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Center for Leadership and Executive Education

The Center for Leadership and Executive Education (CLEE) has been providing executive education through Queens’ McColl School of Business since 1993. McColl and CLEE are all about leadership – competence, character, and community.

CLEE’s Mission

Develop competent, principled leaders.

Why Center for Leadership and Executive Education?

Why consider CLEE for your leadership development needs?

Gifted Practitioners who happen to be Bright Academics

Our experienced faculty, executive coaches, and staff provide our clients with relevant best practices and frameworks.

Adult Learning Expertise

We design and deliver in ways that recognize and address the learning styles of adult professionals from different cultures and generations.

Credibility with Executives Audiences

We bring executive level experience to the learning environment; we empathize and identify with clients.

Many Assessment Instruments & Credentialed Executive Coaches

We bring it all. The ‘What’, ‘Who’, ‘When’, ‘Where’, and ‘How’ is an ‘All-in’ CLEE distinctive.

Tailored Program Designs

We tailor the learning outcomes, program design, and delivery to fit the unique needs of each CLEE client.

Relational, Engaging, & Fun

Every member of our team is committed to providing exceptional, impactful service and we love what we do.

Concierge Care in a Beautiful Environment

Our on-campus programming is packaged in a gorgeous learning environment with features that let executive talent know they’re special and cared for.

Turnkey & All-in

We excel at executive coaching that develops leaders, changes behaviors and applies learning. Our portfolio of assessment instruments is without rival.

Areas of Expertise

Executive Coaching

CLEE supplies executive coaches to organizations across the region. We provide a valuable advisory resource to our clients’ talent and leadership development functions.

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Leadership Development Programs

Organizations are hungry to develop their pipeline of emerging- mid-, and senior-level executives. This is CLEE’s sweet spot. Our core offering is the design and delivery of cohort programs, tailor-made for our clients.

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Consulting & Advisory Services

The McColl School of Business is well known for our Master of Business and Administration (MBA), Master of Science in Finance and Accounting (MSFA), Master of Science in Talent and Organization Development (MSTOD) programs. CLEE brings that organization development expertise to our clients.

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Clientele

Past and present include:

Ally Financial logo
Atrium Health logo
Brighthouse Financial logo
Cabarrus County Schools logo
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools logo
Coca-Cola Consolidated logo
Continental logo
The Duke Endowment logo
Duke Energy logo
Extended Stay America logo
Global Endowment Management logo
Granicus logo
Jeld Wen logo
JTEKT logo
Lowe's Home Improvement logo
Midrex logo
National Gypsum logo
Nucor logo
Tesa logo
North Carolina Conference logo
XPO Logistics logo

CLEE’s Clientele

CLEE has been delivering leadership development services for more than three decades. Over that time, CLEE’s reach has extended beyond the Metro-Charlotte Area to locations across the United States and as far as Western Europe and Australia.

    • Construction
    • Education
    • Engineering
    • Financial Services
    • Healthcare
    • Hospitality
    • Legal
    • Logistics & Transportation
    • Manufacturing
    • Not-for-Profit
    • Professional Services
    • Religious
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Technology
    • Utilities

Contact Us

Reach out to us for more information or to schedule a time to discuss your needs and how we can customize a plan specific to your organization.

William Sparks, Ph.D.

William Sparks, Ph.D.

Dennis Thompson Chair & Professor of Leadership
Executive Director, Center for Leadership and Executive Education (CLEE)
Director, MS in Talent and Organizational Development
704-337-2342

Profile sparksw@queens.edu
Alexandra Bertuch-Wallace

Alexandra Bertuch-Wallace

Program Coordinator
704-337-2328

Profile bertuch-wallaa@queens.edu
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Nicole Priestly

Director, Education Leadership Programs

priestlyn@queens.edu
Elizabeth Rohan

Elizabeth Rohan

Associate Director
704-337-2309

Profile rohane@queens.edu
Jane Williams

Jane Williams

Assistant Director
704-337-2352

Profile williamj@queens.edu