William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Emeritus of Management; Faculty Director, Center for Leadership and McNulty Leadership Program, Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Michael Useem, PhD is the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on management and leadership, and he offers programs on leadership and governance for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
He works on leadership development with many companies and organizations in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. He is the author of “The Leader’s Checklist,” “The Leadership Moment,” “Executive Defense,” “Investor Capitalism,” “Leading Up” and “The Go Point.” He is also co-author and co-editor of “Learning from Catastrophes,” co-author of “The India Way” and “Leadership Dispatches,” co-author of “Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy” (Wharton Digital Press) and co-author of the forthcoming “Catastrophic Risk: How Corporate America Copes with Disruption” (Oxford University Press).
Dr. Useem is also co-anchor of the weekly program “Leadership in Action” on SiriusXM Business Radio.