Andy Boynton spends most of his time in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, as the dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Working daily with a terrific group of colleagues to shape a business school for the future, Andy has an opportunity almost every day to try out some of his ideas about leading and energizing talented knowledge professionals and experts.. In his spare time, he looks for new and fun projects to work on. He is active with research, writes a book now and then, and collaborates with executives in different industries on projects such as strengthening a firm’s leadership ranks, igniting teamwork, creating new strategies, and stimulating innovation in challenging bureaucratic settings. Before coming back to Boston College (he’s a proud alum), Andy spent over ten years at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland—simply the best executive education institute in the world—leading executive education programs and founding their global Executive MBA program. He also was a faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where he also earned his MBA and Ph.D.) and taught at the University of Virginia’s Darden School. Andy now lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with his wife Jane and son Evan. Their other three sons—Ian, Dylan, and Owen—are at college or in their early career stages hunting for ideas that will create their future.