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The Accountability Training^® Company

Partners In Leadership, Inc. is a widely respected International leadership training and management consulting company. Founded by New York Times Bestselling Authors Roger Connors and Thomas Smith in 1989, the company is now the world's premier provider of Accountability Training^® Services, offering exclusive business solutions in 14 practice areas listed to the right.

All training benefits form a solid foundation in the innovative Three Tracks to Creating Greater Accountability, (Self, Culture, Others), each based on a New York Times Bestselling book, and developed by Partners In Leadership to assist organizations in developing leaders and achieving key results.

The Self Track^TM Training

helps people embrace their own accountability for achieving organizational results.

The Culture Track^TM Training

accelerates the change in your organizational culture to produce the results you need now.

The Others Track^TM Training

teaches people to effectively hold others accountable for results in a positive, principled way so that they successfully deliver on expectations.

Decades of Dramatic Success

For over two decades, Partners In Leadership has 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 has been dramatic producing growth, profitability and shareholder returns that are truly record-breaking.

Their clients include all 13 of the "Most admired" pharmaceutical companies in the world, almost half of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and nearly half of the Fortune 50 largest 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.

We have been the premier provider of Accountability Training services throughout the world for over two decades.

The Oz Principle is ranked as one of the top 5 bestselling business books in the "Leadership" and "Performance" categories since its initial publication.

The Oz Principle Accountability Training is used at the White House Executive Office of the President of the United States

The Executive Office of the President has 1800 employees that support the President, First Lady and the Vice President. These functions include the travel office, mailroom, security, IT, accounting, finance, budget and facilities. All managers and directors of these functions have been trained.

Employees are on-call 24/7 and constantly deal with urgent matters and live in a world of high expectations for accuracy and follow through. There is a common thread of loyalty, proficiency and professionalism amongst them. As one IT manager said: "The President's expectation is that his Blackberry will always be connected and our job is to ensure that." Another manager said, "I always know where the President is and ensure travel plans are in coordination with his support team, security and the military."

How is The Oz Principle helping the team at The Executive Office of the President?

The training is being used to increase efficiencies between functions to help prevent the tendency to get bogged down in the activity of the job. The common language of accountability is also helping employees to deal with the unique work-life balance issues that are unique to this environment. In addition, Focused Feedback is providing a pattern of feedback that enhances communication and accountability.

Steps To Accountability posters, from The Oz Principle Accountability Training, hang in offices of those who support the President of the United States of America, the Office of the First Lady and the Vice President.

Over a million people have been trained in the Partners In Leadership Accountability Training.

All 13 of the world's 13 largest pharmaceutical companies utilize the Accountability Training.

Our training has produced several billion dollars worth of equity, revenue and cost savings for our clients.

We have thousands of clients in over 50 countries.

Our books and training materials have been translated into over 14 languages.

Partners In Leadership is the premier provider of accountability training services for many notable clients. See the partial list below of some of these outstanding organizations that utilize The Self Track^™, The Culture Track^™ and The Others Track^™ Training's:

Hormel Foods, one of the largest food manufacturers on the Fortune 500 list.
Halliburton, the world's largest provider of products and services to the energy industry.
Gilead Sciences, ranked by BusinessWeek as #1 in its annual listing of the 50 Best-Performing Companies.
Finisar, the global leader in fiber optics.
Falken Tire, the fastest growing Tire company in the world.
El Paso Gas, the operator of the largest gas transportation system in the United States.
Dole Packaged Foods, the global leader in fruit and nutrition.
DFW Airport, the third busiest airport in the world.
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, a leading children's charity.
Celebrity Cruise Lines, deemed in a readers survey, as having 7 of the 10 "World's Greatest Ships."
Cabela's, world's largest direct marketer of outdoor related merchandise.
Brinker International, one of Fortunes "most admired companies."
Hilton Hotels, the global leader in hospitality, welcoming more guests in more countries than any other full-service hotel brand.
Abiomed Europe, launched the world's smallest heart pump.
Accor North America (Motel 6), the largest owned and operated hotel chain in the United States.
The American Heart Association, one of the most recognized and longest standing and largest non-profit organizations in the world.
Apple, one of the most admired companies in the world.
Architects Hawaii, the NAIOP Hawaii Architecture Firm of the Year, also named as one of Hawaii Business Magazine's Top 20 Best Places to Work; named on the Zweig White Hot Firm list as one of the 150 fastest-growing US and Canadian firms.
Astellas, the second largest pharmaceutical company in Japan.
American Youth Soccer Association (AYSO), with over 50,000 teams, 250,000 volunteers and more than 650,000 players.
Wal-Mart, with over 2 million associates.
Barilla, recognized as one of the best run companies in Italy.
Jacob's Engineering, the 3rd largest engineering firm on the Fortune 500 list.
Johnson and Johnson, the world's largest medical device company and sixth largest consumer health company.
Kellogg's, the world's leading producer of cereal and convenience foods.
Kroger, one of the largest retail food companies in the United States.
Lockheed Martin, the largest provide of IT services to the US Government.
McKesson, the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America, distributing one-third of the medicines used in North America.
New's Corp Dow Jones, the largest and most successful news media organization in the world and producers of the Wall Street Journal and Barons Magazine.
New York Presbyterian Hospital, one of the top 5 hospitals in the country.
Northrup Grumman, 4th largest defense contractor in the world.
Oak Grove, one of the first 50 NASA Explorer Schools and the only special education school in the country to be a NASA Explorer School.
Ocean Optic's, inventor of the world's first miniature spectrometer delivered all around the world with one on the Moon and one on Mars.
Overlake Hospital, voted the "Favorite Health Care Company" in the Pacific Northwest.
Philpotts & Associates, who received the top Best In Show Award from the IIDA (International Interior Design Association) for work they did restoring the famous landmark Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki Beach.
Roche Pharmaceuticals, largest diagnostic company in the world.
US Social Security Administration, world's largest retirement organization.
Sony, 5th largest media conglomerate in the world.
St. Mary's Medical Center, for the seventh consecutive year was named the most preferred hospital in Southern California's High Desert/Victor Valley region.
Starbucks, the largest coffeehouse company in the world.
Troon Golf, the largest golf management company in the world.
USA Track and Field, the world's oldest organized sport.
Valassis, the nation's leading media and marketing services company.
Pfizer, the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company. Among many applications, Pfizer used the Self Track Training to launch Lipitor, the top-selling branded pharmaceutical in the world.
Lilly, consistently ranked as one of the best companies in the world to work for.
Boston Scientific, one of the world's largest medical device companies dedicated to less-invasive medicine.
Oak Grove, one of the first 50 NASA Explorer Schools and the only Special Education school in the country to be a NASA Explorer School.
Guidant launched the world's leading stent platform, was listed in the Fortune 500, was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the Best Companies to Work For in America, and was included in Industry Week Magazine's 100 Best Managed Companies in the World.

...And hundreds of other Fortune 500 and well-known companies who are leaders in their industries globally.

Three Bestselling Books

Partners In Leadership has authored three New York Times Bestselling books. Their first, The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability, has been published in Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Adrian Zacheim, President and Portfolio Publishing (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 of the last 15 years."

Partners In Leadership has also published the bestselling book, Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results. 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 About Us

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.

Partners In Leadership has offices in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Washington State, Texas, and Utah. Corporate headquarters are located in Temecula, California.

The Accountability Training® Company

The Self TrackTM Training

The Culture TrackTM Training

The Others TrackTM Training