| Dr. Paul Hersey is a behavioral scientist
whose ideas have been used to train managers around the globe
for more than three decades. He first published the Situational
Leadership Model in articles in the early 1960s. In 1969 he
wrote a textbook containing the Model, Management of
Organizational Behavior. This classic text has been translated
into 14 languages and has sold more than a million copies
worldwide. Paul Hersey is known
internationally as an educator, trainer, lecturer, and
conference leader. Founder and CEO of the Center for Leadership
Studies, he has helped train more than ten million managers from
over 1000 organizations worldwide, including Mobil, IBM,
Caterpillar, Harris, and Illinois Bell. In the middle 1960s,
Hersey's research at the Center for Leadership Studies led to
the development of the Situational Leadership Model, an approach
to leadership that has become widely accepted in the United
States and other countries.
Author of the popular book The Situational
Leader, Hersey joined Ohio University as Professor and Chair of
the Management Department in 1966, and left in 1975 to develop
his leadership center as a major global training organization.
The Academy of Management and the American Society have
recognized him for his contributions to leadership studies for
Training and Development. |
