Printable Biography of Charles Garfield

Dr. Charles Garfield's remarkable career is itself a study in the “how-to's” of high performance. He is co-founding editor (along with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard) of Executive Excellence, one of America's most important executive newsletters.

A strategy advisor to our nation's pre-eminent business and nonprofit leaders, Charles Garfield is an extraordinary speaker and one of America's most requested presenters. For example, he was invited to address the Leadership of Oklahoma City - after the bombing of the federal building - on the topic of rebounding from adversity.

His unique power as a speaker comes from his hands-on experience as an executive and team leader in the profit and non-profit sectors¡Xwitnessing, learning, and demonstrating the key skills of superior service, quality and performance. This expertise was developed in two compelling and challenging contexts: The Apollo Eleven moon-landing and Shanti Project.

As founder and executive director of Shanti Project, the most successful organization in its field, he inspired service excellence for peak performers of another kind, patients and families facing life-threatening illness. His emphasis on total quality management and his results oriented leadership style made Shanti an internationally acclaimed volunteer organization. For his work with Shanti, Charles Garfield was named National Activist of the Year, America's highest award to individuals making voluntary contributions to public service.

He applied his principles of high achievement to athletics and wrote the widely respected Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World's Greatest Athletes. As a result, Charles Garfield was selected by the United States Olympic Committee as a keynote speaker for the esteemed Elite Coaches Symposium, addressing the head coaches of our Olympic sports.

Charles Garfield is a Clinical Professor at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco and is involved in the complex issues of healthcare leadership and reform.

He is CEO of the Charles Garfield Group, a consulting and educational firm specializing in strategies for superior service, quality and performance. His bold vision of the farther reaches of human performance brings him into frequent contact with leaders in business, healthcare, the nonprofit sector and government worldwide.