About the Author: Blake Leath
Dr. Blake Leath is the founder of Leath Group, LLC—a dynamic curriculum development and intellectual property greenhouse that grows leaders and shapes cultures. Blake and Leath Group colleagues provide consulting & communication services and tools that transform leaders, cultures, and processes to achieve dramatic breakthroughs in strategy and performance. Since 1992, he has worked with practitioners in over 300 companies and numerous federal, state, and local agencies/departments/bureaus, as well as with individual researchers from leading universities to understand and maximize employee involvement, success, longevity, and passion. Blake’s primary interests include strategy, culture, leadership, change, communication, effects of a multi-generation workforce, systems thinking, M&A integration, trust & influence, and the process of acculturation.
In 26 years as an organizational sociologist and strategist, Blake has instructed in excess of 14,000 participants across 41 states, and his content has been used by leaders in 27 countries. Leath Group has worked with more than 200,000 individuals, and well over 2,000,000 imprints have been made of the Group’s combined intellectual property. He has worked with clients as diverse as Adidas, AT&T, Bausch & Lomb, BHP Billiton, BNSF Railway, Capital One, Citigroup, Daimler, Ericsson, GE, Kodak, Libbey, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Momentous Institute, Northwestern Mutual, Pfizer, Sony, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and Interior.
Blake earned his bachelor’s degree in Management & Marketing, his master’s degree in Organizational Management, and his doctorate of philosophy in Organizational Sociology. Postdoctoral studies exploring the integration of strategy, leadership and corporate communication in postmodern management have proven the inspiration behind 2019's intended Cultivating the Managerial Mind, the second in a burgeoning series. Blake remains an Adjunct Faculty member at the Tandy Center for Executive Leadership in TCU’s Neeley School of Business.
For something so essential, "strategy" is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misapplied, and given the complex challenges facing contemporary organizations—and entire societies—we must grow more and better strategists.