David Campbell, formerly a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, is the Smith Richardson Senior Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), where he has been engaged in research and teaching in the area of leadership for more than twenty-seven years. CCL's Leadership At the Peak course, which Campbell helped design, was cited in 1999 and again in 2001 by Business Week as the number one rated short-term leadership development course for top executives in America.