Louis Carter is CEO and President of Best Practice Institute, an association and management consulting firm specializing in helping organizations and C-suite senior executives achieve their market strategy through organization learning, action learning, and HR SaaS software. He is the creator of bestpracticeinstitute.org, a social networking, learning and benchmarking platform providing immediate access to industry companies, on-demand learning and senior executives executives, alongside its skillrater.com, a next generation SaaS anytime 360-degree tool using social collaboration, a top HR Product of the year by Human Resources Executive Magazine. Author of nearly a dozen books on best practices and organizational leadership. Published by Jossey Bass/John Wiley and Sons, they include Change Champions, Best Practices in Talent Management, Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change and Leading the Global Workforce. In his speaking career, he has taught at the Tsinghua School of Business and People's University in Beijing, Jackson State University, Seton Hall University and Universal Network Intelligence (UNI) in Asia. Louis is widely sought after as an expert in the field where he helps corporations meet mission requirements. He has been quoted and profiled by Fast Company, Investor's Business Daily, Business Watch Magazine, Pando Daily and CIO Magazine; while his research and teaching has been translated across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North & South America. He has held numerous advisor, facilitation and acceleration roles focusing on public relations, research, and technology consulting. View more about Best Practice Institute at: http://www.bestpracticeinstitute.org and http://www.skillrater.com