Kerul Kassel

Dr. Kerul Kassel is a faculty member at Fielding Graduate University, teaching in the Sustainability Leadership, Global Leadership, and Humane Workplace programs of the Organizational Development and Leadership Masters program within the School of Leadership Studies. She is the author of The Thinking Executive’s Guide to Sustainability (Business Expert Press, 2014) and senior editor of Developing Sustainability Mindset in Management Education (Greenleaf Publishing, 2018). Dr. Kassel has been awarded year-on-year fellowships at Fielding’s Institute for Social Innovation.

Her PhD is in Human and Organizational Systems, and she holds Masters degrees in Human Development and Social Ecology. She is a Certified Sustainability Professional through the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, and holds multiple professional coaching certifications with the International Coach Federation and the International Association of Coaching.

Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, edited books, and in conferences around the world, and she has been quoted in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The Chicago Tribune, Real Simple, Self, and elsewhere. She is a member of the international Developing Sustainability Mindset Working Group of the Principles for Responsible Management Education, a program of the United Nations Global Compact. Her research agenda focuses on sustainable enterprise, business practices and education, and leadership for sustainability in organizations.

A recognized expert in productivity and procrastination, or "PROCRASTIVITY," as she calls it, Dr. Kassel is also the author of Stop Procrastinating Now (New Leaf Publishing, 2007) and Productive Procrastination (Echelon Press, 2008). Her coaching focuses on self- and collective leadership development with leaders, teams, and groups, as well as individuals.

Dr. Kassel is also an elected official on the Board of Supervisors of the Harmony Community Development District, a governmental body, and is President of First Nature Foundation, a non-profit whose vision is to meld the best of the past, present and future of leadership practices for the dignity and wellbeing of all. In her spare time, she is a community activist and takes leadership lessons from her horses.