Justin Menkes

Justin Menkes, Ph.D., author of The Wall Street Journal Best Seller book Executive Intelligence, What All Great Leaders Have, is perhaps best known for having invented the proprietary Executive Intelligence Evaluation, which is used by many corporate clients to help them identify, develop, and hire effective leaders for their organizations. He has been cited in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell for his work on intelligence and has studied with Peter Drucker, Michael Scriven, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Dr. Menkes is nationally recognized for his expertise in managerial assessment, and has chaired tutorials training other psychologists in his techniques. He is a Managing Director of the Executive Intelligence Group (EIG), a leading provider of executive assessment services to major corporations worldwide. EIG is a unit of Spencer Stuart, the world’s preeminent executive research firm. He has advised clients such as Texas Pacific Group, DuPont, British Sky Broadcasting, and Inbev on hiring, promotion, and development decisions. He also served as an adviser to McKinsey and Company for their best-selling book The War for Talent.

Based in Los Angeles, Dr. Menkes received his B.A. with honors from Haverford College, his M.A. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Claremont Graduate University.