ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. |
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August, 2001 - |
THE CITADEL, Charleston, South Carolina Dean of Business Administration and Robert A. Jolley Professor |
| Lead and direct an AACSB-accredited business school unit of over 40 professors and staff (30 are full-time) offering undergraduate and MBA Programs in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Now in the process of finalizing a new mission statement that calls for us to "educate and develop students for roles of principled leadership and service within all types of organizations throughout the global community" for values that emphasize honesty, integrity, and fairness; the continual pursuit and dissemination of knowledge to promote change in society; and continuous improvement. Extensive outreach to the community with partnerships developing with small and mid-sized organizations. | |
| 1998-2001 | ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY, Kansas City, Missouri Dean and Professor, Helzberg School of Management |
| Led and directed a business school in precandidacy for AACSB
accreditation composed of over 90 professors and staff (40 are full time)
offering undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and developmental programs.
Developed a new School mission statement for the School and reorganized
it into a mission-focused, team-based organization that focused on continuous
improvement. Solicited and brought in over $5.6 million in contracts and
donations in three years. Collaborated such that the School won a major
benefactor and was named. Supervised the Small Business Development Center
of Kansas City. Hired nine new faculty members to include three executives-in-residence.
Reorganized and upgraded the School's Advisory Board with new executives.
Developed new educational and developmental programs: the Information
Technology (IT) Leadership Program, MBA in Health Care Leadership, and
a Center for Leadership, all of which have generated new revenue for the
School. Created the IT Leadership Advisory and the Center for Leadership
Advisory Boards composed of CEOs and CIOs to advise these new programs.
Generated a new School presence in the Kansas City community to include
organizer and founding chair of the Kansas City Economic Advisory Board.
Created many new partnerships to include the following organizations: The Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurial Leadership, The Kansas City Greater Chamber of Commerce, The Mid-America Regional Council, Applebee's International, the University of Health Sciences, The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and The Metropolitan Arts Council of Kansas City. Served on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards Graduate of the Center for Creative Leadership's Leadership Development Program, 2000. |
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| 1995-1998 | OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY, San Antonio, Texas Dean and Professor of Management, School of Business and Public Administration Led and directed a business school certified by the Association of
Collegiate Business Schools and Programs composed of over 90 professors
(28 were full time) that offered both undergraduate and graduate courses
in San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. Reorganized the School into a team-based
environment and established both a Dean's and an Academic Council. Instituted
redesign processes that reengineered the School to meet the needs of
traditional and non-traditional students and reviewed teaching practices,
the allocation of faculty, reexamined student contact hours, and established
a regime for program evaluation. Coordinated a Title III Grant that
established an electronic commerce program and new undergraduate and
graduate degrees. Hired seven new faculty members. Led and coordinated
the establishment of a new MBA Program in Dallas. Served on the following
OLLU councils: Academic Council, Planning Council, Graduate Council,
Curriculum Council, McNair Scholar's Selection Committee. Graduate of
the Harvard Management Development Program (1997) |
| 1993-1995 | McLANE COMPANY, Temple, Texas. Corporate Director of Training, Documentation, and Communications |
| Created, hired and led a training and communications staff and coordinated a nation-wide, field force of trainers in this $7 billion, 24-division Wal-Mart subsidiary that had never had a full-time, corporate-wide training staff. Designed and directed a 6-day leadership school. Edited three books of position descriptions. Designed, organized and implemented the first company-wide management training program. Developed sales and customer service training programs Certified as a master trainer by Zenger-Miller, the nation's foremost leader development firm. Graduate of the Walton Institute of Retailing, Wal-Mart's senior leader development school. Graduate and Coach of the McLane Leadership School. | |
| 1981-1993 | UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, West Point, New York. Program Chair, Division Director and Professor of Public Policy. |
| Managed a university-wide program and led a division of
15 Associate and Assistant Professors and Instructors teaching 10 core
and elective courses in political science. Reorganized, updated, and expanded
the American politics curriculum by redesigning the required core course
and adding numerous electives. Managed a personnel selection and education
team that recruited a diverse group of outstanding junior faculty members, placed them in top-tier graduate schools, and then mentored all 48 of them during their schooling. Directed budgeting and all operational activities for the Debate Council and Forum, the largest extracurricular activity at West Point that was composed of five subordinate activities including the nationally-recognized USMA Debate, Model UN, and Speech Teams. Coached 20 junior faculty members to win the White House and Congressional Fellowships and students to win Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. Chaired numerous interdepartmental and departmental committees on such issues as faculty selection and curriculum review. Supervised the award of research grants and research initiatives academy-wide. Led an honor education team to sustain ethical behavior in the U.S. Corps of Cadets. Served on the USMA Admissions Committee, USMA Awards Committee, numerous faculty selection committees, and two endowed lecture committees. Published widely -- see list below. Taught the following courses: Bureaucratic and Organizational Politics; Executive Politics; Congress; Energy and Natural Resources Seminar; The Politics of Defense Policy Making; Advanced Politics and Government; American Politics, and Introduction to Political Science. Awarded two sabbaticals by the Academy as noted below. |
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| 1989-1990 | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HEADQUARTERS, Brussels, Belgium.
