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Dr. Bird has served as President of The Kozai Group, Inc. since 2001. He is also Senior Professor at the Goa Institute of Management in Goa, India. From 2009 to 2019 he was the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, Dr. Bird was the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and also served as Director of the International Business Institute and Director of the International MBA program in the College of Business at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Rikkyo University in Japan, Columbia University, Monterey Institute for International Studies, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland, Osaka International University and Japan's National Self Defense Academy. He has also served on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. He teaches courses in global leadership development, intercultural management, international negotiations, and intercultural and global leadership assessment.
Professor Bird received his BA in Special Studies from California State University, Fresno, his MA in Comparative Culture and International Business from Sophia University in Japan and his Ph.D. in Organizational Science from the University of Oregon, where he was named Doctoral Student of the Year in 1986 and was a Fulbright Graduate Award recipient.
He has authored, co-authored, or edited nine books, over 40 book chapters, and more than 60 journal articles. His most recent book (with M.E. Mendenhall, J.S. Osland, G.R. Oddou, M.L. Maznevski, M. Stevens, and G. Stahl) Global Leadership: Research, practice, and development (3nd Edition) was published in 2019. The second edition won an Award of Merit for Research Scholarship and was a finalist for the University of San Diego's Leadership Book of the Year Award in 2013.
His articles have appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management, International Studies of Management and Organization, International Journal of Intercultural Research, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Advances in International and Comparative Management, and Advances in Research on the Sociology of Organizations.
His professional service includes tenures as President of the Association of Japanese Business Studies, as well as lengthy service on the Association's Executive Committee. He was formerly chair of the Careers Division in the Academy of Management and has served on the Executive Committee of the International Management Division. He was a key architect and founding member of the International Organization Network (ION), a network of academics and managers from around the world committed to increasing the quality and impact of research on people and their effectiveness in international organizations. He was also an architect, founding member and the first chairperson of the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE), a collaborative effort among more than 45 universities.
In other professional services, Dr. Bird served on the Graduate Advisory Board of the College of Business at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland and as Honorary Dean of the Park Global School of Business Excellence in India. He also serves on the board of the IGB Network Co., Ltd. in Japan. He has worked with numerous companies in North America, Japan, and Europe, including AT&T, Boeing, Bose, Coca Cola, Eisai, EMC, Ernst & Young, Fujitsu, GE, IBM, Medtronic, Molex, Monsanto, Nippon Express, Sharp, and Watchmark.
Growing up in California's central valley, his neighborhood included a mix of racial and ethnic heritages, and there were more than sixty ethnic groups in his town. Through high school, one of his best friends was a Japanese American whose parents, though American citizens, were held in a US internment camp in WWII. This fostered within him a deep interest in diverse people and a concern for equity. He spent two years in Japan mid-way through his junior year in college. After graduation he lived, studied, and worked in Japan for more than 8 years, much of that at the cultural intersections of race, ethnicity, and nationalities. Throughout his career he has continued to engage globally and work extensively with colleagues from around the world, seeking out ways to foster inclusion. He has previously served on advisory boards that worked to provide international experiences for students from under-represented communities, served as an Affirmative Action Facilitator in his college, and worked with numerous non-profit organizations in outreach programs for under-served groups.
Dr. Bird has served as President of The Kozai Group, Inc. since 2001. He is also a Senior Professor at the Goa Institute of Management in Goa, India. From 2009 to 2019 he was the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at Northeastern University. He teaches courses in global leadership development, intercultural management, international negotiations, and intercultural and global leadership assessment. He is a qualified administrator of the Global Competencies Inventory and speaks and reads Japanese.
Brian Millett has 30 years of IT experience including Software Development, System Maintenance and Systems Integration. Brian has developed award winning applications (Intelligent Fault Locator), contributed to open source projects such as mod_perl, coocon v1, and scap-security-guide. Brian is a two time (RHEL3/RHEL6) Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) with 10+ years of enterprise level Linux experience. Brian received his B.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo in 1984.
Chris Cartwright is a consultant and instructor supporting individuals and organizations in assessing and developing intercultural competence, global leadership, and inclusive leadership capacity. He has 40+ years of experience in multiple sectors. He recently completed three book chapters, as well as a peer-reviewed journal article on a longitudinal study on assessments of intercultural competence and its impact on learning outcomes. He is an associate of Aperian Global, the Connective Leadership Institute, icEdge, and the Kozai Group.
