Co-founder of VitalSmarts, Kerry Patterson has coauthored four New York Times bestselling books, as well as co-designed the company’s line of award-winning training programs. As author of VitalSmarts' most popular column, Kerrying On, Kerry shares his vision, experience, and advice through fun and insightful stories from his past.

An innovator in corporate training and leadership development, VitalSmarts is home to the award-winning Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Influencer, and Change Anything Training and New York Times bestselling books of the same titles. When used in combination, these courses enable organizations to achieve new levels of performance by changing employee behavior. VitalSmarts has consulted with more than 300 of the Fortune 500 companies and trained more than one million people worldwide.