Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he has taught at every grade level from high school through graduate school; worked at Harvard; done significant work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and speaks across the country and all over the world. Previously, he held a variety of positions at Harvard University over the course of more than twenty years, including four years as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab and the founder and codirector, for a decade, of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also spent time as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor in teacher education, was the founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility, and is the author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap and coauthor of Most Likely to Succeed.