Joseph Grenny has taught and advised thousands of leaders on every major continent from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. He has advised CEOs and senior executives on more than a dozen major change initiatives - receiving credit from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics' President as a key factor in helping the organization win the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter program.
Joseph Grenny is also coauthor of four New York Times bestsellers: Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, Influencer, and Change Anything.
An expert in topics ranging from influence and leadership to organizational change and effectiveness, Joseph has been cited in every major newspaper and has appeared on more than one hundred radio and television programs. Joseph also writes "The Influential Leader", a regular column on Business Week.com.
Joseph speaks and consults regularly with leaders across the globe from East Asia to India to Europe. He has spoken at the HSM World Business Forum and to organizations including NASA, the U.S. Army, the American Bankers Association, and the American Society of Training and Development. He has also addressed executive-level teams for clients including Baxter, Yale Medical School, IBM, Progressive Insurance, Sprint, Textron, McGraw-Hill, Allstate, Eli LIlly, Texas Instruments, and Genentech.
Joseph was cofounder and president of California Computer Corporation. In 1990, he cofounded VitalSmarts, one of the most respected corporate training and organizational development companies in the world. Named the 2008 Business of the Year by the Association of Learning Providers, VitalSmarts has also been ranked eight times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America and has trained more than 800,000 people worldwide. Joseh was also named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for his work in founding and leading Vital Smarts. In addition to VitalSmarts, Joseph cofounded Unitus, a non-profit organization that has helped over 15 million third world poor achieve economic self-reliance. Joseph is graduate of Brigham Young University.