Exceptional Leadership by Design: How Design in Great Organizations Produces Great Leadership

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Rob Elkington Ph.D. is the CEO and President of Global Leadership Initiatives. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in the faculty of Business and IT and the faculty of Education. Rob is a facilitator with the UOIT Management Development Centre and a Senior Lecturer with the Stellenbosch University School of Public Leadership. He also serves as Community Liaison for the Durham Community Innovation Lab. Madeleine (Mads) van der Steege MA (Soc. Sc.) is a managing editor award-winning female entrepreneur master coach researcher and writer. She was Woman of the Year Regional Entrepreneur in South Africa in 2004. In 2009 she established European operations for Cranimals an organic pet food company based in Vancouver. In 2013 Madeleine founded Synquity and acts as a business catalyst for international companies setting up in the Netherlands. She is also Adjunct Professor at Webster University Leiden and a management board member of TheBridge2Hope project.  Judith L. Glick-Smith Ph.D. has been a knowledge management and leadership consultant since 1983. She is the author of Flow-based Leadership: What the Best Firefighters Can Teach You about Leadership and Making the Hard Decisions. Judith is the founder of MentorFactor Inc. which focuses on helping organizations facilitate flow-based work environments and to prepare for the unexpected. She has been studying flow-based leadership in the fire service since 2007.   Jennifer Moss Breen Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Program Director for Creighton Universitys Interdisciplinary Leadership Ed.D. Prior to this she served as inaugural Director of Bellevue Universitys Human Capital Management Ph.D. program. Her passion is working with emerging leaders and helping them to thrive in complexity. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska.