Stewart Emery is Co-Founder President of Belvedere Consultants, a boutique consulting firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Belvedere supports individuals and organizations in turning their talent into world class performance and enduring success. Core competencies include designing Coherent Organizational Cultures to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, Executive Leadership Team Development, Radical Mentoring and Executive Performance Coaching.
He was a protagonist of the iconic MaterCard Priceless campaign.
Stewart is co-author of the international bestseller, Success Built to Last. He has a lifetime of experience as an entrepreneur, executive coach and leader, and is considered a thought leader of the Human Potential Movement. Stewart has served as Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy University School of Management and led programs at the Stanford Business School. Over the last 25 years Stewart has led thousands of employees and hundreds of managers around the world through Vision - Values - Strategy - Leadership initiatives based on the research from the international best sellers "Built to Last" (Collins and Porras), "Good to Great" (Collins) and "Success Built to Last" (Porras, Emery and Thompson). This body of work is developed from the most comprehensive research project ever undertaken into what makes a great company great, how good companies become great and the traits of the enduringly successful leaders who build great companies. Author of a series of best selling books, Stewart has led workshops, seminars and delivered keynotes all over the world.
His bestselling book Do You Matter? – How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company was released in September 2008. Coauthored with iconic designer Robert Brunner, who founded Apple’s legendary Industrial Design Group and hired Jony Ive, it is considered a business book that does matter.
A wonderful story teller with a great sense of humor, Stewart has appeared as a featured guest on television and radio talk shows. He has conducted coaching interviews with more than 12,000 people in the last three decades.