Throughout his four decades at Fortune, Geoff Colvin has established himself as one of business journalism’s most respected minds, covering the economic, political, technological, and competitive forces disrupting business as we know it. With unparalleled access to the world’s top business leaders, his columns, cover stories, and his daily segments on CBS Radio Network, have earned him millions of loyal fans. As business leaders face their biggest challenges ever, Colvin is the voice of experience revealing a clearer path for an uncertain future.
As Fortune’s senior editor-at-large, Colvin reports on AI and the infotech revolution, leadership, business strategy, global business, government regulation, competition, the economy, worker/workforce issues, and related topics. He is also one of America’s preeminent business broadcasters. Since 1995, Colvin has made over 15,000 daily broadcasts on CBS Radio Network with his program reaching seven million listeners each week. He has also served as anchor of PBS’ Wall $treet Week with Fortune and made appearances on Today, Good Morning America, Squawk Box, CBS This Morning, ABC’s World News Tonight, CNN, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, and dozens of other programs.
Colvin is a respected author whose ground-breaking international bestseller, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, has been translated into a dozen languages. His book, The Upside of the Downturn: Management Strategies for Difficult Times, was named “Best Management Book of the Year” by Strategy + Business magazine. Colvin’s latest book, Humans are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will, explores the trend of advancing technology performing tasks far better than people, and the ways humans will create value for their organizations and their careers in this changing economy.
As a compelling speaker, Colvin has presented to hundreds of audiences across six continents. He is known for bringing clarity to the most important and complex issues impacting business and the economy. He is also a skilled moderator and interviewer whose subjects have included Madeleine Albright, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bill Gates, Timothy Geithner, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Henry M. Paulson, Colin Powell, Robert Reich, Condoleezza Rice, Desmond Tutu, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Jack Welch, Janet Yellen, and many others.
Colvin is an honours graduate of Harvard University with a degree in economics and has an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
