Stew Friedman has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984. As founding director of The Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses. He is also founding director of Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He has been recognized twice as one of HR’s Most Influential International Thinkers and as one of the “world’s top 50 business thinkers” three times by Thinkers50. In 2015 he won Thinkers50’s Distinguished Achievement Award in the talent management field. He was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents, and was recently honored by the Families and Work Institute with the Work Life Legacy Award. Professor Friedman’s most recent book is “Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life”, a Wall Street Journal best-seller.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania