Gerard Egan (born 1930) is a professor emeritus at Loyola University of Chicago.
The eleventh edition of his well-known book, The Skilled Helper, was published in 2018.
Other books in the fields of counseling and communication include Interpersonal Living, People in Systems (with Michael Cowan), TalkWorks: How to Get More Out of Life Through Better Conversations (with Andrew Bailey), and TalkWorks at Work: How to Become a Better Communicator and Make the Most of Your Career (with Andrew Bailey).
The Skilled Helper is considered the most widely used counseling text worldwide.
[1] In Egan's Stakeholders in Change model, stakeholders are divided into nine categories reflecting their attitude to the change and the person promoting the change (the "change agent"): In Egan's work on the "shadow side" of organizations, he defined the shadow side as: All those things that substantially and consistently affect the productivity and quality of the working life of a business, for better or worse, but which are not found on organisation charts, in company manuals, or in the discussions that take place in formal meetings.