Behnam Tabrizi is a leading global business consultant, bestselling author, award-winning teacher, and a respected scholar. As an advisor to many Fortune 500 companies, he has worked with CEOs and senior executives in leading change and achieving breakthrough results.

He has advised over thousands of leaders in over 20 industries on their organizational transformations, including IBM, GE, Aramark, Ciba Geigy, Hewlett Packard, Gap, Intel, LexisNexis, Honeywell, Genentech, Oracle, Starbucks, Applied Material, Gymboree, Cisco, Li & Fung, Haier, China Mobile, and Li Ning. He has also served as a senior advisor to the U.S. President’s transition team, and the President’s health and technology initiatives.

Dr. Tabrizi is the author of four books on corporate transformation – the latest one, Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change, is dubbed by Harvard Business Press as the “most popular” book and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Polish.

Tabrizi serves as a Consulting Professor in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University where he received the Tau Beta Pi award, among over 200 Faculty members, and the Teacher of the year award in his department. He is a favorite among executive educators, has held positions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as Harvard Business School, and has served as the Director of the Stanford mini-MBA executive program.

Tabrizi received B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and a PhD in Strategy, Organizations, and Technology Management from Stanford University.