Ram Charan is an award-winning educator and consultant to senior business leaders and boards around the globe. He is one of the world's bestselling business book authors with over 2 million copies sold. His book with Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy, Execution, spent 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Kent Jonasen is CEO of the Leadership Pipeline Institute and works with large organizations on strategic succession planning and development for leaders and experts. Previous to this role, Kent was deputy head of Human Resources at Maersk and is the author of the bestselling book The Specialist Pipeline: Winning the War for Specialist Talent. Jim Noel is a retired consultant and leadership coach who assisted companies in the selection, assessment, and development of key leadership teams. He is a former manager of Executive Education and Leadership Effectiveness at GE. Stephen Drotter is chairman of the Leadership Pipeline Institute. For over fifty years he has been actively involved in succession planning, executive assessments, and leadership development. His work provides the source material for his books, which include The Performance Pipeline, as well as coauthorship of The Success Pipeline and Pipeline to The Future. Lee Goettl resides in the Midwest with his wife, daughter, and three dogs, enjoying all things book-related. He has recorded over eighty audiobooks, including playing two characters in Seth Rogen's Yearbook. He also works as a voice artist for commercials, e-learning, and medical narration.