ROBERT W. GUNN is co-founder of Prescient Leaders, a global leadership development and consulting firm. A pioneer in human resource outsourcing and a long-time executive coach, he created the administrative consulting practice at AT Kearney, and, in 1991, co-founded Gunn Partners, based on the principle of "lean" consulting. With Betsy Gullickson, he writes a monthly column for the executive-level magazine, Strategic Finance.