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Faculty GWU-CEPL adjunct faculty members are chosen not only for their academic credentials and subject matter expertise, but also for having distinguished themselves in managerial roles in the public and/or private sector. They bring real-world perspectives to the classroom. The GWU-CEPL faculty members have proven their ability to effectively share their expertise and experience to facilitate your professional growth. Among our adjunct faculty are:
Bill Bransford is a partner in the law firm of Shaw, Bransford, Veilleux & Roth, P.C., where he has practiced since 1983. His practice is concentrated on the representation of federal executives, managers, and employees before the U.S. District Courts, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Special Counsel, Offices of Inspectors General, and offices that adjudicate security clearances. Mr. Bransford advises several small federal agencies on matters pertaining to federal personnel and employment law. He also represents private sector employers and employees on employment law issues. Mr. Bransford has written numerous publications on federal employment law, and is co-author of the guidebook, "The Rights and Responsibilities of Your Federal Employment." He serves as Vice Chair for the Public Employees Roundtable. Prior to joining SBVR, Mr. Bransford was a senior attorney at the Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel, representing the agency on labor and employment law issues. He graduated cum laude from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, in 1975, and received his Master of Law in Labor Law from Georgetown University. Mr. Bransford is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Ohio. Maureen Brown is an Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Information at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests concentrate on the use of information-based technologies for re-engineering operations to improve service delivery throughout all levels of government. Her service activities focus on the design, development, and implementation of advanced technologies to enhance organizational operations. She has authored numerous research publications on technological innovations. Dr. Brown has served as a Fellow to the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at The George Washington University. Mencer “Don” Edwards is a member of the faculty of the DC Neighborhood College, the Corporate Environmental Advisory Council of The Dow Chemical Company, the Board of Directors of the Casey Trees Endowment and the Board of Directors of the Humanities Council of the District of Columbia. Mr. Edwards has been engaged in building the “deliberative democracy” movement through his work with America Speaks in the District of Columbia via its four Citizens Summits, in lower Manhattan after 9/11 and in the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina. He served as the executive director of the "Americas branch" of The Panos Institute, and helped found the U.S. Citizens Network for the UN Conference on Environment and Development In 1994 and 1995 respectively, he was the national U.S. organizer for the UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the Second UN Conference on Human Settlements in Istanbul. From 1993-96, Mr. Edwards served as chair of the Environmental Justice Working Group of the Sustainable Communities Task Force of the President's Council on Sustainable Development. He was inducted into the George Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha International, The Honorary Society for the Advancement of Land Economics, in 2006. Matt Fairholm is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Dakota, Department of Political Science and W.O. Farber Center for Civic Leadership. He was formerly the Director of Leadership Studies and Development for The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. Dr. Fairholm's teaching and training experience spans public, private, nonprofit, and academic settings, including work with the Fannie Mae Corporation, the USDA Graduate School, the District of Columbia government, and GWU's CED program. His academic and professional interests focus on leadership theory and practice, organizational behavior, and public administration. Darrell Harvey has more than 15 years experience in organizational development, education training, and human resources research. He serves as a management consultant, adjunct faculty member, and president of Integrated Management Solutions, Inc., a consulting practice that provides management consulting and education services to organizations. Mr. Harvey’s clients have included NCR, IBM, EDS, DISA, the Defense Logistics Agency, Management Support Technologies, Inc., the Department of Energy, the District of Columbia, and the USDA Graduate School. He conducts assessments of management processes and human resources systems, organizational development, strategic planning, executive coaching, and the design and delivery of various seminars/workshops on topics including workforce diversity, conflict management, and performance management. Prior to starting his own practice, Mr. Harvey spent over eight years providing internal consulting, training and development, and human resources research services at leading private sector firms such as Merrill Lynch (as a senior research manager) and The Prudential (as a senior organizational consultant). He addressed issues such as organizational assessment (surveys, focus groups, and interviews), performance management processes and techniques, design and validation of personnel selection systems, organizational change efforts, and the development and delivery of training programs. Mr. Harvey received a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hampton University. Phil Joyce is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at The George Washington University and Principal Investigator for the Federal Government Performance Project, a multi-year effort funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts to evaluate the management of selected federal agencies. Dr. Joyce’s teaching and research interests include public budgeting, intergovernmental relations, and bureaucratic politics. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, appearing in outlets such as the Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Administration and Society, and the Handbook of Government Budgeting. His 1993 article, “Using Performance Measures for Federal Budgeting: Proposals and Prospects,” was reprinted in Classics of Public Administration (1997). Dr. Joyce is Associate Editor of Public Budgeting and Finance, and is a Past President of the American Association of Budget and Program Analysis. He has taught in M.P.A. programs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, the University of Kentucky, and American University. Dr. Joyce also has twelve years of public sector experience, including four years with the Illinois Bureau of the Budget and five years with the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. He received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School and his M.P.A. from Penn State University. Chris Kayes is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Development at The George Washington University School of Business. His research and teachings focus on the process of transforming individual experience into organizational knowledge, including studies of groups and teams, management learning, experiential learning and learning styles, and critical thinking. Dr. Kayes’ research appears in over a dozen articles and book chapters, including the Academy of Management Learning and Education, Organization Dynamics, Journal of Management Education, and Small Group Research. His recent projects include an analysis of the breakdown of learning during the 1996 Mt. Everest climbing disaster and an analysis of the passenger response to the hijacking of United Flight 93 on 9/11 as an example of team learning. Conclusions drawn from his