Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy is the founder and CEO of Leadership IQ, a leadership training and research firm. As the force behind some of the largest leadership studies ever conducted, Murphy's cutting-edge research has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, and more.

Murphy was featured on a CBS News Sunday Morning special report on managing slackers in the workplace as well as being featured on ABC's 20/20. He has also made several appearances on Fox Business News and NPR.

Some of Murphy's most famous research studies include "Why CEO's Get Fired," "Why New Hires Fail," "High Performers Are Ready to Quit," and "Recession Rumination Kills Productivity." Murphy's latest studies, articles, videos and blogs can be found at www.leadershipiq.com

Murphy's upcoming book is called Hundred Percenters: Stop Making People Happy, Start Making Them Great (McGraw-Hill, November 2009). This book debunks the myth that a happy employee is a motivated employee and was named one of the "Must Read Books for Fall" by CIO Insight Magazine. His previous books include The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention and Generation Y and the New Rules of Management.

Leadership IQ's training programs have yielded remarkable results for The Harvard Business School, Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, AstraZeneca, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Volkswagen, and Johns Hopkins, among others.

A former turnaround advisor, Murphy's research on the quality implications of large-scale cost-cutting earned him the Healthcare Financial Management Association's "Helen Yerger Award for Best Research." He was also a three-time nominee for Modern Healthcare's "Most Powerful People in Healthcare Award."