Robert H. Lengel was a tenured associate professor at the University of Texas in San Antonio when he founded the Center for Professional Excellence (CPE) in 1987. His groundbreaking work at the CPE in the decades that followed has informed the writing of this book. In 1998, he co-authored Fusion Leadership: Unlocking the Subtle Forces That Change People and Organizations with Richard L. Daft. Today, after retiring from university life, Dr. Lengel continues
to work with individuals and organizations through LeaderWork Inc, a company he founded to develop capacities necessary to accomplish what he calls "leader work". He lives in San Antonio with his wife Sandy - though even after forty years thinks of Pennsylvania and New England as home.
