Alain Gauthier
Alain Gauthier is an international consultant, facilitator, coach and educator who focuses his work on developing co-leadership and partnering capabilities in and across the public, private and civil society sectors. He is passionate about integrating the inner and outer dimensions of human experience, both at the individual and collective levels, in service of the whole. A graduate from H.E.C.(Paris), Stanford University M.B.A. And former member of McKinsey and Company, he is Executive Director of Core Leadership Development.
As an international consultant, facilitator, coach, researcher-educator, and
author, Alain has focused his professional work on developing co-leadership and
partnering capabilities in and across the private, public, and civil society sectors.
Now in his eighties and as an elder, he devotes his voluntary work to co-creating
conditions for elders to explore how they can live a regenerative life and
collaborate with younger generations in transforming education. He is passionate
about integrating the inner and outer dimensions of change, both at the individual
and collective levels, to address our current interdependent crises. He believes
that cities and bioregions offer the most promising opportunities for building an
inclusive community of commitment, in service of the whole of life.
A graduate from HEC (Paris), Stanford University MBA, and former senior
consultant at McKinsey & Company, Alain founded Core Leadership
Development in Oakland, California. He has served a wide range of clients, from
start-ups, family businesses, and large international corporations to UN
Agencies, foundations, healthcare organizations, educational systems, global
and local NGOs. He collaborated with the Leadership Learning Community and
the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership in Oakland.
Alain has designed and facilitated board and executive retreats, as well as team
workshops on co-leadership capacity-building in the United States, Europe,
Japan, Brazil, and several African countries. He was a co-founder and active
member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL) in Boston, San
Francisco, and Paris. His most recent book was published as a Kindle book on
Amazon.com under the title Actualizing Evolutionary Co-leadership – Evolving a
Creative and Responsible Society.
Alain has taught courses on leadership in several business schools in Europe
and the United States over the last 45 years, and is still a visiting professor for
the Coaching/Personal Development Master’s Program at Paris 2 University. He
is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Service of Portland State
University, an honorary director of Pathways to Peace, and a member of the
Conscious Leadership Guild.
Over the last five years, he has been an active member of the Elders Action
Network, where he has led a visionary planning process and now co-leads the
Regenerative Elder Process – which is offering for the fourth time an in-depth
exploration called Embodying Regenerative Worldviews. He lives in Portland,
Oregon and stays actively connected to friends and colleagues internationally.
