Fearless Leadership: Overcoming Reticence, Procrastination, and the Voices of Doubt Inside Your Head - Hardcover

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Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, Toyota, and over 500 other leading organizations. He has served on the boards of directors of the Trinity Repertory Company, a Tony-Award-winning New England regional theater, Festival Ballet where is his President of the Board of Directors, and Chaired the Newport International Film Festival.

He is an inductee into the Professional Speaking Hall of Fame(R) and the concurrent recipient of the National Speakers Association Council of Peers Award of Excellence, representing the top 1% of professional speakers in the world. He has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, one of only two people in history holding both those designations. He has written more books on consulting than anyone else.

His prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 64 books, including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting (from McGraw-Hill). His most recent before this one are Million Maverick, Lifestorming (with Marshall Goldsmith), and Threescore and More. His books have been on the curricula at Villanova, Temple University, UC Berkeley, Temple, and the Wharton School of Business, and have been translated into 15 languages.

He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Press Institute, the first-ever for a non-journalist, and one of only seven awarded in the 65-year history of the association.

Alan is married to the lovely Maria for 51 years, and they have two children and twin granddaughters. They reside in East Greenwich, RI with their dogs, Coco and Bentley, a white German Shepherd.