Derek Leebaert

Derek Leebaert is a partner at effectivRAI and an author of books on history and politics. He won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for ''Grand Improvisation''.

Leebaert published ''Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made'' which was a Wall Street Journal "Best Book of 2023" and "recommended reading" from McKinsey. Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith praises it as "having done the near impossible--craft[ing] a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle. . . .A book to regard in the same breath as the classics of Sherwood, Schlesinger, and Burns." The Guardian reviewed it as "masterful." Provided by Wikipedia