Steve Garcia

Steve Garcia is a Managing Partner at Contemporary Leadership Advisors (CLA) where he helps clients build and lead faster, higher-impact, and more adaptive organizations in rapidly-changing, complex environments. His consulting work has won numerous awards, including the Brandon Hall Gold Award in Executive Education.

Garcia's forthcoming book, "The End of Leadership as We Know It," explores the traps leaders fall into when they apply traditional ways of leading to today's new world of work.

Prior to co-founding CLA, Garcia worked on Capitol Hill for the U.S. Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment, ran product marketing for Nortel Networks' digital switching, optical Ethernet, and voice-over-IP products where he got to experience the enterprise's explosive growth and subsequent implosion, and led human capital consulting for Philosophy IB (since acquired by Heidrick & Struggles).

Garcia holds an M.B.A. from The University of Virginia and an Ed.D. in Adult Learning from N.C. State University where he researched how organizations’ informal networks affect learning, change and innovation. He serves on multiple boards including the board of the Institute for Contemporary Leadership, an applied research center focused on the future of leadership. When he’s not working, Garcia likes to spend time with his family in Millburn, NJ, catch up on pop culture, or fall down mountains on his bike.