About Alexander Spradling, PhD

I began my career inside Pacific Bell, working on organizational learning and cultural change during a period of profound transformation in the telecommunications industry. That experience — seeing how organizational systems shape human behavior from the inside — set the direction for everything that followed.

From there I spent six years with Levinson & Co., one of the leading organizational consulting and executive coaching firms of its time, working with senior leaders across multiple sectors and geographies. Since then I have built an independent practice that has continued to evolve — through executive coaching, leadership development, and most recently the Leadership Team Diagnostic.

I am also a Distinguished Fellow Coach at BetterUp, where I work one-on-one with leaders at major companies across the United States and globally.

At the core of everything I do is a humanist conviction: that organizations work better when the people inside them can learn and thrive. That belief shapes how I approach every engagement — not as a technical problem to be solved, but as a human system to be understood.

Most of my thinking on leadership, organizational behavior, and the dynamics that shape how people work together appears in my writing on LinkedIn.

I am based in Texas. Outside of work I am an avid photographer — drawn particularly to architecture and cityscapes, especially ancient and historical ones. I practice mindfulness and find it as relevant to my professional work as to my personal life. I read widely, with a particular interest in science and history — two fields that have shaped how I think about systems, time, and change.

I hold a PhD in Human Science with a specialization in Systems Inquiry. Beyond formal credentials, I have spent decades as a dedicated student of the fields that inform this work — organizational behavior, systems thinking, leadership, coaching, and human development. That ongoing study is as much a part of my practice as any degree.