Marcus Buckingham Best Selling Author and Expert on Management & Leadership Practices Marcus Buckingham challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between engaged employees and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction and the rate of turnover. During his 17 years with The Gallup Organization, Marcus led research on the world’s best managers, leaders and workplaces. He has taken his broad experience in management practices and employee retention and put it into three bestselling books: First, Break All the Rules, Now, Discover Your Strengths, and The One Thing You Need To Know, an enlightening resource for leaders, managers, and educators. He addresses more than 250,000 audience members around the globe each year and touts the strengths revolution as the key to finding the most effective route to personal success. Marcus has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review and USA Today, and is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and obtain and sustain long-lasting personal success. He holds a master’s degree in social and political science from Cambridge University, and is a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management.