abstract:John Baldoni (November 23, 1952) is a consultant, coach, author and speaker, and is consistently named one of the top leadership influencers in the world. He is the author of eleven books on leadership published by the American Management Association and Mc-Graw-Hill, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, & Korean,WorldCat and has authored some 200 columns for Harvard Business Review as well as over 100 columns for FastCompany.