Graduate Research Assistant
Kansas Leadership Center, United States
Keyhan Shams, MSc is an Iranian doctoral candidate in leadership communication at the Staley School of Leadership. He has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Human Settlements Program in Iran (UN-Habitat) and the Iranian government as well as a leadership coach in Iranian less developed communities. He is now working as a graduate research assistant for the Kansas Leadership Center and a member of ILA’s public leadership community core leadership team. He is the author of The City Iranians Need which was launched at the United Nations Habitat III conference in 2016, in Quito, Ecuador. In 2023, he was named as a recipient of the Staley School’s Robert Shoop Student Research Award. As a former urban planner and current leadership scholar, his main research interests revolve around studying how leadership emerges in the public sphere and the mental gap between learning and practicing leadership.
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