Larry Ackerman is a leading authority on organizational and personal identity. He is the founder and president of The Identity Circle LLC, a consulting and coaching company based in Westport, Connecticut. The firm helps organizations and individuals improve their performance, impact and reputations.

Larry has published two ground-breaking books on identity. In his first book, Identity Is Destiny: Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation (Berrett-Koehler, 2000), the author set forth a revolutionary view of the nature of identity and its impact on leadership and management. In his second book, The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World (Random House, 2006), Larry asserts that we “cannot be anything we want to be;” but rather, that personal fulfillment comes when we live by the ‘identity code’ that defines our unique value-creating potential.

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