Nancy J. Adler

Professor
University of McGill
Montreal, Canada

Dr. Nancy J. Adler is the S. Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She conducts research and consults worldwide on global leadership and cross-cultural management. She is a productive author of over 125 research articles and publications for business leaders, as well as 10 books and edited volumes. Her recent books are International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (5th ed., 2008), with over a half million copies in print, and From Boston to Beijing: Managing with a Worldview (2002). Nancy J. Adler is also a visual artist. The most recent exhibition of her paintings, “Reality in Translation: Art Transforming Apathy into Action” was held at The Banff Centre.

Nancy J. Adler is regarded an acknowledged spokesperson for creative leadership and artful organizing: “Twenty-first century society yearns for a leadership of possibility, a leadership based more on hope, aspiration, and innovation than on the replication of historical patterns of constrained pragmatism. [- - ] Designing options worthy of implementation calls for levels of inspiration and passionate creativity that, until recently, have been more the domain of artists and artistic processes than the domain of most managers. The time is right for artistic imagination to co-create the best and most influential leadership of our planet.”

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