Annie McKee

Founder, Teleos Leadership Institute Author, Resonant Leadership & Primal Leadership Emotional Intelligence Expert

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Profile
Annie McKee
Founder of Teleos Leadership Institute, executive coach, author and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Annie McKee advises leaders all over the world. A scholar on the cutting edge of leadership, organizational culture and change, she is dedicated to making good leaders better and world-class corporations even more successful. Her book, Becoming a Resonant Leader, a follow-up to Resonant Leadership, is a hands-on guide to developing emotional intelligence, renewing relationships and sustaining effectiveness. McKee also co-authored the bestseller Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis. Her newest book, Management: A Focus on Leaders, was released in January 2011. This book is quickly being adopted by schools all over North America and is fast becoming the management textbook on college campuses as well as a desk reference for new and experienced managers. Annie is currently writing two groundbreaking new books -- one that will revolutionize how health care management is taught and learned, and one that will help leaders and everyday people survive and thrive amidst the opportunities and pitfalls in complex and challenging global organizations. With engaging speeches and interactive seminars, McKee demonstrates that the best leaders create resonance a reservoir of positivity that inspires passion and motivates people to perform at their best. She believes that resonant leaders do more than simply chart a strategy or manage resources they move people. Resonant leaders create an environment where people can be at their besta climate that is characterized by hope, a shared belief in a compelling vision, and a sense that together, we can achieve anything. Together with colleagues at Teleos, in the past few years Annie has touched more than 15,000 leaders in Fortune/FTSE 100 companies, as well as not-for-profits, healthcare and educational institutions. Named by Business Week as The high priestess of executive coaching Annie works closely with leaders at international firms such as SAP, UniCreditGroup, Creative Commons, Viacom, ThomsonReuters, HSBC and Merrill Lynch.

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Audience Comments
Annie McKee
We enjoyed having Dr. McKee as our guest speaker. Positive feedback is still rolling in on her presentation!? Limited Brands

Annie did a fabulous job at our event in Disneyland Paris... It was a pleasure to have met and worked with Annie and I hope to have the opportunity again in the near future.? IBM - Europe

I would like to extend my sincerest appreciation and gratitude for a wonderfully inspirational day on resonant leadership... Feedback from participants was absolutely positive.? Singapore Institute of Management

Her presentation was well received, and there were a lot of enthusiastic and positive comments.? Society of Actuaries

Awesome! .... She was a dream to work with.? Society for Human Resource Management

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Suggested Topics
Annie McKee
Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Success in Life and Work

Burned Up and Burned Out? How to Rediscover Your Passion for Work

Leading Your Organization through Complexity, Change and Transformation

Sustain Your Leadership Effectiveness: How to Manage Power Stress and Renewal

Myths and Truth About Leading in the 21st Century

Resonant Leadership for Results

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Rewarding Seminars Teamwork Values Work

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In Print
Annie McKee
Management: A Focus on Leaders

(Released January 2011) The World Has Changed. The pace and scope of change in the world and in organizations over the past 10 years have been unprecedented. Staying ahead of the curve so that we can prepare our students for work, management, and leadership has been challengingeven daunting. Today, these challenges have been magnified a hundredfold as the very fabric of our economic system has come under great strain. In fact, the fabric has begun to tear, even to unravel. Many believe that this near-catastrophic situation is a direct result of the failure of leadership, at all levels and in many sectors. McKee believes that this may be a once-in-a-lifetime wake-up call, and an opportunity for educators everywhere to take charge and take responsibility for preparing the leaders of the future. The students of today will be cleaning up the messes of the past, while sailing in uncharted waters as they work, manage, and lead in the next generation of organizations that will emerge from todays crisis. This book and its supplements directly address the challenges and opportunities in our changing world, and are designed to prepare the leaders of tomorrow. Accompanied by mymanagementlaba powerful online tool that combines Adaptive Assessment, Robust Reporting, and Personalized Study to help both students and instructors succeed. (Source: Pearson Higher Education)

Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion

Great leaders are resonant leaders. Leading people is hard work -- especially in times of

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change and turmoil. Rather than constantly sacrificing themselves to workplace demands, leaders can manage the vicious cycle of stress, sacrifice, and dissonance, and renew themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. In Resonant Leadership, Annie McKee and co-author Richard Boyatzis offer inspiration and tools to spark and sustain resonance in ourselves and in those we lead.

