Motion Leadership: The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy »

Michael Fullan is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and is special adviser on education to Dalton McGuinty, the premier of Ontario. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and from Nipissing University in Canada.

Fullan served as dean of the faculty of education at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 2003, leading two major organizational transformations, including a merger of two large schools of education. He is currently working as adviser and consultant on several major education reform initiatives around the world.

He bases his work on research and practice on both the public and private sectors, finding an increasing convergence in this literature. He has written several bestsellers on leadership and change that have been translated into several languages. Four of his books have won book of the year awards, and his publications have been translated into several languages. His latest books are The Six Secrets of Change and Motion Leadership.

Cycling from practice to theory and back again, this concise book provides the skinny on motion leadership, or how to “move” individuals, institutions, and whole systems forward.

About the Author
1. The Skinny
2. Change Problems
3. Change Itself
4. Connect Peers With Purpose
5. Capacity Building Trumps Judgmentalism
6. Learning Is the Work
7. Transparency Rules
8. Love, Trust, and Resistance
9. Leadership for All References Index