David Maister is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on the management of professional service firms. For two decades he has acted as a consultant to prominent professional firms around the world, on a wide variety of strategic and managerial issues. In 2002, he was named as one of the top 40 business thinkers in the world (Business Minds, by Tom Brown, Prentice Hall/Financial Times.) He is the author of the bestselling books:

• Managing the Professional Service Firm (1993)
• True Professionalism (1997)
• The Trusted Advisor (2000)
• Practice What You Preach (2001)

First among Equals (2002.) these books have been translated into 14 languages. For seven years, he served as a professor on the faculty of the Harvard Business School (1979-85), prior to launching his consulting practice. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.