TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
EAGLY: . . .I felt there was all that work on leadership and there was a huge amount of public interest, and so to bring it together and make it accessible. It's kind of a crossover book rather than truly a trade book because most of the trade books on leadership are very qualitative. They're full of examples and experiences. We wanted to make the research accessible because we think it's very informative. So we did. I think it's moderately successful. It sold pretty well. But it's not a big-time trade book.
EAGLY: He has been very successful, and he was a very, very good graduate student.
Eagly is the recipient of honors and awards including two honorary doctorates, the 2008 Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology from the American Psychological foundation, and the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
Job Titles:
- Ambassador
- Leader
- Chairman in Leadership
Our center's namesake, Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, has served as a leader in business, education, philanthropy and government for over 30 years. He discusses what he's learned throughout a career in leadership roles.
Ambassador Randall L. Tobias is internationally recognized for over three decades of leadership in business, education, philanthropy, and government service and epitomizes the impact of multi-sector leadership practice both in the United States and around the world. A proud Hoosier, Tobias grew up in Remington, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University. He served with distinction as the director of U.S. foreign assistance with the U.S. Department of State and served concurrently as administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the principal government agency that administers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide, with the rank of ambassador.
Professor Angela McBride sought to put Indiana University School of Nursing (IUSON) on the map nationally by building areas of nursing excellence in web-based and interactive learning, behavioral oncology, quality of life in chronic illness, and healthy families/healthy communities during her tenure as dean from 1991-2003. She took steps to bridge the divide between nursing practice and nursing education, which eventually led to her becoming the first nurse appointed to the Indiana University Health Board (2004-2016).
McBride started out trying to figure out how nurses could exert leadership in medicine-dominated and male-dominated settings, and wound up writing The Growth and Development of Nurse Leaders (her award-winning 2011 book), and getting many others to take nurse leaders seriously, including nurses themselves.
Professor McBride was greatly influenced by the Women's Movement of the 1960s because it shed new light on what constituted women's health. "Gynecology as plumbing" became supplanted by new ideas about "GYN-ecology as the interaction between women and their environments."
She was also greatly influenced by Simone De Beauvoir's classic The Second Sex in which she argued that women were the perpetual "other" with men's behavior assumed to be normative. McBride grew up in a world that regularly described the father as the head of the family and the mother as the heart, and De Beauvoir's critique got her to wondering how children could be expected to integrate the head and heart in their own lives if the adults were not modeling such behavior. That led her to write the first well-regarded book on motherhood in light of the Women's Movement, The Growth and Development of Mothers (named one of the best books of 1973 by both The New York Times and the American Journal of Nursing).
Her critique of either/or thinking also caused her to have new thoughts about women always having responsibility for maintenance activities with men the ones expected to be the change agents. Those thoughts steered her to champion nursing research when she was the first associate dean for research at IUSON and later on the National Advisory Council for both the National Institute of Mental Health and NIH's Office of Women's Health Research.
Sought to put IU School of Nursing on the map nationally by building areas of nursing excellence in web-based and interactive learning, behavioral oncology, quality of life in chronic illness, and healthy families/healthy communities during her tenure as dean from 1991-2003. We are currently working on curating this profile page. In the meantime, please see Angela McBride's full oral history.
Job Titles:
- Senior Executive Advisor / Indiana University
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive in Residence
- Incoming Executive in Residence / Director of Development
Anne Murray is executive in residence of the Tobias Leadership Center and director of development for the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Indiana. Anne was a Tobias Fellow in 2018.
Barbara Kellerman earned her PhD in Political Science at Yale University in 1975. Early in her career she held academic and administrative positions at Fordham University, Tufts University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and George Washington University. From 1998-2000, she was the Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Leadership, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland. Since 2000, Dr. Kellerman has been affiliated with the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School, serving as Founding Executive Director (2000-2003), Research Director (2003-2006), and James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership. Barbara Kellerman has a distinguished publication record in leadership studies. She has authored or co-authored, edited or co-edited sixteen books. Among her recent, highly influential books: Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders (2008). The End of Leadership (2012) and Hard Times: Leadership in America (2014). Barbara Kellerman has received numerous recognitions. She was ranked by Forbes.com among the "Top 50 Business Thinkers" and by Leadership Excellence in the top 15 of "thought leaders in management and leadership." The Financial Times listed The End of Leadership as one of the Best Business Books of 2012, and Choice highlighted it as essential reading. The International Leadership Association awarded Dr. Kellerman a Leadership Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2016.
Job Titles:
- While You Were CEO, Did Carl Frost Continue to Play a Role
An early leader in national service, she served as the first executive director of the federal agency, Commission on National and Community Service and was responsible for the design and implementation of national service programs which evolved into AmeriCorps and Learn & Serve.
We are currently working on curating this profile page. In the meantime, please see Catherine Milton's full oral history.
As an early leader in the national service, Catherine Milton served as the first executive director of the federal agency, the Commission on National and Community Service and was responsible for the design and implementation of the national service programs which evolved into AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve.
Milton was appointed by Clinton as the senior vice president of the Corporation of National Service to oversee the development, launching and funding of AmeriCorps and other national service programs, including establishing the quality standards, training, funding criteria, and evaluation. Also designed and directed for a year the Presidio Leadership Center, the first national service leadership training center.
Catherine was founder and director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University where she developed international and domestic service programs, served as Special Assistant to the President of Stanford, and helped in the founding of Campus Compact, a national coalition of university presidents committed to engaging students in community service. Also oversaw development of Stanford in Washington.
She held senior positions in the Treasury Department and the US Senate; Assistant Director of the Police Foundation. Authored or co-authored six books, on issues relating to the police, including Women in Policing, and the history of Black Americans.
Milton also served as a member of the U.S. Attorney's Task Force on Family Violence. In work with the U.S. Senate, authored the first two significant pieces of legislation focused on victims of crime, both of which were enacted into laws.
Catherine served as executive director of Save the Children's U.S. Programs for eight years and as a member of senior management team that managed the international organization. She also served as president of Friends of the Children, national nonprofit.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow is scholar in residence of the Tobias Leadership Center, faculty chair of the Kelley Indianapolis Undergraduate Program, clinical associate professor of business law and management, and a Kelley Dean's Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business Indianapolis.
