Biography

Jay Conger is the Henry Kravis Research Chair Professor of Leadership at the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College.

Professor Conger is widely acknowledged as one of the world's experts on leadership. He has done extensive research into leadership, boards of directors, organizational change and the training and development of leaders and managers.

Prior to his academic career Professor Conger worked in government, and as an international marketing manager for a high technology company.
After moving into academia Professor Conger became a research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He then became the Executive Director of its Leadership Institute.

Professor Conger was subsequently invited to join London Business School in 1999 in the role of Professor of Organizational Behavior. He remained there until he took his current position at Claremont McKenna College in 2005.

Harvard Business School has also asked him to help redesign its organizational behavior course around leadership issues.

Additionally, Professor Conger has been involved in executive education at INSEAD.

An accomplished writer, he has written or co-written over 10 books and 100 scholarly articles. His titles include Shared Leadership: Reframing the How's and Why's of Leading Others, and Winning 'Em Over: A New Model for Managing in the Age of Persuasion. His latest book, The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders, examines what top scholars consider the best practices of leadership in numerous sectors.

Alongside his academic work Professor Conger consults for a number of private corporations and non-profit organizations worldwide.