Art Kleiner is a writer, editor and entrepreneur whose current work focuses on the human aspects of artificial intelligence. His most recent book, co-authored with Juliette Powell, is The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology (August 2023).
At NYU, Kleiner is also on the faculty of the Interactive Media Arts and Interactive Telecommunications Programs at Tisch School of the Arts. His courses focus on scenario planning, responsible technology, content strategy, and management thinking and practice.
Kleiner began his career at the Whole Earth Catalog and was the editorial director of the best-selling Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series with Peter Senge et al. As editor-in-chief of the award-winning management magazine strategy+business, Kleiner published many influential thinkers and business leaders, and became a managing director at PwC.
His previous books include The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management (1996/2018), which describes the hidden history of business innovation. His book Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege and Success (2003) was praised by Jim Collins and Marc Andreesen for its exposure of the underlying clan dynamics that drive company decision-making. He coauthored The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership (2019), which explains the neuroscience underlying long-term decision making. He was a coauthor with Peter Senge et al of Schools That Learn (2000/2010), a bestseller that introduced many educators to the practices of organizational learning.
Kleiner has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches group. He has published many articles in academic journals and business magazines, most recently The AI Dilemma: Uniting 4 Logics of Power, in Rotman Management Magazine, coauthored with Juliette Powell (January 2024). At MIT, he coinvented a form of organizational research and training, the Learning History, that is used for helping teams and leaders make sense of significant transformational experiences.