Job Titles:
- Director, IT - Applications / Wabash Valley Power Alliance
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- VP of Finance and Administration / Central Indiana Corporate Partnership
Job Titles:
- Chairman, Fellows Advisory Board Vice President Community Engagement
DE PREE: Yeah. He could have been more diplomatic, but on the other hand, you see, he felt safe doing it. And isn't that a wonderful thing?
DE PREE: We-Bob Propst, and we, did not see himself as a designer so much as an inventor. He was interested in coming to work for us but not to design furniture and not to be in Zeeland, Michigan. He also didn't want to go to New York. He was happy in Colorado. He was an outdoors guy. And I must say he was a special guy. He was in the Marines in World War II. Do you know what a beachmaster is?
DE PREE: Yes. I think-one of the engines of modern design was the way people have to live. The great majority of the population in the Western world does not live in big mansions. They live in small apartments, and they have no business in these big Lazy Boy chairs and great big buffets and dressers, you know, and all of this large stuff. For one reason, it takes up room that they don't have. For another reason, it goes against Gilbert Rohde's dictum-is the most important thing in the room is not the furniture; it's the people. And the other thing is that it nails you down. It's very hard for you to take all that big stuff and be mobile, and society requires you to be mobile. So to me, it is a moral thing. You ought to have products that meet your needs; not that meet the needs of some interior decorator. You know, you go today at a hotel, where are you going to put eight pillows?
DE PREE: Yeah, it does. In scripture, it's kind of a regular thing where God refers to his relationship with us as being a covenant.
DE PREE: Yeah, that's right. One time I quit. They had a pay raise in the plant as a general increase and I didn't get it. I went to the foreman that I worked for and I said to him, "How come I didn't get that raise?" He said, "You've got to get it from your dad." I said, "No, I don't." I said, "Either I get it from you or I quit." He said, "I'm not going to give you a raise." So I quit. Then I got out the door and I thought I can't go home and just tell my dad I quit. So I spent a few hours and I found a job working in a hatchery in Zeeland.
DE PREE: Yes, we made a commitment that succession was not going to be inside the family. D.J. had about 14 grandchildren at the time, including my brother's oldest son who was out of work at the time and his wife was pushing hard that that grandson should be in the business. But we felt we couldn't do that. We couldn't just keep adding family and be successful.
DE PREE: That's right, and they got dividends. They learned how to be stockholders, yeah.
DE PREE: We think that was the harbinger of a lot of very well-designed, very functional office chairs which were the product of new research in how people work and how they sit and how their bodies work. Now, you know, many competitors now make good chairs like that, too, but we were kind of the first with the ergonomic chair that Bill designed. And then, you know, the outcome of that is his Aeron chair.
DE PREE: Yeah, that was in that whole progression of chairs by Bill Stumpf, yeah.
DE PREE: I would say yes. Yes. And some automobile companies made strong efforts to work with us on developing new seating for cars, but we never could work together because we're just a different-we're just different animals. They have to know to the penny what it's going to be and-and that's a tough business.
DE PREE: Oh yeah. Yeah. I had known Peter for a number of years before that, but when it became clear to me that the Board was going to pick me-that wasn't a given at the time because these were all the outside members, you know, I thought it but they were outside people. But when it looked clear to me that the Board was going to pick me, I made a special trip out to see Peter. We had been talking about it and I told him what I was doing, that I was pretty sure I was going to be the CEO. I remember one of the things that he did, he said, "You know, you've got one guy on the team there," he said, "I think you ought to have him report to somebody else, not to you." He said, "I picked up that he's not one of your favorites, and that's not a good thing." He said, "If you don't care for him, he shouldn't report to you." And I thought, man alive, this is like talking to Jesus Christ, you know; how'd he know that? Boy, he-he told me one time-when I arrived out there in the early relationship, I had mailed him a bunch of stuff and when I got there he started asking me questions about the company and zeroing in on some things. And I said, "Dr. Rucker, how do you know all this stuff, huh? How do you get at this stuff?" He said, "Balance sheets speak to me." Isn't that something? I mean something was speaking to him.
DE PREE: Yeah, that's right. See, then came Kerm Campbell, who had a tough time. He was a mistake. And then the guy who replaced him, Mike Volkema, gave up on the Scanlon Plan. And so after that-and he told Carl Frost, "I don't want you to ever come back." But Mike Volkema doesn't-doesn't ever show himself in factories. So until Frost died, he was at home in the factory. He knew Volkema wasn't going to find him there.
During her 25-year tenure at IUPUI, her influence extended campuswide as a woman of many firsts. She was the first female assistant dean at the IU School of Medicine, and later served as the first female dean of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, 1995-97.
We are currently working on curating this profile page. In the meantime, please see Doris Merritt's full oral history.
During her more than 25-year tenure at IUPUI, Doris Merritt's influence extended campuswide. She was a woman of many firsts, becoming the first female assistant dean at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1962, and later serving as the first female dean of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, 1995-97.
Merritt and her husband joined the faculty of the IU School of Medicine in 1961. They had both previously held positions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Merritt's first job at the university was Director of Medical Research Grants and Contracts, but within a year, she was promoted to Assistant Dean of Medical Research. In this role, Merritt obtained millions of dollars for the medical school's research and construction projects. In 1965, Merritt's job description expanded to encompass all of IU-Indianapolis. She retained this role when IUPUI formed in 1969, and ultimately served as Assistant Dean of Research until 1978, when both she and her husband returned to NIH.
In 1988, following her husband's death, Merritt returned to the IU School of Medicine as an Associate Dean. She quickly retained her reputation as an efficient administrator, willing to step into whatever role the university needed. That is how, in 1995, Merritt became the Dean of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, after the unexpected resignation of the school's former dean. Merritt served as dean for two years, before filling another unexpected vacancy as Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. Merritt retired in 1998.
