Walter Ulmer Award - 2002 Winner

Center For Creative Leadership Presents Ulmer Award to Distinguished Professor Emeritus of SUNY
Dr. Bernard Bass honored for outstanding leadership research

Greensboro, N.C. - The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®), a nonprofit educational institution devoted to leadership research and training worldwide, today announced that Dr. Bernard Bass, distinguished professor emeritus of organizational behavior at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, has received the Center's prestigious Walter F. Ulmer Jr. Award for Applied Research.

Established in honor of a former Center president, the Ulmer Award recognizes outstanding, career-long efforts in applied leadership research. Dr. Bass is well-known for his research and writing on the topic of "transformational leadership" and has worked closely with military, education and business organizations to incorporate transformational leadership principles into real-world settings.

"Bernie Bass has made transformational leadership one of today's most popular and practical frameworks for leadership," said John Alexander, president of CCL. "He has helped us establish the important role that leaders have in establishing an organizational vision that can motivate and align employees and help an organization sustain itself over time."

To commemorate the Ulmer award, Dr. Bass will present the results of one of his research studies during a colloquium scheduled for 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, at CCL headquarters in Greensboro. His talk will center on the leadership dynamics within a U.S. Army platoon under near-combat conditions.

Dr. Bass is a graduate of Ohio State University where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Psychology. In 1994 he was honored by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology with its Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, and in 1997 received the Society of Psychologists in Management award for Distinguished Practice in Psychology.

Dr. Bass is a founding editor of Leadership Quarterly and has served as a senior scientist for Gallup. He is a Ford Faculty Fellow and a Fellow of both the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the KRAVIS Leadership Institute.

About the Center for Creative Leadership

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®) is a nonprofit, educational institution with international reach. Devoted to leadership research and training, CCL touches more than 20,000 individuals and 1000 organizations each year. For more than three decades its mission has been to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. Center staff members conduct research, produce publications, and provide programs and products to leaders and organizations in all sectors of society. Headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., the Center also has locations in Colorado Springs, Colo., San Diego, Calif., Brussels, Belgium and Singapore, as well as Network Associates around the world certified to offer selected Center programs.

In a 2003 Financial Times survey, the Center ranked 4th worldwide among executive education open enrollment providers. The Center was the only non-business school to be included among the elite list of international educational institutions and the only institution ranked that focuses solely on leadership education.

In the biennial BusinessWeek survey of corporate management development executives the Center has been ranked first in leadership development since 1999. For more information on CCL, visit www.ccl.org.

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