Allan Lind is a Founding Partner of Delta Leadership, Inc. He is a Distinguished Professor of Leadership at Duke University.

Allan has consulted with government agencies including NATO, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Federal Courts, the Federal Judicial Center, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service. He has worked with a number of private corporations including Micron Technologies, Deutsche-Bank, Red Hat Software, and Siemens Corporation. His consulting and teaching has focused on issues around conflict and litigation, corporate and national culture, virtual and face-to-face team dynamics, and ethical issues in business, as well as leadership.

Allan's research focuses on leadership and the psychology of authority. He is widely known for his research on the effects of fair and unfair treatment in organizations and political settings, and he has also conducted studies on conflict resolution, virtual teaming, and the effects of legal and government policies. He has published over 100 books, book chapters, and academic and practitioner journal articles. Allan is currently working on two book projects, one focusing on leadership (with Sim Sitkin and Sanyin Siang), and one focusing on the social psychology of fairness, and he is conducting a number of research studies on leadership and on justice judgments in organizations. He has served in editorial roles for several leading journals and was for a time on an advisory panel of the U.S. National Science Foundation. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on policy issues.

Before joining Duke in 1996, Allan held senior research scientist positions at the RAND Corporation and the American Bar Foundation. He was a faculty member in the Psychology Departments of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of New Hampshire and a behavioral scientist at the U.S. Federal Judicial Center. Allan has held visiting professor positions at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

 

Sim Sitkin is a Founding Partner of Delta Leadership, Inc. At Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, he also serves as Professor of Management, Founding Faculty Director of the Center on Leadership and Ethics, and Management Area Coordinator. Previously at Duke, Sim served as Academic Director at Duke Corporate Education and as the Faculty Director of the Health Sector Management Program. He also holds an appointment as Professor of Organization Science at the Free University of Amsterdam, where he is a Fellow in the Centre of Comparative Social Studies.

Sim has extensive consulting and executive education experience with many large and small corporations, non-profit and government organizations worldwide. In this work, he has focused on strategic leadership, leading and managing change (including mergers and acquisitions), organizational learning and knowledge management, and the design of organizational control systems. He has worked with a number of large and small corporations, and non¬profit and government organizations concerned with education, employment and social services - including ABB, Alcoa, American Airlines, bioMerieux, Carolina Power & Light, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutschebank, Duke Medical Center, Ericsson, Glaxo, Hart Graphics, IBM, La Quinta, Maxcor, Omgeo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Red Hat Software, R.H. Donnelley, Siemens, U.S. Dept of Justice (FBI, DEA), and Xerox Corporation.

Sim's research focuses on leadership and control systems and their influence on how organizations and their members become more or less capable of change and innovation. He is widely known for his research on the effect of formal and informal organizational control systems and leadership on risk taking, accountability, trust, learning from failure, M&A processes, and innovation. He has published over 60 books, book chapters, and academic and practitioner journal articles. Sim is currently working on several book projects focusing on leadership (with Allan Lind and Chris Long), and on the development and use of organizational control systems (with Laura Cardinal and Katinka Bijlsma-Frankema).

He has served in editorial roles for several leading journals and on a number of editorial boards and agency review panels in the U.S., Canada, and Australia and on the board of directors of the Society of Organizational Learning and the Center for the Public Domain. He served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management, and as Senior Editor of Organization Science and Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Before joining the faculty of Duke University in 1994, Sim was on the faculty of the University of Texas and has been a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and the University of Queensland. Prior to obtaining his PhD in organizational behavior from Stanford University, Sim spent over ten years in a variety of executive roles with responsibility for planning, information technology, financial administration, and research in consulting, non-profit, and government organizations.

 

Carol Land is Managing Partner of Delta Leadership. In additional to program design, she works as an executive coach for leaders embracing the Six Domains model. Carol honed her skills of program development and management in several industries over two decades. She was a stage manager for the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center, wrote and produced television commercials, produced industrial multi-media presentations, and wrote and produced numerous live and taped marketing programs for clients including the government of Indonesia, Sony Pictures Corporation, and the Getty Conservation Institute.

Migrating to the world of training and e-business, she implemented large scale training events for IBM, AT&T, and Price WaterhouseCoopers, among others. Subsequently, Carol produced the Andersen Business Consulting Java Boot Camp, overseeing the program from high level design discussions through staffing, development and delivery. She produced Lulu Tech Circus, a multi-media training circus for 3000 people over a three-day span, incorporating over one hundred training events. More recently, she has been consulting as a writer and producer for various educational concerns, with clients including Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME). She has managed, written and delivered training in diverse areas including enterprise java, adoption education, weight management, low-budget filmmaking and entrepreneurism.