The Authors
Who we are
An executive coach and a chief strategist, united by one question: What did the Best Bosses actually do to become so memorable?
Why we wrote this book
Think about the best boss you ever had. There’s a good chance you’re already smiling.
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No one has a greater effect on your working life than your boss, and over a career that adds up to something enormous. Between us, we have spent more than fifty years coaching executives and sitting in the boss’s chair ourselves, and one kind of leader always stood apart. Not the most charismatic or the most credentialed. We came to call that person the Best Boss.
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So we asked nearly a thousand people about theirs. What unites them is not who they are but how they lead. And nothing we found suggests they arrive fully formed: they are made through choices you can start making today.
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That idea is the heart of this book. We focus on the positive effect of the one leader you remember most fondly. We tell their stories, and we make it concrete. Most importantly, we make it learnable.
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Somewhere there is someone who will one day name you as their Best Boss. The work of becoming that person begins now.
Diane Scott, PCC
Diane Scott, PCC, is a graduate of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Program and an executive coach who has spent decades partnering with visionary leaders across Fortune 500 companies, healthcare systems, tech innovators, and public policy organizations worldwide. Her perspective stems from senior leadership roles in academic, nonprofit, and for-profit healthcare organizations, fifteen years as a healthcare finance lecturer at Loyola University, and a twenty-year collaboration with an Oxford-based consultancy on engagement at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Her impact reaches from Silicon Valley boardrooms to the United Nations, where she has trained African national leaders in conflict resolution. Diane hosts The Best Boss podcast and has authored more than fifty publications. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Aaron Bujnowski, DSc
Aaron M. Bujnowski, DSc, is a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal, where he advises health system leaders on strategy, growth, and transformation. He is the former system chief strategy officer of Texas Health Resources, a $6 billion integrated health system in Dallas-Fort Worth, where he spent nearly a decade and finished his tenure on the senior executive team. His career includes strategy consulting with the Boston Consulting Group and a decade in innovation at the Dow Chemical Company. He is an adjunct professor of strategy and marketing at Trinity University. He holds a Doctor of Science in healthcare leadership from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, an MBA with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin, and chemical engineering degrees from Brigham Young University. He lives in Frisco, Texas, with his wife, Julie.