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MSEM PROGRAM: FACULTY & STAFF
 Jerry Brightman
Dr. Jerry Brightman is currently President of The Leadership Group
(TLG). Founded in 1996 and currently located in Canaan, New Hampshire,
TLG is focused on helping leaders and their teams understand and
actualize those behaviors that will make them great. The work of TLG is
creating and delivering customized leader development programs in a
number of leadership areas including; leadership development;
organizational learning; action learning; culture change; change
management; systems thinking; dialogue and communication; team learning;
and executive mentoring and coaching.
In addition to program design and facilitation, Brightman does
one-on-one coaching and mentoring as well as a number of speeches around
the world related to leader development, leadership development, team
learning, change management, dialogue, systems thinking and
organizational learning.
Professionally, Brightman was an Assistant Professor of Management at
Western Michigan University for two years prior to his moving to the
corporate world with Associated Metals and Minerals Corporation (ASOMA).
ASOMA, a $5 billion company, was one of the first U.S. firms to partner
with China, and where Brightman became Vice President for China Trade
and helped conduct approximately $1 billion of trade with China.
Brightman conducted business in approximately 75 countries mostly in
Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Following his work at ASOMA, Brightman became Executive Director of
Harvard's International Marketing Institute (IMI). Brightman designed
and facilitated IMI's six-week Summer Program as well as custom
executive education programs for IMI's global clients.
Brightman later became a Senior Consultant for Dr. Peter Senge and his
organization Innovation Associates (IA). Senge wrote the seminal text on
organizational learning - The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of
the Learning Organization which has sold approximately 1 million copies
around the world and which has been translated into 20 languages.
Brightman was a consultant and facilitator for the firm for five years,
and regularly applies the principles of organizational learning with his
global clientele.
Following his work at IA, Brightman joined the Center for Creative
Leadership (CCL) in 1991 as a Senior Program Associate. At CCL, often
recognized as the world's premier leadership training institute,
Brightman was a lead trainer for the Center's six-day flagship
leadership development programs. He also designed custom leadership
development programs for CCL clients around the world. While at CCL, he
was certified as a professional executive coach and still continues this
work today in an adjunct capacity.
Brightman's work represents a unique blend of business and leadership
theory and practice. In addition to his work as a corporate vice
president, a business consultant and corporate trainer, Brightman has
also conducted seminars, created new business, and given speeches in 110
countries around the world.
Dr. Brightman holds a Doctorate in Business (DBA) degree from The George
Washington University, where his doctoral thesis was in the area of
innovation, creativity, and planned change in organizations, an MBA from
American University (Washington, DC) and a BA in Economics from Clark
University (Worcester, MA).
In addition to teaching at The Gordon Institute, Dr. Brightman has also
taught part-time MBA classes at Boston University, Boston College,
Bentley College and Cambridge College.
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