Referred to by BusinessWeek as "the authority on headhunters," Joseph Daniel McCool is a writer, speaker and advisor on executive recruiting best practices, search firm strategy and corporate management succession.

He is the author of Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent (April 2008, Davies-Black Publishing) and his views have been cited in The Economist, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and other media around the world. He previously worked for eight years as Editor of Kennedy's Executive Recruiter News.