Dr. Mario Moussa is a successful author, keynote speaker, and management consultant who teaches in the Executive Programs at the Wharton School of Business. He advises senior leaders about top team effectiveness, organizational culture, and large-scale change initiatives. He has delivered workshops on leadership, strategic persuasion and collaboration to thousands of executives in New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, London, Istanbul, and other major cities around the world. His work has been featured on National Public Radio as well as Time Magazine, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, HR Magazine, The Harvard Management Update, The Financial Times, and leading industry publications.

As a Fellow of Executive Education at the Wharton School, Dr. Moussa has led the design of customized leadership development programs for organizations in a wide variety of sectors, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, energy, healthcare, higher education, and government. By connecting the classroom and the boardroom, he closes the gap between cutting-edge research and professional experience. His work is based on simple, repeatable techniques that deliver results in today’s turbulent business climate.

In his latest book Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance, he and co-authors Madeline Boyer and Derek Newberry use vivid stories and extensive first-hand research from Wharton’s Executive Development Program (EDP) to describe a process for building great teams. Dr. Moussa’s first book The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas, co-written with G. Richard Shell, has been critically acclaimed for its clear and effective methodology. Dr. Moussa lives in Center City, Philadelphia with his wife and their three children.

G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest book, The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career (HarperCollins Leadership), shows readers how to stand up for their core beliefs when the pressure is on to look the other way. His award-winning Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People (Penguin) is now in its third edition in multiple languages, and Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success (Portfolio 2013) was named Business Book of the Year in the USA and was short-listed for Management Book of the Year by the British Library. He is also author of The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas (Portfolio 2007) (with Mario Moussa) and Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will (Crown Business 2004). He serves as Director of Wharton's Executive Negotiation Workshop and Strategic Persuasion Workshop. He has won multiple teaching and scholarly awards, had his work cited by the United States Supreme Court, and taught people from all walks of professional life, from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 CEOs to FBI hostage negotiators, Navy SEALs, and United Nations peacekeepers.