He is an adjunct faculty for the Portland State University, Minerva at KGI, as well as Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and Pepperdine University. He recently served as Director of Intercultural Assessment and Associate Director of the Graduate Program for the Intercultural Communication Institute for 10 years. Prior to this work, he has served as the Dean of Academic Programs for the International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Professor Emeritus
Dr. Gary Oddou, Ph. D., professor emeritus, has taught, researched and consulted in the area of international human resource management for over 30 years. His research focus has been in the area of expatriate adjustment and training, repatriate reintegration and knowledge transfer expatriate-repatriate best practices and global leadership. He has published over 45 articles and book chapters on these topics and written or co-edited three books related to international human resource management and global leadership. He has been invited to speak on these topics at universities and at business conferences in Europe, Canada, the U.S. and Asia.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc
Dr. Barnes is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., Omicron Phi Omega Chapter and
holds several leadership positions in her sorority.
Dr. Joanne Barnes is a Senior Consultant of the Kozai Group. She is the Dean of the Graduate School and a Professor in the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership program, Department of Leadership Studies at Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU). Dr. Barnes is a certified trainer/coach in the Inclusive Behaviors Inventory, Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, Cultural Intelligence, and Global Competency Inventory. She also holds certifications in global leadership and cultural competencies. Joanne works with universities and businesses in providing assessments and coaching to prepare students, faculty, administrators, and business leaders for global assignments as well as multicultural experiences.
Joyce Osland, Ph.D. professor emerita, is an internationally known specialist in international management with a focus on global leadership, Latin America, organization development, and inclusion. She retired from her position as the Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership and Executive Director and founder of the Global Leadership Advancement Center (GLAC) at San Jose State University's Lucas College and Graduate School of Business in the Silicon Valley.
She co-founded GLAC's Global Leadership Lab and the Global Leadership Passport Program and created and directed the Advanced Certificate in Global Leadership program. She was the College of Business' Inclusive Excellence Fellow working on SJSU's Diversity Master Plan from 2008-2011. Joyce continues to research, write, and consult, in addition to her work as a senior partner with the Kozai Group.
Her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior was earned at Case Western Reserve University. A former president of the Western Academy of Management, Joyce has won numerous awards for teaching, research, and leadership, including the "Journal of Management Inquiry Scholar Award" for career achievement and the "Academy of Management International Management Division's Outstanding Educator Award," the highest teaching award in her field. Joyce was a Senior Research Fellow at the Army Research Institute for five years. Her major research topics - women leaders and diversity, global leadership cognition and development, cultural sense-making, and repatriate knowledge transfer - focus on both theory and practical ways to improve organizations and the way people interact. She has over 160 publications ranging from research articles in leading academic journals like the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Human Resource Management to practitioner articles, book chapters, and cases. Her first book, The Adventure of Working Abroad: Hero Tales from the Global Frontier, (Jossey-Bass, 1995), has been used in corporate training programs for expatriates as well as university courses. Joyce has co-written popular textbooks, The Organizational Behavior Workbook: An Experiential Approach, The Organizational Behavior Reader, and Managing Across Cultures and won awards for two co-authored global leadership books: Global Leadership: Research, Practice, and Development and Advances in Global Leadership, volume 8. She is the senior editor of the Advances in Global Leadership series (volumes 8-14) and recently co-edited The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary Cross-Cultural Management.
Joyce has lived and worked overseas for fourteen years in seven different countries, mostly in Latin American and West Africa. She worked in the field of international development as a program manager, trainer, and consultant and spent three years as a full-time faculty member and OD consultant at INCAE (The Central American Institute of Business Administration) in Costa Rica. Joyce is a visiting professor or guest lecturer in graduate programs at various universities around the world. In addition, she does executive education programs and consults with companies, universities, and global non-profits on organizational effectiveness, intercultural competence, global leadership and inclusion. Her current projects include assessing and researching the impact of global leadership development and diversity competencies.
