Bio
James R. Bailey is the Tucker Professor of Leadership and Director
of Executive Development Programs at GWSB. He is also a Fellow at
the Centre for Management Development at the London Business School,
and Research Faculty in the Center for the Study of Learning at
the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, GWU. He
was previously at Rutgers University, where he was the Associate
Dean of the School of Management, Associate Director of the Teaching
Excellence Center, and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary
Graduate Program in Conflict Management. Additionally, he has held
distinguished or visiting appointments at the Institute for Management
Development (Switzerland), the William Davidson Institute of the
University of Michigan Business School, Helsinki School of Economics
and Business Administration (Finland), the American College of Greece,
Adelaide University (Australia) and New York University.
Dr. Bailey was named one of the top ten executive educators worldwide
by the International Council for Executive Leadership Development
in 2006, was the EMBA Educator of the Year in 2005 and Undergraduate
Educator of the Year in 2003 at GWSB, and Professor of the Year
for three consecutive years (1993-1995) at Rutgers. In 1995 he received
the David L. Bradford Distinguished Educator Award, a national distinction
bestowed by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and the
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. As faculty in the Psychology Department
at Washington University he was given the Dean's Award for Excellence
in Teaching.
His scholarship on managerial and executive development has appeared
in such outlets as Organization Science, Human Performance, Journal
of International Business Studies, Journal of Applied Behavioral
Science, Journal of Management Education, Educational and Psychological
Measurements and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations.
He is the co-editor of the International Encyclopedia of Organizational
Studies and the Handbook of Managerial and Organizational Wisdom
(which received the 2006 Most Promising Management Book Award from
the European Academy of Management), and has published over 50 papers,
book chapters, reviews and case studies, and presented over 50 papers
at academic conferences. He serves in an editorial capacity for
several major scholarly journals, and is editor of the Academy of
Management Learning & Education.
Professor Bailey has worked extensively as an executive educator,
consultant or coach on issues relating to leadership, conflict management,
skill development, and organizational change. Firms that he has
been involved with include the United Bank of Switzerland, Morgan
Stanley and Nestle. He co-authored successful grants from Lucent
Technologies to examine the efficacy of their Learning and Performance
Center, and General Electric to establish a Learning Excellence
Project at Rutgers. He has appeared as a management authority on
broadcast programs such as the BBC, and has been cited in many newspaper
and magazine articles, including Fortune and Forbes. |
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