Ronald Heifetz

{{Short description|American psychiatrist and academic}}

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| birth_name = Ronnie Lee Heifetz

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|02|07}}

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| field = Leadership

| work_institutions = Harvard Kennedy School

| alma_mater = Harvard Kennedy School (MPA)
Harvard Medical School (M.D.)
Columbia University (B.A.)

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Ronald Heifetz (born February 7, 1951) is an academic and author. He is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership{{cite web |title=Harvard Kennedy School |url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/ronald-heifetz |website=Ronald Heifetz |access-date=May 15, 2022}} at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, and co-founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates.[http://cambridge-leadership.com/ Cambridge Leadership home page]

Formerly a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Heifetz works with leaders in government, nonprofits, and business.{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.fescny.org/speakers/0809.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309202228/http://www.fescny.org/speakers/0809.php |archive-date=2016-03-09 |access-date=2015-09-16}} His work on adaptive leadership has garnered attention in educational fields.{{Cite web |title=Adaptive Leadership |url=https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/management/adaptive-leadership/ |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=Corporate Finance Institute |language=en-US}}Parks, S.D. (2005) ""Leadership Can Be Taught"". Harvard Business School Press: Boston, MA. Named "case-in-point" (CIP) teaching, this method focuses on implementing aspects of Heifetz's work within the class itself. CIP has four main distinctions: 1) authority does not equal leadership, 2) understanding the difference between technical and adaptive challenges, 3) Power (of the individual) vs. progress, and 4) Personality (of the individual) vs. presence (skills & practice). The University of Minnesota,{{cite web |url=http://www.lead.umn.edu/ |title=Home |website=lead.umn.edu}} University of San Diego,{{Cite web|url=http://www.sandiego.edu/soles/about-soles/index.php|title = About SOLES - School of Leadership and Education Sciences - University of San Diego}} and the Kansas Leadership Center use CIP practices in their work.{{cite web |url=http://kansasleadershipcenter.org/ |title=Home |website=kansasleadershipcenter.org}}