Bruce Tulgan

Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. He is a best-selling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer.

Since 1995, Tulgan has worked with tens of thousands of leaders and managers in hundreds of organizations ranging from Aetna to Wal-Mart, from the Army to the YMCA. He has been called "the new Tom Peters" by many who have seen him speak. In recent years, he was named by Management Today as one of the few contemporary figures to stand out as a "management guru" and was named to the 2009 Thinkers 50 Rising Star List (the definitive global ranking of the world's top 50 business thinkers). In August 2009, Tulgan was honored to accept Toastmasters International's most prestigious honor, the Golden Gavel. This honor is annually presented to a single person who represents excellence in the fields of communication and leadership. Past winners have included Marcus Buckingham, Stephen Covey, Zig Ziglar, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Ken Blanchard, Tom Peters, Art Linkletter, Dr. Joyce Brothers, and Walter Cronkite.

Tulgan's newest book is It's Okay to Manage Your Boss. He is also the author of the recent bestseller It's Okay to Be the Boss, as well as the classic Managing Generation X. Other books include Winning the Talent Wars, which received widespread acclaim from Fortune 500 CEOs and business journalists; the bestseller Fast Feedback; Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y; and Managing the Generation Mix. Many of Tulgan's works have been published around the world in foreign editions.

Tulgan pens a regular online column for The New York Daily News and his writing appears regularly in human resources, staffing, and management journals. His writing has also appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, HR Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. In addition, his work has been the subject of thousands of news stories around the world.

Before founding RainmakerThinking in 1993, Tulgan practiced law at the Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College, received his law degree from the New York University School of Law, and is still a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and New York. He continues his lifelong study of Okinawan Uechi Ryu Karate Do and holds a fourth degree black belt.