Leavey Professor Named Among Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc. Magazine
Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business Professor of Leadership Barry Posner was listed among the top 80 leadership and management experts in the world according to Inc. magazine. Inc. magazine’s goal was to find out which people are globally the most popular among management and leadership writers in the English language.
Barry Posner is the Accolti Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business. Posner served for 12 years as Dean of the School. The professor and his co-author Jim Kouzes, received the American Society for Training and Development’s highest award for their Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance.
Posner was also named one of the nation’s top management and leadership educators by the International Management Council and been recognized as one of the Top 50 leadership coaches in America, as well as named among the 10 Most Influential Thinkers in the world by HR magazine.
He has published more than 85 research and practitioner-oriented articles, in such journals as the: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He is currently on the editorial review boards of the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, and Leadership and Organizational Development.
At Santa Clara he has received the President’s Distinguished Faculty Award, the School’s Extraordinary Faculty Award, and several other outstanding teaching and leadership honors. He has been a visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sabanci University (Istanbul), and the University of Western Australia.
Posner received an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a 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.
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