Blaine Bartlett is CEO and President of Avatar Resources, a global leadership development and consulting firm he founded in 1987. He has coached and consulted worldwide with executives, companies, and governments and has personally delivered training programs to more than a quarter of a million individuals and has directly impacted more than one million people worldwide.

Blaine is considered a major innovative voice in leadership development, organizational development and change management. He has been a guest lecturer on enterprise leadership development at China’s prestigious Tsing Hua University, a featured speaker at the World Congress of Human Resource Management and the featured keynote speaker at the opening plenary session of the China Enterprise Coaching Association.

Blaine is an Adjunct Professor at Beijing University, Managing Director of the Global Coaching Alliance, the Founder of the Institute for Compassionate Capitalism, and a longtime member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He is also a member of the teaching faculty of the American Association for Physician Leadership and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Unstoppable Foundation and the World Business Academy and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the All Japan Management Coaching Association and the Asia Coaching and Mentoring Association. He is certified as an executive, organizational and master somatic coach and in 2012, Blaine was formally invested as a Knight of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights of Malta, the world’s oldest humanitarian organization.

Blaine is the author of four books – the #1 international best-seller Compassionate Capitalism: A Journey to the Soul of Business, Discover Your Inner Strength written in collaboration with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard and Brian Tracy, and the best-selling Three-Dimensional Coaching: Moving Passion into Performance. His latest book is Tapping the Soul of Business – The Key to Employee Engagement.

You can find more about Blaine at his personal website blainebartlett.com, his company website avatar-resources.com, his podcast The Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett or by reading his blog at idealsinmotion.com.