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Michael J. Marquardt

Professor of Human Resource Development and International Affairs

GSEHD 314
2134 G Street, N.W
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (703) 726-3764
Fax: (202) 994-3436
E-mail: marquard@gwu.edu

Education:

Ed.D, The George Washington University

Expertise:

Background:

Dr. Michael Marquardt is Professor of Human Resource Development and Program Director of Overseas Programs at The George Washington University's Graduate School of Education and Human Development. He also serves as President of Global Learning Associates and Director of the Global Institute for Action Learning.

He has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions with organizations such as Grolier, American Society for Training and Development, Association Management Inc., Overseas Education Fund, TradeTec, and U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Dr. Marquardt has trained more than 75,000 managers in nearly 100 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in 1969. Consulting assignments have included Marriott, DuPont, Motorola, Nortel, Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar, United Nations Development Program, Xerox, San Miguel, Brookings Institute, Nokia, Constellation, National Semiconductor, Warner-Lambert, Citicorp, Organization of American States, and Singapore Airlines as well as the governments of Indonesia, Laos, Ethiopia, Zambia, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, Jamaica, Honduras, and Swaziland.

Mike is the author of 18 books and over 80 professional articles in the fields of leadership, learning, globalization and organizational change including Building the Learning Organization (selected as Book of the Year by the Academy of HRD); The Global Advantage; Action Learning in Action; Global Leaders for the 21st Century; Global Human Resource Development; Technology-Based Learning; and Global Teams. His most recent book was Optimizing the Power of Action Learning (Davies-Black, 2004). He has been a keynote speaker at international conferences in Australia, Japan, England, the Philippines, Malaysia, South Africa, Sweden, Singapore and India, as well as throughout North America.

Dr. Marquardt's achievements and leadership have been recognized though numerous awards including the International Practitioner of the Year Award from the American Society for Training and Development. He presently serves as a Senior Advisor for the United Nations Staff College in the areas of policy, technology, and learning systems. Mike is a Fellow of the National Academy for Human Resource Development and a co-founder of the Asian Learning Organization Network. The International Management Centre at Oxford, England recently awarded him an honorary Ph.D. for his work and writings in the field of action learning.

He received his doctorate in Human Resource Development from George Washington University and his Masters and Bachelor Degrees from Maryknoll College. Dr. Marquardt has also done graduate work at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Virginia. He enjoys sailing, skiing, music and traveling with his Swiss wife and their four children.

Courses Taught:

HRD 234 Action Learning
HRD 237 International Human Resource Development
HRD 263 Foundations of Human Resource Development
HRD 287 Consulting Skills
HRD 374 Teams and Groups
HRD 380 Organizational Learning
IAff 202 Cross Cultural Communications

Last update: 3/16/2009