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Who was Lee Thayer.

Who was Lee Thayer?

Often referred to as the greatest leadership coach of his era, Dr. Lee Thayer was esteemed by the most influential minds in leadership.  He was considered by many as a pioneer and innovator in the leadership required of executives to achieve the highest levels of performance, working with such diverse entities as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Office of Education, and NASA, among others.

Owing to his tremendous success leading executives out of their comfort zones to achieve their most audacious goals, Dr. Thayer became affectionately known as a “professional cage rattler.” His impactful, powerful leadership coaching stemmed from a background balanced in arts and science, a jazz musician (who played with Stan Kenton) and his vast experience working with executives at IBM, AT&T, Westinghouse, Boeing, Curtiss-Wright, Pratt-Whitney, McDonnell Douglas, Phillips, Shell, General Motors, Sealtest Foods, Hallmark, and West Point, among many others.

With degrees in the humanities, engineering, and psychology, his other “career” as a distinguished and honored university professor both here and abroad included work with the Harvard Graduate School of Business, the University of Amsterdam, Queensland University of Technology in Australia and the Universidad Complutense in Mexico.

Dr. Lee Thayer

Dr. Lee Thayer

- Your title gives you authority. Your capacity to lead gives you the power to realize your vision. How successful you can be depends upon how you THINK, because that determines who you ARE, which determines how you will DO what you do.
Joelle Thayer, CEO Leadership TBD

Joelle Thayer

CEO, Leadership TBD
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Dr. Lee Thayer

Dr. Lee Thayer

- If you truly want to reinvent yourself ... and have a deep passion to change and improve, read Lee Thayer.

Larry Bull

CEO, Createch Machine & Design
Dr. Lee Thayer

Dr. Lee Thayer

- The supreme master of counter-intuition… high-performance leadership’s modern day Yoda.

Michael W. Norris

Senior Chairman, Vistage

Tom Peters
Leadership guru

- Lee gave me the best advice I ever received.

Ralph Stayer

CEO Johnsonville Sausage