Meet Judith E. Glaser

Founder of Benchmark Communications, Inc.
Judith founded Benchmark Communications, Inc., in 1980 as a firm that works with CEOs and their teams, helping them focus on competitive challenges in a world of moving targets – with a direct line of sight to the customer. Benchmark's clients span a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, fashion, retail, consumer goods, finance, technology, communications, consulting, entertainment and manufacturing including: American Airlines, AXA Equitable, Barclays, Burberry, Champion International Citibank, Clairol, Inc., Coach, Inc., Donna Karan International, Exide Technologies, Ferragamo, Lipton, Liz Claiborne, Merrill Lynch, MSNBC, News Corp., Novartis, Verizon, Pfizer, PR Newswire, Reed Elsevier, Siemens, Thomson Financial, Time Inc., and VeriSign.

Bestselling Author
Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking & Build a Healthy Thriving Organization and The DNA of Leadership (Platinum Press, an imprint of Adams Media), made the Amazon Business Book Best Seller Lists in 2005 and 2006 and were also selected by both Forbes and Business Book Review as two of the top business books of 2005 and 2006. Creating WE has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Russian and The DNA of Leadership has been translated into Spanish. In 2008, Creating We won the Bronze Award as one of the top leadership books of 2008, from the prestigious Axiom Business Book Awards.

Judith is also the producer and writer for a bestselling animated film called The Leadership Secret of Gregory Goose. In 2009, she co-authored 42 Rules for Creating WE with members of the Creating WE Institute. The book became an Amazon Best Seller, and was #1 in Leadership, Management, Motivation, and Organizational Behavior and the second fastest selling book on the day of the book launch.

Media Appearances, Acknowledgments, and Awards
She has appeared as a subject matter expert guest on the NBC Today Show, ABC World News, Fox News Channel, Martha Stewart Show, and the Family Network, where she discussed WE-centric leadership, bully bosses, and workplace culture transformation.

The NY Times, WSJ, Crain’s, Newsday, Star Ledger, Harvard Management Review, AMA World and other print media have quoted Judith about her revolutionary workplace approaches. She is Contributing Editor of Executive Excellence Magazine.

In 2006-2010, Judith was listed in the Excellence Top 100 Consultants. In 2007-2010, she was selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders Globally on the subject of Leadership. In addition, Benchmark was selected by Executive Excellence as one of the top small consulting firms specializing in leadership.

Judith was awarded the Benno Curtis Entrepreneur of the Year and Quality Consultant Award. She was also awarded Business Woman of the Year in New York City in 2004, and in 2006 she was inducted into the Temple University Gallery of Success.