Bill George

Bill George is an executive education fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has been a professor of management practice and senior fellow teaching leadership and governance since 2004.

Bill is the former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic. He is the author of True North: Emerging Leader Edition and four best-selling leadership books. He has served on the boards of Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target, and the Mayo Clinic. He is a life director of the Guthrie Theater, and a board member of YMCA of the North.

He received his BSIE from Georgia Tech and his MBA from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar. He has received five honorary PhDs, including Georgia Tech and Mayo Clinic.