The Achieving Styles Institute functions with a lean internal management team and a group of external associates who have engaged in achieving styles work for more than two decades.  These are the key players:

Prof. Jean Lipman-Blumen, Director, is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. She has consulted to many public and private sector organizations. Dr. Lipman-Blumen is the author of several books and numerous articles. Her book, based on the achieving styles model, entitled The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World, was nominated for numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent book, co-authored with Harold J. Leavitt, Hot Groups: Seeding them, Feeding them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization, was published by Oxford University Press in March, 1999. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard and completed post-doctoral work at Carnegie-Mellon and Stanford Universities.
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Prof. Harold J. Leavitt, Associate, is the Walter Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. The author of Corporate Pathfinders and Managerial Psychology, Dr. Leavitt has consulted to organizations throughout the world. In addition, he has directed and taught in executive education programs at Stanford and elsewhere. Dr. Leavitt received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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