Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is a world-renowned expert on depth psychology and transformational leadership and the author of numerous books, among them the bestselling The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World; and The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes. Her most recent book, Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within, published in October 2015, was named a gold medalist in the category of books for women by the Nautilus Book Awards, an annual accolade of books in the genre of social and environmental justice.

Dr. Pearson’s previous book, The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century, published by Berrett-Koehler, is an edited collection of cutting edge essays on the challenges facing today’s leaders. It grew out of the Fetzer Institute's Leadership for Transformation Project, for which she was principal investigator. The Transforming Leader was honored by the International Leadership Association for making a significant contribution to the field of leadership.

Dr. Pearson is the author of The Organizational and Team Culture Indicator™ (OTCI), an instrument that measures the archetypes active in teams and organizational cultures. The OTCI was acquired by Kenexa, a global human resources company owned by IBM, which translated it into numerous languages and uses it with clients all over the world under the name IBM Kenexa Cultural Insight Survey (IBM-KCIS). With Hugh Marr, she developed The Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator™ (PMAI), published by the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), an instrument that measures archetypes active in individuals.

Dr. Pearson has taught and held senior administrative positions at several major universities, including the University of Maryland, the University of Colorado, and Georgetown University, and served as Executive Vice President and Provost and later President of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. Before going to Pacifica, she was Executive Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, a professor in the UMD School of Public Policy, and a member of the executive committee of the International Leadership Association. Earlier in her career, she was President of CASA: the Center for Archetypal Studies and Applications; President of Meristem, a nonprofit educational organization; and Senior Editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice, a bi-monthly magazine. A popular public speaker and workshop leader and consultant for many organizations, she currently lives in the Washington, DC area.

Dr. Pearson may be contacted through her Website, www.carolspearson.com.