Dr. Christopher P. Neck is currently an Associate Professor of Management at Arizona State University, where he holds the title "University Master Teacher." He was the recipient of Business Week's Favorite Professor of the Year (2007). From 1994 to 2009, he was part of the Pamplin College of Business faculty at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Arizona State University and his M.B.A. from Louisiana State University. Chris's research specialties include employee/executive fitness, self-leadership, leadership, group decision-making processes, and self-managing teams. He has authored 5 books, as well as over eighty publications in scholarly journals.