Judith E. Glaser, CEO

Judith E. Glaser is one of the most innovative and pioneering change agents in the consulting industry. She is the world’s leading authority on WE-centric Leadership. Through her dynamic, interactive and provocative keynotes and leadership summits, she has introduced her powerful transformative technologies to CEO’s and their teams at major Fortune 500 companies. In 2007 Benchmark launched the Creating WE Institute to offer new partnering and research opportunities to enable clients to expand WE-centric thinking in their organizations.

Through Benchmark’s innovative Creating WE technologies, leaders are helped to address challenges at the intersection of culture, leadership, and brand. Executives learn to set and achieve new benchmarks for success resulting in higher levels of profitability, expanded market share, and a renewed vision for the future. Judith draws upon her deep expertise in neuroscience, human behavior and development, psychology, anthropology, linguistics and transformational social sciences, to help clients “graft” new practices into their culture, enabling them to discover their DNA and reshape their company's ‘genetic code’ for success.

Benchmark Communications, Inc.
Judith founded Benchmark Communications, Inc., in 1980 as a firm that works with CEOs and their teams, helping them focus on competitive challenges in a world of moving targets – with a direct line of sight to the customer. Benchmark's clients span a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, fashion, retail, consumer goods, finance, technology, communications, consulting, entertainment and manufacturing. These include clients such as: Time Inc., Ferragamo, AXA Equitable, MSNBC, Barclays, News Corp., Clairol, Inc., Reed Elsevier, Merrill Lynch, PR Newswire, Siemens, Pfizer, Coach, Inc., Liz Claiborne, Lipton, VeriSign, Thomson Financial, Novartis, Verizon, Citibank, Donna Karan International, Champion International, and Exide Technologies.

Books
Her two books Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking & Build a Healthy Thriving Organization and The DNA of Leadership (Platinum Press, an imprint of Adams Media), made the Amazon Business Book Best Seller Lists in 2005 and 2006 and were also selected by both Forbes and Business Book Review as two of the top business books of 2005 and 2006. Creating WE has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Russian and The DNA of Leadership has been translated into Spanish. In 2008, Creating We won the Bronze Award as one of the top leadership books of 2008, from the prestigious Axiom Business Book Awards.

Media
Judith has appeared on the NBC Today Show, ABC World News, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News Channel, News 12 Connecticut, NY1, Martha Stewart Show and the Family Network talking about WE-centric Leadership, Bully Bosses and Culture Transformation. She has been quoted many times in the NY Times, WSJ, Crain’s, Newsday, NJ Star Ledger, Harvard Management Review, AMA World and other print media talking about her revolutionary workplace approaches. She is a contributing Editor of Executive Excellence Magazine. In 2006 she was listed in the Excellence Top 100 Consultants, and in 2007 she was selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders on the subject of Leadership. In addition, Benchmark was selected by Executive Excellence as one of the top small consulting firms specializing in leadership.

Background, Boards & Honors
Judith earned a B.A. from Temple University in Interdisciplinary Studies and a M.S. in Human Behavior & Development from Drexel University, where she was a Research Fellow. She has earned credits from Harvard University’s Bales School of Social Relations, with a focus on Organizational Studies, and she later received a Master’s Certificate in Corporate and Political Communications from Fairfield University.

Judith is a principal Faculty Member and Board Member of The Liminal Group. She served as an Adjunct Professor at Wharton, visiting guest speaker at Harvard, Kellogg, Loyola, University of Chicago, NYU, IIT, the University of Stellenbosch in S.A., and other universities. She was awarded the Benno Curtis Entrepreneur of the Year and Quality Consultant Award. She is currently on the boards of the We Are Family Foundation, WITH (Woman in Transition Helping and Healing), and was a founding member of The Executive Woman’s Business Forum. She was awarded Business Woman of the Year in New York City in 2004 and in 2006 she was inducted into the Temple University Gallery of Success.

Other Books: Random House Book of Business Terms; Ultimate Power; Discovering the Power of We. DVD: The Leadership Secret of Gregory Goose.