Dr. Stephen R. Covey, founder and chairman of the Covey Leadership Center (CLC), has made teaching principle-centered living and leadership his life’s work. A respected author, lecturer, teacher and organizational consultant, Dr. Covey holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, where he was a professor of organizational behavior and business management and had served as administrative assistant to the president and director of university relations. For more than 25 years, he has taught millions of individuals in business, government and education, the transforming power principles rooted in unchanging natural laws that govern human and organizational effectiveness.
Dr. Covey is the author of several acclaimed books including, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a New York Times #1 bestseller, which has also been on the Business Week, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly best-seller list for more than four years and has sold more than six million copies in 28 languages and 72 countries throughout the world. His book Principle-Centered Leadership, is one of the best selling business books of the decade. In its first year, Dr. Covey’s recent book, First Things First, doubled the hardcover sales that The 7 Habits achieved in the same time period.

Among recent acknowledgements, Dr. Covey has received the Wilbur M. McFeely Award from the International Management council for significant contributions to management and education; the 1994 International Entrepreneur of the Year Award; the 1994 Toastmaster’s International Top Speaker Award; the 1994 Sales and Marketing Executives International Tops in Marketing Award; the first Thomas More College medallion for continued service to humanity; and Inc. magazine’s Regional Products and Services Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Dr. Covey’s organizational legacy to the world is the Covey Leadership Center, founded with the vision of teaching organizations to implement and embody Principle-Center Leadership deeply into their culture. Appearing on the 1994 Inc. 500 List of the Fastest Growing Companies, CLC’s client portfolio includes half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of small and mid-size companies. Programs taught by Covey Leadership Center associates in more than 75 cities in North America and 40 countries worldwide reach an estimated quarter of a million people annually. The Center has created pilot partnerships with several cities seeking to become principle-centered communities. CLC associates are teaching The 7 Habits to teachers and administrators in more than 3,000 school districts and universities nationwide, while comprehensive statewide initiatives have been formed with education leaders in 27 states.

Seven hundred Covey Leadership Center associates and thousands of client facilitators worldwide join Dr. Covey in his commitment to empower people and organizations with the principles necessary to create high-trust, high-performance cultures. Dr. Covey’s belief that effective, useful and peaceful lives result from one’s proactive influence and unselfish service to society is expressed well in a favorite statement by George Bernard: "This is the true joy of life...being used for a purpose recognized by your self as a mighty one...being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It’s a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

The Covey Leadership Center offers a wide range of seminars, audio and video cassettes, time management tools and other services designed to help empower individuals and organizations with effectiveness.

Enterprise Media distributes the PBS Special The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which is not meant to take the place of these principle centered teaching and development tools. For more information, please call the Covey Leadership Center at 1-800-229-1333.
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