research often point to the limits of conventional wisdom and the unintended consequences of action. Dr. Kayes’ recent teaching efforts focus on team dynamics and interpersonal behavior, research methods, leadership, and organizational behavior. He has taught in the Executive Leadership and Singapore Institute of Management Programs at GWU, and holds a Visiting International Scholar Position with the Helsinki School of Economics. Alonford James Robinson, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Symphonic Strategies. He specializes in comparative political and economic development, business and marketing strategy, organizational development, and the development of human capital. He has been involved in numerous research projects at the Harvard Institute for International Development, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Department of Afro-American Studies. He was also part of a delegation of scholars that toured South Africa immediately after the end of apartheid. Dr. Robinson spent a number of years working for a leading international business strategy firm. He has delivered keynote remarks and led organizational strategy seminars to C-level audiences (CEO, CMO, CTO, etc.) in more than 150 organizations in over a dozen countries throughout Europe and North America. Dr. Robinson served as the chief of strategic planning and organizational development at a prominent, national nonprofit organization. While in this position he designed and led a social marketing campaign that involved the use of innovative qualitative research and strategic communications tools. He focused on surveys, polls and focus groups that dealt with issues of race, poverty, and social justice. Dr. Robinson has served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Organizational Sciences at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and dual bachelor’s degrees in social psychology and political science from Stanford University. William E. Rosenbach is the Evans Professor of Eisenhower Institute of Leadership Studies and Professor of Management at Gettysburg College. Dr. Rosenbach’s research focuses on leader and follower behavior, effectiveness of leadership development programs, and the relationship of transformational leadership to organizational culture, participation, and organizational change. He is also active in several professional and civic organizations including the Academy of Management, American Psychological Society, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. Dr. Rosenbach served as Chairperson of the Department of Management at Gettysburg College from 1984-1991. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1982-1984, and member of the faculty there from 1972-1984. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Schools of the Universities of Colorado and Maryland Dr. Rosenbach has served as a Fellow by the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at The George Washington University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado-Boulder in Business Administration with a focus on Organizational Behavior. John Settle is the President of SETTLEment Associates, LLC, a firm providing mediation, conflict management training, and conflict coaching and is certified as a mediator and Mentor Mediator by the Supreme Court of Virginia. He also holds Advanced Workplace Mediator status from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). Mr. Settle has served as President of the Virginia Mediation Network; Co-Chair of the Workplace Section of ACR; and Board Member of the Northern Virginia Mediation Service and the D.C. and Virginia Chapters of ACR. He is also Virginia Governor Kaine’s civilian appointee to Virginia’s Interagency Dispute Resolution Advisory Council. He specializes in teaching managers and supervisors how to manage conflict and personal negotiation skills for the workplace. Mr. Settle holds the Presidential award of Meritorious Executive in the Senior Executive Service. He is author of "The Advocate’s Practical Guide to Using Mediation”, Dewey Publications, Inc., and he recently co-authored, “A Perfect Storm: A Confluence of Problems in Organizational Team Building,” in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of ACResolution. Ronald R. Sims is the Floyd Dewey Gottwald Senior Professor in the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary, where he teaches leadership and change management, business ethics, human resource management and organizational behavior. Dr. Sim’s research focuses on a variety of topics including leadership and change management, HRM, business ethics, employee training, and management and leadership development/Human Resource Development), learning styles, and experiential learning, in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors over the past twenty-three years. Dr. Sims is the author or co-author of twenty-eight books and more than eighty articles that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and practitioner journals. His most recent books are: Human Resource Management: Contemporary Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities (2007), Learning Styles and Learning: A Key to Meeting the Accountability Demands in Education (2006), and Human Resource Development: Today and Tomorrow (2006) and, coming soon Executive Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C-suite (June 2008). He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. Frank Staroba is a senior consultant for Staroba & Company, training and communications. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of the District of Columbia with teaching experience in communications theory, public speaking, and directing in the speech, television and theatre programs. Dr. Staroba conducts workshops, coaches platform skills and team briefings, and stresses the nonverbal side of communications. His approach includes body language, timing, staging the event, and communicating authentically by enlarging who you are in order to reach your audience. His clients have included gas and electric utilities nation wide, hotel chains including the Plaza of New York City, and many federal agencies and national associations. Dr. Staroba served as the associate dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of the District of Columbia. He has directed or acted in more than fifty university and professional productions. Dr. Staroba holds a B.A. from DePauw University in English composition and an M.A. from Northwestern in English literature, as well as the Doctorate of Fine Arts from Yale. Roosevelt Thomas is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel with more than 30 years of technical and managerial experience in Telecommunications and Information Systems with the Army, Navy and Air Force, including duties in Program Management, Operations, Acquisition and Systems Engineering. Prior to his retirement he served six consecutive years at DISA in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility. At DISA he served as a project officer, project manager and Field Officer Commander. In addition to George Washington University, recent clients have included George Mason University, Langston University, Morehouse College, Spellman College and Morris Brown College. Mr. Thomas’ duties have included overall management responsibility for customer-based projects, which includes planning, directing and monitoring all project activities. Mr. Thomas is a graduate of Duquesne University and the Command and General Staff College. John Whitlock is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. He is also Faculty Chair for Research in the School of Business and Technology at Capella University. Dr. Whitlock is a specialist in the planning and implementation of strategic change management initiatives to enhance organizational performance and improve customer satisfaction. He has worked with a broad range of clients in healthcare and public and private sector organizations, including NASA and the Coast Guard. |
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