John Spence, LLC is the support team for internationally recognized thought leader, author, keynote speaker and executive trainer John Spence. For more than 20 years John has delivered training, speeches, workshops and coaching to more than 300 companies around the world including such firms as Microsoft, Apple, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Coca-Cola and dozens of privately held companies, not for profits and associations.John has twice been named by Trust Across America as one of the Top 100 Business Thought Leaders in America and has been recognized by that organization on their global list of the top 100 Thought Leaders in the area of "Trustworthy Business Behavior." Other recipients of this award include: Sir Richard Branson - CEO of the Virgin Group, Howard Schultz - CEO of Starbucks, Tony Hsieh - CEO of Zappos, acclaimed business consultant Ram Charan, internationally renowned author Thomas L. Friedman, and business authors Patrick Lencioni, Tom Peters, Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jim Kouzes. John has also been selected as one of the top 100 Small Business Influencers in America and as one of the top 500 leadership development experts in the world.John is the author of four books and co-author of several more and has been a guest lecturer at over 90 colleges and universities across the United States including Harvard, Cornell, Stanford and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an instructor at the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at MIT. John currently serves as the Director of Best Practice Innovation for the Best Practice Institute