Samuel B. Bacharach

Samuel B. Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor in the Department of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is the head of Cornell University’s New York City-based Institute for Workplace Studies. He is the co-founder of the Bacharach Leadership Group, an organization that focuses on helping organizations develop leaders, and the co-founder of Pragmatic Leadership, a mobile simulation platform that trains leaders in a modular approach.

Bacharach's leadership books include: ''Get Them on Your Side'', ''Keep Them on Your Side'', ''The Agenda Mover'' and ''Transforming the Clunky Organization.''

Bacharach writes a regular column for ''Inc. Magazine'' that focuses on the pragmatic skills of leadership and is a frequent speaker at Inc. conferences and events.

Among the organizations trained in his "Pragmatic Leadership" approach are: Computer Sciences Corporation, PepsiAmericas, March of Dimes, Walmart, Citigroup, International Monetary Fund, Mellon Financial, Starbucks, BASF, BMC Software, Boeing, InterContinental Hotels Group, Chubb, Nintendo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Devon Energy, TeleTech, and Gap Inc. Provided by Wikipedia