Senior Advisor

Mr. Sonnenfeld is Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management, where he has taught since 1999. Before joining Yale, he taught for ten years as a professor at Harvard Business School and nine years as a professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Mr. Sonnenfeld is the founder of Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a non-profit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance, and the world’s first school for chief executives. Mr. Sonnenfeld has served on the editorial boards of several journals, and his professional activities also include membership on various non-profit organization and public company boards. Mr. Sonnenfeld was listed by Business Week as one of the “ten B-school professors who are influencing contemporary business thinking” and one of the “100 most influential players in corporate governance” by National Association of Corporate Director’s Directorship.