Paul Hersey

Paul Hersey, who lived from 1931 to 2012, was a behavioral scientist and entrepreneur best known for conceiving Situational Leadership. He wrote Management of Organization Behavior, which reached its ninth edition, and later books including The Situational Leader, Situational Selling, Situational Service and Situational Parenting. He taught training and development in leadership, management and selling, advised industrial, government and military organizations, and served as a distinguished professor of leadership studies at Nova Southeastern University. He also held faculty posts at several other universities, including a deanship of a school of business. In the 1960s he established the Center for Leadership Studies, which provides training in Situational Leadership. He credited Douglas McGregor and Carl Rogers as foundational to his early thinking.