Becoming a Resonant Leader

What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a commitment to being their very best. As Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis have shown in their bestselling books Primal Leadership and Resonant Leadership, they create resonance with others. Through resonance, leaders become attuned to the needs and dreams of people they lead. They create conditions where people can excel. They sustain their effectiveness through renewal. McKee, Boyatzis, and Frances Johnston share vivid, real-life stories illuminating how people can develop emotional intelligence, build resonance, and renew themselves. Reflecting 20 years of longitudinal research and practical wisdom with executives and leaders around the world, this new book is organized around a core of experience-tested exercises. These tools help you articulate your strengths and values, craft a plan for intentional change, and create resonance with others. Practical and inspiring, Becoming a Resonant Leader is your hands-on guide to developing emotional intelligence, renewing and sustaining yourself and your relationships, and taking your leadership to a whole new level. This book is ideal for anyone seeking personal and professional development and for consultants, coaches, teachers, and faculty to use with their clients or students. (Source: Harvard Business School Press)

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Annie McKee teams with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis to explore the role of emotional intelligence in leadership in the March 2002 release, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. Unveiling neuroscientific links between organizational success or failure and primal leadership, the authors argue that a leaders emotions are contagious. If a leader resonates energy and enthusiasm, an organization thrives; if a leader spreads negativity and dissonance, it flounders. This breakthrough concept charges leaders with driving emotions in the right direction to have a positive impact on hope, earnings and strategy. (From: inside flap, Harvard Business School Press, 2002)

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Breakthrough Leadership: It's Personal

In the days since the attacks on Washington and New York, we have witnessed the power of compassionate, decisive leadership. But are we any closer to understanding this essential skill? The December issue of the Harvard Business Review--the first special issue in the magazine's 79-year history--looks at business leadership from all angles and reaches a comprehensive conclusion: Great leadership is an intensely personal process that places extraordinary demands on the time, energy, and intellectual capacities of those who would lead. It also calls on every ounce of their emotional strength, as Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee argue in December's lead article, "Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance." Amplifying on this point from their own perspectives are Jack Welch, Disney CEO Michael Eisner, Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, and a galaxy of business's brightest lights. This issue of HBR will change the conversation about leadership and serve as a valuable executive resource for years to come. (Harvard Business Review, December 2001)

Reawakening Your Passion for Work

All of us struggle from time to time with the question of personal meaning: "Am I living the way I want to live?" This type of questioning is healthy; business leaders need to go through it every few years to replenish their energy, creativity, and commitment--and their passion for work. In this article, the authors describe the signals that it's time to reevaluate your choices and illuminate strategies for responding to those signals. Such wake-up calls come in various forms. Some people feel trapped or bored and may realize that they have adjusted to the frustrations of their work to such an extent that they barely recognize themselves. For others, the signal comes when they are faced with an ethical challenge or suddenly discover their true calling. Once you have realized that it's time to take stock of your life, there are strategies to help you consider where you are, where you're headed, and where you want to be. Many people find that calling a time-out--either in the form of an intense, soul-searching exercise or a break from corporate life--is the best way to reconnect with their dreams. People no longer expect their leaders to have all the answers, but they do expect them to try to keep their own passion alive and to support employees through that process. (Harvard Business Review, April 2002)

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Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance

You've heard about the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace--that there's an incontrovertible link between executives' emotional maturity, exemplified by such capabilities as self-awareness and empathy, and their financial performance. Now, new research extends that base. Drawing on two years of research, the authors contend that the leader's mood and his or her attendant behaviors have enormous effects on bottom-line performance. Accordingly, top executives' primal task is emotional leadership. In other words, before leaders can turn to setting strategy, fixing budgets, or hiring staff, they must first attend to the impact of their moods and behaviors. To help them do that, the authors introduce a five-step process of self-reflection and planning. Executives should ask themselves: Who do I want to be? Who am I now? How do I get from here to there? How do I make change stick? And who can help me? Working through this process will help leaders determine how their emotional leadership is driving the moods and actions of their organizations and how to adjust their behavior accordingly.

