Clemson Turregano

Senior Leadership Fellow

Curriculum Vitae
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Current Role

Dr. Clemson Turregano serves as the Senior Leadership Fellow at Furman University’s Center for Innovative Leadership. Clemson provides a total of over 35 years of global leadership development and delivery experience working with a broad spectrum of international clients. During his decades long career, he has engaged with domestic and international teams responsible for the discovery, design, integration, management, and distribution of leadership development programs. A retired military officer and scholar, Clemson combines his leadership experience, research, design creativity, and easy to use technology to deliver an unparalleled learning experience.

Dr. Turregano's undergraduate degree is from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. He earned an MA in Political Science, MPA, and Doctorate from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He also earned a MA in Security and Strategy from the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Experience

Clemson’s broad span of clients includes the banking and insurance (Raiffeisen bank, Deutsch Bank, Santander, First Mutual, US Bank and others), telecommunications (STC, Ooredoo, Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile), in addition to all levels of government and universities (Including Senior Service Colleges, Senior Ministry and Secretariat Officials, Combatant Command Leadership Teams). His C-suite work includes a wide range of commercial leaders, elected and appointed senior government officials, and leaders from the foreign service, defense, education, intelligence, and humanitarian aid. Clemson excels at end-to-end leadership development journeys, using the full spectrum of leadership development research, tools, and designs.

Global Application

Clemson’s professional career has taken him around the world, training in over 30 countries on 6 continents. His expat assignment as the Portfolio Director in Brussels provided a deep international context, and he is familiar creating and delivering designs in different nations and different cultures, across all levels of leadership and experience.

Military Career

Prior to CCL, Clemson served over 24 years in the US Army. Beginning as an infantry soldier and leader, he was commission as an Armor/Cavalry officer. His career followed two tracks – one an operational track where he served on numerous operations in Europe, the Middle East and the Balkans. As a combat commander, he commanded troops during the Kosovo incursion and subsequent peacekeeping operations. When not on operations, Clemson served a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point and later, the US Naval War College in Newport, RI.

Educational Background

Clemson’s undergraduate degree is from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. He earned an MA in Political Science, MPA, and Doctorate from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He also earned a MA in Security and Strategy from the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Honors & Awards

  • US Naval War College Cum Laude Award for Teaching
  • Legion of Merit
  • Meritorious Service Medal (3 Oak Leaf Clusters)
  • Army Commendation Medal (2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
  • Army Achievement Award
  • National Defense Service Ribbon
  • Global War on Terrorism Ribbon
  • NATO Medal (Kosovo)
  • Army Service Ribbon
  • Airborne Parachutist Badge
  • Expert Infantry Badge (awarded, not worn)
  • Expert Gunnery Badge, Tank (M1A1 Abrams).
  • US Armor/Cavalry Association Order of St. George
  • Patton Award for Leadership

Education

  • Ph.D. Syracuse University
  • M.A. Army War College; M.A. Maxwell School, Syracuse University; M.P.A., Maxwell School, Syracuse University
  • B.A. The Citadel

Resarch Interests

  • Executive leadership development and sustainment
  • Building high performance executive teams
  • Developing Organizational Leadership Development Strategies
  • Understanding and leveraging organizational cultures
  • Building leadership technical specialties
  • Cross-cultural leadership
  • Online Leadership learning and development
  • Public sector leadership strategies and development
  • Generating and Sustaining Non-Profit Leadership Cultures
  • Public Administration/Bureaucratic Politics
  • Understanding Mentorship and Creating Mentors
  • Coaching/Mentoring Skills Development and Training
  • Emergency Services Leadership Development

Publications

  • “Scaling Leadership Development for Maximum Impact,” CCL Whitepaper with Jeff Howard, Mike Smith, Clemson Turregano, Samir Mehta, Sonia Allue de Barro.
  • “Developing Leaders in the Public Sector of the Kingdom,” CCL Whitepaper with Emily Hoole, David Altman.
  • “Delegation: How Effective Leaders Get Things Done,” CCL Guidebook, Center for Creative Leadership.
  • “How to Keep Your Career On Track,” Military Comptroller, American Society of Military Comptrollers.
  • “Using Film to Illustrate Different Perspectives,” with Belinda McFeeters, Leading Across Differences, Belinda McFeeters, Kelly Hannum, and Lize Booysen, eds, Pfeiffer.
  • “Humanitarian Disaster Relief Handbook,” Editor. Indian River State College, Ft. Pierce, FL.
  • “Places of Unintended Consequences,” with Dr. Mark Corson, GeoJournal, Spring.
  • “Trust, Bricks, and Mortar: KFOR and the Rebuilding of the Pones Schoolhouse,” Co-authored with Dr. Keith Brown, Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University.
  • Transacting Transition: The Micropolitics of Democracy Assistance in the Former Yugoslavia, Kumarian Press, 2006.
  • “Insights on the Military-Media Relationship: Past, Present and…Future?” National Security Decision Making Department, Case Study Occasional Paper, US Naval War College, Newport Rhode Island.
  • “The Challenge of Opportunity, Rebuilding Iraq, 2003.” National Security Decision Making Department, Case Study Occasional Paper, US Naval War College, Newport Rhode Island.
  • “Answering the Call, the Emergence of the Department of Homeland Security,” National Security Decision Making Department, Case Study Occasional Paper, US Naval War College, Newport Rhode Island.
  • “Flight of the Phoenix, The V-22 Story,” National Security Decision Making Department, Case Study Occasional Paper, US Naval War College, Newport Rhode Island.
  • “Congress, the Constitution and National Security,” National Security Decision Making Department, Case Study Occasional Paper, US Naval War College, Newport Rhode Island.
  • “Becoming the Ringmaster: Mastering the Three Ring Circus of the Strategic Environment,” Strategic Research Paper, US Army War College.
  • “The Battle for the Pones Schoolhouse,” Personal Experience Monograph, US Army War College.
  • “Inside the Offsite: Organizational Autonomy and the Department of the Army.” Ph.D. Dissertation, UMI.
  • "From Paradigm to Paradigm Shift: The Military and Operations Other than War (With Ricky Waddell) Journal of Politics.
  • “The Key to Maneuver,” Armor Magazine.

Additional Professional Activities

  • For over 20 years, Dr. Turregano has served as the senior mentor and on the Board for the Consortium of Humanitarian and Service Education (CHSE), existing to prepare leaders for service in humanitarian, disaster response, and emergency management fields.

 

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