James G. Clawson

Professor James Clawson published Level Three Leadership 4th ed, Powered by Feel: How Individuals, Teams, and Companies Excel (with Doug Newburg) and Balancing your Life: Executives Lessons for Work, Family and Self in 2008 and 2009. He teaches actively in the MBA and doctoral programs as well as leading and participating in several Executive Education programs.

Clawson's research addresses issues of leadership, career management, management development and mentoring. He has authored 17 book-length manuscripts and numerous articles and has written or supervised the writing of more than 200 cases on a variety of topics. Clawson has consulted with a number of corporations and organizations all over the world (North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa) on leadership development, organizational design, management development, career management, managing change and human resource management. He also has taught at the International University of Japan as a visiting professor.

In 2009, he was named the David L. Bradford Educator of the Year by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and Reviewer of the Year by the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal. Before joining the Darden faculty in 1981, Clawson taught at Harvard Business School, worked as a functional trainer for Mobil Oil Company in Japan and served as an international banking officer for Wells Fargo Bank.