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About Ronald A. Heifetz - Leadership Speaker:

Ronald Heifetz is a renowned leadership speaker, Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership and King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. He is known worldwide for his seminal work on the practice of teaching and leadership. His research focuses on how to build adaptive capacity in societies, businesses, and nonprofits. For twenty-five years, Heifetz’s courses on leadership have been among the most highly valued in the University. His first book, Leadership Without Easy Answers (1994), currently in its thirteenth printing, has been translated into many languages. His bestselling study, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (2002) was co-authored with Marty Linsky.

The subject of many interviews, articles, and the book by Sharon Daloz Parks, Leadership Can Be Taught ( 2005), Heifetz speaks extensively in the U.S. and abroad and consults widely with senior executives in government, business, and nonprofit organizations. Heifetz is a founding principal in Cambridge Leadership Associates.

A graduate of Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Kennedy School, Heifetz is both a doctor and a musician. He trained initially in surgery before deciding to devote himself to the study of leadership in politics and business. Heifetz completed his medical training in psychiatry. As a cellist, he studied with the great Russian virtuoso, Gregor Piatigorsky.

What Ronald Heifetz Talks About:

Leadership Has No Easy Answers
As one of the leading writers and thought leaders on the topic of leadership, Heifetz readily admits there are no easy answers for leaders--but he does provide some practical lessons for practicing better, more effective leadership at all levels of an organization.