The Accountability Training® Company
Celebrating 20 Years
Partners In Leadership, Inc. is a widely respected international management consulting and training company. Founded by New York Times bestselling authors Roger Connors and Thomas Smith in 1989, the company has grown to become the premier provider of Accountability Training® Services around the world. They have assisted thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of people in more than 50 countries, from the executive suite to the front line worker in understanding how to create greater accountability for results in their organizations and on their teams. The positive impact of their training and consulting work in helping their clients achieve their organizational results has been dramatic—producing growth, profitability and shareholder returns that are truly record breaking.
Partners In Leadership has pioneered the positive approach to Creating a Culture of Accountability® at every level of the organization. Their groundbreaking work has established creating greater accountability as a new and innovative means to organizational improvement and leadership development. Partners In Leadership is respected and recognized as the first in the management consulting and training industry to develop and offer a comprehensive approach to improving individual and organizational accountability. They offer a proven Three-Track approach to creating greater accountability, which includes training on accountability focused on Self, Culture and Others.
Their clients include 25% of the “most admired companies in the world,” almost half of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Companies, 10 of the top 12 Pharmaceutical Companies in the world and nearly half of the Fortune 50 largest companies in the United States, along with many other well-known and highly regarded companies. Their clients utilize their Accountability Training® to achieve key organizational objectives, such as increasing revenues and profitability, reducing costs and successfully implementing major organizational initiatives.
They are the New York Times bestselling authors of the book, The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual And Organizational Accountability, which has been published in two dialects of Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Adrian Zacheim, President and Publisher of the prestigious Portfolio brand of Penguin Putnam Books, says of The Oz Principle: “This book is in the top 5 bestselling business books in the ‘Leadership’ and ‘Performance’ categories, year after year, since 1994. This book has become a ‘classic’ and is in the top 30 bestselling business books in the last 15 years.”
Partners In Leadership has also published the bestselling book, Journey To The Emerald City: Achieve A Competitive Edge By Creating A Culture Of Accountability. This book brings to the field of organizational improvement and human performance technology cutting-edge methods and practices around accelerating culture change to achieve a Culture of Accountability® where people, at all levels of the organization, think and act in the manner necessary to achieve organizational results. Their documented success in assisting Alaris Medical Systems in their cultural change effort resulted in a 7000% return on equity investment and one of the largest stock price appreciations in their category according to MONEY magazine. Their third book, a New York Times Bestseller, How Did That Happen? Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way, was published by Portfolio Books in August of 2009. This new book presents their innovative and ground-breaking technology and approach to helping people at all organizational levels learn how to be even more effective at holding the people they depend on accountable to produce the results they need in a way that is empowering and positive, producing results and building morale at the same time.
For two decades, Partners In Leadership has tested and refined the implementation of these results-producing principles and technologies that assist leaders and teams in achieving their key results. Their successful track record established them as both thought leaders and expert practitioners in coming to grips with how to create rapid culture change and greater accountability. They continue to innovate and develop results-focused approaches to leadership effectiveness that are used around the world.
Their articles have been published in major publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Corporate University Review, Executive Excellence, and Investor’s Business Daily. The principals of the firm have also been featured on such television programs as CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” OCN-TV “Prime Story,” and KWHY-TV (Los Angeles) “Market Talk.” Radio broadcasts include Business Radio Network, UPI, and Voice of America.
Partners In Leadership works with organizations of all sizes, from small start-ups to some of the largest companies in the world. Their clients can be found in most industry categories and include such well-known organizations as: ADP, Alcoa Rigid Packaging Division, American Airlines, Barnes & Noble, BP Amoco, Eli Lilly & Company, Hard Rock Cafe, Hyatt Corporation, IHOP, Internal Revenue Service, Johnson Controls, JPMorgan Chase, Kaiser Permanente, LensCrafters, MetLife, Nestle, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Schering-Plough, The Schwan Food Company, Tyco Healthcare, Valassis, Ventana Medical Systems, and hundreds more.
Their corporate headquarters are in Temecula, California. They also have offices in Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Utah.
