Gerald A. Kraines, M.D., (Gerry) is president and chief executive officer of The Levinson Institute, a global management-consulting and leadership-development firm, headquartered in New England. Since 1968, the Institute's mission has been to develop exceptional leaders and leadership systems, capable of leveraging the full potential of their people in order to deliver maximum value to shareholders and customers. Dr. Kraines has over 15 years of proven success in transforming business organizations into highly effective, fully accountable vehicles for creating significant shareholder value. His recent book, Accountability Leadership, combines common sense with scientific knowledge to create a blueprint for a total managerial leadership system. Dr. Kraines is also on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, has held numerous leadership positions in the public and private sectors, and has written extensively on diverse subjects ranging from leadership and the strategic use of organization to brain chemistry and the management of stress.

In his approach to consultation, Dr. Kraines applies broad scientific, business, and psychological expertise. He examines the state of human relationships and HR systems, the clarity and integrity of role relationships, and the alignment of an organization's structure and processes with its mission and strategy. Dr. Kraines has an unparalleled ability to help groups of managers shift their attention from matters of interpersonal difficulty to mature, rational approaches to agreeing on what the company and its working relationships need to be.

Dr. Kraines has worked with senior executives from over 100 national and multinational organizations, both in the private and public sectors. Notably among those in the private sector, he has worked with Honeywell, Ford, Eli Lilly, Wyeth-Ayerst, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Verizon, Halliburton, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Sun Microsystems, Nortel, Pilkington, GE Healthcare, and AT&T. In the public sector he has worked with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Social Security Administration, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Central Intelligence Agency, among others.

Dr. Kraines's lifelong interest in public health has guided him to his current philosophy: financially successful work organizations that help employees realize their full potential have an equally positive effect on the emotional and economic health of their employees' families and communities.

Contributions to the field

Book:

• Accountability Leadership:  How to Strengthen Productivity Through Sound Managerial Leadership, 

• Management Productivity Multipliers: Tools for Accountability, Leadership, and Productivity

Articles and Chapters

• Evolution in Our Understanding of Evolution

Videos:

• Interview:  Getting to know Gerry Kraines and his career using Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization - 2006
   
• Panel Presentation on Assessment - 2005 - Manager-once-Removed Led Equilibration Sessions
   
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• Presentation 2009 - Slides for teaching RO - in Spanish - La Ensenanza de la Organizacion Reuerida
   
• Presentation 2009 - Slides: Strategic Organization Introduction to organizatgion design based on Requisite Organization concepts - 2009
   
• Keynote Presentation 2009 - Slides:  Requisite Organization Viewed by the Fox and the Hedgehog
   
• Keynote Presentation 2014 - Requisite Organization:  Theory and Practice