Citation Award Winner Speech of Dr. John P. Kotter

Sigma Phi Epsilon Citation Award Winner - Dr. John P. Kotter, MIT '68 - John Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and one of the leading authorities on the subject of corporate leadership. He is the author of 17 books on the subject and serves as a consultant to major U.S. corporations. Brother Kotter received tenure and became a full professor in 1980 at the unusually young age of 33. In 1996, his book, Leading Change, was named the number one management book of the year and in 1998 his book, Matsushita Leadership, won the Financial Times/Booz Allen and Hamilton Global Business Book Award for biography/autobiography. Business Week named him the #1 leadership guru in October, 2001.

In his newest work, A Sense of Urgency, Brother Kotter shows what a true sense of urgency in an organization really is, why it is becoming an exceptionally important asset, and how it can be created and sustained within organizations.

Brother Kotters articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period.

As an undergraduate at MIT, John was chapter president and on campus he was a DJ for the MIT radio station. Over the years hes been close to the chapter, most recently speaking at its Balanced Man Scholarship banquet in 2007.

Brother Kotter lives in Cambridge Massachusetts and Ashland, New Hampshire.

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