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, Alain is currently Executive Director of Core Leadership Development in Portland, Oregon. Over the last 50 years, he has served a wide range of clients, from large American, European, and Japanese corporations to UN Agencies, global foundations and other not-for-profit organizations.

He is a co-founder and member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) in Boston as well as a co-founder of SoL France and Bay Area SoL. He also serves as Vice-President of the Club of Budapest France and is a director of Sol France in Paris and of Pathways to Peace in San Francisco.

Alain’s most recent book was initially published in French and is now available as an Ebook in English under the title "Actualizing Evolutionary Co-leadership – Evolving a Creative and Responsible Society" He has adapted and prefaced in French three of Peter Senge's acclaimed “Fifth Discipline” books, is a co-author of "Leadership is Global" and "Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership", and has contributed to three collective books on coaching and leadership development in French. He has taught courses on leadership at several schools of management in the United States and France, and is a visiting professor for the Coaching/Personal Development Master’s Program at the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. He lives in Portland, Oregon and devotes about a fifth of his time to work outside of the United States.