For more than forty years, Dr. Ichak Kalderon Adizes has developed, tested and documented the proprietary methodology that bears his name. The Adizes Methodology for Organizational transformation provides tools for corporations, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to achieve exceptional results and manage accelerated change without destructive conflict.

Dr. Adizes is the founder and CEO of the Adizes Institute, an international change management company based in Santa Barbara, California, that delivers the Adizes Program for Organizational Transformation to clients in the public and private sectors. In addition to advising Dr. Ichak Adizes United States prime ministers and cabinet-level officers across the world, Dr. Adizes has administered the Adizes program to a wide variety of companies ranging from startups to members of the Fortune 100. Dr. Adizes lectures in four languages and has appeared before well over two hundred fifty-thousand senior-level executives in more than fifty-two countries. His book Corporate Lifecycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do About It (subsequently revised, expand- ed, and republished as Managing Corporate Lifecycles) was named one of the Ten Best Business Books by Library Journal. He is an international bestseller and has published twenty-six books translated into a combined total of thirty-six languages. Dr. Adizes is married with six grown children. Living in Santa Barbara California, he loves to play the accordion, practice yoga, and Heartful meditation.