Primary Job Title Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change Emeritus Primary Organization Stanford Graduate School of Business
Location Stanford, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Dr. Porras is the Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change Emeritus at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He has taught courses in leadership, interpersonal dynamics, and organizational development and change in the MBA and executive programs. Dr. Porras directed the School’s Executive Program on Leading and Managing
Change for 16 years. During the period 1988 to 2001 he served as the University’s Faculty Athletic Representative to the Pacific-10 Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association and on two occasions was President of the Pacific-10 Conference Council. From 1991 to 1994 he was an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the GSB. Dr. Porras is the author of Stream Analysis: A Powerful New Way to Diagnose and Manage Organizational Change, as well as co-author of the best sellers, Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters and Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, which has sold over one million copies worldwide and has been translated into 35 languages. A student of organizational change, Dr. Porras has helped numerous clients around the world improve their organizational performance. As a lecturer on visionary companies he has delivered presentations to over 200 senior management audiences worldwide. Dr. Porras served on the board of directors of the State Farm Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm Life Insurance Company, State Farm General Insurance Company, Quaker Fabric, and ReloAction, and is currently an advisory board member of the Decurion Corporation and a member of the Knight Commission.
