Geoff Colvin

Experience counts in serious times. For four decades at Fortune, Geoff Colvin has covered the economic, political, technological, and competitive forces disrupting business and how top leaders and companies adapt and transform to win in spite of them. The big takeaway, Colvin says, is that winning companies and leaders summon the courage to act -- they stop protecting the past and start inventing the future -- and they confront this reality faster than the competition. As business leaders face their biggest challenge ever, Colvin is the voice of experience who shines a light, revealing a clearer path for an uncertain future.

As Fortune‘s senior editor-at-large, Colvin is now in his fourth decade at the magazine. He is one of business journalism’s sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership, management, globalization, government regulation, corporate governance, competition, the economy, the infotech revolution, human performance, and related issues. His columns and cover stories for Fortune have earned him millions of loyal fans. Many of them also hear him dispense critical business insights on the CBS Radio Network, where he reaches seven million listeners each week.

As a speaker, Colvin has engaged hundreds of audiences around the world. He is also a panel moderator, emcee, and interviewer whose subjects have included Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Janet Yellen, Henry Kissinger, Richard Branson, the Prince of Wales, Bill Gates, Colin Powell, Jack Welch, Alan Greenspan, Ted Turner, Warren Buffett, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and many others.

Colvin is a respected author whose groundbreaking international bestseller, "Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else," has been published in a dozen languages. "The Upside of the Downturn: Management Strategies for Difficult Times" was named “Best Management Book of the Year” by Strategy + Business magazine. "Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will" is based on the idea in his wildly popular article “In the Future Will There Be Any Work Left for People to Do?” and looks at the trend of advancing technology performing ever more tasks better than the people who perform them.