Biography
John C. Beck is President of the North Star Leadership Group, Senior Research Fellow at University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, Senior Advisor and Chief Innovation Officer at Arizona State University, and is also Senior Advisor to Cambodia's Minister of Public Works and Transportation. He also served as the Dean of Globis University – the first non-Japanese to lead a bilingual university in Japan – and as a Professor and Senior Advisor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He was formerly Director of International Research at Accenture and a Senior Advisor at Monitor Group for a couple of decades.
John earned his BA in East Asian Studies and Sociology summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was the first graduate of Harvard’s integrative PhD program in Organizational Behavior. He has taught at Harvard, UCLA, USC, Thunderbird, Ivey, IMD (Switzerland), IPADE (Mexico) and ESMT (Germany). He was the originator of The Economist’s Business Professor of the Year award. Dr Beck has advised several presidents and prime ministers during his career.
John has hundreds of articles and ten books including the award-winning and business best-sellers: Good vs Good, The Attention Economy and The Kids are Alright. His books have been translated into eleven languages. He has appeared on CNN, CBS Evening News, BBC, Fox News and National Public Radio. He is quoted and cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Atlantic and other leading papers and magazines. Currently he is working on building video games to replace entire MBA programs (www.thelearning.studio).
