Robert "Dusty" Staub, Staub Leadership International

Dusty has worked for over 30 years with executives, families, and communitiesas well as with private and public companies. He has trained and coachedexecutives and teams in creating high performance outcomes. Dusty has beena pioneer in the process of creating systemic accountability by aligningleadership and group behaviors with strategy to produce bottom-line results.He has worked and traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. He isthe author of The Heart of Leadership: Twelve Practices of Courageous Leaders,released in an updated, revised edition in paperback and The 7 Acts of Courage:Bold Leadership for a Wholehearted Life. He has written over two hundredarticles on topics such as leadership, team-based creativity, personal mastery,team effectiveness, personal effectiveness and business strategy and writes abi-weekly column for the Triad Business Journal.Dusty is a fellow in the School of Engineering at Virginia Tech, and received hisMasters in Clinical Social Work in Marital and Family Therapy and SystemsManagement from UNC Chapel Hill. He currently lives in Kernersville, NC with hiswife Christine, a family physician. Dusty is the proud father of three youngadults.