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The Center for Creative Leadership, headquartered in Greensboro, NC, is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to leadership education and research. It conducts close to 300 development programs per year across its eight locations: Greensboro, NC, Colorado Springs, CO; San Diego, CA, Brussels, Belgium, Moscow, Russia, India, Ethiopia and Singapore. The Center for Creative Leadership employs approximately 450 faculty and staff, as well as 500 adjunct faculty members.

History
The Center for Creative Leadership was founded by H. Smith Richardson Sr.[2], through the Smith Richardson Foundation. Richardson was responsible for the economic success of his grandfather's company, Vicks VapoRub, and began the Center for Creative Leadership because of his life-long interest in leadership development.

In the 1970’s[4] CCL’s concept of assessment for development, which differed from assessment for selection, promotion or performance review, was considered radical. CCL faculty believed that a vital feature of assessment for development was keeping assessment data (feedback) confidential to the person being assessed. It was their philosophy that by keeping the information private individuals could better absorb the learning by helping them save face and ensuring more honest feedback. Since the 1970s assessment for development feedback has been the cornerstone of CCL’s work.

By 1974, CCL staff members decided to test their theories about assessment for development in the fields of leadership, creativity and experiential education by building a program around techniques they had been studying. The new program was called the Leadership Development Program (LDP®). Today it remains the Center's flagship program.