Alain Gauthier, Director Emeritus

Alain Gauthier is an international consultant, facilitator, coach, educator, and author who focuses his work on developing co-leadership and partnering capabilities in and across the private, public, and civil society sectors. He is passionate about integrating the inner and outer dimensions of change and leadership, both at the individual and collective levels, in the service of a new development paradigm.

A graduate from HEC (Paris), Stanford University MBA, and former senior consultant at McKinsey & Company, Alain is currently Executive Director of Core Leadership Development, a principal of Metaintegral Associates in the San Francisco Bay Area and a partner of In Principo (Collaborative Dynamics) in Paris. Over the last 45 years, he has served a wide range of clients, from large American, European, and Japanese corporations to UN Agencies, global foundations, healthcare and educational systems, as well as other organizations in the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
Alain has designed and facilitated meetings on co-leadership capacity building in the United States, Europe, Japan, and several African countries. He is a co-founder and active member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) in the United States and in France, and a member of the Global Leadership Network. He is also President of the Club of Budapest in Paris and a director of Pathways to Peace in San Francisco.

Alain’s most recent book was published in French in 2013 and is now available as an Ebook in English on Amazon.com under the title Actualizing Evolutionary Co-leadership – Evolving a Creative and Responsible Society. He has adapted and prefaced in French three of Peter Senge’s acclaimed Fifth Discipline books, is a co-author of Leadership is Global and Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership, and has contributed to three collective books on coaching and leadership development in French. He has taught courses on leadership at several schools of management in the United States and France, and is a visiting professor for the Coaching/Personal Development Master’s Program at the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area but devotes more than half of his time to work outside of the United States.