William L. Sparks serves as the Dennis Thompson Chair and Professor of Leadership at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte. Concurrently, he serves as the Managing Partner with William L. Sparks & Associates, LLC, and as a Partner with Peter Browning Partners, LLC, providing leadership, team, and board development services to organizations worldwide. He created and validated the Actualized LeaderProfile©, the ALP360©, and the Actualized Team Profile© over the last twenty years, and they have been translated into nine languages. His TEDx Talk, "The Power of Self-Awareness," explores the importance of personal responsibility for self-actualization. He completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Development from the School of Business