Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal are the best-selling authors of Leading with Soul. Bolman holds the Marion Bloch Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Business, University of Missouri—Kansas City. He consults worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities, and schools.

Deal is the Irving R. Melbo Professor of Education at the Rossier School, University of Southern California, and aninternational consultant to business, health care, military, educational, and religious organizations.