Stephen R. Covey

Updated at: Sept. 14, 2009, 9:33 a.m.

Stephen R. Covey is chairman and founder of Covey Leadership Center, a worldwide, 700 member leadership development firm. He is author of the phenomenally successfull best-seller The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, with over 6 million copies sold in 32 languages. Dr. Covey is respected internationally as an author, lecturer, teacher and leadership mentor. For more than 30 years, he has trained thousands of leaders in business, industry, education, and government. His current clients include such prominent corporate names as IBM, Procter & Gamble, Du Pont, Bonneville International, Coldwell Banker, Johnson &Johnson, Pillsbury, Aetna, Metropolitan Life Insurance, McDonnell Douglas, Disney Imagineering, Hewlett-Packard, Trammell Crow, and U.S.West. Dr. Covey's expertise encompasses the fields of personal relations, organizational development, management and leadership.

Stephen has a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University, and a bachelor of science degree cum Laude, from the University of Utah. He has served as an officer and board member of several corporations, an administrative assistant to the president of Brigham Young University, a visiting professor at the University of Utah and at Belfast Technical College, as well as a popular faculty member for the Young President's Organization. Dr. Covey is also the creator of The Masters, a nationally acclaimed management development program.


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