Scarpino: What do you think were your significant accomplishments as governor? As you look back on it, what really stands out about what you did? Bowen: Well, the number one thing that I ran on, over and over, was the property tax relief. We were successful, although it was difficult to get it through. We were successful in getting it through, and it worked, and it worked well for about 15 years, then the legislature began nibbling away at all the controls and when you lost the controls, then the property taxes started to go up higher and higher until over the last several years and including now, property tax is one of the big issues. Scarpino: I'm going to ask you two questions that I hope are not too technical for people who listen to this recording, but you mentioned property tax relief as one of your accomplishments and of course that's one of the things that anybody who writes about you as governor mentions. So what was the nature of that property tax relief? How did you change the property tax system in Indiana? What was it that you did to change the way property taxes were administered and calculated? Bowen: Well, it was a complicated thing. Scarpino: Maybe I could break it down a little bit. What was wrong with the system that you wanted to change? What is it that you want to fix? Bowen: Well, it was way too high and especially for the funding of local schools and local government and public education. At that time, the property taxes were paying for 65% of the school cost. Right after our property tax relief bill went into effect, that was reversed so 65% of the cost of public education was from property taxes, 35% was for the other. That was the big thing of course, and in order to do that, we had to make up the loss through sales tax and the income type tax. Scarpino: Was raising sales tax and raising income-type taxes a risky proposal for a Republican governor? Bowen: It was risky because they were reluctant to do it because they wanted to run for re-election. So it took a little guts for those who voted for it to do it, but there I guess is where leadership came in. We were able to guide the new bill. Scarpino: Do you think that a leader has to be willing to take a risk? Bowen: Oh. He sure does. A leader has to be above public opinion, and he has to be out ahead of public opinion, is what I meant. Scarpino: You mentioned that after about 15 years the legislature began to nibble away at the controls on the property. What kind of controls were they nibbling away at? Bowen: Well, it was on the establishment of control of the expenditures. They froze the levy instead of the rate and that made a big difference in the program. Scarpino: Besides property tax relief, what else stands out as you look back on your years as governor? Bowen: EMS. Honestly not too many people know that, but that was one of the things that we were able to do, is establish an emergency medical system. The reason that was so necessary is that in the rural areas, there was no way of getting injured and ill people to hospitals. The undertakers were using their ambulances to do that and they were losing money at it so they were rather rapidly getting out of the business of being an ambulance. So we developed the system of emergency medical system which created almost ambulances, in a few years, to every area of the state and it's actually probably saved more lives than any other thing that happened in the last many, many years. Another thing was the medical malpractice act. Doctors were quitting practice because their insurance rates went so high that they couldn't afford it. Further than that, with the expense being so great, access to care was going down and we had to do something. So we worked with local people and chambers of commerce and all the civic-minded people that we had to have some change so that the doctors would not quit practicing, which they were in droves. Insurance companies were refusing to insure doctors, so with the combination of those things, we were able to establish a medical malpractice act and it's still serviceable today. Scarpino: And did that limit the size of the award? Bowen: Yes. It limited the size of the award at that time and after a couple of years, rightfully, those levies became a little higher. So that I think that, I don't know what it is now, but I know that it did get up to close to a million dollars instead. So, that was another one of them that we considered a substantial thing. Another big one was the improvement at that time of our natural resources and parks system. We were way down when I went in, and one of the main things that we focused on for a new project was improving the parks system in Indiana. And even though it isn't quite as good now as it was shortly afterwards, it still has some very desirable parts to it.
Dr. Otis Bowen earned his M.D. from IU in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in the Pacific theater during World War II (1943-46), earning the rank of captain, accompanying the first wave of troops during the invasion of Okinawa. After the war, he established a family practice in Bremen, Indiana. The practice was active until 1972.
Bowen was elected to the Indiana State House of Representatives as a Republican in 1956, serving from 1957 to 1958, followed by seven consecutive terms from 1961 to 1972. Bowen was minority leader (1965-66) and speaker of the house (1967-72). In 1972, he was elected governor, a position he held from 1973 to 1981.
Bowen was professor of family medicine at Indiana University (1976-85). In 1978-79, he was chairman of the National Governor's Conference, the Republican Governor's Conference, and the Midwestern Governor's Conference. Ronald Reagan appointed him secretary of health and human services in 1985. He remained until President Reagan left office in 1989.
Bowen was honored by the Indiana Historical Society as an Indiana Living Legend in 2001. He died in May 2013.
An organizational development scholar talks about social and organizational therapy, his military service, and his research.
Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, Ph.D., is the Randall L. Tobias Chair in Leadership, chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Kelley Bloomington, and associate professor of organizational behavior and human resources for the IU Kelley School of Business.
In the early 1960s, Frances Hesselbein volunteered as the leader of a local Girl Scout troop near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, even though she had no daughters. Her volunteer work with that troop began a long and distinguished association with the Girl Scouts, where she developed a leadership style and organizational model heavily influenced by the writings of Peter Drucker.
Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (1976-90), where she transformed the scouts from a traditional to a modern organization. She worked closely with Peter Drucker in effecting that transformation. Upon retiring from the Girl Scouts in 1990, she became founding president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management (later the Leader to Leader Institute). She served as chair of the board of the Leader to Leader Institute until 2010.
Hesselbein has received numerous honors and awards related to leadership, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1998). She is an International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
A former CEO of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. defines leadership and discusses her time with management expert Peter Drucker and his influence on the Scouts.
A psychology researcher discusses his iconoclastic research and how it revolutionized the scholarship of leadership.
A leader who strongly believed that leadership was not simply a title - it was a way of thinking, of behaving. As a scholar, a teacher, a leader, she demonstrated what can be achieved by someone who understands the power and practice of good leadership.
We are currently working on curating this profile page. In the meantime, please see Georgia Sorenson's full oral history.
Job Titles:
- Chancellor
- Inaugural Director
- IUPUI Chancellor Emeritus
Gerald L. Bepko is IUPUI Chancellor Emeritus, IU Trustee Professor, and professor of law.
Gerald L. Bepko, IUPUI chancellor emeritus, served as the inaugural director of the center. Our first full year of programs began in 2006 and included the Tobias Fellows program, Leadership Engagement and Discovery (LEAD), the Hazelett lecture and the Semler lecture.
Gill Hickman earned her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 1978 with fields in Public Administration, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management.
Guy Evans Russell was born in 1941 at Wishard Hospital in Marion County. He grew up in Indianapolis largely in Lockfield Gardens and attended to IPS. Guy earned an electrical engineering degree from Purdue in 1964.
Russell is an amazing man, who was a leader and innovator for his entire life, but didn't really think of himself as a leader.
