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 Greater 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.