Joyce Osland, Ph. D. is an internationally known specialist in international management with a focus on global leadership, Latin America and organization development. Joyce is the Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership and Executive Director and founder of the Global Leadership Advancement Center (GLAC), which is housed in the School of Global Innovation & Leadership at San Jose State University's Lucas College and Graduate School of Business in the Silicon Valley.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- J. Burton Frierson Chair
Mark E. Mendenhall holds the J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Dr. Mendenhall is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of global leadership and international human resource management. In 1998, he held the Ludwig Erhard Stiftungsprofessur endowed chair at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). From 1999-2004 he was a visiting professor at the Europa Institute at the University of Saarland (Germany). In 2013, he was a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), and from 2009-2015 he was a visiting professor at Reykjavik University (Iceland).
Dr. Mendenhall has co-authored and edited 29 books, some of which include Global Leadership: Research, Practice and Development, 3rd edition (Routledge), Responsible Global Leadership: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and Opportunities (Routledge), Managing Culture and Human Resources in Mergers and Acquisitions (Stanford University Press); Developing People Through International Assignments (Addison-Wesley); Blackwell Handbook of Global Management: A Guide to Managing Complexity (Wiley-Blackwell); and Global Assignments: Successfully Expatriating and Repatriating International Managers (Jossey-Bass).
He has published 122 journal articles and scholarly book chapters in a variety of publications, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Relations, Organizational Dynamics, Human Resource Management, Management International Review, and Journal of Management Inquiry. A firm believer in applying findings from the research literature to organizations, he actively consults organizations in global leadership. Some of the firms he has consulted with include IBM-Asia Pacific, IBM-Japan, General Motors, Monsanto, JCB, Japan Airlines Corporate Academy, Premier Health, Molex, The Global Leadership Advancement Center, Volkswagen, and BUPA International. He has consulted with many local companies in the greater Chattanooga region, some of which include The Dixie Group, Tennessee Valley Authority, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, CBL & Associates Properties, Leadership Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Police Department, the Erlanger Health System, and others.
Dr. Mendenhall has also presented numerous training seminars on leadership and other management-related issues for many organizations. Participants attending his seminars have come from such companies as Mitsui Manufacturers Bank, Whirlpool, Toyota, Xerox, McKee Foods, DuPont, Maytag, ABB Combustion Engineering, Nippon Express, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Realty, Hitachi, Phizer Consumer, Inc., Ricoh, Sony Ericcson, Sony, Mitsubishi Chemical, JVC, Canon, Mitsubishi Electric, Agilent Technologies, Yokohama Rubber, Pioneer, and Mitsubishi Motors, Conagra, Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Federal Aviation Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Combustion Engineering, Velsicol Chemical Corporation, Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company, Alco Chemical, and the American Heart Association.
He is active in the Academy of Management and is currently past president of the International Division of that organization. Dr. Mendenhall has traveled widely and has lived overseas for a total of nine years (New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland, and Germany). He received his Ph.D. degree (1983) in social psychology from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Mendenhall is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of global leadership and international human resource management. He is past president of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. In 1998, he held the Ludwig Erhard Stiftungsprofessur endowed chair at the University of Bayreuth (Germany), and from 1999-2004 he was a visiting professor at the Europa Institute at the University of Saarland (Germany). In 2013, he was a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), and from 2009-2015 was a visiting professor at Reykjavik University (Iceland).
Michael J. Stevens, Ph. D. is a management professor at Weber State University. He also consults widely with organizations in the business and not-for-profit sectors. His primary areas of expertise include: improving organizational performance through empowerment and teamwork; individual assessment and selection (especially for teams and cross-cultural assignments); executive coaching and leadership development; the impact of leadership on organizational culture and employee performance; and interpersonal effectiveness in the workplace. He received his Ph.D. from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, where he won the Ralph G. Alexander Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management. He has published book chapters and research articles in highly respected management journals, and regularly gives presentations at professional conferences and seminars. Dr. Stevens is a widely cited researcher who has conducted pioneering work in the area of measuring a person's interpersonal aptitude for working successfully in teams, and is the lead author of the commercially distributed "Teamwork-KSA" employment test. He is currently active in several professional societies and has held management and board positions in industry, government, consulting, and not-for-profit organizations.
Norihito Furuya, Ph.D., is Senior Representative of the Kozai Group in Japan. He is also CEO of IGB Network Co., Ltd (Global Organization and Human Capital Development Institute). IGB Network specializes in global training and coaching for managers, global HR assessment, global HR capital solutions, HRM system and organizational development, and research and development. He has lived and worked in the United States, the Middle East, and the UK, totaling nine years of overseas working experience as an expatriate manager for Japan Airlines.