Professor Leonard Lane earned his BA in Political Science and his MBA from the University of Southern California. Additionally, he earned his Executive Doctor of Management from Case Western Reserve University. In his thirty six plus years of work experience he has served as President of LL Global Consult, an international strategy development consulting firm and the Consulting Director of the Creative Initiative Foundation in Hong Kong. He also served as Vice President for Global Strategy for Divine, Inc.; President, Partner and Director of LLA Strategic Development Group (Anchorage and Seattle) and LLA Pacific (Hong Kong); Executive Vice President of Alaska International Air; Assistant to the Chairman at Alaska Airlines; and Senior Consultant at Peat, Marwick Mitchell.

In addition, Professor Lane has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Cal State University, Fullerton, San Marcos and the Fisher Graduate School of Business, Monterey Institute of International Studies. Professor Lane has lectured on leadership and global strategy at the University of Chicago MBA Program, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and was the lead instructor for “Developing Global Strategy” for Motorola University and Nortel’s Executive Development programs in the Asia Pacific region. He developed and was the lead instructor for the strategy portion of the Hong Kong Bank’s Senior Executive Strategy and Managing Global Risk Program.