Steve Kerr
Steve Kerr is a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs, From 2001-2006 he was the firm’s chief learning officer and a managing director. Steve came to Goldman Sachs from General Electric, where he was vice president of corporate leadership development and chief learning officer, including responsibility for GE’s renowned leadership education center at Crotonville. He was previously on the business school faculties of The Ohio State University, the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California, where he was dean of the faculty and director of the Ph.D. program. Dr. Kerr is a former president of the Academy of Management, the world’s largest association of academicians in management. His writings on leadership and “on the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B” are among the most cited and reprinted in the management sciences.
Steve is on the editorial boards of several leadership journals and is a member of the HR advisory board at the University of Michigan, and the advisory board of theWharton School/U.of Pennsylvania GSE’s program in work-based learning leadership. He is a fellow in the Academy of Management and the National Academy of Human Resources. He is a senior advisory committee member for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, and is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Business School Publishing; the board of governors of Leader to Leader Institute; the board of advisors of the LRN-RAND Center on Corporate Ethics, Law, and Governance; and is chairman of the board of the Fisher Island (Florida) Day School, under the erratic supervision of his three year old son Zachary.