John Adair (author) at the University of Exeter from 1990 to 2000. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust where he regularly speaks on Leadership development programmes. Since 2006, he has been Honorary Professor of Leadership at the China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong. In 2009 he was appointed Chair of Leadership Studies United Nations System Staff College in Turin. He is President of Adair International. John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business,
Kurt Lewin Fine at Harvard Medical School. When Trist and A T M Wilson wrote to Lewin proposing a journal in partnership with their newly founded Tavistock Institute and his group at MIT, Lewin agreed. The Tavistock journal, "Human Relations", was founded with two early papers by Lewin entitled "Frontiers in Group Dynamics". Lewin taught for a time at Duke University. Lewin died in Newtonville, Massachusetts, of a heart attack in 1947. He was buried in his home town. His wife died in 1987. Lewin coined the notion of genidentity, which has gained some importance in various theories of space-time and related