About Ira Chaleff
Ira Chaleff is a thought leader in the field of Followership and the founder and president of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates.
Followership
Ira’s book, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders was first published in 1995 by Berrett-Koehler in San Francisco and was widely acclaimed.
The second expanded edition was published in 2002, also by Berrett-Koehler.The Courageous Follower was the Silver Winner of the Best Business Book of the Year award in 2002 from ForeWord Magazine, the magazine of independent publishers.
The Courageous Follower has been published in Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and also in a special Indian edition. It is currently being translated into additional languages.
An award winning training video, Courageous Followers, Courageous Leaders: New Relationships for Changing Times, was produced based on the book.
Ira was the catalyst for the first national conference in 2006 on Followership, hosted by the Kravis Leadership Institute of McKenna College and the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Ira is co-editor of the Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations, published in January, 2008 as part of the Warren Bennis Leadership Series by Jossey-Bass.
He has published and has been quoted in numerous articles on Followership and its emergence as a newly recognized field of study and practice.
He has conducted seminars and workshops on Followership for a wide range of audiences including NASA, The Brookings Institute, Ernst & Young, The Eastern Management Development Center for the Federal Government, The Federal Judicial Center, Georgetown University, The Graduate School of Public Accounting at the University of Wisconsin, and numerous other institutions, agencies and professional services firms.
In 2006, Ira went on a multi-city speaking tour of India, introducing the concepts of Courageous Followership to both privately-owned and government-owned companies.
The Courageous Follower has been incorporated into many curricula, including senior- and mid-level police officer training at virtually every level of the California Law Enforcement community. It was part of the syllabus for the first course on Followership taught (by Barbara Kellerman) at the John F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Executive Coaching & Consulting
Ira is President of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates in Washington, DC.
He has been named one of the top 100 consultants by Executive Excellence Magazine.
Ira has conducted top-to-bottom organization assessments for diverse domestic and international organizations or their key divisions. Among these are the Credit Union National Association, The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, National Public Radio, the Nuclear Energy Institute and others.
Ira designs and conducts leadership team development programs for organizations such as University Information Services at Georgetown University and Bio Regulatory Services at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of United States Department of Agriculture.
He offers individual executive coaching for senior- and mid-level managers at privately held and newly public hi-tech companies, law and lobbying firms, corporations, federal agencies and trade associations.
Ira conducts workload management coaching and training for managers and professionals at private sector firms that have included Kraft Foods, Capital One, AARP, Volvo, American Management Systems, Glaxo-SmithKline and BlackBoard Inc.
Political Leadership Facilitation
Ira has served as Executive Director of the non-partisan Congressional Management Foundation in Washington, D.C., providing management studies and organization development services to congressional offices.
He is now Chairman of the Board of The Congressional Management Foundation.
Ira co-authored the original handbook for newly elected members of Congress: Setting Course: A Congressional Management Guide, now in its eleventh edition.
Ira continues to facilitate strategic planning retreats for congressional offices to create stronger focus in the service of their constituents.
Ira has hosted delegations of legislators from other countries interested in studying the mechanisms through which the United States Legislative Branch has developed the capacity to balance the power of the Executive Branch. He has facilitated in-country retreats for this purpose for the Senate of Nigeria and conducted similar work for the parliament of Sierra Leone.
He has facilitated strategic planning efforts for international organizations such as the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Club of Madrid, both of which are dedicated to supporting the viability of emerging democracies.
Contact Information:
Washington Office: Ira Chaleff, CMF/ECCA, 513 Capitol Court NE, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202 544 0097; Direct Line: 301 933 3752, Fax 301 933 3984
E-mail: ira.chaleff@exe-coach.com