Craig L. Pearce

Craig L. Pearce, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School of Business and Entrepreneurship, the Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the American University of Nigeria. He was formerly the Donald Clifton Chair in Leadership and the Director of the Institute for Innovative Leadership at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and previously worked with Peter Drucker at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management. He has pioneered the development of shared leadership scholarship and practice. His work has appeared in top journals, is widely cited, has spawned countless doctoral dissertations across the globe, and has received widespread acclaim in the practitioner community--including a feature article in the Wall Street Journal. He has received many awards for his work including the Ascendant Scholar Award, the Asia Pacific HR Leadership Award and an award from the Center for Creative Leadership for his work on shared leadership. His book, Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership, is published by Sage Publications. His most recent book, The Drucker Difference, is published by McGraw-Hill, and has been reprinted in Chinese, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. His forthcoming book, Share the Lead, will be published by Stanford University Press. He is a co-founder of an agricultural biotechnology company. He is an active keynote speaker and consultant to organizations--his clients have included such organizations as American Express, British Bakeries, the Central Intelligence Agency of the USA, Fujitsu, Land Rover, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Nielsen Marketing, Panda Express, Rayovac, Rover Group, SmartScan and Serono, among many others.