Principal
CurrentDenhardt Leadership is a boutique education and consulting firm located in northern California and specializing in educating leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Its founder and principal, Robert Denhardt, has also recently served as Director of Leadership Programs and Director of the Executive Masters of Leadership program at Price School of Pubic Policy at the University of Southern California. and a a principal in the California Leadership Associates, Bob is the author of a dozen books on leadership and management, the latest of which is JUST PLAIN GOOD MANAGEMENT.Bob';s work is based on the view that leaders draw draw from within to relate to others in personal and active ways - intuitively, emotionally, and empathetically. They have the capacity to absorb diversity and complexity, to synthesize different ideas, and to articulate the essence of the conversation in a clear and meaningful fashion. Leaders, more than others, excel in recognizing and recovering form, sorting out the relevant elements from those that distract, and identifying patterns that others fail to see. In large part, the leader’s capacity is the capacity for creative expression.