Ed.D.
Professor of Leadership
Director, Executive MBA Program
Phone: 816-235-2841 | Fax: 816-235-6511 | gallosj@umkc.edu
310A Bloch
Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
www.joangallos.com
Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
Joan V. Gallos is professor of leadership in the Department of Public Affairs and Director of the Executive MBA program at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at UMKC, where she has also served as professor and dean of education, coordinator of University Accreditation, special assistant to the Chancellor for Strategic Planning, and director of the Higher Education Graduate Programs. She is the immediate past president of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, the oldest international professional association committed to excellence in teaching and learning in the management sciences. Gallos holds a bachelor’s degree
cum laude in English from Princeton University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in organizational behavior and professional education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Gallos is an award-winning educator and scholar in the field of management and leadership education. Her scholarship centers on expanding and deepening conceptions of what, how and why professionals learn; innovative leadership and management pedagogy for a diverse work world; and organizational change. Current interests include understanding and developing healthy leadership and followership; successful collaboration and partnerships across sectors for civic capacity building; the arts as a vehicle for leadership and organizational development; and the implications of developmental theory for understanding and enhancing professional effectiveness. Gallos has engaged in a host of program design, professional education, and management development projects for private and public organizations across industry sectors in the U.S. and abroad. She has also taught at the Radcliffe Seminars, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Babson College, as well as in executive programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Missouri, Babson College, and the University of British Columbia.
Gallos has published three books (with two more in development), more than fifty articles and chapters on issues of professional effectiveness and of leadership education, and multiple sets of curricular materials for teaching in the organizational and administrative sciences. In 1990, she received the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for the best article on management education in the Organizational Behavior Teaching Review and was finalist for the same prize in 1994. She has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Management Education and on numerous editorial boards, including the Academy of Management Learning and Education as a founding member. In 1993, Gallos accepted the Radcliffe College/Harvard University Excellence in Teaching award. She has served on multiple national professional advisory committees and on civic and non-profit boards in greater Kansas City. In 2002-03, she served as founding director of the Truman Center for the Healing Arts at the Truman Medical Center, Kansas City’s public teaching hospital, which as a consequence of her leadership received the Kansas City Business Committee for the Arts 2004 Partnership Award for the best partnership between a large organization and the arts.
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