James K. Hazy

James K. Hazy writes and edits books about the practical problems of leadership in complex organizations and situations. He is most known for addressing the problem of how executives successfully engage people in organizations to achieve results especially those that involve innovation and transformation. His work is unique it that it draws on complexity science and uses computer simulation techniques to illustrate practical approaches.

Prior to becoming an author, Dr. Hazy worked for over 25 years as a senior executive at leading US companies including AT&T and Ernst and Young and has founded a number of start-up businesses.

Besides writing and editing, he is currently Founder and CEO of Leadership Science, LLC, a unique research and consulting firm dedicated to improving the linkage between leadership, organizations and results. His prior responsibilities have included Executive Vice President of Business Operations & CFO at an Ernst & Young's eLearning business as well as Financial Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis and Director of M&A at AT&T. In these roles he has led initiatives in strategic planning, capital and R&D planning & budgeting, innovation, business development and M&A in the technology, telecommunications and energy sectors. His areas of practical expertise include organizational leadership, finance, M&A and venture capital.

Dr. Hazy joined Adelphi University after receiving his doctorate from The George Washington University in Washington DC. His dissertation was one the first examples of leadership modeling that used computer simulation, and his research agenda continues to push the frontier of computational modeling in this area forward. Previously he also earned an MBA in finance "with distinction" from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in mathematics from Haverford College. He has published over 30 papers in journals such as The Leadership Quarterly and Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychological and Biological Systems and as book chapters, many of which involved leadership simulation models at various levels of analysis. Since 2008, three of his papers have won the Bender Best Paper Award at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York where he teaches entrepreneurship and management.