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Jim Clifton

Chairman and CEO, Gallup, Inc.; Author, "The Coming Jobs War"

Jim Clifton is the chairman and CEO of Gallup, Inc., a leader in organizational consulting and public opinion research. Holding this position since 1988, he has guided Gallup to increase its billing volume fifteen fold and has expanded the company into a worldwide organization with 40 offices in 30 countries and regions.

Clifton’s most recent innovation is the Gallup World Poll, which is designed to give the world’s 7 billion citizens a voice in virtually all key global issues. He is also the creator of The Gallup Path, a metric-based economic model that establishes the linkages among human nature in the workplace, customer engagement, and business outcomes.

An esteemed thought leader, Clifton authored “The Coming Jobs War,” in which he makes the case that job creation and successful entrepreneurship reveal implications on everything, including economics, foreign policy and America’s moral authority in the world.