Stewart D. Friedman

Since 1984 Stew Friedman (PhD, U. Michigan) has been at Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management. In 1991 he founded both the Wharton Leadership Program and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. In 2001 he concluded a two-year assignment at Ford, as the senior executive for leadership development. Stew is the author of several books, among them the award-winning best seller, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (2008). His latest book is Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life (2014). His Total Leadership program is used worldwide. He was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents, and by Thinkers50 as one of the “world’s top 50 business thinkers.” The Families and Work Institute honored him with a Work Life Legacy Award. He was selected as one of 2014’s top 10 HR Most Influential International Thinkers.