Tom Kolditz | Leading As If Your Life Depended On It

Host: Ahmed AlTammar along with Mark Bebawi

Tom Kolditz is the founding Director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. The Doerr Institute was recognized in 2019 as the top university leader development program by the Association of Leadership Educators and named the 4th Leader Development Program in the world by Global Gurus, London. Prior to Rice, he taught as a Professor in the Practice of Leadership and Management and Director of the Leadership Development Program at the Yale School of Management.

A retired Brigadier General, Tom led the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point for 12 years. In that role, he was responsible for West Point’s teaching, research, and outreach activities in Management, Leader Development Science, Psychology, and Sociology, and was titled Professor Emeritus after retirement. A highly experienced global leader, General Kolditz has more than 35 years in leadership roles on four continents. His career has focused on either leading organizations himself or studying leadership and leadership policy across sectors. He served for two years as a leadership and human resources policy analyst in the Pentagon, a year as a concept developer in the Center for Army Leadership, and was the founding director of the West Point Leadership Center. General Kolditz is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Army’s highest award for service.

Dr. Kolditz has published more than 75 books, book chapters, and articles across a diverse array of academic and leadership trade journals. His book on that topic, In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended On It, is a book of our focus in this episode.

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