Stew brings inspiring passion and practical ideas for action.
With his worldwide experience as a successful leader of change in organizations for over two decades – he’s an accomplished executive, award-winning educator, widely-cited researcher, sought-after consultant, high-impact coach, and dynamic speaker – he knows how to help people in organizations produce sustainable results.
Invite Stew to your group or organization to improve performance at work, at home, in the community, and for the private self: mind, body, and spirit. He will show you how to score four-way wins with Total Leadership in a way that makes sense for you and the most important people in your life.
Stew Friedman has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984. He became the Management Department’s first Practice Professor in recognition of his work on the application of theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. As founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated Wharton’s required MBA and undergraduate leadership courses. He also started and directs the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project; its mission is to develop leaders and enable change through action learning and applied research.
In 2001 Stew concluded a two-year assignment as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company, where he was director of the Leadership Development Center (LDC), running a 50-person, $25 MM operation. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford’s culture, in which over 2500 managers per year participated. He brought his concept of ‘total leadership’ to Ford Motor, which created measurable change in both increased business results and enriched lives. While Stew was at Ford, the LDC received major media attention (including profiles in Fast Company, Training and Development, and CIO). Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research organization (ICEDR) identified the LDC as having achieved “global benchmark” status for leadership development programs.
Stew worked for five years in health care before earning his Ph.D. (1984) from the University of Michigan. He has published numerous books and articles on work/life integration, leadership, and the dynamics of change, including the widely cited Harvard Business Review articles, ‘Work and life: the end of the zero-sum game’ (1998) and ‘Be a better leader, have a richer life'(2008), and ‘The Happy Workaholic: a role model for employees’ (1993, Academy of Management Executive). His book, Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (co-authored with Jeff Greenhaus, Oxford University Press, 2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field’s best. With Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass, 1998), Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life. His most recent book is the national bestseller, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business Press, 2008).
Stew has consulted with a wide range of organizations and executives, including Jack Welch and Vice President Al Gore; he serves on numerous advisory boards; and he conducts workshops globally on leadership and the whole person, creating change, and strategic human resources issues. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (The New York Times cited the ‘rock star adoration’ he inspires in his students), and was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men in having made things better for working parents.
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Stew brings inspiring passion and practical ideas for action.
With his worldwide experience as a successful leader of change in organizations for over two decades – he’s an accomplished executive, award-winning educator, widely-cited researcher, sought-after consultant, high-impact coach, and dynamic speaker – he knows how to help people in organizations produce sustainable results.
Invite Stew to your group or organization to improve performance at work, at home, in the community, and for the private self: mind, body, and spirit. He will show you how to score four-way wins with Total Leadership in a way that makes sense for you and the most important people in your life.
Stew Friedman has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984. He became the Management Department’s first Practice Professor in recognition of his work on the application of theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. As founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated Wharton’s required MBA and undergraduate leadership courses. He also started and directs the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project; its mission is to develop leaders and enable change through action learning and applied research.
In 2001 Stew concluded a two-year assignment as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company, where he was director of the Leadership Development Center (LDC), running a 50-person, $25 MM operation. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford’s culture, in which over 2500 managers per year participated. He brought his concept of ‘total leadership’ to Ford Motor, which created measurable change in both increased business results and enriched lives. While Stew was at Ford, the LDC received major media attention (including profiles in Fast Company, Training and Development, and CIO). Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research organization (ICEDR) identified the LDC as having achieved “global benchmark” status for leadership development programs.
Stew worked for five years in health care before earning his Ph.D. (1984) from the University of Michigan. He has published numerous books and articles on work/life integration, leadership, and the dynamics of change, including the widely cited Harvard Business Review articles, ‘Work and life: the end of the zero-sum game’ (1998) and ‘Be a better leader, have a richer life'(2008), and ‘The Happy Workaholic: a role model for employees’ (1993, Academy of Management Executive). His book, Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (co-authored with Jeff Greenhaus, Oxford University Press, 2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field’s best. With Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass, 1998), Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life. His most recent book is the national bestseller, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business Press, 2008).
Stew has consulted with a wide range of organizations and executives, including Jack Welch and Vice President Al Gore; he serves on numerous advisory boards; and he conducts workshops globally on leadership and the whole person, creating change, and strategic human resources issues. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (The New York Times cited the ‘rock star adoration’ he inspires in his students), and was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men in having made things better for working parents.
Total Leadership - Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
Now more than ever, your success as a leader isn’t just about being a great businessperson. You’ve got to be a great person, performing well in all domains of your life — your work, your home, your community, and your private self.
That’s a tall order.
The good news is that, contrary to conventional wisdom about “balance,” you don’t have to assume that these domains compete in a zero-sum game. Total Leadership is a game-changing blueprint for how to perform well as a leader not by trading off one domain for another, but by finding mutual value among all four. Veteran Wharton professor Stew Friedman shows you how to achieve these “four-way wins” as a leader who can:
1) Be real: Act with authenticity by clarifying what’s important
2) Be whole: Act with integrity by
respecting the whole person
3) Be innovative: Act with creativity by
experimenting to find new solutions
With engaging examples and clear instruction, Friedman provides more than thirty hands-on tools for using these proven principles to produce stronger business results, find clearer purpose in what you do, feel more connected to the people who matter most, and generate sustainable change.
Most leadership development books focus only on your professional skills, while books about personal growth concentrate on your needs beyond work. Total Leadership is different. It’s a unique and long-awaited resource that shows how to win in all domains of life.
“In a world of work-life trade-offs, Stew Friedman offers what most think impossible: a field-tested program that gives you not only what you want in business, but also what you want in life. Brilliant!”
Timothy Ferriss, author, The 4-Hour Workweek, #1 New York Times bestseller
"With a refreshingly simple approach to winning the daily struggle between family bliss and career satisfaction, Stew Friedman outlines clear and innovative solutions for better managing the competing demands of our lives. Engaging and inspiring." — Anne Erni, Managing Director & Chief Diversity Officer, Lehman Brothers
"In the future, being a leader will require new ways to integrate work with the rest of one's life, resulting in more effective leadership and a more fulfilling life. Total Leadership points the way." — Robert Reich, professor, University of California at Berkeley, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, and author, Supercapitalism
"Total Leadership will help you build a life, not just a resume. Stew Friedman has written the owner's manual for all types of leaders, young and old, who aspire to both professional success and personal fulfillment." — Tom Tierney, Chairman and Cofounder, The Bridgespan Group, and former CEO, Bain & Company
"The best leaders are those who stay connected - to their communities, to the people they love, to themselves. In Stew Friedman's Total Leadership, you'll learn simple, powerful new ways to make these connections happen and enjoy the rich rewards that inevitably follow." — Keith Ferrazzi, CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight, and author, Never Eat Alone
