Patrick Lencioni - Fortune magazine “Ten Gurus You Should Know”

Patrick Lencioni Named by Fortune magazine as one of
“Ten New Gurus You Should Know”

Best-Selling Author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and Consulting Partner of Local Consultant, is Recognized for Big Ideas on Organizational Health

SAN FRANCISCO--Patrick Lencioni, the New York Times best-selling author of eight books focused on organizational health and leadership, was named by Fortune magazine as one of the “Ten New Gurus You Should Know”.  The Fortune piece introduces the new generation of innovative thinkers that are emerging with fresh ideas used to change the way business gets done. In the article Lencioni notes that “most executives don’t realize that the internal health of a company is key to its success”.

In 1997, after several years as an executive at Oracle and Sybase, he decided to leave the corporate world and focus his career on helping organizations, and the people who work in them, become healthier and more successful.  At the same time he started writing business fables and founded The Table Group Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to providing simple, new ideas to help organizations work better.  In 2004, as demand for consulting services reached a peak, Lencioni and The Table Group began partnering with consultants around the country to help meet the overwhelming need for help.  The Table Group Consulting Partners are a small group of highly qualified and experienced consultants that are able to offer Lencioni’s unique consulting approach to teams of all types.  These consultants are the only officially-certified professionals who deliver his material. 

Lencioni says, “I think one of the reasons we are getting all this attention [referring to the guru article] is because our methodologies resonate so well with organizational leaders - It’s straight-forward, practical, and it works.  This created higher demand that we couldn’t satisfy.  At the same time we still wanted to help organizations even if I couldn’t be directly involved. 

So four years ago we started a Consulting Partner program where we picked a small group of talented individuals to help organizations embed our methodologies into their culture.”

Today, Lencioni, The Table Group Inc. and The Table Group Consulting Partners have worked with thousands of companies of all sizes, including many Fortune 500 companies such as Southwest Airlines, Barnes & Noble, MetLife, and McKesson, to address the issues of organizational effectiveness and teamwork within the context of real business issues.

STRIVE! is Lencioni’s Canadian Consulting Partners based near Toronto, Ontario.  They works with companies in fully implementing Lencioni’s material and ensuring organizational change occurs.  Visit STRIVE! Table Group Canadian Consulting Partner site.