John Paul Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School,[1] an author,[2] and the founder of Kotter International, a management consulting firm based in Seattle and Boston.

[4] John Kotter is an emeritus from Harvard Business School where he started teaching in 1972.

[1] He is the founder of Kotter International, and started his business in 2010 with locations in Cambridge Massachusetts and Seattle Washington.

[7] Short-term wins, within a 6–18 month window, are considered necessary because "[an] organization has to realize some benefits from [a] change effort to maintain stakeholder commitment".

[8] Kotter asserts that to be useful or influential, short-term wins need to be "visible and unambiguous" as well as "closely related to the change effort".