Dr. Scott Snell is the Eleanor and Philip Rust Chair in Business Administration and former Senior Associate Dean for executive education at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business. Dr. Snell teaches courses in strategic and HR management and works internationally with senior executives to help their companies align strategy, organizational capability and investments in talent. His research has been published in a number of top journals. In addition to this text, he has written several other books, notably, THE CEO PLAYBOOK FOR STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATION (Stanford Press, 2024) and STRATEGIC EXECUTION: DRIVING BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN BUSINESS (Stanford Press, 2019). Dr. Snell currently serves on the board of directors for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). He has also served on the boards of the Strategic Management Society's Human Capital Group, HRPS, the SHRM Foundation, the Academy of Management's HR Division, the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review. Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Dr. Snell was a professor and director of executive education at Cornell University's Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies and a professor of management in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Snell received his B.A. from Miami University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business from Michigan State University.