Bio
Joan V. Gallos is Professor of Leadership, University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of the Executive MBA program at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she has also served as Professor and Dean of Education, Coordinator of University Accreditation, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Strategic Planning, and Director of the Higher Education Graduate Programs. Gallos holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in English from Princeton and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Gallos has served as a Salzburg Seminar Fellow; as President of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society; as editor of the Journal of Management Education; on numerous editorial boards, including as a founding member of Academy of Management Learning and Education journal; on regional and national advisory boards including the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, The Forum for Early Childhood Organization and Leadership Development, the Missouri Council on Economic Education, the Kauffman and Danforth Foundations’ Missouri Superintendents Leadership Forum, and the Mayor’s Kansas City Collaborative for Academic Excellence; on the national steering committee for the New Models of Management Education project (a joint effort of the Graduate Management Admissions Council and the AACSB – the International Association for Management Education); on the W. K. Kellogg Foundation College Age Youth Leadership Review Team; on the University of Missouri President’s Advisory Council on Academic Leadership; and on a number of civic and nonprofit boards in greater Kansas City including as a founding board member of the Kansas City Public Library Foundation and of the Actors Theater of Kansas City.
Dr. Gallos has also taught at the Radcliffe Seminars, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Babson College, as well as in executive programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Missouri, Babson College, and the University of British Columbia.
Gallos has published widely on professional effectiveness, gender, and leadership education. Gallos is the co-author of Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997) and Reframing Academic Leadership (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, forthcoming); is the editor of Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader (2006) and Business Leadership (2nd edition): A Jossey-Bass Reader (2008) and the developer of the curricular materials that accompany these two volumes and the others in the Jossey-Bass Reader series; is the author of multiple sets of published management and leadership education teaching and training materials; and has two other books in development.
Gallos received the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for the best article on management education in 1990 and was finalist for the same prize in 1994. In 1993, she accepted the Radcliffe College Excellence in Teaching award. In 2002-2003, Gallos served as Founding Director of the Truman Center for the Healing Arts, based at Kansas City’s public teaching hospital, which received the Kansas City Business Committee for the Arts 2004 Partnership Award as the best partnership between a large organization and the arts.