Sooksan Kantabutra completed his Ph.D. at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, trained by Professor Gayle C. Avery, a world renowned leadership scholar.  Prior to joining CMMU in 2002, Dr. Kantabutra worked with a global consulting firm where he advised multinational corporations on leadership and change for several years, after graduating with an MBA from McCallum Graduate School of Business in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, the USA.  Having been educated in three continents and worked in a multinational corporate setting, Dr. Kantabutra brings a global perspective and experience into his research, teaching and consulting at CMMU.  Internationally, Dr. Kantabutra has been an International Research Fellow of Institute for Sustainable Leadership in Australia and Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, Hong Kong Institute of Education in China.

As a recipient of Mahidol University's Most Internationally Cited Researcher Award, Dr. Kantabutra's significant contribution to the field of strategy and leadership is a theory of organizational vision that bridges the gap among the prevailing vision-based leadership theories.  His research has been adopted by practitioners and extended by researchers throughout the world.  Along with those of the world's most prominent international scholars of leadership, Dr. Kantabutra's research report, entitled What Do We Know About Vision?, has been reprinted in a textbook, Leading Organizations: Perspectives for A New Era, launched worldwide in 2010 by Sage Publications.  More recently, he is named by Emerald Publishing Group in the UK Highly Commended Paper Award Winners for his vision and sustainable leadership research reports at Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2011 and 2012, and by the World Human Resource Development Congress 2012 the Outstanding Leadership Award Winner for his leadership and contribution to the field.