Larry W. Stout, Ph.D., MBA served as associate professor of psychology at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Latvia) for nine years. Stout has diverse career experience spanning the fields of business, education, religion and military life. As an American educator who lived in Riga for sixteen years (beginning in 1991), he found himself in a unique position to experience and observe a nation in dramatic transition.

Latvia, having regained its independence from the Soviet Union after five decades of oppression, was in essence a living laboratory exhibiting a strong need for leaders in all aspects of society – education, business, politics, economics, religion, the arts, and the non-profit sector.

To that end, Stout developed an innovative concept, the Ideal Leadership Model, which he used to teach undergraduate students as well as hundreds of government officials, even including members of the Latvian Parliament, and corporate managers in all stratas of business.

Stout has been in a position to impact current and future leaders of the Baltic region. As his Ideal Leadership model has gained recognition and acceptance outside of Latvia, Stout's influence has expanded through teaching at MBA programs in Lithuania and the Ukraine, speaking at conferences in Norway, England, Germany, India and Jamaica and publishing in the United States and Russia.