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Barry
Z. Posner
Dean of the Leavey School of Business and
Professor of Leadership
Barry
Posner is Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University,
located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
He
is the co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership
book: The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary
Things Done in Organizations. Described as a groundbreaking
research study, The Leadership Challenge combines keen insights
with practical applications and captures both why and how leadership
is everyone's business. With over one million copies in print, this
book has been the featured selection of several book clubs, named
book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health Care Executives,
received the Critic's Choice Award from the nation's book review
editors, and translated into over 15 foreign languages.
The Leadership Practices Inventory has been called "the most
reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today." Barry
has also co-authored three other award-winning, inspiring and practical
books on leadership: Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It,
Why People Demand It; Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to
Recognizing and Rewarding Others; and The Leadership Challenge
Planner: An Action Guide to Achieving Your Personal Best.
Barry is an international renowned scholar who has published more
than 80 research and practitioner-oriented articles, in such journals
as the: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied
Psychology, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology,
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the like.
He is currently on the editorial review boards of the Journal
of Business Ethics and Leadership Review, and section editor
for the Journal of Management Inquiry. Barry, along with
his co-author Jim Kouzes, received the International Management
Council's award as the nation's top management and leadership educators
(previous recipients have included Peter Drucker, Ken Blanchard,
Steve Covey, Norman Vincent Peale, Edward Deming, Tom Peters, and
Rosabeth Moss Kanter).
He
serves on the Board of Directors for the San Jose Repertory
Theatre and asa a Public Director for the American Institute
of Architects (AIA). Barry has previously served on the
boards of Public Allies (Silicon Valley), Big Brothers
Big Sisters of Santa Clara County, The Center for Excellence
in Nonprofits, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, along with
several start-up companies.
Barry
received his undergraduate degree in political science from UCSB,
his master's degree from the Ohio State University in public administration,
and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and administrative theory
from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
At
Santa Clara he has received the Dean's Award for Exemplary Service,
the President's Distinguished Faculty Award, and several outstanding
teaching and leadership honors.
He
is a warm and engaging conference speaker and dynamic workshop
facilitator, and
has worked with such organizations as: Alcoa, Applied
Materials, Arco, Charles Schwab, Conference Board of Canada,
Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente Health Care, L.L. Bean,
Levi Strauss, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Mervyn's, Motorola, Network
Appliance, TRW, Trader Joe's, US Postal Service, among others.
He has made presentations and conducted workshops across the
U.S., and around the globe from Canada, Mexico and Europe to
the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Contact Information
E-mail: bposner@scu.edu
Phone: 408-554-4523
FAX: 408-554-4553
Address:
106 Kenna Hall
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053
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