Michael Fullan

Michael Fullan was born in Toronto, Ontario, the eldest of seven hockey-playing boys. He turned in his skates for books at the age of 18, and slowly worked his way into academia earning a PhD in sociology in 1969. Michael Fullan is currently Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and is Special Adviser on Education to Dalton McGuinty, the Premier of Ontario. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Nipissing University in Canada; and Newman University College, Birmingham, England.

Fullan served as dean of the faculty of education at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 2003, leading two major organizational transformations, including a merger of two large schools of education. He is currently working as adviser and consultant on several major education-reform initiatives around the world. His work is based on how large-scale reform can be successfully accomplished.

He bases his work on how practice drives practice drawn from both the public and private sectors, finding an increasing convergence in this best of this literature. He has written several bestsellers on leadership and change that have been translated into many languages. His recent books are: The Six Secrets of Change (Jossey-Bass), Motion Leadership: The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy (Corwin Press), Motion Leadership the Movie (SINET-Corwin), All Systems Go (Corwin), The Moral Imperative Realized (Corwin), and The Change Leader (Jossey-Bass).