Charles J. (“Chuck”) Palus
Senior Fellow in Research at the Center for Creative Leadership (retired 2020)
Chuck Palus studies, teaches, and develops leadership as a relational process within the context of the vertical transformation of leadership cultures.
He is co-founder of CCL Labs, a community-based innovation laboratory with products including Visual Explorer™, Leadership Essentials™, Transformations™, and the Early Leadership Toolkit™. He is a co-author of the Direction, Alignment, and Commitment (DAC) Framework. He is a co-founder of the vertical leadership development community of practice at CCL. He is a co-founder of the Leadership Culture Transformation practice at CCL.
He has co-designed numerous development experiences including: Leading Creatively, EdgeWork, Facing and Solving Complex Challenges, Transforming Your Organization, Boundary Spanning Leadership, and Leadership for Societal Impact. He is a passionate contributor to the CCL Societal Impact agenda and has worked extensively in Africa from the grassroots to senior levels at the African Union.
He is co-author of the award-winning book The Leader’s Edge, and the papers: Making Common Sense: Leadership as Meaning-Making in a Community of Practice, and Evolving Leaders. His work appears in Leadership Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Business School Handbook for Teaching Leadership, CCL Handbook of Leadership Development, CCL Handbook of Coaching, the Handbook of Action Research, and the Change Handbook.
Chuck has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in social psychology from Boston College.