Program Director
Clint Sidle is the Director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Clint also works as an independent consultant in strategic change, teambuilding, leadership development, and executive coaching.
Clint has over fifteen years of experience in facilitating organizational change and leadership development efforts for business and non-profit organizations. For over ten years Clint was the director of strategic planning at Cornell University and successfully led many strategic change efforts throughout the institution and as an independent consultant. Clint's approach to managing change has proven very powerful. He leverages strategic change efforts with leadership and executive team development, and employs large group intervention techniques for facilitating and managing the process. He describes many of his methods in his first book High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning published in 1997 by McGraw Hill.
Clint brings extensive experience in designing and facilitating leadership development programs to his current role of Director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program. His design for a leadership development program at Cornell has won national awards and recognition, and his Park Leadership Fellows Program is recognized as a unique and powerful contribution to management education. His developmental approach is based on a unique experiential learning model that has resulted in a popular leadership development program at the Johnson School and is the topic of his new book The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps to Achieving Individual and Organizational Greatness released by Palgrave Macmillan in September, 2005.
Clint applies many of his teambuilding, coaching, leadership and organizational change methods in his consulting engagements. His consulting clients include Meredith Corporation, Corning Inc. Kelloggs Inc., Citigroup, Grupo Generali, GE, the American Red Cross, and many higher education institutions including University of Michigan, City University of New York, and Duke University.
Clint attended Cornell where he received a BS in Economics and an MBA. He also holds a Masters degree in Applied Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Prior to Cornell, Clint worked for Motorola and served in the Peace Corps in Nepal.