Stephen Denning

Steve was born and educated in Sydney, Australia. He studied law and psychology at Sydney University and worked as a lawyer in Sydney for several years. He did a postgraduate degree in law at Oxford University in the U.K. Steve then joined the World Bank where he worked for several decades in many capacities and held various management positions, including Director of the Southern Africa Department from 1990 to 1994 and Director of the Africa Region from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank.

Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has published a novel and a volume of poetry. He is also currently a Senior Fellow at the James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland.

In April 2003, Steve was ranked as one of the world's Top Two Hundred Business Gurus: Davenport & Prusak, "What's The Big Idea?” (Harvard, 2003).

His highly acclaimed books include:

• The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
• Storytelling in Organizations: How Narrative and Storytelling Are Transforming Twenty-first Century Management
• Squirrel Inc: A Fable of Leadership and Storytelling
• The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations

In November 2005, The Leader's Guide to Storytelling was selected by the Innovation Book Club as one of the twelve most important books on innovation in the last few years. This book was also given out to all of those that attended the January 2007 Deluxe Knowledge Exchange Expo.

His new book, The Secret Language of Leadership, will be published by Jossey-Bass in September 2007.

Steve works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia on knowledge management and organizational storytelling.