Stedman Graham

Stedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a management and marketing consulting firm that specializes in the corporate and educational markets.

Graham delivers his leadership message throughout the country and globally to corporations, professional associations, government and civic organizations, colleges and universities, and community groups. His message is driven by the Nine-Step Success Process, a learning management system designed to organize your life around your identity.

Grahams mission is to transform people from followers to leaders and change the way they think and learn. He says that many of us spend years trying to find out who we are and, sadly, too many of us never do. If we fail to define ourselves, we risk letting others define us by our race, gender, and background. We buy into the labels that keep us in a box and, as a result of those limitations, never reach or realize our greatest potential.

Stedman Graham has authored eleven books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success. His latest release, Identity: Your Passport to Success, was on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. Graham has also launched an online course, in partnership with the University of Phoenix, based on the Nine Step Success Process which supports Identity Leadership development.

Commitment to education and lifelong learning is central to Grahams philosophy. At the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he taught a management strategy course entitled The Dynamics of Leadership. He is a former adjunct professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago where he taught a leadership course based on his Nine Step Success Process. Actively involved in education, Graham is currently a distinguished visiting professor for universities and colleges around the country.

A native of Whitesboro, New Jersey, Graham has shown a lifelong commitment to youth and community. In 1985, Graham founded AAD Education, Health and Sports, a nonprofit organization of athletes and other civic leaders committed to developing leadership in underserved youths. He is the founder of the Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro and Concerned Citizens of Lake Waccamaw, NC. He serves on several boards including Junior Achievement and the Sonima Foundation. Graham is actively involved in leadership and program development efforts in South Africa.

He served in the United States Army and played basketball professionally in the European League. Graham holds a bachelors degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University, a masters degree in Education from Ball State University, and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College.

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