Sim, a founding partner of Delta Leadership, Inc., also serves as professor of management, director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Center, and founding faculty director of the Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke University.

He has extensive consulting and executive education experience with many large and small corporations, nonprofit and government organizations worldwide, including: ABB, Alcoa, American Airlines, Areva, Baker Tilly, bioMerieux, Carolina Power & Light, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Corning, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutschebank, Duke Medical Center, Ericsson, GlaxoSmithKline, Hart Graphics, IBM, La Quinta, Lenovo, Maxcor, Omgeo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Red Hat Software.

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 and innovation.

Sim received his BA in psychology from Clark University, his Ed.M in education from Harvard University, and his PhD in business from Stanford University.