Robert Kramer is an internationally recognized authority on action learning,  and consults to senior executives on leadership development.  His clients include Pfizer, Boeing, the World Bank, the European Commission in Brussels, the Prime Minister’s Office in Tallinn, Estonia, and over two dozen agencies of the US government, including the intelligence community. From 2002-2005,  he was director of the Executive Leadership program at American University. In 2002 he received the Outstanding Teacher Award.  In 2004 he won the Curriculum Innovation Award of the American Society for Public Administration. From 2002-2004, he was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, a group of 650 management and leadership educators. He was a 1999 Fulbright scholar in Budapest. His publications on action learning, leadership and the intellectual history of psychoanalysis appear in the U.S., the U.K. and,  in translation, in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain.  He is editor of A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures of Otto Rank (Princeton University Press, 1996).  He is co-author, with E. J. Lieberman, of The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).  In spring 2013, he is teaching leadership at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary.