Bill Drath
Bill Drath is a senior fellow and a senior enterprise associate on the faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership, a not-for-profit research and educational institution with headquarters in Greensboro, NC, and campuses in Colorado Springs, CO; San Diego, CA; Brussels, Belgium; and Singapore. His research and educational work focuses on the evolution of leadership and leadership development toward more inclusive and collective forms. He has an AB degree in English literature from the University of Georgia. He attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
email: drath@leaders.ccl.org
Selected Publications
Book
Drath, Wilfred (2001)The deep blue sea : Rethinking the source of leadership. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass
Articles and Monographs
Drath, Wilfred H.; Kaplan, Robert E. (1984).The looking glass experience: A story of learning through action and reflection. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership; HD30.26 .D73 1984
Drath, Wilfred H. (1990).Managerial strengths and weaknesses as functions of the development of personal meaning. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 26(4), 483-499
Drath, Wilfred H.; Palus, Charles J. (1994).Making common sense: Leadership as meaning-making in a community of practice. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership
Drath, Wilfred H. (1996).Changing our minds about leadership. Issues & Observations, 16 (1), 1-4
Drath, Wilfred H. (1998).Approaching the future of leadership development. Found in: Cynthia D. McCauley, Russ S. Moxley, Ellen Van Velsor (Eds.), The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development (pp. 403-432) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass and Center for Creative Leadership
Drath, Wilfred H. (2001).The third way : A new source of leadership. Leadership in Action, 21(2), 7-11
Drath, Wilfred. (2003).Using connected leadership to face complex challenges. Mt Eliza Business Review, 6(2), 19-25
Drath, Wilfred. (2003).Leading together: Complex challenges require a new approach. Leadership in Action, 23(1), 3-7, Center for Creative Leadership
Drath, Wilfred H. (2006).Taking action: A case study in dynamic learning. Leadership in Action, 25(6), 3-8
Drath, Wilfred H.; Van Velsor, E. (2006)Constructive-developmental Coaching.In Ting, S. & Scisco, P. (Eds) The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A guide for the leader coach. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
McCauley, Cynthia D.; Drath, Wilfred H.; Palus, Charles J.; O'Connor, Patricia M.G.; Baker, Becca A. (2006).The use of constructive-developmental theory to advance the understanding of leadership. The Leadership Quarterly 17
Palus, Charles J.; Drath, Wilfred H. (1995).Evolving leaders: A model for promoting leadership development in programs. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership
Palus, Charles J.; Drath, Wilfred H. (2001).Putting something in the middle: An approach to dialogue. Reflections, 3(2), 28-39
Van Velsor, Ellen; Drath, Wilfred H. (2004).A lifelong developmental perspective on leader development. Found in: Cynthia D. McCauley, Ellen Van Velsor (Eds.), The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development (2nd ed., pp. 383-414) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass and Center for Creative Leadership.
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