Charles Spinosa

Charles Spinosa has been a management consultant for the last 28 years. He draws on thinking from philosophy and literature to develop leaders, change organizational cultures, and develop new customer propositions. He has worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups in Europe, the US, Canada, Latin America, and China. Before entering management consulting, he taught Shakespeare at Miami University in Ohio and then philosophy at U. C. Berkeley. With Fernando Flores and Hubert L. Dreyfus, Charles published Disclosing New Worlds (The MIT Press, 1997). The book looks at innovation in business, politics, and culture from a philosopher’s perspective. In 2024 with Matthew Hancocks, Haridimos Tsoukas, and Christopher Davis (on culture), Charles published Leadership as Masterpiece Creation (The MIT Press). The book provides the conceptual and practical frameworks for leaders to create morally distinctive organizations: masterpieces. Charles received his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley.