Dr. Albert Vicere

Executive Education Professor, Penn State University; President, Vicere Associates, Inc.

Experience

Al Vicere is Executive Education Professor of Strategic Leadership for The Smeal College of Business Administration at The Pennsylvania State University. He holds Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees from Penn State where he honed his expertise in leadership and organizational development. At Penn State, he served for twelve years as the Smeal College's Associate Dean for Executive Education, leading that unit to international prominence as a center of excellence in executive development. He was the founding director of Penn State's Institute for the Study of Organizational Effectiveness (ISOE), and has earned several MBA "Excellence in Teaching" awards for his courses on strategic leadership.

In addition to his current faculty duties at Penn State, he is President of Vicere Associates Inc., a consulting firm whose global clients include 3M, Abbott Laboratories, Allstate Insurance, AMD, American Century Investments, the American Red Cross, Ameritech, Anheuser-Busch, ARAMARK, Armstrong World Industries, AT&T, BASF AG, BP/Amoco, Bristol-Myers Squibb, British Airways, Carpenter Corporation, CIGNA, Cisco Systems, Computer Sciences Corporation, Continental AG, Daimler-Benz, Digital Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak, Ecolab, LM Ericsson, Excelon, The Federal Reserve, First Data Corporation, GPU, Hallmark, Henkel KGaA, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kraft Foods, The Limited, Lockheed Space Operations Company, McDonald's, Merck & Company, Motorola, National Australia Group, New York Life, Petron (Philippines), Philips Electronics NA, Prudential Insurance, Quantum Corporation, Rockwell Automation, Samsung, Saudi Aramco, Schering-Plough, Scudder Kemper Investments, J.R. Simplot, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Square D, Sun Life of Canada, The St. Paul Companies, TRW, Unilever, Unisys, U.S. Steel, US West, Utilicorp United, Warner-Lambert, and Westinghouse.

Dr. Vicere is the author of several books and has published some eighty articles and professional papers in leading journals including Organizational Dynamics, Planning Review, Human Resource Planning, The Journal of Management Development, Employment Relations Today, Personnel, Personnel Journal, Management Review, Training and Development Journal, Executive Development, The Journal of Management Learning, and Adult Education Quarterly. His latest books are, "Leadership by Design" (Harvard Business School Press), and "The Many Facets of Leadership" (FT Prentice-Hall). He was awarded the 2003 Walker Prize by the Human Resource Planning Society for his article "Leadership in the Networked Economy," and has been honored with two Literati Club Awards for his research and writing. In addition, he has received the Institute for Management Studies' Distinguished Faculty Award, was listed among the "twelve gurus of executive education" by Business Horizons journal, and was profiled among the 50 top leadership coaches in the book, Profiles in Coaching (Linkage Press).

Active in a number of professional and academic organizations, Dr. Vicere has served on the Boards of Directors of the Human Resource Planning Society and the International University Consortium for Executive Education (UNICON), and currently is a member of the Executive Committee for the International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR), one of the world's leading think tanks in leadership development. He also serves on the editorial boards of Human Resource Planning (USA) and The Journal of Management Development (UK) and is a member of the Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue. His observations on leadership can be found in his twice-monthly newspaper column, CEO Corner, syndicated by Scripps-Howard News Service.