Robert Levasseur is a professor at Walden University in the College of Management & Technology School of Management with a specialization in leadership and organizational change. Early life A native of Maine, Dr. Levasseur received a BA in Physics from Bowdoin College, a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, an MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences from Walden University. Career Dr. Levasseur has taught numerous qualitative and quantitative management courses at Boston University, University of Maryland University College, and the University of the Virgin Islands, and has authored seven books. He previously held professional and leadership positions in major U.S. corporations during a nearly 30-year business career. He is the Founder and President of MindFire Press, which provides resources for lifelong learning. Dr. Levasseur wrote his Ph.D. Dissertation on the subject of transforming leadership. He was interested in the impact that a modern leadership style has on follower performance and job satisfaction. To study this relationship, he used the meta-analysis research method. Meta-analysis allows a researcher to combine the numerical findings of a variety of original studies into an aggregate measure. Because of the much larger sample size that results from combining multiple studies, the aggregate measure (called an effect size statistic) is a much better statistical estimator of the phenomenon in question. To facilitate the transition to more collaborative forms of leadership, Dr. Levasseur conducted a study that examined the impact of leaders who use modern styles of leadership, characterized as visionary, charismatic, or transformational, to motivate their followers to achieve higher levels of performance and job satisfaction. Although the new millennium requires leaders to engage followers in the change process, many leaders seem reluctant to embrace modern methods of transforming leadership despite evidence of their effectiveness. Dr. Levasseur used meta-analysis, a research method useful for combining the quantitative findings of a number of primary research studies, to synthesize the findings of 7 experiments and 27 correlational studies of transforming leadership published in the past 15 years. The meta-analysis provided effect size estimates of the relationship between leadership style and two follower outcomes, performance and satisfaction. The meta-analysis also provided estimates of the magnitude and statistical significance of four factors that prior research indicated might affect these relationships: (a) research design (i.e., experimental or correlational study); (b) subject