What’s here for you?

If you’ve ever dreamed of doing something great in business…

If there’s something about leadership that you’re incredibly passionate about…

If you want to meet and support other people with big dreams…

Then this site will help you.

Are you ready?

Are you ready for your next leadership transition?

Make no mistake, although this site has my name on it, it’s all about your passion and drive to become a remarkable leader.

It’s about your next leadership transition, it’s about change and it’s about action.

Our strapline is Tomorrow’s What You Make It. And there’s a reason for that.

It’s about inspiring yourself and making great things happen. it’s about taking action right now. You don’t wait for permission to be a remarkable leader – you just do it.

It’s about living the life that you dream of living and doing the things you love doing. It’s about finding things that work and achieving things worth getting excited over.

It’s about meeting other passionate people and making even greater things happen together.

Who I am and how I can help you

My name is Steven Sonsino.

I’m a business school professor, a professional speaker and a bestselling business author based in London, England.

I love loud music, live theatre and great films. And I have a passion for people who believe in themselves. I hate leadersharks and leadersheep.

I believe that the drive to become a remarkable leader and to succeed in life is in all of us. I call it the Leadership Fire. (It’s the name of my weekly newsletter.) And the Leadership Fire is something we all should nurture, treasure and pursue. And yet so much of it goes to waste.

I teach and write and speak because I want to change that.

Will you join me?

Contact me

If you’d like to ask questions make suggestions or just connect with me, the Contact Page is probably the best way to do it. I’m always happy to help out however I can.

Alternatively you might also try looking me up on Twitter, on Facebook and on LinkedIn. Hit the big buttons on the left of this page to do that.

I promise to respond as quickly as I can, unless my support team gets to you first. Don’t forget to sign up for the Leadership Fire newsletter – that way you’ll be first to hear about new resources and success strategies. Type your name and your main email address in the boxes at the top of this page.

Now go and change the world. I’ll be watching.

Take care
Steven Sonsino

Official bio

Steven Sonsino is the bestselling author of ‘The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders’, a visiting professor at business schools all over the world and a motivational leadership speaker for chambers of commerce, charities and hundreds of global corporations.

Author of the Amazon business bestseller
‘The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders’

In a cheeky pun on Stephen Covey’s ‘Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’, Steven wrote ‘The Seven Failings of Really Useless Leaders’ with Jacqueline Moore, his wife and business partner.

The book reached number 2 on the business bestseller list in its first week on Amazon. The couple’s previous book, ‘Leadership Unplugged’, was described as ‘learned yet practical’ by Harvard Business Press.

International Leadership Speaker

Steven is regularly called on as a speaker and facilitator for major corporations and associations round the world. His client list includes financial institutions such as HSBC (UK) and Deutsche Bank (Germany), high-tech companies including Microsoft (USA) and Sanofi Aventis (France), and professional associations such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants (UK) and the Society for Human Resource Managers (USA).

Visiting Professor at Global Business Schools

Steven is a Fellow in the Centre for Management Development at London Business School. He was Director of the School’s flagship ‘Emerging Leaders Programme’ for three years. In 2002 he launched an informal consortium, the Tomorrow’s Leaders Research Group, featured in ‘People Management Magazine’ and ‘Business Strategy Review’.

Steven is a visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, the University of Porto Business School in Portugal, HEC in Paris and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. He is a regular speaker at the GeorgiaTech Conference Center in Atlanta, USA.

Regular Media Speaker

Steven is regularly interviewed by the world’s press and media and writes features for many major newspapers and websites. He also publishes his academic research in peer-reviewed journals and was recently highlighted as an ‘Emerging Scholar’ by the American Academy of Management. Before turning to leadership development in the early 1990s, Steven was an Editor and journalist writing for the Financial Times, New Scientist and The Guardian, among others. He also appears on TV and radio for the BBC and other European Broadcasters.

And Finally…

Steven was born in Manchester and still pays UK taxes, despite spending much of his life in airports outside of Britain. His wife Jacqueline thinks it is a miracle they have written three books together. Coincidentally, they also created three children together. This is also a miracle. (They are test-tube babies.)

In 1994, Steven received a National Training Award – ‘For Excellence in Training’ – from the Right Honourable Michael Portillo, then the British Secretary of State for Education and Science.

The award was presented by Steven’s childhood heroine Val Singleton, a British journalist and a famous Blue Peter TV presenter.

In 2010 Steven was shortlisted for another National Training Award, this time as a small part of the amazing leadership development team at Circle Anglia, a revolutionary British Housing Association.