Robert H. Lengel, President
BS Aerospace Engineering, Penn State University
MS Engineering Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MBA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Dr. Lengel’s education and work experience map a career that includes aerospace engineering, industrial sales and marketing, financial services and money management, environmental analysis and consulting, and academics. In this last role, he served as the founding director of an Executive EMBA program and an executive education center at the University of Texas at San Antonio, both of which focused on the creation and application of innovative transdisciplinary approaches to leadership development and change dynamics. He has published numerous scientific articles, including nationally recognized work on information richness and is the co-author of a book with Richard Daft entitled Fusion Leadership. His most recent work focuses on the organizational impact of leadership development efforts, Complex Transformative Conversations and opening the research lens on leadership and transformation to include the arts and humanities.

Over his career, Bob has worked with a diverse set of organizations to lead strategic conversation and organizational change efforts and to develop institutional leadership capabilities. A sample of his clients includes Tandy Brands Accessories, Jacoby and Meyers in New York, Translink in Vancouver, the Vanderbilt Medical School, the Vanderbilt Medical School Clinical group, Nortel, Emergency Medical Care for Children in Tennessee, the Intelligence, Security and Law Enforcement Community in response to 9-11, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, San Antonio Housing Authority, USAA, World Savings, Gambro, the National Science Foundation, the United States Army, State Farm Insurance, the Army Medical Education Department, the United States Air Force, South Texas Radiology and Imaging Centers, UT Medical School, the Non-Profit Resource Center, Bridging our Communities, Zachry, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa, and the CHRISTUS Santa Rosa acquisition of McKenna Hospital in New Braunfels, TX.

His eclectic background in terms of both education and work experience brings a unique voice to LeaderWork programming that holds the creative transdisciplinary tension between the hard and soft aspects of leadership and change dynamics.