While at Purdue in the early 1960s, he was active in civil rights, and he led the way in getting Purdue to host a chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, an African American fraternity. After graduation from Purdue, he spent many years working as an engineer at Allison, in Indianapolis. At the same time, he also dedicated himself to civil rights in the Indianapolis area.
While at Allison, he got involved in a program sponsored by the Johnson administration called Plans for Progress, which recruited African American role models and then sent them to historically black colleges to persuade students to major in engineering.
In the late 1970s, he walked away from a good job at Allison to dedicate himself to working on behalf of civil rights. (Among other things, he supported himself by becoming a "secret shopper.") He spent the years after the late 1970s working on behalf of civil rights.
James MacGregor Burns earned his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1947. He also attended the London School of Economics. Burns taught at Williams College for his entire career and in 2009, was Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Government.
Burns was a distinguished scholar of American politics and presidents and of leadership. His first book was Congress on Trial: The Legislative Process and the Administrative State (1966). ;Leadership (1978) is a seminal work in the field of leadership studies. He coined the theory of transformational leadership-that which delivers true value, integrity, and trust. Burns had a profound impact on the study of leadership, including but not limited to the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland.
Highlights of Burns's remarkable scholarly career include Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation (with Georgia Sorenson, 1999), The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders who Transformed America (with Susan Dunn, 2001), Running Alone: Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II (2007), and Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court(2009).
Burns won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox (1956) and Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom (1970). He was a recipient of the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Burns died in July 2014.
An authority on leadership studies talks about working on Capitol Hill, the leadership skills of various U.S. presidents, and his thoughts on what makes a good leader.
Job Titles:
- President of Pacer Sports & Entertainment
- Trustee of Indiana University
James Morris is an IU alumnus, trustee of Indiana University, and Vice Chairman of Pacers Sports & Entertainment. A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Morris studied political science at IU Bloomington and was active in student government. When Indiana Senator Richard Lugar was mayor of Indianapolis, Morris served as chief of staff from 1967 to 1973, developing education and employment programs for the city's youth.
Morris served as president of the Lilly Endowment from 1984 to 2002, helping to revitalize downtown Indianapolis, strengthen Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, and involve private companies in public initiatives. In 2002, Morris was named the executive director of the United Nations' World Food Programme, overseeing food aid distribution to more than 110 million people each year in about 80 countries. In 2003, he led the biggest food operation in history, providing food to nearly 27 million Iraqis after the United States-led invasion of Iraq.
Morris became president of Pacer Sports & Entertainment in 2008. Throughout his career, he has lent his expertise to the American Red Cross, Butler University, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and other not-for-profit organizations. Former Senator and fellow Oral History Honoree, Richard Lugar said of Morris, "In his service in the World Food Program, and now with UNICEF, it is based upon humanitarian feelings about people all over the world. He has seen enormous suffering, and he has tried his very best to alleviate that through constructive programs and leadership."
James T. Morris is a key visionary in developing Indiana through his work at Indiana University, the NCAA, the United Nations Food Programme, and promoting athletics at all levels, including as vice chairman of Pacers Entertainment, Inc. He talks through his early experiences in government and his numerous other positions.
A professor talks about the importance of integrity, compassion, and empathy in leadership, and on educating people to be good citizens.
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- President / Cook Research Incorporated
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- VP Client Experience & Delivery Operations
Professor Joanne Ciulla is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics. Her research on the ethical challenges of leadership is interdisciplinary but draws heavily on literature in philosophy and history. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Temple University. She also does extensive research in business ethics, and we are proud to share that Joanne has been involved with the Tobias Fellows program for over a decade.
Ciulla was honored with 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2018 from International Leadership Association and the Society for Business Ethics. In 2018 her research also earned her the Eminent Leadership Scholar Award from Network of Leadership Scholars, The Academy of Management.
Prior to joining Rutgers Business School, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, where she was one of the founding faculty of the school, which is the first degree granting liberal arts school of leadership studies in the world.
Ciulla has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, LaSalle University, and numerous visiting appointments outside of the U.S., including the UNESCO chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Jordan. She is a Fulbright Specialist, which allows her to work with institutions outside of the US on programs and research related to ethics and leadership.
Ciulla sits on the editorial boards of The Business Ethics Quarterly, The Leadership Quarterly, and Leadership and she edits the New Horizons in Leadership Studies Series (Edward Elgar), which is one of the largest collections of books from the humanities and the social sciences on leadership. Ciulla has served as former president of The Society for Business Ethics and The International Society for Business, Ethics, and Economics. She has also worked with the Aspen Institute and The Brookings Institution and has given lectures and seminars to business and government organizations all over the world.
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- Director of Hancock Well - Being
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- Chairman of the Board of the Lumina Foundation, an Organization Dedicated to Providing Greater Access to Higher Education Opportunities for Underserved Populations
John Mutz served in various, significant leadership positions in business, state government, and the non-profit sector. His successes as an entrepreneur included development of a franchise partnership that owned thirty-one Burger Chef Restaurants (1965-80) and formation of Circle Leasing Corporation (1962-80). He served as a state representative (1967-70) and as a state senator (1971-80). In 1980, Mr. Mutz was elected lieutenant governor of Indiana. Following two terms, he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1988 against Democrat Evan Bayh. The Lilly Endowment hired him as president in 1989. In 1993, he became chairman of PSI Energy, Indiana's largest electric utility, a post he held until 1999. In 2002, he served as chairman of the City of Indianapolis, Department of Waterworks, and in 2006, he was chairman of the board, Lumina Foundation.
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- Vice President / IU Ventures
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- Executive & Academic Director
Julie Manning Magid is vice dean of the IU Kelley School of Business Indianapolis and professor of business law.
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- Professor Emeritus at Warwick University
Keith spent 10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to academics, where he held Chairs at Cranfield and Lancaster Universities and was Lancaster Leadership Centre Director.
We are currently working on curating this profile page. In the meantime, please see Keith Grint's full oral history.
Keith Grint is Professor Emeritus at Warwick University, where he was Professor of Public Leadership until 2018. He spent 10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to an academic career.
