Ken Blanchard
| Ken Blanchard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 6, 1939 Orange, New Jersey |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University, 1961 Colgate University, 1963 |
| Occupation | Author, Professional speaker, Consultant, Management expert |
| Notable work |
The One Minute Manager, 1982 Leadership and the One Minute Manager, 1985 Raving Fans, 1993 Gung Ho!, legendry service: The key is to care, 1996 The Secret: What Great Leaders Know--and Do, 2004 Refire! Don't Retire, 2015 |
| Spouse(s) | Marjorie Blanchard |
| Website | kenblanchard.com |
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (born May 6, 1939 in Orange, New Jersey ) is an American author and management expert. His extensive writing career includes over 60 published books, most of which are co-authored books. His most successful book, The One Minute Manager has sold over 13 Million books and translated into many languages.
Blanchard is also the Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Marjorie Blanchard, co-founded in 1979 in San Diego, California.
Blanchard attended New Rochelle High School, and graduated in 1957. He completed a BA degree in government and philosophy at Cornell University in 1961, a MA degree in sociology and counseling at Colgate University in 1963 and a PhD degree in education administration and leadership at Cornell University in 1967. As an undergraduate at Cornell, he joined the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI), and was selected for membership in the Quill and Dagger society.
Blanchard is a Cornell University trustee emeritus and visiting professor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. He and his wife were named Cornell Entrepreneurs of the Year in 1991.
The Ken Blanchard Companies is an international management training and consulting firm that Ken and his wife Marjorie co-founded in 1979. The company's core mission is to increase organizational performance through leadership consulting. Currently, the company provides leadership training and consulting in coordination with a vast majority companies in many varying industries. The three pillars on which the company stands are Building Leadership Capacity, Cultivating Leadership Bench Strength, and Leading Organizational Change.
Building leadership capacity focuses on increasing employee passion, customer devotion, and organizational vitality through creating effective leaders in the workplace. The implication of this, and the ultimate goal of building leadership capacity, is to allow organizations to create results-oriented, people-focused leaders who improve performance, increase retention and morale, and deliver bottom-line results.
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