Stephen M.R. Covey

About Stephen M.R. Covey

Stephen Covey is co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink. A researcher and compelling international speaker, he advises on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance for businesses.

He is the author of “The Speed of Trust,” a groundbreaking book that opens a paradigm shift and challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft skill, a social virtue. Instead, he demonstrates that trust is a hard edge, an economic driver – a skill that can be learned and measured. For him, it makes organizations more profitable, promotes individuals, and creates the most energizing relationships. He advocates that nothing is faster than the speed of trust and that the ability to create, develop, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership skill of the new global economy.

Stephen Covey passionately delivers this message aimed at enabling individuals and organizations to reap the dividends of high trust. The audience and organizations attentive to his discourse resonate with his enlightened approach and practical solutions to real-time issues affecting their immediate and long-term performance.

Stephen Covey is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his leadership, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Covey personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” to be one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century, according to CEO Magazine.

After earning his MBA from Harvard, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a client developer and later became the national sales director, then the president and CEO. Under his leadership, the company grew rapidly and profitably. As president and CEO, he nearly doubled revenues to over $110,000,000 while increasing profits twelvefold. During this time, customer and employee trust reached new heights, and the company expanded globally, extending into over 40 countries. This greatly increased the brand and company value. Indeed, the company was valued at only $2.4 million when Covey was appointed CEO. Three years later, the stock value soared to $160 million. He then orchestrated a merger with Franklin Quest to form Franklin Covey.

Over the years, Stephen Covey has gained considerable respect and influence among executives and leaders of the 500 most influential companies, as well as medium and small businesses in the private sector and public sector organizations.

These clients recognize his original perspective on the real-world organizational issues based on his practical experience as a former CEO.

Stephen Covey currently serves on the board and advisory council of several entities, including the Human Performance Institute – a leader in energy management technology, where he is the chairman of the advisory council.

Covey resides with his wife and children in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.

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