Amongst many jobs he has been an agricultural worker, a lifeguard, a postman, a freezer operative, and a karate instructor. Since becoming an academic he has held Chairs at Cranfield University and Lancaster University and was Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre. He spent twelve years at Oxford University and was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College. He remains an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, Oxford. He is Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Visiting Research Professor at Lancaster University.
He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership and founding co-organizer of the International Conference in Researching Leadership. He has written 45 journal articles and 46 book chapters. His books include Leadership (ed.) (1997); Fuzzy Management (1997); The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Society, (with Steve Woolgar) (1997); The Arts of Leadership (2000); Organizational Leadership (with John Bratton and Debra Nelson); Leadership: Limits and Possibilities (2005); Leadership, Management & Command: Rethinking D-Day (2008); Sage Handbook of Leadership (edited with Alan Bryman, David Collinson, Brad Jackson and Mary Uhl-Bien) (2010); The Public Leadership Challenge (edited with Stephen Brookes) (2010); Leadership: A Very Short Introduction (2010); and Sage Major Works of Leadership (four volumes) (ed. with David Collinson & Brad Jackson) (2011). His most recent papers include: "Mindful Organizing in U.S. Navy SEAL Teams: Sustaining Mindfulness in High-Reliability Organizations (HROs)" (with Amy Frayer and Layla Branicki), Management Review Discoveries (forthcoming), and "‘No More Heroes': Critical Perspectives on Leadership Romanticism" with Owain Smolovic-Jones and David Collinson, Organization Studies (forthcoming).
Kimberly LaGrange Fellows Program Facilitator Kim LaGrange is facilitator for the Tobias Fellows Program and principal consultant with Prime Talent Insights, LLC. klagran@indiana.edu 317-278-2800 More about LaGrange
MATUSAK: Because when he was dying, he called and we came, both Connie and I came here to see him; we had come before when he was dying and he begged that we not allow Irene to be put into a nursing home. And we promised and I kept my promise. We were here every three months and we cooked until we dropped so she had food while we were gone and somebody to take care of her. But we did until she died and then it was a shock and a pleasure that she left the house to us. It was a shambles. It was really bad. We were going sell it and after we tore out all of the stinky carpeting and painted and did all this stuff, we said, "Let's try it." So we spend our winters here now.
MATUSAK: That's right. And what they did-this is so ridiculous, but you know why my mindset changed-they took a habit, and they sewed it up the middle like pants and that's what I was supposed to wear.
MATUSAK: Yeah, well the first Reverend Mother was very forward-looking. She was very good, the one who told me I wouldn't be a diva. She was marvelous, marvelous. And things were growing under her. Then we had a Reverend Mother who was really, really not good and it stagnated, everything just stagnated.
MATUSAK: Yeah. And the Benedictines are not under bishops, they're under Rome. So I had to write a letter to Rome to get a dispensation from my vows, which I did receive. And there, too, my dad was dead but I couldn't rely on my mother; we were poor. And you get $300 and a wave goodbye. You have no clothes, you don't have a spoon, you don't have a fork, you don't have anything.
MATUSAK: That's right, that's right. And clothes you didn't have because you had habits and so you had nothing, absolutely nothing. But you know what? I never thought about it that way. In fact, what I remember what we did is I was working for Dr. Rassweiler. He was a physicist, an amazing man, and in fact, he and his wife owned this house and I kind of became their daughter that they never had.
MATUSAK: In White Settlement, you know. Well, it means being responsible for all the Sisters under you and seeing to it to their health, their education, and I had a very different perspective about all that. So, I was opening up doors for these women and then you get threatened because you're allowing them to be too worldly, you know.
Larraine Matusak received her Ph.D. in higher education administration from the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, California, in 1975. Prior to earning her Ph.D., she spent several years as a Benedictine Sister. Larraine Matusak has had a distinguished career as a practitioner, promoter, funder, and scholar of leadership.
Taught natural sciences and developed the Adult Alternative Baccalaureate Degree Program to address the needs of underserved students at the University of Minnesota (1968-74)
Served as first dean and founder of the College of Alternative Programs, which focused on adult learning and continuing education at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana (1974-79)
Served as second president of Thomas A. Edison State College of New Jersey, an innovative institution dedicated to serving mid-career adults (1979-82)
A leadership scholar talks about her time in an Illinois convent, how she defines leadership, and her successes as an educator.
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- Provost and Senior Vice President / Vincennes University
HAMILTON: Socialism and the government takeover of health care. The same arguments you hear with regard to the health bill that just passed, the rhetoric is very much the same and I, the difference was that the Republicans in the House did not take the position the Republicans are today of just saying no. They worked with us, they developed some alternatives, and in the House, for example, we voted down the Republican alternative to Medicare which was I don't know how to describe it, perhaps somewhat more modest that the Medicare proposal but still involved a lot of government medicine. And then we voted our bill and my recollection is we got a large number of Republican votes-not a majority-but a large number on the final passage of the bill.
HAMILTON: Because part of it is the way congressional districts are drawn. With the computer today you, if you have a house with a man and a woman, spouses or different parties, the computer will split the house.
HAMILTON: Well it's a captivating career. You have the sense in the Congress, whether or not it's accurate, that you're in the center of things, big things. And you have a sense that you are making a contribution towards the direction and the success of your country, I believe, even though you may not be. I found it quite compatible with my interests. I like the people in the Congress. Always an important factor, I think.
HAMILTON: Both sides of the aisle. They-I really liked members of Congress, with very, very few exceptions. I think that they're a special breed; they're energetic, they're committed, ideologically have strong views often times. But they're attractive people, for the most part, and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed working with people even when I didn't agree with them, a lot.
HAMILTON: It takes a lot of luck in politics and I sure had it. 1964. Any Democrat.
Lee Hamilton received his degree from the Indiana University School of Law in 1956. He was the Democrat representative in Congress for Indiana's ninth district (1965-99). At times, he chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, the Joint Economics Committee, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
After leaving Congress, Hamilton held a number of distinguished appointments, including:
Vice chair, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Co-chair, 9/11 Public Discourse Project
Co-chair, Baker-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos
Member, United States Commission on National Security in the 21st Century
Member, Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform
Co-chair, Iraq Study Group
Hamilton has written two books: How Congress Works and Why You Should Care (2004) and A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress (2002).
