Jonathan Westover

Dr. Jonathan H. Westover, Ph.D., MPA, SFHEA, Acad. FCIPD is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Ethics in the Woodbury School of Business, Director of Academic Service Learning (Office of Engaged Learning, Center for Social Impact), and previously the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics. He is also serves on the board of directors of the HR Certification Institute (HRCI), is a human capital leadership and performance management consultant, a CIPD Academic Fellow, and a HEA Senior Fellow. He was recently a Fulbright Scholar (Minsk, Belarus; Jakarta, Indonesia), a POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii; Washington D.C.), a Learning Innovation Research Fellow at the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), an Educational Development Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada), a Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.), and he is a regular visiting faculty member in other international graduate business programs (U.S., U.K., France, Belarus, Poland, and China). He is passionate about teaching, loves to conduct research, enjoys working with organizations in the community, and loves writing in all styles—from academic, to professional, to op-ed, to other creative writing projects—and has been published widely in academic journals, books, magazines, and in popular media locally, nationally, and abroad (such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today). He has also been extensively quoted and cited as a management expert in popular press nationally and abroad and I enjoy my involvement in various service assignments and activities, both on and off of campus.

Dr. Westover believes that the world would be a much happy, safe, and productive place if we could all listen to understand one another.

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