Jim Kouzes currently serves as a Fellow of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University and was previously the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.
Accolades
Jim has received a number of high honors which speak to his expertise and innovation in the leadership development space. Acknowledgments and honors include being named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States and one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential International Thinkers (2010-2013). He was also identified as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America in 2010-2016 and honored as one of its Lifetime Achievement recipients in 2015.
“Acknowledgements and honors include being named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States and one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential International Thinkers.”
Experience
Jim is also an experienced executive. He served as president, then CEO and chairman, of the Tom Peters Company from 1988 until 2000. Prior to his tenure at TPC, he directed the Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University from 1981 through 1987. He also co-founded the Joint Center for Human Services Development at San Jose State University, which he directed from 1972 until 1980. Jim's lifelong career in education began in 1967-1969 when he served for two years in the Peace Corps. Jim believes it was on January 20, 1961, when he was first inspired to dedicate himself to leadership. That was the day he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts who served in John F. Kennedy's Honor Guard at the Presidential Inauguration.
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