The Indiana Historical Society named Lee Hamilton an Indiana Living Legend in 2005. In 2005, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A former representative reflects on his time in Congress and on leadership lessons that can be learned from previous U.S. presidential administrations.
An organizational behavior scholar discusses effecting change in systems, faith in the human spirit, and her experiences in the Peace Corps.
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- Secretary, Fellows Advisory Board Director, Business Systems Support
The 10th president of Purdue University talks about how leaders are made and explores his time as an educator and administrator.
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- President & CEO / CountryMark Cooperative
Max De Pree had a long and distinguished career as a leader and a scholar of leadership. His father established Herman Miller Company, furniture manufacturers, as a family-owned business. In 1947, following his service in the U.S. Army during World War II-including as a combat medic during a portion of the Battle of the Bulge-De Pree began working for the Herman Miller Company. He served as CEO from 1980 to 1987, remaining on the board of directors until 1995.
De Pree established Herman Miller Company as one of the best managed companies in America. The company innovated in design, hiring or working with a number of cutting-edge designers. Herman Miller adopted the Scanlon management plan in 1950, which distinguished the company through De Pree's tenure as CEO.
Max De Pree has written and published a number of books and articles on the subject of leadership beginning with Leadership is an Art (1987), Called to Serve: Creating and Nurturing the Effective Volunteer Board (2001), and Leading Without Power: finding Hope in Serving Community (2003).
The Max De Pree Center for Leadership at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, is named in recognition of his reputation in the area of leadership and his decades-long commitment to Fuller Theological Seminary. De Pree received the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
A former governor of Indiana talks about practicing medicine, entering the state and national political arenas, and being a professor at IU.
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- Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion / Firefly Children and Family Alliance
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- Inaugural Executive in Residence / Principal Officer
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- Superintendent of Schools
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- Co - Founder of the Vera Bradley Company
Patricia Miller has a highly successful record as a leader in the fields of business, philanthropy, and government. She earned her B.A. in education from Indiana University in 1960 and taught school in various locations in Indiana from 1960 through 1969.
Miller and her friend Barbara Baekgaard started a wallpaper hanging business in Fort Wayne called Up Your Wall. In 1982, the two women began the Vera Bradley Company, which they aimed at a niche market for high-end luggage, handbags, and accessories. Vera Bradley grew from a home-based company to one that, by fall 2005, employed more than 120 people and approached $100 million in sales.
In 1994, Miller and Baekgaard started the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer. By 2007, their foundation had raised and donated several million dollars to the Indiana University School of Medicine. In 2004, Miller joined the campaign of Republican candidate for governor, Mitch Daniels. Daniels appointed her as Indiana's first secretary of commerce.
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- Co - Founder of the Kheprw Institute
Paulette Fair is a co-founder of the Kheprw Institute in Indianapolis. She has a passion for empowering black youth to succeed academically and gain valuable life skills that will serve them and their community into adulthood. In the summer of 2003, Fair, along with two colleagues, founded KI to provide tutoring for her grandson, her colleague's son and a couple of their friends in reading, algebra and public speaking. Since then Fair has served as KI's program director and overseen its growth to serve a broad group of youth and community who work to improve themselves and change the world.
Ms. Fair was raised in San Antonio, TX, where her father worked at Randolph Air Force Base. She attended Brackenridge High School in years immediately following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling on desegregation, Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, issued in 1954. Fair attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, majoring in chemistry and biology, graduating in 1969 as a medical technician.
In 1979, Ms. Fair moved to Indianapolis to accept employment, which is when she met Adisa Imhotep and his wife, Pambana Uishi. Together, the three started the Kheprw Institute in 2003. KI became a non-profit in 2004, and since then it has grown to include KI New Media; Community Controlled Food Initiative; and Scaraby's Consulting. KI focuses on youth and seeks solutions for community problems and challenges in the areas of education, environment, economy, and empowerment.
In 2010, as a recognition for her work with KI, Ms. Fair was awarded the Purpose Prize Fellowship by Encore.org. These fellowships are selectively awarded nationally through a referee process. According to Encore.org's website, Purpose Fellowships are intended to demonstrate that older people comprise an undiscovered and still largely untapped solution to an array of pressing societal challenges.
Pershing E. MacAllister graduated from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1940. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, separating as a captain. MacAllister earned a reputation for leadership in business, philanthropy, and civic involvement.
MacAllister's father founded MacAllister Machinery Company in Indianapolis in June 1945. MacAllister took over the company in 1950 and was officially named president in 1954. He held the title of chairman of the board of MacAllister Machinery Company in April 2009.
MacAllister spent a number of years as president of the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board. He was a longtime president of the Indianapolis Opera and chaired the Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis. MacAllister served Caroll College in several capacities, including on the board of trustees. He was also a trustee of the Christian Theological Seminary.
MacAllister has endowed a chair in religious and Biblical studies and the MacAllister Fellowship at Carroll College. He co-endowed the MacAllister-Petticrew Chair of Old Testament Studies at Christian Theological Seminary. He established and largely supported the MacAllister Awards, which was the largest unrestricted vocal competition for opera singers in the United States.
MacAllister served as campaign treasurer for Richard Lugar's two mayoral elections (1967 and 1971) and as campaign chair for William Hudnut's mayoral elections (1976-91) and his campaign for Congress. In April 2009, the Indiana Historical Society honored MacAllister as an Indiana Living Legend.
A former board chairman reminisces about his education, his time in the military, corporate leadership, and philanthropy.
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- Director of Oral History
- Director, Oral History Project
- Professor
- While You Were CEO, Did Carl Frost Continue to Play a Role
SCARPINO: In one of your emails to me when we were corresponding back and forth, you mentioned that you had been a Mother Superior?
SCARPINO: Which is the Catholic college that's sort of the pair with St. Benedict?
SCARPINO: So, was part of the reason that you left that at some point it just became too limiting?
SCARPINO: Were you trained as a nurse? MATUSAK: No. SCARPINO: So you were volunteering at the hospital? MATUSAK: No. SCARPINO: Or you were being paid? MATUSAK: No, I was paid, being paid. SCARPINO: Okay, so you got a paying job, a second job, so to speak. MATUSAK: Right, right. SCARPINO: In the Emergency Room. MATUSAK: Right, right.
