Barbara Kellerman

Barbara Kellerman is an American political scientist, author and leadership scholar who is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership. She is one of the world's foremost authorities on leadership and followership, and has written extensively about why leaders fail and how power corrupts. Leadership from Bad to Worse examines the trajectory of destructive leadership, exploring how bad leaders get worse and why followers so often enable them. Kellerman writes with intellectual rigour and the courage to challenge the leadership industry's comfortable assumptions. Her audiobooks and books are essential listening for anyone in a leadership position — or anyone trying to understand why so many leaders go wrong.