John Jacob Gardiner, Ph.D.

Professor - Educational Leadership Program

Research interests include:

• Value-centered leadership -- the alignment of beliefs and behaviors
• Core values for leaders and organizations
• Emerging organizational forms -- interdisciplinary task forces, leadership circles, virtual teams
• Dialogue across race, gender, age, professional, class, national lines -- toward global collaboration
• Personal and organizational renewal -- effective leadership development practices
• Leadership and spirituality -- leader as presence
• Servant and transcendent leadership
• Leadership for service -- catalyst for global change
• Integrative and futurist methodologies -- content analysis, Delphi, future search conference, scenarios
• Wired leadership -- management of attention in an interconnected world

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Selected publications:

• Gardiner, John J. "Building Leadership Teams: A Comprehensive Study of America's College and University Presidents, 1988-2003." Leadership Review, Vol. 6, Fall 2006, pp. 131-143.
• Gardiner, John J. "Transactional, Transformational, and Transcendent Leadership: metaphors describing the Evolution of the Theory and Practice of Governance."Leadership Review, Vol. 6, Spring 2006, pp. 62-76.
• Cherrey, Cynthia; Gardiner, John J.; and Huber, Nancy, Eds. Building Leadership Bridges, College Park: Univerity of Maryland/International Leadership Association/ Center for Creative Leadership, 2003 (ISBN: 1-891464-25-6).
• Gardiner, John J. "Sovereign to Steward: Emergent Roles and Responsibilities of Rotary International's New District Governor." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Seattle, Washington, November 15, 2002.
• Gardiner, John J. "Growing Leadership Circles for Rotary's Emergent Future." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Miami, Florida, November 3, 2001.
• Gardiner, John J. "Winning Groups: Leadership at America's Top University Institutes and Centers." Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 23, 1999. (Published in Proceedings of Annual Meeting).

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• Gardiner, John J. "A Study of Interdisciplinarity at Leading Research Universities." Paper presented at the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Improving University Teaching, Griffith University, Australia, July 6, 1999. (Published in Contributed Papers of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Improving University Teaching, pp. 300-306.)
• Gardiner, John J. "Quiet Presence: The Holy Ground of Leadership." Insights on Leadership, Larry Spears, Ed., New York: John Wiley Publishers, 1998, pp. 116-125.
• Secor, Jan; Gardiner, John J.; and Tyasto, Marina. 'Circumventing Power Dynamics: Moving Beyond Conflict." Paper presented at the 5th Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 9, 1997.
• Gardiner, John J. "Creating New Metaphors of Governance for World Higher Education." Paper presented at the 13th International Conference of the Association of Management, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 4, 1995. (Published in Proceedings of the Educational Studies and Research Group of the Association of Management at the 13th International Conference. 1995, pp. 56-62.)

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• Gardiner, John J. "Interdisciplinary Groups and Leadership Teams: Restructuring World Higher Education for Information Processing." UNESCO Guide on Training for Specialized Information and Documentation Mastery. Jean Michel, Ed., Paris, France: UNESCO, Commission on Information and Documentation, 1992; also in European Journal of Engineering Education. XVI, 3, 1991, pp. 269-272.
• Gardiner, John J. "Excellence in Research: Restructuring Higher Education for the 1990s." Educational Record. 71(2), Spring, 1990, pp. 51-53.
• Gardiner, John J. "Building Leadership Teams." Leaders for a New Era: Strategies for Higher Education. Madeleine F. Green, Ed, New York. American Council on Education, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988, pp. 137-153.
• Gardiner, John J., Ed., Handbook on Teaching and Instructional Resources. Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study of Higher Education, 1987.
• Gardiner, John J. and Nazari-Robati, Ali. "Student Attrition Research: Implications for Retention Strategies." NASPA Journal, 20(3), 1983, pp. 25-33.
• Gardiner, John J. and Nazari-Robati, Ali. "Tuition and the Open Door: A Relative Perspective." Community/Junior College Research Quarterly, 6(2), January/March, 1982, pp. 145-155

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Selected Presentations/Research Activities:

• Serving onEditorial Board, Leadership Review, 2005-.
• Served on Executive Committee, Governing Board, International Leaderhsip Association, 2001-2004.
• "Structures for Sucess: Growing Rotary in the Next Century." Presentation at the International Leadership Conference of Rotary, Portland, Oregon, April 29, 2004.
• Lifetime Leadership Awards presented to James MacGregor Burns and John W. Gardner on behalf of the International Leadership Association, Seattle, Washington, November 16, 2002.
• Collaborative Leadership." Chaired session on collaborative leadership case studies, Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Seattle, Washington, November 15, 2002.
• "Exploding the Mythical Boundaries Between Various Groups of Leaders." Co-chaired a panel on connective leadership with Jean Lipman-Blumen, Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Seattle, Washington, November 14, 2002.
• Served as Conference Chair, Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Seattle, Washington, November 14-16, 2002.

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• "Leaders for a New Century." Chaired a panel on university-based leadership programs for city leaders, Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Miami, Florida, November 2, 2001.
• 'Values in Leadership." Chaired panel on values in leadership for the association, Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 23, 1999.
• "Leadership for the New Siberia." Presentation to delegation from Russia to the United States, Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park, May 4, 1999.
• Served as member, Advisory Board, Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park, 1999-2001.
• Served as founding member of the National Leadership Group of the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., 1985-1998.
• "Holistic Leadership." Invited keynote address to the 30th International Conference of the World Federation of Healing, Monterey, California, October 12, 1997.
• "A New Life Curriculum." Chaired panel on the new leadership and elected webmaster for new leadership, Us Foundation, Portland, Oregon, July 20-24, 1997.

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• "Western Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education." Invited participant at faculty conference of Jesuit Universities, Loyola/Marymount, Los Angeles, CA, February 25-27, 1994.
• Served as chair of the Conference on Postsecondary Education, co-sponsored by the American Educational Research Association and the Association for the Study of Higher Education, on "Shaping the Future of American Higher Education: An Organizational Perspective," San Francisco, California, October 28-30, 1984.
• Served on research team that developed and implemented proposal funded by The World Bank for $1,400,000, Oklahoma State University, 1980-83.
• Served as associate director of the Department Chairpersons Research Project funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for $1,200,000, Florida State University, 1977-78.
• Awarded W. K. Kellogg Fellowship for Doctoral Study in Leadership, University of Florida, 1972-73.

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