Scarpino: And how, as somebody who has spent her entire life learning to be a leader and training other people to be leaders, how do you see that happening? How is it that we say we care about our children but we don't? What evidence do you have for that?
SCARPINO: Oh, that's right. Thank you. Sorry about that. Medicare. How in the world did that make its way through Congress?
SCARPINO: And you came back to the 9th District having voted on Medicare, federal aid to education, various parts of the war on poverty, and I'll talk about it in a minute but we can throw the voting rights act and the civil rights act into that mix. How did you sell that to the voters of the 9th District?
SCARPINO: . . .and, of course, Harvard has the MBA program there. What made you decide to do that?
SCARPINO: What would you say are the salient points that might prompt somebody that their next step would be to the library to pick up the book?
SCARPINO: Blair Johnson earned his Ph.D. from Purdue in 1988 and he is presently a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut.
SCARPINO: Okay, I'm not asking for proprietary; I'm just sort of asking for, you know, "personnel management" would be an answer or, you know…
SCARPINO: While you were CEO, did Carl Frost continue to play a role?
SCARPINO: And that was with the refinement and rejuvenation of the Scanlon Plan?
SCARPINO: So I mean you had Carl Frost and Peter Drucker on the team, so to speak, at the same time?
SCARPINO: As you worked your way up through the company, did the fact that you had done those things with your own hands, did that help you?
SCARPINO: You spent a lot of time with your dad, but what kind of faith-related principles influenced his leadership?
SCARPINO: Manfred Kets de Vries. He's a psychologist. He's another award winner. He was born in Holland. He taught for decades in Paris.
SCARPINO: Do you think it's important for a leader, particularly the kind of leader you've been, to also be a role model?
SCARPINO: Why was it important to you that the foreman give you the raise and not your dad?
SCARPINO: Dr. Walter Wright, who we mentioned the other day, at least partially retired from Fuller Theological Seminary, told me that Carl Frost, the professor who originally introduced your father and brother to the Scanlon Plan, became one of your most important mentors.
SCARPINO: So it wasn't just altruistic? I mean it clearly was a way to make the company function more efficiently and effectively and profitably.
SCARPINO: What was it like? Well, I'm going to ask it a different way. Did you intentionally seek out smart and creative people to surround yourself with?
Philip V. Scarpino
Director, Oral History Project
Philip V. Scarpino is director of Oral History at the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence and professor of history.
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Before receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Kentucky in 1974, Richard Couto spent several years as a Roman Catholic Brother. Couto held a number of university appointments, including:
Director, Center for Health Services, Vanderbilt University (1975-88)
Founding faculty member, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond (1991-2002)
Higher education senior research fellow, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland (1996-98)
Founding faculty member, Ph.D. program in leadership and change, Antioch University (2002-08)
Couto published 14 books and 73 articles and book chapters between 1975 and 2015, ranging from community empowerment and civic engagement, leadership, and service learning and public scholarship-which he developed and promoted before those practices became widespread. He won numerous awards, including:
2012 Leadership Book Award for Scholarship for Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook
2002 Servant Leader Award, Jepson School of Leadership Studies
2000 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize of the Independent Sector for Making Democracy Work Better
1992 Outstanding Book for Ain't Nobody Gonna Turn Me Round
Robert Lord holds the PhD in Psychology earned at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1975. He wrote a dissertation titled, Group Performance as a Function of Leadership Behavior and Task Structure. He was employed by the University of Akron from 1974-2012 (Distinguished Professor, 2004-2012). He played a key role in developing the University of Akron's graduate industrial/organizational psychology program ranked in the top 10 in the US in 2009 by U.S. News & World Report. In 2013, Dr. Lord moved to Durham University, UK, as Professor of Management, Durham Business School, and Director, International Center for Leadership and Followership. Publications include 3 co-authored or co-edited books and about 144 refereed, journal articles or book chapters published between 1976 and 2017. His Google Scholar Citation Index shows 21,626 lifetime citations with just over 9,800 since 2012. His most cited publication with 1,862 citations is "Leadership and Information Processing: Linking Perceptions and Performance," co-authored in 2002 with Karen J Maher. Awards and recognitions, including but not limited to, Best Paper of the Year Award by Leadership Quarterly for 2015; and, Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology for 2012. He was the recipient of a Leadership Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the International Leadership Association, November 2017.
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- Current Executive in Residence
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- Chairman
- Head of the Division of Agriculture
Russell Mawby earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University in 1959 after serving in the military from 1953 to 1955. He developed a powerful national and international reputation in the related areas of leadership development, philanthropy, volunteerism, and management of nonprofits.
In 1964, Mawby joined the W. K. Kellogg Foundation as head of the Division of Agriculture. He became president and CEO of the foundation in 1970. In 1982, the foundation's board named him chairman and chief executive officer, titles he held until he retired from the foundation in 1995. Under Mawby's leadership, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation became the second largest in the world in terms of assets close behind the Ford Foundation.
Mawby played key roles in the creation of several nonprofit organizations, including the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State College. Mawby is a recipient of the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
A chairman emeritus of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation discusses his family's farm, his thoughts on philanthropy, and the importance of leadership training.
Sallie Rowland graduated from Indiana University in 1954 with a degree in business and a minor in design. She spent about 10 years developing a design department for Business Furniture Corporation, located in Indianapolis, leaving with the rank of vice president. In 1968 she co-founded Rowland Associates.
Rowland became CEO of Rowland Design in 1975. Rowland Design developed into the largest commercial design firm in Indianapolis and one of the top one hundred commercial interior design firms in North America. She retired from Rowland Design in 2003.
As a civic leader, Rowland served on the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission for eight years (1977-84). In 1979, she became the first woman to be president of the commission. Rowland was also the first woman on the executive committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce (1986), the first woman to receive the Indianapolis Business Journal's Enterprise Award (1992), the first woman to be president of the Economic Club of Indianapolis (1993), and the first woman to chair the campaign of the United Way of Central Indiana. Rowland has been a member of the boards of directors for Indiana Landmarks, Indiana National Bank, Meridian Mutual Insurance, and Indianapolis Power and Light.