(Harvard Business Review, December 2001)

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Biography
Annie McKee
Annie McKee is a bestselling business book author and advisor to top leaders. In 2005, Business Week dubbed her, "the high priestess of executive coaching" in their Top 100 Leaders issue, but Annie McKee's journey to becoming one of the worlds top advisors on leadership has hardly been conventional. It has been full of risky moves and unconventional choices. McKee will tell you it is a journey in which she learned to believe in the power of hope. Born in England, McKee spent her childhood in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from high school at 16, turned down a scholarship to study nuclear physics and took off for California, and later Hawaii. There McKee worked in community organizing, struggled on public assistance and cared for her three small children, before deciding that college was a must. At 28, she enrolled at a community college and then Chaminade University where, while attending classes, raising a family and working, she graduated summa cum laude. By then a single mom, McKee and her small children next moved to Cleveland where she earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. While she dismisses the enormity of this accomplishment, McKee instead cites what she considers the true triumph of this time in her life, saying, "I never missed a play, or a game, or any event that mattered to my kids. Every moment and all the effort was worth it. What allowed me to live through these difficult times, really, was hope. Hope that things would improve, hope that I would find a better place and ultimately, that I would help others create a better world for us all." Armed with her degrees, McKee began to teach, and to study and write about leadership. She was invited to take a position at Wharton, and asked to help the University of Pennsylvanias senior team bring about a large scale organizational change at the University. All the while, she was building relationships with leaders in other organizations, consulting with them on leadership and change. Then, along with millions of Americans who were brought to their knees by the image of the flaming World Trade Centers on 9/11, McKee had another defining moment in her already remarkable life. "I was scheduled to meet with a senior executive in the South Tower on 9/11 and I had rescheduled at almost the last minute," something she says was difficult because she rarely, if ever, cancels her commitments. "I stood at a window high above Madison Avenue just before 9 AM, and I saw the whole thing. Days later and when I finally stopped crying, I felt a profound sense of urgency to realize my own dream of contributing to leaders around the globe." While there are virtually thousands of tragic stories from that day, McKee says that witnessing the terrorist attacks was the catalyst for the most important and positive decision of her life. Almost immediately, with friend and business partner Fran Johnston, Annie formed Teleos Leadership Institute, a consulting firm with a mission of developing values-based leadership and resonant organizations. The company works with executives from all walks sports to entertainment, finance to food service to help them better understand themselves and the impact of their actions, words, and attitudes not only on themselves, or even their leadership, but on everyone around them. She and her team travel the world consulting and coaching many of the worlds most influential leaders and organizations. Clients who have benefitted from Teleos services include, among others, Thomson-Reuters, UniCredit Group, United Nations Development Program, Unilever, Viacom, Vodafone, and Creative Commons. McKee has co-authored groundbreaking books on leadership, including Primal Leadership (Harvard, 2002, with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis) and Resonant Leadership (Harvard, 2005 with

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Boyatzis). Another popular book, Becoming a Resonant Leader was published by Harvard in March, 2008 with Boyatzis and Teleos co-founder Frances Johnston. Annies newest book, Management: A Focus on Leaders (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011) is a groundbreaking college textbook that revolutionizes the way management is taught and learned. She serves as Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Penn, and teaches at the Wharton Schools Aresty Institute of Executive Education. Annie also serves her community through supporting the education of a host of talented young people in the developing world and mentoring young leaders. Her address has changed and the mode of delivery for her message is different these days, but McKee's mission has hardly wavered "My mission is to, one by one, with leader after leader, help others embrace the hope that carried me through my life. If I can help people experience hope and find their dreams, and give them the power to realize them, I will consider my life worthwhile." Annie McKee received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University and her baccalaureate degree, summa cum laude, from Chaminade University of Honolulu. She continues the study of her discipline with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Institut fr Gestaltorientierte Organisationsberatung of Frankfurt, Germany. Annie is married to Eddy Mwelwa, and they have four children, Rebecca, Sean, Sarah, and Andrew.

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