Global consultant, writer, professor, and business leader who has helped more than 200 organizations improve their performance. Specializing in leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and human performance improvement (HPI), Curtis has trained over 50,000 leaders and developed more than two dozen leadership programs over the past 20 years. Specializes in aligning leadership development efforts to organizational mission, vision, values, and strategy. Fluent Spanish, conversational French and Portuguese with experience in Brazil, China, Singapore, Austria, Germany, France, UK, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica and other countries. In addition to consulting work with industry, Curtis teaches MBA courses in leadership, people management, and communications/executive presence for the Jack Welch Management Institute. He is also a Fellow at Florida Tech's Institute for Cross Cultural Management, and Past President of SIETAR Florida (Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research). Curtis has an MBA, an MA in International Studies, and a PhD.Specialties: leadership development, executive coaching, management training, global leadership, intercultural effectiveness, instructional design, team-building, managing conflict, leading change, effective workplace communication.