About
Steven Sonsino is the bestselling author of 'The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders', a visiting professor at business schools all over the world and a motivational leadership speaker for chambers of commerce, charities and dozens of global corporations.
"Every day I help individuals and businesses to tackle their unique leadership challenges," says Steven. "But don't take my word for it. Please review some of the video testimonials on this site and contact me to see what we might do together.
I look forward to working with you, whether you want a leadership coach or a keynote speaker."
Bestselling author of 'The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders'
In a cheeky pun on Stephen Covey's 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People', Steven wrote 'The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders' with Jacqueline Moore, his wife and business partner. The book reached number 2 on the business bestseller list in its first week on Amazon. The couple's previous book, 'Leadership Unplugged', was described as 'learned yet practical' by Harvard Business Press.
Motivational leadership speaker
Steven is regularly called on as a speaker and facilitator for major corporations and associations round the world. His client list includes financial institutions such as HSBC (UK)and Deutsche Bank (Germany), high technology companies including Microsoft (USA) and Sanofi Aventis (France), and professional associations such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants (UK) and the Society for Human Resource Managers (USA).
Visiting professor at global business schools
Steven is a Fellow in the Centre for Management Development at London Business School. He was Director of the School's flagship 'Emerging Leaders Programme' for three years. In 2002 he launched an informal consortium, the Tomorrow's Leaders Research Group, featured in 'People Management Magazine' and 'Business Strategy Review'.
Steven is a visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, the University of Porto Business School in Portugal and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. He is a regular speaker at the GeorgiaTech Conference Center in Atlanta, USA.
Widespread media coverage
Steven is regularly quoted in the world's press and writes features for many major newspapers and websites. He also publishes his academic research in peer-reviewed journals. Before turning to leadership development in the early 1990s, Steven was an Editor and journalist writing for the Financial Times, New Scientist and The Guardian, among others. He also made radio broadcasts for the BBC.
And finally...
Steven was born in Manchester (UK) and still pays UK taxes, despite spending much of his life in airports outside of Britain. His wife Jacqueline thinks it is a miracle they have written three books together. Coincidentally, they also created three children together. This, also, is a miracle. (They are test-tube babies.)
Steven's most dubious honour was to receive a National Training Award - 'For Excellence in Training' - from the Right Honourable Michael Portillo, then the British Secretary of State for Education and Science.
And finally, Steven only writes in the third person when he wants to gain a better Google ranking for his own name. He hopes people will forgive him this once.
