Charles Kiefer is President of Innovation Associates, Inc. and Chairman of Insight Management Partners, a member of the Innovation Associates Group. He founded Innovation Associates in 1976, and along with Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, helped pioneer the body of concepts and methods now called organizational learning that enable large organizations to innovate, and to change from being driven by circumstance and managed through compliance, to being characterized by aspiration and deep commitment.
Today, he helps global companies leverage the human side of their enterprise primarily by working with executives and their teams to improve the quality of their thought. He possesses a broad range of experience with major multi-national corporations and because of his success in founding and managing his own businesses, brings an unusual business-oriented perspective to human resource issues. Throughout all his consulting engagements, Mr. Kiefer has helped clientsmanage both the “hard” technical and “soft” human sides of change. As a result, people in these firms are able to operate in more flexible, open ways, and collaborate across traditional hierarchical boundaries to discover new business opportunities.
Mr. Kiefer grew up in Washington, DC and then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received degrees in Physics and Management. He worked on the staff of the United States Senate and the Administrative staff of MIT. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.