wilson.
