N. Karl Haden Ph.D.

N. Karl Haden, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL), a consulting and professional development firm focused on health professions education and the health care industry, based in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Haden’s formal education is in religious studies, the humanities, and philosophy, studies to which he credits many of his perspectives on leadership. In addition to coauthoring The 9 Virtues of Exceptional Leaders: Unlocking Your Leadership Potential, he has written nearly 100 articles and monographs in leadership and policy and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Dr. Haden is a Fellow of the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas and a Fellow (Hon.) of the American College of Dentists. In 2017, Dr. Haden was honored by the ADEAGies Foundation as recipient of the Gies Award for Achievement-Public or Private Partner.