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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

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