Thought Partners
We greatly appreciate our many colleagues and mentors whose input has helped sharpen our thinking about the moral dimensions of leadership. They include the following:
Rick Aberman, Ph.D. |
Psychologist, emotional intelligence expert, and co-author of Why Good Coaches Quit—and How You Can Stay in the Game |
Reuven Bar-On, Ph.D. |
University of Texas Medical Branch, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where he directs research in emotional and social intelligence |
Richard Boyatzis, Ph.D. |
Professor and Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, and co-author of Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence |
Kate Cannon |
President, Kate Cannon and Associates |
Robert Caplan, Ph.D. |
Director, Beach Cities Health District, an organization charged with promoting mental and physical wellness in three adjacent communities in Southern California |
Cary Cherniss, Ph.D. |
Director of the Rutgers University Organizational Psychology Program, professor of Applied Psychology and co-author of The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace |
Stephen Covey, Ph.D. |
Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People whose conversations with Doug in the early 1990s reinforced early versions of our alignment model |
Vanessa Druskat |
Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business and Economics |
Robert Emmerling, Ph.D. |
Consultant and researcher specializing in the application of emotional intelligence concepts in the workplace |
Jim Garrison |
President and co-founder (with Mikail Gorbalhev) of the State of the World Forum and author of America as Empire |
Roy Geer, Ph.D. |
Psychologist, consultant, and co-author (with Doug Lennick) of How to Get What You Want and Remain True to Yourself |
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. |
Co-director of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University, author of Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and co-author of Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence |
Marilyn Gowing, Ph.D. |
Vice President for Public Sector Consulting and Services with the Washington office of AON Consulting |
Darryl Grigg, Ph.D. |
Psychologist |
Jennifer Hugstad-Vaa, Ph.D. |
Professor, St. Mary's University Minnesota |
Dorothy Hutcheson |
Head of School, Nightingale-Bamford School for Girls |
Ruth Jacobs |
Director of Research and Technology at McClelland Center for Research and Initiatives, The Hay Group |
Stuart Kantor, Ph.D. |
Co-founder and principal of Red Oak Consulting, an executive development firm |
Stephen Kelner, Jr. |
Global Knowledge Manager, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. |
David Kidd |
Partner, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. |
Carol Keers |
Co-founder, Change Masters, Inc. |
Art Kleiner |
Editor-in-Chief, Strategy + Business Magazine |
Kathy Kram, Ph.D. |
Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Boston University School of Management |
Richard Leider |
Founding partner of The Inventure Group and author of Repacking Your Bags, the Power of Purpose, and Life Skills |
Jim Loehr, Ph.D. |
Performance psychologist and co-author of The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal and author of Stress for Success |
Fred Luskin, Ph.D. |
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation, co-founder of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project, and author of Forgive for Good |
Matthew Mangino |
Consultant Director, Johnson & Johnson |
Jim Mitchell |
Executive Fellow, Leadership at the Center for Ethical Business Cultures in Minneapolis |
Tom Mungavan |
President and co-founder, Change Masters, Inc. |
John Nicolay, MBA |
MBA instructor, University of Minnesota |
Hy Pomerance, Ph.D. |
Co-founder and principal of Red Oak Consulting, an executive development firm |
Richard Price, Ph.D. |
Professor of Psychology and Business Administration at the University of Michigan, and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research |
Helen Reiess, M.D. |
Director, Empathy Research and Training, Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School |
Fabio Sala, Ph.D. |
Associate Director, Learning and Development, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
Jeffrey Schwartz |
Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author, The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, Harper Perennial, 2003 |
Tony Schwartz |
Co-author of The Art of the Deal and The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal and author of What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America |
Hersh Shefrin, Ph.D. |
Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, and author of Beyond Greed and Fear |
Judy Skoglund |
Partner, Lennick Aberman Group |
Lyle Spencer, Ph.D. |
President, Spencer Research and Technology, co-founder of Competency International, Cybertroncis Research Fellows, Director, Human Resource Technologies |
Therése Jacobs Stewart, Ph.D. |
Master Psychologist |
Jeff Stiefler |
Former CEO, Digital Insights |
Redford Williams, Ph.D. |
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Duke University Medical Center |
Larry Wilson |
Founder of Wilson Learning and Pecos River Learning Center, author of The One Minute Sales Person and Changing the Game: The New Way to Sell and co-author of Stop Selling, Start Partnering |
Lauris Woolford |
EVP, Fifth Third Bank |