The Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking works with large organizations around the world to design and deliver evidence-based strategic leadership development programs. They focus on developing high performing leadership systems using proven models and methods. The Center balances rigor and relevance to build confidence in leaders that they can more effectively and efficiently change their leadership.

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Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking (CLST)
The Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking works extensively with large complex organizations
around the globe in the design and delivery of evidence-based strategic leadership development initiatives
for senior leadership teams to front-line leaders.
We balance rigor and relevance in all of the work we do to develop high performing leadership systems.
By using proven models and methods and focusing on factors of leadership within a person, team or
organization most readily improved, we build confidence in leaders that they can change their leadership
more effectively and efficiently.
Bruce J. Avolio, Ph.D.
Mark Pigott Chair in Business Strategic Leadership
Executive Director, Center for Leadership & Strategic Thinking
Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Bruce has an international reputation as a researcher and practitioner in leadership and
was recently ranked in the top 25 management scholars going back over the last 50 years.
He has consulted with public and private organizations in North and South America, Africa,
Europe, and Southeast Asia.
He has published 11 books and over 150 articles on leadership and related areas. His latest book with
Stanford University Press entitled, The First Principle of Organizational Transformation, focuses on his
last ten years of research and work with organizations that have undergone successful and sustainable
transformation. Dr. Avolio’s latest interests and presentations focus on the following:
 How do we accelerate authentic leadership development and ownership? What is the blueprint?
 How do we use the positive psychological capacities of leaders to accelerate change?
 How do we show decision makers the ‘return on development’ investment in leadership?
 How do we successfully transform organizations? One self-concept at a time!