Authentic Leadership Institute - Finding Your True North

Interact with Co-Authors Bill George & Nick Craig

Finding Your True North Reaches #3 on the Wall Street Journal's Best Seller list of Business Management Paperbacks

"In True North, Bill George once again provides a roadmap for leadership in the 21st Century.
The best people will only follow authenticity."
-Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric, Chairman

"True North is about the power of authentic leadership. Anyone can find their own True North.
This book is wonderful roadmap to get started on the journey."
-Andrea Jung, Chairman and CEO, Avon Products Inc.

Personal Guide

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Finding Your True North has been created as a personal guide for readers of Bill George's best selling book True North with over 120,000 books in print. This important guide offers leaders a comprehensive method for identifying their unique "True North." All the content of the Finding Your True North is new, including sixty exercises designed to help you access your True North. This approach represents a radical departure from leadership programs that focus on teaching leadership skill, styles, and competencies. Finding Your True North will help you discover your authentic leadership.

Finding Your True North is a result of integrating the approaches used in Bill George's extremely popular Authentic Leadership Development (ALD) class at Harvard Business School, Nick Craig's work delivering the True North approach in Fortune 500 corporate leadership programs, and Andrew McLean's work as Bill's research assistant.

Bill George is Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, where he is teaching leadership and leadership development. He is the author of new best-selling leadership book, "True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership." His previous book, "Authentic Leadership" was also a best-seller. His commentary has been featured on "The Need for Authentic True North Leaders" on PBS "Nightly Business Report."

Mr. George is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as President and Chief Operating Officer, and was elected Chief Executive Officer in 1991, serving in that capacity through 2001. He was Chairman of the Board from 1996 to 2002. Under his leadership, Medtronic's market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35% a year.

Mr. George currently serves as a director of ExxonMobil, Goldman Sachs, and Novartis, as well as Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and World Economic Forum USA.

Nick Craig is the President of the Authentic Leadership Institute (ALI), a training and consulting firm specializing in True North-based programs in leadership development, coaching, and executive team alignment. He has over 20 years of experience helping leaders create a strong culture of execution, balanced with high integrity, congruency, and authenticity. Nick has designed and delivered leadership programs across the globe for many Fortune 500 companies, including BP, GE, and Siemens. Currently he delivers the leadership module for GE and Wharton's Top Executive High Potential Programs.

Beyond his work with Bill George, Nick has been influenced by his work with Michael Beer, Director Emeritus of Harvard Business School's Organizational Change practice, helping top teams have honest dialogues that drive strategic implementation. He has also worked with MIT Sloan School to develop their Leadership Center and executive coaching program based on the Distributed Leadership Model.