Ram Charan is a bestselling author, teacher, and world renown advisor to CEOs and other business leaders of some of the world’s best-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 were bestsellers, he is known for providing real-world solutions— the kind of advice you can use Monday morning. His book Execution, lauded for its practicality, spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
Ram has an MBA with high distinction and a doctorate degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and faculty member. He was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, was on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance, and serves or has served on a dozen boards in the US, Brazil, China, India, Canada, and Dubai.
Geri Willigan is an independent content developer and business writer who has worked closely with Ram Charan for nearly 30 years on a range of projects, including bestselling books. She first met Ram when she was an 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 (Yale economist), 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 and Disney CFO Gary Wilson.
