Ken Shelton is the founder of Executive Excellence, a 21-year-old training and publishing firm that features the best in values-based management and principle-centered leadership.

He is the author of Beyond Counterfeit Leadership (1997), Real Success (1999), and One-on-One with Stephen R. Covey (2000). He served as writer-editor for Stephen R. Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Principle-Centered Leadership, Walk the Talk with Eric Harvey, Managing People Is Like Herding Cats and Old Dogs, New Tricks with Warren Bennis, Catch People Doing Something Right with Ken Blanchard, Smart Talk with Lou Tice, and Leadership as a Performing Art with USC football coach Pete Carroll.

Since 1984, Ken has served as editor and publisher of Leadership Excellence magazine, the world’s leading executive advisory newsletter; Personal Excellence, the magazine of self-leadership; Sales and Marketing Excellence, the magazine of market leadership; and a new launch Health and Fitness Excellence.

During these past 21 years, Ken has written more than 1,000 articles, interviews, commentaries, and reviews for a variety of business publications; he has also edited and published over 60 books on business ethics, management, and leadership as editor-in-chief of Executive Excellence Publishing. For 12 years, he has also provided services as a literary agent specializing in leadership books.

As a speaker and trainer, Ken travels the world. In recent months, he has been a featured speaker in the United States at business and leadership conferences in New York, Florida, California, Ohio, and Georgia and outside the states at management conferences in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Madrid, Spain; Mexico City, Mexico; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Singapore; Hong Kong; Frankfurt, Germany; Sidney, Melbourn, and Perth, Australia; Istanbul, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; Sterling and Aberdeen, Scotland; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ken has been interviewed by a number of business print media, including Inc., Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Working Women, Success, and Bottom Line. He has also been featured on dozens of radio and television programs worldwide.

Ken has a Master’s degree in Communications from Brigham Young University and San Diego State University. While living in San Diego, California, he worked four years in marketing and management on the Tomahawk cruise missile project for General Dynamics aerospace (1975 to 1979). He also worked four years as assistant director of Public Communications for Brigham Young University (1979 to 1983). Under his editorship, BYU Today was named University Magazine of the Year.

Ken and his wife Pam are the parents of three sons and live in Provo, Utah.

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