Maureen Metcalf, the Founder and CEO of the Innovative Leadership Institute, is a highly sought-after expert in anticipating and leveraging business trends. She helps leaders elevate their leadership quality and transform their organizations to create sustainable impact and results. As a preeminent change agent, Ms. Metcalf has set strategic direction and helped her clients transform their organizations to deliver significant business results such as increased profitability, cycle time reduction, improved quality, and increased employee effectiveness. She captured her thirty years of experience and success in an award-winning series of books used by public, private, and academic organizations to align company-wide strategy, systems, and culture with innovative leadership techniques. She is a Fellow of the International Leadership Association. She also serves on the Advisory Board at the Mason Leadership Center at Franklin University and the School of Strategic Leadership at James Madison University. Franklin University granted her an Honorary Doctorate in Community Leadership to acknowledge her contribution to the field of leadership. She shares her hard-won insights through conference speaking, industry publications, radio shows and podcasts, and video presentations for years. She is a regularly featured author for Forbes.com. In addition, she hosts one of the top global leadership podcasts, Innovating Leadership, Co-creating our Future. She is the author of an international award-winning book series on Innovative Leadership, including the recently released Innovative Leaders For Health Care. Before founding Metcalf & Associates, she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture across various industries, building strong business acumen and consulting skills.