# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-hartley-blanchard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:27:35.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-hartley-blanchard"
name: "Kenneth Hartley Blanchard"
slug: "kenneth-hartley-blanchard"
description: "Kenneth Hartley Blanchard is an American author, business consultant and motivational speaker who has written more than 70 books, most of which were co-authored. His most successful book, The One Minute Manager, has sold more than 15 million copies and been translated into many languages. He is the co-creator with Dr. Paul Hersey of Situational Leadership, a theory they developed while working on the textbook Management of Organizational Behavior."
tagline: "American business writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_headshot_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1939-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.094428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump