Bruce J. Avolio, Ph.D., is the Clifton Chair in Leadership at the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Avolio is also Director of the Global Leadership Institute, Co-Director of the UNL/Gallup MBA/MA program in Executive Leadership, and Director of the Ph.D. program with a specialization in leadership at the College of Business Administration at UNL. Prior to joining the College of Business Administration at UNL, he was the Co-Director of the Center for Leadership Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Avolio has an international reputation as a researcher in leadership. He has consulted with senior leaders in public and private organizations in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. His research and consulting includes work with the militaries of the United States of America, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, Israel, and South Africa.
Avolio has published six books and more than 100 articles on leadership. His previous books include Transformational and Charismatic Leadership: The Road Ahead (Elsevier Science, 2002), Full Leadership Development: Building the Vital Forces in Organizations (Sage Publications, 1999), and Developing Potential Across a Full Range of Leadership: Cases on Transactional and Transformational Leadership (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000). His newest books are Leadership Development in Balance (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005), The High Impact Leader: Moments Matter in Accelerating Leadership Development (McGraw-Hill, 2006) with Fred Luthans, and Authentic Leadership Theory and Practice (Elsevier, 2006) with William Gardner and Fred Walumbwa.
Avolio was the 2005 Organizational Behavior division chair of the Academy of Management. He is also a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Avolio has worked with a variety of government agencies on national leadership development projects and with governments at the state and local level. During the past 15 years, he has received more than $4 million dollars in grant research funds to investigate how to accelerate the development of leadership in face-to-face and virtual settings.
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