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Scholarship MIG Leadership

Chair - Susan Murphy, Director, School of Strategic Leadership Studies & Associate Professor of Psychology and Leadership Studies, James Madison University.

Chair-Elect - Kevin Lowe, Professor and Department Head, Department of Business Administration, University of North Carolina - Greensboro.

Immediate Past Chair - David Greenhalgh, Director of the PhD. program in Organizational Leadership at Eastern University.

Susan Murphy

Susan is the Director of the School of Strategic Leadership Studies and Associate Professor of Psychology and Leadership Studies at James Madison University. Previously she was an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College for 17 years and Adjunct Professor, Claremont Graduate University.

Susan’s career has moved back and forth easily between the theory and practice of leadership. As a graduate student in Fred Fiedler’s lab at the University of Washington she was steeped in research and theorizing. While finishing her graduate degrees, she also worked as a consultant, solving a wide-range of leadership problems for very different organizations. Susan has co-edited several books, published in numerous journals, and has a new book coming out in April, Early Development and Leadership: Building the Next Generation of Leaders, with Rebecca Reichard, Psychology Press.

Contact: murph2se@jmu.edu

Kevin Lowe

Kevin B. Lowe is the Burlington Industries Research Excellence Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he also serves as the Head of Department in Business Administration for the Bryan School of Business and Economics. Kevin is currently on the editorial boards of The Leadership Quarterly (Associate Editor), Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies and the Journal of World Business. He also serves as the Treasurer and Board Member of the Southern Management Association (SMA).

An enthusiastic teacher Kevin received the Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award recognizing teaching excellence across the 16 campus University of North Carolina system and was nominated to the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for a U.S. Professor of the Year Award. He has organized the Teaching Excellence Workshop at SMA in years past, organized the emerging scholar research consortium at the International Leadership Association Meetings, and frequently participates as a speaker or panelist in mentoring sessions and PDW’s at the Academy of Management.

Prior to obtaining his PhD in Business Administration from Florida International University Kevin worked for Baxter International and Florida Power and Light in the finance and strategic planning areas. He continues to be an active consultant to industry.

Contact: kblowe@uncg.edu

David Greenhalgh

Dr. David Greenhalgh is Professor of Education and Director of the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania. The Ph.D. at Eastern is finishing it’s third year of implementation and enjoying the success of full enrollments and a committed faculty. David’s research interests grow out of his doctorate from Boston University and his 20 years in school leadership. His publications and presentations have focused on character development, strategic planning and the development of third culture kids (TCKS). More recently, David has been able to integrate this work with application to many facets of the Full Range Leadership model.

1994-2003 David served in Eastern’s Education Department teaching and developing leadership certification programs and from 2003 to 2006 he served as Dean of Arts and Sciences.

David has enjoyed three sabbaticals all involving serving in international schools. Those experiences have led to extensive consulting work in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Eastern’s Ph.D. provides a 3 year ILA membership for every incoming student as well as faculty support for mentoring students in the preparation of refereed papers for the scholarship MIG. This has generated a plethora of scholarly activity that has had a significant impact on the program.

Contact: dgreenha@eastern.edu

 

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