What We Believe

Dr. Blake Leath is the founder of Leath Group, LLC—a dynamic curriculum development and intellectual property greenhouse that grows leaders and shapes cultures. He is the author of more than 90 copyrighted organizational science solutions implemented in client organizations around the world.

Blake has worked with clients as diverse as Adidas, AT&T, Bausch & Lomb, BHP Billiton, BNSF Railway, Capital One, Citigroup, Daimler, Ericsson, GE, Kodak, Libbey, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northwestern Mutual, Pfizer, Sony, and the US Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and Interior. Blake and Leath Group colleagues provide consulting & communication services and tools that transform leaders, cultures, and processes to achieve dramatic breakthroughs in strategy and performance.

In more than two decades as an organizational strategist, Blake has instructed in excess of 13,000 participants across 41 states, and his content has been used by leaders in 27 countries. Leath Group has worked with more than 200,000 individuals, and well over 2,000,000 imprints have been made of the Group’s combined intellectual property. Blake’s primary interests include strategy, culture, leadership, change, effects of a four-generation workforce, systems thinking, M&A integration, trust & influence, and the process of acculturation.

In 2007, Blake published his first mainstream book, Cultivating the Strategic Mind. The modest and very personal text consistently receives high praise from professional strategists embracing its approaches to reinforce more systemic strategic thinking. His anticipated follow-up, Management Malpractice, is forthcoming. Meanwhile, Blake and his colleagues research, write, design, deliver, facilitate, train, present, and film extensively, and most often in conjunction with long-term internal/external communication efforts designed to define and shape client cultures.

Gleanings from the Group’s contributions to knowledge and best practices (including Blake’s Blog) can be seen at www.leathgroup.com. Lifelong learners are encouraged to visit the site to experience Leath Group’s work, download freebies, participate, and contribute to an organic community of dialogue. Follow @blakeleath on Twitter to engage in lighthearted musings, riffs, and puff-piece observations.

Blake earned his bachelor’s degree in Management & Marketing, his master’s degree in Organizational Management, and his doctorate in Organizational Sociology. Since 1992, he has worked with practitioners in over 300 companies and numerous federal, state, and local agencies/departments/bureaus, as well as with individual researchers from leading universities, to understand and maximize employee involvement, success, longevity, and passion. Blake remains an Adjunct Faculty member at the Tandy Center for Executive Leadership in TCU’s Neeley School of Business.

Blake, his beloved wife Dawn, and their precious daughter Lauren (along with their microscopic Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Daisy) make their home in the very gently rolling hills of North Texas. For play, the Leaths enjoy traveling/exploring, reading, movie watching, attending concerts, plays, and musicals—and embarking on fun design projects of virtually any nature that get their creative juices flowing.