About Max

Dr. Max Klau is an author, coach, speaker, scholar, and leadership development expert living in Boston. 

He currently serves as the Chief Program Officer at the New Politics Leadership Academy, a non-profit that is dedicated to recruiting and developing military veterans and alumni of national service programs to seek political office. Before stepping into this role, he was the Vice President of Leadership Development at City Year, Inc., the national service program headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Max received his doctorate of education (Ed.D.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005; his studies focused on civic leadership education.  Max is also a certified Integral Associate Coach, trained in the integral coaching model developed by Integral Coaching Canada.  

An alumnus of four service programs, he has completed two years of service in Israel and led service programs in Israel, Honduras, Ghana, and Ukraine. He is on the board of the International Leadership Association, and his writing about leadership has appeared in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and The Huffington Post.