Gerald M Czarnecki

Gerald M. Czarnecki has spent more than four decades at the intersection of corporate leadership, governance, and institutional reform.

He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Deltennium Group and the founder of the National Leadership Institute. He chairs the board of McInnis Brothers Construction, a company owned entirely by its employees, which informs the ownership argument at the center of his newest book. His career has run from bank operations to Senior Vice President of IBM and chief executive of several banks, and he has served on the State Farm Board of Directors and twice as Chairman of National University.

His new book, Citizens or Subjects?, argues that two forces are arriving in the same decade: technology able to produce wealth without human labor, and a widening break with the Founders' conviction that rights precede government. Their collision, he warns, could leave Americans comfortable, managed, and no longer self-governing.

Gerry Czarnecki (also known as "The Leadership Czar") is the co-founder of The National Leadership Institute (NLI), Former Chairman of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Florida Chapter, Former President & CEO of O2 Media, and the Chairman, CEO of The Deltennium Group, nationally recognized for offering leadership consulting, career coaching, financial planning and investment management services. Gerry also served as a member of the Board of Directors of State Farm Insurance Company and was Chairman of the Audit Committee for over 17 years.

With over 40 years of experience as a leader, C level and senior executive in Fortune 100 companies (like IBM and Bank of America), privately held companies, closely held public companies and large and small non-profits, Gerry has been consistently committed to sharing his experience and vision by coaching organizations to achieve peak performance through effective leadership, focused strategy, superior organization and sound financial management. His enlightening management philosophy has led to the writing of his books: "Success Principles for Leaders", "You're in Charge...what now?", "You're a non-profit director...what now?" , Success Principles, "Lead with Love", Leadership is Just One Thing After Another, and his latest, Take Two and Call Me in THe Morning, due to publish on April 1, 2013.

He lives with his wife, Lois, in Boca Raton, Florida.