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After more than half a century as an author, speaker and professor of leadership and organization studies, I retired as Professor Emeritus from the Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City.  But I’m still doing what I love–writing and teaching.

My latest books include Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership (7th ed., September, 2021), How Great Leaders Think: The Art of Reframing (2014) and  Reframing the Path to School Leadership (3d ed., 2018), all with Terry Deal, as well as two books with Joan Gallos: Engagement: Transforming Difficult Relationships at Work (2016), and Reframing Academic Leadership (2d ed., 2021). My books have been translated into more than ten languages. 

The Harvard Extension School is kind enough to let me teach an occasional course in organizational behavior, and that, combined with the pandemic, is helping me explore the possibilities in online teaching.  Nothing equals being in the same room with students, but Zoom has its charms, including the ability to connect to talented and motivated professionals around the US and beyond.

After nine years in New Haven, Connecticut, I left Yale with a B.A. in History and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior.  After Yale, I taught at Carnegie-Mellon University for 4 years and and  then spent 21 years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where I served as educational chair of summer executive programs, and as Principal Investigator on federally-funded research initiatives. I then spent 19 years as Professor and Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City, before returning to the Boston area in 2012.

I live in Brookline and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with my wife, Joan Gallos, and a lovable Springer Spaniel, Charles Darwin.  My six children and three grandchildren are scattered from coast to coast across America.