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Since 1984, Ken has served as editor and publisher of Executive Excellence magazine, the world's leading executive advisory newsletter, and Personal Excellence magazine. During these past 16 years, he has written more than 1,000 articles, interviews, commentaries, and reviews for a variety of business publications; he has also edited and published over 40 books on business ethics, management, and leadership as chairman and editor-in-chief of Executive Excellence Publishing. For 10 years, he also provided services as a literary agent for business books.

As a speaker and trainer, Ken travels the world. In recent months, he has been a featured speaker in the United States at business and leadership conferences in New York, Florida, California, Ohio, and Georgia and outside the states at Management conferences in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Madrid, Spain; Mexico City, Mexico; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Singapore; Hong Kong; Frankfurt, Germany; Sidney, Melbourn, and Perth, Australia; Istanbul, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; Sterling and Aberdeen, Scotland; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ken has been interviewed by a number of business print media, including Inc. , Harvard Business Review , Business Week , Fortune , Forbes , New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Working Women , Success , and Bottom Line . He has also been featured on dozens of radio and television programs worldwide.

Ken has a Master's degree in Organizational Communications from San Diego State University. While living in San Diego, California, he worked four years in marketing and management for General Dynamics aerospace (1975 to 1979). He also worked four years as assistant director of University Relations for Brigham Young University (1979 to 1983). Ken and his wife Pam are the parents of three sons and now live in Provo, Utah.

Ken Shelton

Ken Shelton