Soren Kaplan is an award-winning, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, former corporate executive, co-founder of Praxie.com, a columnist for Inc. Magazine and Psychology Today, and an affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He is an international keynote speaker and has led professional development and strategic consulting initiatives with thousands of leaders around the world, including over 30 of the Fortune 1000 such as Disney, Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Philips, PepsiCo, Hershey’s, Cisco, Medtronic, Roche, Kaiser Permanente, and many others. Business Insider and the Thinkers50 have recognized Dr. Kaplan as one of the world’s top management thought leaders and consultants.Soren's work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, CNBC, NPR, Strategy & Leadership, The International Handbook on Innovation, and many other academic and popular business media. He has lectured at the Harvard Business School, Copenhagen Business School, Melbourne Business School, Breda University in the Netherlands, and with other MBA and executive education programs globally. All three of his books have received International Book Awards with his latest work, Experiential Intelligence, recognized as best business book of the year for revealing how life experience contributes a form of intelligence on par with IQ (intellect) and EQ (emotional intelligence) that can be leveraged for breakthrough leadership and innovation. He holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Psychology.