Peter A. DeLisle will provide comments and an overview of university leadership programs on campuses today. DeLisle is the Leslie B. Crane Chair of Leadership Studies and Director of The Posey Leadership Institute at Austin College in Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in human resource development leadership from the College of Education at the University of Texas in Austin. He was a Program Manager for the Center for Creative Leadership, and has been an award-winning teacher in the fields of commerce, education, and engineering. He held the William B. Severns Chair in Human Behavior in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana, and is a member of the executive education faculty at the University of Notre Dame. DeLisle’s industry experience includes executive leadership for human resources at Hewlett-Packard Company and Convex Computer of Richardson.  He has helped found three successful companies and acted as an advisor, consultant and teacher of leaders in more than two hundred companies and communities over the last 30 years. 

Dr. Thomas Holland

Dr. Thomas P.  Holland is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia. He served earlier as a professor at the Medical College of Georgia and at Case Western Reserve University. He earned his MSW from Florida State University and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He has published extensively on non-profit organizations, governance, and management. He is the author of How to Build a More Effective Board, and co-author with Richard Chait and Barbara Taylor of The Effective Board of Trustees and Improving the Performance of Governing Boards, which were based on the authors’ research on university boards.

Dr. Robert N. Thomas is Professor of the Practice and Director of Leadership Education in the College of Management at Georgia Tech. He earned his BA in Economics from LaGrange College, his MBA from the Executive MBA Program at Georgia State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. His areas of specialization are corporate leadership and governance, ethics, entrepreneurship, and servant leadership. He is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. He has served on the boards of the ArtReach Foundation, the Americorp Carelink Council, the Youth Leadership Troup, and the Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.

Dr. Kent M. Keith is the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. He has been an attorney, state government official, high tech park developer, university president, and YMCA executive. He earned his B.A. from Harvard, his M.A. from Oxford University, his J.D. from the University of Hawaii, and his Ed.D. from the University of Southern California. He is the author of a number of books, including The Case for Servant Leadership and Servant Leadership in the Boardroom: Fulfilling the Public Trust.

"Developing and Practicing Servant Leadership Principles in University Administration"

In this workshop, Dr. Dan Wheeler will present the ten principles that are explained in his new book, Servant Leadership in Higher Education: Principles and Practices. These principles are based on research, and have been refined and tested through teaching leadership classes and interviewing servant leaders. The principles provide guidance to administrative leaders in making decisions and taking actions. Wheeler is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he served for 26 years as professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication. He earned a B.A. in biology from Antioch College, an M.S. in conservation education from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in education from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has published and consulted widely on administrative leadership in universities, especially at the department chair level.

Dr. David Howell

"Giving Structure to Service (and Leadership) at a School of Engineering: An Ethnographic Study"

Dr. David Howell is an Associate Professor and the Suzanne and Richard Pieper Family Foundation Chair in Servant Leadership at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). Three years ago, MSOE initiated a longitudinal ethnographic study to answer the question, “How is Servant-Leadership implemented at MSOE?” The result is an ongoing study that helps determine how servant leadership takes shape in a university environment. Through surveys, field observations, and interviews, the researchers triangulated their data and drew conclusions pertaining to the social responsibility of developing leaders at an urban academic institution. Howell earned a B.A. in English at Whitworth College, an MFA in English from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, and a Ph.D. from Washington State University. His areas of specialization include ethnographic studies, composition, American literature, Eastern philosophy, and at-risk education.