2007 News Release
Prominent Psychologist David Campbell Retiring
Campbell pioneered well-known career assessment tools and authored popular books

June 17, 2007- Colorado Springs, CO - David Campbell, whose groundbreaking work on career development made him renowned in the field of industrial and organizational psychology, will retire from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®) on June 30.

Campbell created the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and its successor, the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, which became widely-used assessment tools for career choices. He also authored several popular books on careers and leadership. Campbell joined CCL in 1973 as a visiting fellow and later served as executive vice president, becoming CCL's first Smith Richardson Senior Fellow in 1981.

Campbell's books include If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You'll Probably End Up Somewhere Else and If I'm in Charge Here, Why is Everybody Laughing? More recently, he published the Campbell Development Surveys, which analyze working interests, skills, leadership potential and teamwork. His speaking appearances have spanned North America and taken him to Asia, the Middle East, South and Central America and much of Europe.

"David Campbell is a towering figure in his field, and his contributions to CCL over the past 34 years have been tremendous," said CCL President John Ryan. "His impact will live on in the work that we do, and we feel very fortunate to have benefited from his talents for so many years."

Campbell played a key role in founding CCL's Colorado Springs campus in 1983. There, he developed CCL's innovative Leadership at the Peak (LAP) program, which has trained thousands of senior leaders from around the world.

"It has been an amazing career," Campbell said. "Through the LAP program alone, I have had intense, personal interactions with hundreds of corporate presidents and CEOs, university deans and chancellors, major foundation executives, military admirals and generals, and an increasingly wide range of executives from international organizations and institutions. Given the almost universal high quality of these individuals, even in these turbulent times I feel optimistic about the future."

The Society for Psychologists in Management named Campbell its 2006 Distinguished Psychologist in Management. He has also received the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Colorado. Campbell earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Iowa State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he served as a professor of psychology before joining CCL.

About the Center for Creative Leadership
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®) is a top-ranked, global provider of executive education that unlocks individual and organizational potential through its exclusive focus on leadership development and research. Founded in 1970 as a nonprofit, educational institution, CCL helps clients worldwide cultivate creative leadership - the capacity to achieve more than imagined by thinking and acting beyond boundaries - through an array of programs, products and other services. Ranked among the world's top providers of executive education by BusinessWeek and No.6 worldwide in the 2009 Financial Times annual executive education survey, CCL is headquartered in Greensboro, NC, with campuses in Colorado Springs, CO; San Diego CA; Brussels, Belgium; Moscow, Russia; India; and Singapore. Its work is supported by more than 450 faculty members and staff.

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