The Academic's Guide to Becoming a Respected, Sought-After Thought Leader in Your Field

Expand Your Opportunities. Amplify Your Impact. Build Your Legacy.

No matter the stage in your academic career, there are always opportunities to expand...

• Opportunities to take your expertise beyond the classroom and influence executives, policymakers, entrepreneurs and leaders.
• To translate your ideas into influece, income and enduring impact.

Academic Authority shows you how to move from publishing research to impacting the future—by turning your knowledge into influence, your influence into income, and your career into a lasting legacy.

Meet Dr. Gregory Unruh — A Scholar Who Wanted His Work to Matter

Like you, I wanted my ideas to reach beyond academic journals and actually influence how leaders think and act.

When I first set out to share my work through Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, there were no guides. There was no roadmap for professors who wanted to build credibility beyond academia.

So I learned by trial and error. I made all the mistakes and learned lessons the hard way.

I gained valuable knowledge, but Academic Authority isn’t just my story, though. I’ve been fortunate to interview the world’s leading academic thought leaders and have written studies on their how breakthrough ideas were created and scaled.

All of that experience—the insights, the missteps, and the path to genuine thought leadership—is distilled into this book.

My hope is to drastically shorten your learning curve—so you can build authority, influence, and income faster, and make the impact your ideas deserve.

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Your Path to Academic Authority

Thought leadership isn’t about luck, connections, or self-promotion.
It’s a process — one you can follow to build influence, income, and impact with integrity.

Integrity

Stay True to Your Mission

Build visibility without compromising your values. Share your expertise authentically and lead with credibility, not self-promotion.

Influence

Make Your Ideas Matter

Translate your research into insights that shape business, policy, and culture. Expand your impact beyond journals and into the world’s biggest conversations.

Income

Be Rewarded for Your Impact

Academics shy away from discussing money, but authorities understand that payment is proof of impact. No one will pay you unless your insights create real-world value . Academic Authority helps you build the confidence and clarity to receive that value with integrity.

Professors Like You Are Leading Consequential Conversations

 Around the world, professors like you are shaping how leaders think about business, policy, and the planet.
They’re influencing executives, inspiring innovation, and expanding the reach of scholarly ideas far beyond academia.

Academic Authority helps you join their ranks by mastering how to communicate your expertise with clarity, credibility, and conviction.

When you build authority with integrity, you don’t just earn recognition — you create ripples of impact that extend across disciplines, industries, and generations.