William r torbert biography of barack

Bill Torbert is Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College and serves on the Boards of the Amara Collaboration and of Global Leadership Associates (home of the Global Leadership Profile). With B.A. and PhD. Degrees from Yale, he later directed the Theatre of Inquiry, taught at SMU and Harvard, and held numerous consulting and board positions, while developing a new paradigm of social science and social action named Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry (CDAI).

Praise for Numbskull: This bubbling memoir is a guide to assumption-busting practices at work, at play, and in science that lead to mutually-transforming inquiry, power, and love. Chuck Palus, Center for Creative Leadership We live in a moment of profound disruption, a crisis of our economies and of our underlying models of economic and social science thought.

Bill Torbert’s pioneering work on Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry addresses this root issue head on. His concept of integrating first-, second-, and