Experience-Driven Leader Development

About the Author

Cynthia McCauley is a senior fellow at the Center forCreative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is co-editorof The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of LeadershipDevelopment and has been an active contributor for many yearsto the field of on-the-job leader development. Scott DeRue is a management professor and director of theleadership initiative at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business,University of Michigan. Reported by CNN/Money to be one of the topforty business school professors under the age of forty, DeRueconducts research and teaches in the areas of leadership and teamdevelopment. Paul Yost is an associate professor ofindustrial-organizational psychology at Seattle Pacific Universityand principle and founder of Yost & Associates, Inc. He hasworked at Microsoft, Boeing, GEICO, and Battelle Research in avariety of roles, including executive assessment, leadershipdevelopment, and human resource research. Sylvester Taylor is a director in the Research,Innovation, and Product Development Group at the Center forCreative Leadership. He has more than twenty years of experienceresearching, designing, and implementing leadership developmentinitiatives, primarily helping organizations gain value fromorganizational and multi-rater feedback.