DOD and NATO Research Fellow. |
| Won three research grants to conduct in-depth, interview-based research on post-Cold War personnel configurations and military organizations while on sabbatical. Fellowship sponsored by General John Galvin, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. Research entailed over 210 interviews in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the Federal Republic of Germany and resulted in one book and two manuscripts on the British and German Territorial Armies. Also served as a consultant to the US General Accounting Office on the topic of European reserve forces and a participant on a US-sponsored, long-range planning group at the US Mission to NATO. | |
| 1984-1985 | NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE, WASHINGTON, D.C. Visiting USMA Professor and Fellow. |
| Selected by the Academy governing board to represent West Point at the College. Taught core and elective courses on international politics, national security policy making, classical and modern strategic theory, and organizational and congressional behavior. Co-directed a study trip to Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and Ireland. Supervised graduate-level theses on military issues. | |
| 1980-1981 | THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. Policy Advisor and White House Fellow. |
| Selected by President Jimmy Carter as a presidential appointee and as one of 17 Fellows from over 1600 applicants nation-wide. Served as an Assistant to the Secretary of Energy in the Carter Administration and in the Reagan White House as a policy advisor on energy and natural resources. Developed and coordinated government-wide, inter-departmental initiatives with the Departments of State, Defense, Energy, and Interior. Represented the President in dealing with several independent agencies to include the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.. | |
| 1975-1980 | UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, West Point, New York. Assistant Professor and Instructor. |
| Led a cadet extracurricular activity which traveled extensively. Designed an interdepartmental, interdisciplinary course and coordinated an endowed, distinguished lecture series. Directed a senior-level colloquium on American Institutions, an advanced course in American politics, and required courses on American politics and political economy. Distinguished graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff College. | |
| 1967-1975 | U.S. ARMY ARMOR UNITS, Overseas and in the United States. Company Commander and Staff Officer |
| Led two companies totaling 240 personnel, $20 million of equipment, and more than $45 million annual budgets, one of which conducted combat operations in the Republic of Vietnam. Planned and coordinated personnel, training, maneuvers, and maintenance operations in four organizations composed of 900- 2500 people. Consistently cited for creativity under high-pressure deadlines and ingenuity in planning and coordinating large-scale maneuvers and exercises. | |
PUBLICATIONS. |
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| Reserve Forces and the British Territorial Army: A Case
Study for NATO in the 1990s. London: Tri-Service Press, 1990.
Changing Organizational Culture: Strategy, Structure and Professionalism in the US General Accounting Office. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Selected by Choice Magazine as one of the outstanding academic books of 1987-1988. National Security and the US Constitution. Coedited and authored with George Edwards. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988 "Foundations of Organizational Excellence: Leadership Values, Strategies, and Skills" with John R. Darling and Charlotte D. Shelton, The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, forthcoming (2002) "Effective Conflict Management: Use of the Behavioral Style Model" with John R. arling, The Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, XXII (2001). "Presidential Transitions and the Entrepreneurial Presidency:
Of Lions, Foxes, "The Politics of Nimble Governance, Shrewd Implementation, and Entrepreneurial Leadership," What Makes A Successful Transition?, edited by David Clinton and Daniel Lang, University Press, 1993. "Comparing Army Reserve Forces: A Tale of Multiple Ironies, Conflicting Realities, and More Certain Prospects," Armed Forces and Society, 18 (Spring, 1992). "Congressional Resurgence and the Destabilization of U.S. Foreign
Policy," "Strategies for Professional Success: Making It in National Security Politics" with Richard Mattingly. Bureaucratic Politics and National Security, edited by David Kozak (Lynn Reiner, 1988). "The Military Professional as Successful Politician" with
Richard Mattingly. "The US Constitution and National Defense." A compendium for Armed Forces and Society. Coeditor and contributor (Fall, 1987). "Domesticating Foreign Policy: Congress and the Vietnam War."
