Joan V. Gallos is an award-winning educator, author, academic leader, and scholar in the field of leadership and management education. Her scholarly interests center on professional effectiveness; innovative leadership and management pedagogy for a diverse work world; individual and organizational change; and expanding conceptions of what, how and why professionals learn. She is a passionate lover of the arts and sees their potential as a vehicle for leadership and organizational development and for enhancing professional agility and effectiveness.

– Named Icon of Education 2011 by Ingram’s Magazine [Here] –

– Featured in the Kansas City Star on MBA and EMBA education [Here] –

Publications of Interest:

• Reframing Academic Leadership with Lee G. Bolman (Jossey-Bass) NEW!
• Business Leadership, second edition (Jossey-Bass)
• Organization Development (Jossey-Bass)
• Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking From the Heart with V. Jean Ramsey (Jossey-Bass)
• “Artful Teaching: Using the Visual, Creative and Performing Arts in Contemporary Management Education” in the Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development (Sage)
• “Learning From the Toxic Trenches: The Winding Road to Healthier Organizations—and to Healthy Everyday Leaders.” Journal of Management Inquiry (December 2008)

Books in Progress:

• The Work of Leadership: Essentials for Success in a Complex World (Jossey-Bass/Wiley)
• Managing Difficult People: A Leadership Fable

Ongoing Work:

• Professor of Leadership, Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC)
• Director, Bloch Executive MBA

Recent Awards and Honors:

• Appointed University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor, the highest faculty rank awarded by the University and the only Curators’ appointment in the history of the Bloch School
• Appointed OBTS Fellow: Sage of the Society by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society for lifetime contributions fostering excellence in management teaching and learning
• Distinguished Service Award from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society
• Named Ingram’s Magazine’s Icon of Education 2011 for her academic leadership and outstanding career contributions to education in Missouri and Kansas