About the Author

Bill Treasurer is founder and chief encouragement officer (CEO) of Giant Leap Consulting, a courage-building training consulting firm. Treasurer is the author of Courage Goes to Work, an internationally best-selling book that introduces the new organizational development practice of courage building. He is also the author of the world’s first off-the-shelf courage training program, Courageous Leadership: A Program for Using Courage to Transform the Workplace. More information about this pioneering program can be found at www.CourageBuilding.com.

Bill also wrote A Leadership Kick in the Ass, which focuses on humility as a fundamental leadership attribute. Renowned author Jim Kouzes called the book “one of the most unique and valuable books you will read all year.”

Bill’s book Leaders Open Doors, published in 2014, focuses on the responsibility of leaders to provide people with opportunities that cause them to grow and develop. Upon release, it became the number-one leadership training book on Amazon. Treasurer donates 100 percent of the royalties from the sale of this book to programs that support children with special needs. Learn more at www.LeadersOpenDoors.com.

Bill is the coauthor, with retired Navy SEAL Captain John Havlik, of The Leadership Killer, which focuses on the damage done by the single most lethal leadership character flaw: hubris. Learn more at www.LeadershipKiller.com.

Bill’s first book, Right Risk, helps readers take smart and calculated risks. The book, which received endorsements from leadership gurus Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, draws from Bill’s experiences as a leadership development consultant and a former captain of the U.S. High Diving Team. Bill has performed more than fifteen hundred dives from heights that scaled to over one hundred feet. The cover of Right Risk has a picture of Bill performing a dive while engulfed in flames!

Prior to founding Giant Leap Consulting, Bill was an executive in the change management and human performance practice at Accenture, a $35 billion management consulting firm. Bill became the first full-time internal executive coach at Accenture, where he coached senior executives to become more courageous leaders.

Bill holds a master of science degree from the University of Wisconsin and attended West Virginia University on a full scholarship.

For over two decades Bill has designed and delivered leadership and succession planning programs for experienced and emerging leaders for clients such as NASA, Accenture, eBay, Saks Fifth Avenue, Hugo Boss, UBS Bank, Lenovo, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Learn more at www.GiantLeapConsulting.com and www.BillTreasurer.com.