Democracy, Strategy, and Vietnam, edited by George Osborn, et.
al. Lexington Books, 1987. "Strategies for Governance: Transitions and Domestic Policymaking in the Reagan Administration" with Michael Reopel. Presidential Studies Quarterly, XVI (Fall, 1986). "The Impact of GAO Program Evaluations on Government" Evaluation
and "The Conduct of Program Evaluation Reviews in the General Accounting
"No First Use and Conventional Deterrence: The Politics of Defense
"Domestic Coalitions and Defense Policymaking in the United States"
with "Evaluating Our Teaching," Teaching in the Department
of Social Sciences. West White House Fellows Directory, White House Fellows Association,
1982, Executive Politics: A Reader, 4 Vols., West Point, 1982, Editor. Legislative Politics: A Reader, West Point, 1982, Editor. "Emory Upton and the Army's Officer's Creed," Military Review, 1981. Readings in American Institutions, 8 Vols., West Point, 1978, Coeditor. Readings in Government and Political Economy, 3 Vols., West
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PAPERS, COLLOQUIUMS, CONFERENCES, AND CONSULTATIONS. |
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| Panel Chair, Society for Advanced Management
International Management Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 13-16,
1996
Paper discussant, "The U.S. Army and the Future Security Environment:
Domestic, Organizational, and Bureaucratic Factors," International
Security Studies Section and International Studies Association-West
Consultant and Adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Vice
Chief of Staff of the Army, the Director of Army Program and Evaluation,
and the USMA Superintendent on the "Outcomes and Implications of
the 1992 Roundtable chairman, "U.S. National Security Into the 21st Century," National Strategy Forum Workshop on "U.S. Domestic and National Security Agendas Into the 21st Century," Cantigny Illinois, September 19, 1992. Roundtable chairman, "After the Coup: Security Dilemmas for the
Former Soviet Roundtable chairman, "What Are the U.S. Roles in European Security?"
for the Panelist, "Reserve Forces," for the Business Executives for National Security (BENS), New York, New York, May 21, 1992. Speaker and delegate, Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs,
Idaho Roundtable chairman, "Building and Sustaining the Future Army,"
for the U.S. Co-author and participant, "Rethinking America's Security." Report of the 79th American Assembly, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and Columbia University at Arden House, Harriman, New York, May 30 to June 2, 1991. "Army Reserve Forces and the Total Force Policy: Paradoxes, Realities, and Choices." Occasional paper presented to the Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and to the Army Research Institute, April 20, 1991. "The Politics of Presidential Transitions." Paper provided to the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, April 15, 1991. "Substituting Reserves for Regular Forces in NATO." Seminar delivered to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Defense and Arms Control Studies Program, April 9, 1991. Consultant to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Army on the topics of "Active/Reserve Component Mix and Missions" and "The Total Force Policy," December, 1991. "The West German Territorial Army and NATO Defense: Continuities,
Character "The British Territorial Army: A Confederation of Combat Clans."
Occasional paper presented to General John Galvin, Supreme Allied Commander,
Europe, the U.S. General Accounting Office, and to the Army Research
"The Dominance of Professionals in Public Organizations."
Lecture delivered to "National Defense and the US Constitution: A Bicentennial Reappraisal of Issues, Political Institutions, and Processes." Chaired and constituted this panel for the American Political Science Association Annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 4, 1987. "Congress and the Vietnam War," paper delivered to the USMA Senior Conference on the Impact of the Vietnam War, West Point, New York, May 30 - June 1, 1985. "Organizational Politics and the US Army." Lecture delivered to MIT graduate students enrolled in the "Defense Politics Course," March, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988. "Elmer Staats as an Entrepreneurial Leader," Paper commissioned
by Professors "The Officer Corps and American Politics" with Richard Saunders.
