Mike Lombardo has over 30 years experience in executive and management research and in executive coaching. He is one of the founders of Lominger Limited, Inc., publishers of the Leadership Architect® Suite. With Bob Eichinger, Mike has authored 40 products for the suite, including The Leadership Machine, FYI For Your Improvement™, the Career Architect®, Choices Architect®, and VOICES®. During his 15 years at the Center for Creative Leadership, Mike was a coauthor of The Lessons of Experience, which detailed which learnings from experience can teach the competencies needed to be successful. He also coauthored the research on executive derailment revealing how personal flaws and overdone strengths caused otherwise effective executives to get into career trouble, Benchmarks®, a 360º feedback instrument, and the Looking Glass® simulation. Mike has won four national awards for research on managerial and executive development.

Bob Eichinger is Vice Chairman of the Korn/Ferry Institute for Korn/Ferry International. Prior to Korn/Ferry’s acquisition of Lominger International, he was cofounder and CEO of Lominger Limited, Inc. and cocreator of the Leadership Architect® Suite of management, executive, and organizational development tools. During his 40+ year career, he has worked inside companies such as PepsiCo and Pillsbury, and as a consultant in Fortune 500 companies in the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia. Dr. Eichinger lectures extensively on the topic of executive and management development and has served on the Board of the Human Resource Planning Society. He has worked as a coach with more than 1,000 managers and executives. Some of his books include The Leadership Machine, written with Mike Lombardo, 100 Things You Need to Know: Best People Practices for Managers & HR, written with Mike Lombardo and Dave Ulrich, and FYI for Strategic Effectiveness™, written with Kim Ruyle and Dave Ulrich.