Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. (in political science) degrees from Yale University. She is author and editor of many books and articles on leadership and followership, and speaks to audiences all over the world. In 2015, 2016, and 2017 she was ranked by Global Gurus as # 13 among World's Top 30 Management Professionals, and in 2016 she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association.

"Professionalizing Leadership is an indictment of the leadership industry. But it goes far further: it presents an alternative scenario, one in which leadership is not, merely, an occupation, but a profession, like medicine and law. Kellerman extracts from the military some lessons on how leaders can and should be educated, trained, and developed. In so doing, she provides us with an indispensable guide to rethinking and reconstituting leadership learning at a moment when the crisis of leadership is blindingly clear." - Admiral James Stavridis, USN

"Barbara Kellerman challenges us with an original and readable parable on the modern leadership industry that evokes 'The Emperor's New Clothes.' Her acute historical and theoretical analysis enable her also to provide a practical, inspiring vision of leadership as a profession. If you are disappointed in leaders, or wondering why the wave of money spent on leadership development is producing disappointing outcomes, and want to act rather than fret, then read this provocative book." - Ian Narev, CEO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

"Barbara Kellerman is the professor's professor. She is not just working in the field of leadership; she is working on it. Anyone interested in the subject of Leadership will be richly rewarded for reading her thoughtful and provocative challenge to an entire profession!" - Robert Kegan, Meehan Research Professor of Adult Learning, Harvard University; co-author of An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

"Kellerman's work is exceptional and presents the manner in which the development of transforming leadership is thoughtful and valued."--T. M. Mckenzie, Gonzaga University, CHOICE