Northeastern "Transitions and Cabinet Government in the Reagan Administration" with Michael Reopel. Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Savannah Georgia, November, 1984. Discussant, "Leadership and Decision Making in the Bureaucracy" Section on Public Administration, Organizations and Executives. American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., August, 1984. "Bureaucratic Culture and Professionalism: A Framework for Studying Organizational Politics," paper delivered at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 1983. "National Security as a Justification for Domestic Policymaking,"
paper delivered at the Northeastern Conference of the Interuniversity
Seminar on Armed Consultant to the Honorable John Rhett, Federal Inspector of the Alaskan
Natural Discussant, "The Institutional Presidency: The Cabinet, The Staff,
and The Vice Presidency, Center for the Study of the Presidency's Annual
Leadership "Cabinet Politics in the Reagan Administration," Colloquium delivered to the MIT faculty, April, 1982. Consultant to Assistant Comptroller General John Heller on future
directions of "Bureaucratic Politics and the General Accounting Office,"
Colloquium delivered |
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EDUCATION. |
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| Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Political Science (1980).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dissertation involved over 200
interviews in Congress, nine public agencies, and four newspapers. Title:
"The Bureaucratic Politics of Fault Finding: The Cultures of Auditing
in the General Accounting Office."
MS in Political Science (1973). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fields of concentration: American politics, national security affairs, and international relations. 4.7 GPA. BS (1967). United States Military Academy. Distinguished Graduate
(upper 5%) and Phi Kappa Phi. (This undergraduate curriculum was composed
of 60% science/engineering and 40% humanities/public affairs courses.)
Top-ranked graduating cadet in the Social Sciences. Exchange cadet with
the Argentine Military Academy. |
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HONORS, AWARDS, AND CERTIFICATIONS. |
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| Selected by the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurial
Leadership for a Scholarship to attend the Center for Creative Leadership's
Leadership Development Program, 2000.
Selected by Our Lady of the Lake University to attend the Harvard University Management Development Program, 1997 Certified by Berkman Associates as a Consultant for the Berkman Personality Instrument, 1995. Founding Designer, Graduate and Coach of the McLane Leadership School, 1995. Certified as a Master Trainer by Zenger-Miller, 1994. Selected by McLane to attend Wal-Mart's Walton Institute, 1994. Selected as a NATO Research Fellow and awarded a NATO Research Grant by the Secretary General of NATO, Manford Worner, for study of NATO Reserve Forces, 1989-1990. Project resulted in two manuscripts on the British and German Territorial Armies. Army Research Institute Grant for study of NATO Reserve Forces conducted in Europe over the period 1989-1990. Ford Foundation Grant for "US Constitution and National Security Project" with George Edwards, 1987. Project resulted in a book published by Johns Hopkins University Press, a symposium published in the journal Armed Forces and Society, and a presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Army Research Institute Grant for "Assessing Organizational Success: The Revival of the National Guard in the Post Vietnam Era." Project also cosponsored by the National Guard Bureau (1986-1987). Over 240 interviews were conducted, one paper published in Armed Forces and Society, six cadet seminar papers were based on this research, and two cadet senior theses. Selected by President Ronald Reagan as a Commissioner, President's Commission on White House Fellowships (May 14, 1986). Elected as President, First Vice-President, and Second Vice President by the membership of the White House Fellows Association (1984 and 1985). Selected by the U.S. Military Academy Academic Board as a Visiting USMA Professor at the National War College (1984). Selected as a White House Fellow by the President's Commission on White House Fellowships and commissioned by President Jimmy Carter (May, 1980). Selected as a Congressional Fellow by the American Political Science
Association George A. Lincoln Memorial Award from the Department of Social Sciences
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MILITARY EDUCATION. |
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| National War College, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., 1985.
Graduate.
Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1980. Honor Graduate (second of 855 graduates). Armor Officer Advanced and Basic Courses, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1971 and 1967. The Distinguished Graduate (Valedictorian) of the Advanced Course and Commandant's List for the Basic Course. Ranger and Airborne Courses, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1967 and 1973. Ranger Tab and Airborne Wings. Armor Officer Basic Course, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1967. Commandant's
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MILITARY ASSIGNMENTS |
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| 1974-1975 | Assistant Operations Officer, lst Armored
Brigade, 2d Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas. |
| 1973-1975 | Tank Company Commander and Personnel Officer, 2d Battalion, 66th Armor, 2d Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas. |
| 1969-1970 | Armored Cavalry Troop Commander and Maintenance Officer, 3d Squadron, 5th Cavalry, Vietnam. Troop conducted combat operations along the Vietnam Demilitarized Zone. |
| 1968-1969 | Adjutant, Personnel Officer, and Platoon Leader, 2d Squadron, 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment, Conducted border patrols along the German zonal border during the Cold War. |
OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS. |
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Organizer and Founding Chair of the Kansas City Economic Advisory Board
(produced an annual economic forecast and interim updates for the greater
metropolitan area; 1999-2001). |
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