PERSON: Jim Clifton

Gallup, Inc.

Chairman

Jim Clifton is the chairman of Gallup, a global analytics and advice firm. Clifton served as the CEO of Gallup from 1988 until 2022, and is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller It’s the Manager, the bestseller Born to Build, The Coming Jobs War, and writes The Chairman’s Blog. He is the creator of the behavioral economic framework, “The Gallup Microeconomic Path,” a metric-based economic model that establishes the linkages among human nature in the workplace, customer engagement and business outcomes, which is used by over 500 companies worldwide. His father was psychologist, educator, and author Dr. Donald O. Clifton, who founded of Selection Research, Inc. (SRI). Under Jim’s leadership, SRI acquired the Gallup Organization in 1988.

Clifton is a distinguished visiting professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. He serves on several boards and is chairman emeritus of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. He has received honorary degrees from Medgar Evers, Jackson State and Bellevue Universities.

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