Gene Klann brings a rich and varied background to the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC. As a senior member of the Center's training faculty, he trains the Center's flagship offering, the Leadership Development Program (LDP®), the Looking Glass Experience, Coaching for Development, and Foundations of Leadership. His other responsibilities include managing the Looking Glass program at the Greensboro campus, feedback coaching, executive coaching, research, and writing.
Prior to joining the Center in the fall of 1999, Gene was founder and president of Leadership International, an organization specializing in human relations training and coaching. During that same period, he was an adjunct instructor at the Michigan Leadership Development Institute at Saginaw Valley State University, where he designed and delivered a leadership training series targeted at key business and community leaders.
Gene retired from the U.S. Army in 1994. His distinguished career included service in Vietnam, Germany (twice), Panama, Italy, and the first Gulf War. It culminated with service at the U. S. Military Delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He successfully completed five command tours that included an assignment as a battalion commander during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. All 600 soldiers under his command returned safely to the U.S. Gene was awarded seventeen personal military decorations during his 25-year career, including three for valor and fourteen for specific acts of achievement or meritorious service.
Gene earned his Ph.D., which proposed an integrated systems approach to leadership development, from the Free University of Brussels. He earned a M.A. in International Relations from the University of Arkansas, European Campus, and a B.A. in European History from Ripon College. He has also been awarded a diploma as a U. S. Army War College fellow from the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy.
His book entitled Crisis Leadership was released in April 2003. His second book entitled Building Your Team's Morale, Pride, and Spirit was released in August 2004. Building Character in Leaders, his third book, is listed on Amazon.com with a publishing date of October 2006.
You can watch video interviews with Gene Klann here.
Prepared by Katia Barzova, Good2Work Intern, on December 11, 2008