Former United States Senator Richard G. Lugar is the President of The Lugar Center, a non-profit organization focusing on global food security, WMD nonproliferation, aid effectiveness, and bipartisan governance. Senator Lugar serves as a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar at the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. He also serves as a distinguished faculty member in the Department of History and Political Science and leads the Richard G. Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow's Leaders at the University of Indianapolis.
A fifth generation Hoosier who left the United States Senate as the longest-serving member of Congress in Indiana history, Senator Lugar is recognized as a gifted local and state leader, as well as a respected national and international statesman. During his tenure in the United States Senate, he exercised leadership on critical issues such as food security, nuclear non-proliferation, energy independence, and free trade. He holds 46 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in 15 states and the District of Columbia, and he was the fourth person ever named Outstanding Legislator by the American Political Science Association. He was the 2005 recipient of the American Foreign Service Association Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy Award and the 2016 recipient of the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding. Her Majesty The Queen of England bestowed upon Senator Lugar the rank of honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in honor of his work to make the world more secure from weapons of mass destruction and his commitment to the U.S.-U.K. alliance. President Barack Obama named Senator Lugar a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Senator Lugar graduated first in his class at both Shortridge High School in Indianapolis and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He attended Pembroke College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, studying politics, philosophy and economics. Lugar volunteered for the U.S. Navy in 1957, ultimately serving as an intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of Naval Operations.
Senator Lugar is an Indiana legend, retiring as the longest-serving senator in our State's history. Senator Lugar is a universally recognized expert in foreign relations. As a testament to that fact, he and former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn recently were asked to brief the Trump Administration regarding North Korea. Senator Lugar forged strong relationships among his colleagues on both sides of the political aisle.
Sherry Queener, Ph.D., served IUPUI for over 40 years as a professor of Pharmacology and the Associate Dean and Director of the Indiana University Graduate School. She worked with faculty to review and develop graduate programs, courses, and procedures. Queener also chaired the Graduate Affairs Committee.
Queener earned her B.S. with honors in 1965 from Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma. She then earned an MS from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1968, followed by a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois in 1970.
In 1971, she accepted a position as instructor in Pharmacology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, only two years after the merger that created IUPUI in Indianapolis. Queener moved through the academic ranks in the IU School of Medicine, becoming full professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology in 1984.
Queener's vita lists 170 research publications between 1970 and 2014 along with several book chapters. She chaired 19 Ph.D. and M.S. committees in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology. She also served as a faculty mentor in the undergraduate research program for a number of undergraduate students, several of whom went on to earn medical degrees, or advanced graduate degrees.
Queener has an impressive record for grant funding of her research on the interaction of drugs with pathogenic organisms. In 1999, she became associate dean of the Indiana University Graduate School, and director of the Graduate Office at IUPUI, positions she held until her retirement in 2014. She continues to serve IUPUI as a member of the Senior Academy.
A national expert on children and youth policy, Sagawa has been called a "founding mother of the modern service movement" for her work on national service. Her book, The American Way to Change, highlights ways that volunteer and national service is an important but underutilized strategy to solve problems in American communities.
We are currently working on curating this profile page. In the meantime, please see Shirley Sagawa's full oral history.
Stella Nkomo earned the Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in 1983, majoring in Human Resource Management and minoring in Strategic Management. She spent 17 years, 1983-2000, at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Belk College of Business Administration, rising through the academic ranks to Full Professor.
During her last five years in North Carolina she held the position of Professor and Chair, Department of Management, Belk College of Business Administration. In 2000, she moved to Pretoria, South Africa, as Bateman Distinguished Professor of Business Leadership, University of South Africa Graduate School of Business Leadership. In 2009, she accepted an appointment at the University of Pretoria, holding positions as Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences; and Deputy Dean for Research and Post-graduate Studies.
Her research interests include race and gender in organizations; women in leadership; diversity management; change leadership; and, leadership and management in Africa.
Dr. Nkomo has produced large body of publications, including four co-authored books and over ninety referred journal articles and book chapters, for about half of which she served as first author. She holds an "A" rating for her research from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, which is the highest category in the South African system based on the assessments of international peer reviewers. She was presented with a Leadership Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Leadership Association in November 2017.
A former president of Notre Dame University talks about the advances made under his leadership and his involvement in civil rights during the '60s.
Tom Ehrlich received his LL.B., magna cum laude, from the Harvard School of Law in 1959. He served as law clerk for Judge Learned Hand in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City (1959-60). From 1960 to 1962, he practiced with Foley, Sammond & Lardner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He then moved to Washington, D.C., where he served as special assistant to the legal advisor in the Department of State (1962-65) and as special assistant to the undersecretary of state in international negotiations (1964-65).
Ehrlich was a professor of law at Stanford University (1965-71) and dean of the Stanford Law School (1971-75). In 1976, Ehrlich returned to Washington. He was the first president of the Legal Services Corporation, a nonprofit organization established by federal statute to support legal assistance to the poor (1976-79) and was appointed by President Carter as director of the International Development Agency (1979-80).
Ehrlich held two major academic positions: provost of University of Pennsylvania (1982-87) and president of Indiana University (1987-94). He has since served as distinguished university scholar at California State University (1995-2000) and senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1997-2007).
William Mays attended segregated schools in Evansville, Indiana, until his senior year in high school. He earned his B.A. in chemistry from Indiana University in 1970. Following graduation, he held a sales position with Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio, followed by a promotion to account manager.
In 1973, Mays accepted a consortium fellowship that allowed him to pursue his M.B.A. at Indiana University. After earning his M.B.A., he became assistant to the president at Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, Indiana. He spent four years at Cummins before becoming president of Specialty Chemical, a small chemical distribution company in Indianapolis.
Mays founded Mays Chemical Company, based in Indianapolis, in 1980. Mays Chemical grew from a single-person operation to a major business enterprise. Mays held a number of other business leadership positions, including on the boards of directors of Anthem Insurance, Vectren Corporation, WellPoint, Inc., First Indiana Corporation, and the Indiana University Foundation.
Mays was the first African American appointed as chairman of campaign for the United Way of Central Indiana (1991) and as chair of the Hoosier Lottery Commission (1991). He served as chairman of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce (1993-94) and chairman of the annual campaign for the Indianapolis Museum of Art (1996).
The Mays Chemical Company founder talks about the power of the civil rights movement and the qualities of successful leaders.