More About the Author

Joe Raelin is an international authority in collaborative leadership development and work-based learning. He holds the Asa S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University and was formerly Professor of Management at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research has centered on human resource development, focusing in particular on executive education through the use of action learning. He is a prolific writer with over 100 articles appearing in the leading management journals. He is also a management consultant with some thirty-five years of experience working with a wide variety of organizational clients. Among his other books are: The Clash of Cultures: Managers Managing Professionals, considered now to be a classic in the field of professionals and bureaucracy (Harvard Business School Press, 1991), Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003), and the latest edition of Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass, 2008). Joe was recently named the recipient of the 2010 David Bradford Outstanding Educator Award from the OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators.

Joe is joined in this endeavor by some of the best scholars and practitioners in the world of leadership development who have contributed a foreword and four new cases:

John Foster, IDEO
Victoria Marsick, Teachers College, Columbia University
Judy O’Neil, Partners for Learning and Leadership
Karen Watkins, The University of Georgia
Phil McArthur, Action Design
Len Glick, Northeastern University
Rosa Zubizarreta, Diapraxis
Bruce Nayowith, Berkshire Health Systems