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The Commission on POST strives to identify and obtain the best faculty possible. As a result, the program curriculum is constantly being reviewed and updated. Many of our current instructional staff are presented here.



Ed Barlow
Ed Barlow

Ed Barlow is President of Creating the Future, Inc. He is dedicated to enhancing an understanding of the future and the influences which will affect personal, professional, organizational, and community settings. Ed's professional experience includes executive positions in healthcare, business, higher education, and a Washington D.C. based management consulting firm. His keen insights into the process of change and expert facilitation skills have also been used to design and facilitate think-tank and strategic planning activities in a variety of settings. His client list represents the "Who's Who" within industry, government, and the not-for-profit sector. In addition to his extensive speaking and consulting schedule, he is interviewed regularly by the media. Ed has also testified before Congress on several occasions regarding issues of workforce, transportation, travel and tourism. Ed holds a master's degree in management from the University of Notre Dame.


A college professor since 1980, Christopher Dreisbach is chair of the Department of Applied Ethics and Humanities for the Division of Public Safety Leadership in Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education. He is Professor of Moral Theology at The Ecumenical Institute of Theology, St. Mary’s Seminary & University. And he is a frequent lecturer on ethics for federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. He received his M.A. degree in 1981 and his Ph.D. in 1988 from Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or co-author of books, articles, and software in logic, education, ethics, the philosophy of dreams, and the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. His book Ethics in Criminal Justice is forthcoming from McGraw-Hill and his book The Moral Dimensions of Art in the Thought of R. G. Collingwood is forthcoming from Susquehanna University Press.


Christopher Dreisbach, Ph.D
Christopher Dreisbach, Ph.D


Bob Harrison
Bob Harrison


Bob Harrison has been a facilitator and instructor in educational and public safety settings for more than 17 years. He served more than 30 years as a peace officer, completing his career in 2004 as a Chief of Police. Since that time, he has worked as a consultant for leadership development, strategic planning and instructor development. In 2006, Bob completed a two-year fellowship at California Peace Officer Standards and Training after implementing facilitation skills development for the state’s 3,500 academy instructors. He holds two Masters Degrees and has completed significant coursework towards his Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership. He was the 1993-94 Fulbright Fellow in Police Studies to the United Kingdom, completing work on the British system of leadership development training for police managers. Extensively published in police periodicals, his latest article was published in October 2007 in Police Chief magazine entitled Gamers, Millennials and Generation Next: Implications for Policing. The article is the first of its kind, linking the impact of game technology to the issues of the emerging police workforce. He also authored Writing Your Command College Article and was the primary author of the Instructor’s Guide to Learning Activities for the state’s police academies.


John R. Hoyle is Professor of Educational Administration at Texas A&M University and specializes in Leadership Training and Assessment and Future Studies. He is one of America’s leading reformers in administrator preparation programming and training and is an authority on future studies. In a 2004 survey, Professor Hoyle was selected by his peers as one of four “exceptional living scholars” in educational leadership. In 2007, a new “Hoyle Leadership Award” was established by the Administrative Leadership Institute at Texas A&M University and The Texas Association of School Administrators to be awarded to a Texas school leader selected for his/her outstanding service to the children and youth of Texas. His interests in the study of the future have developed from living, studying, and teaching in England, Germany, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey, and South Africa, as well as several universities. Professor Hoyle has delivered numerous keynote addresses and distinguished lectures for conventions and universities, given papers on various topics for education, futurism, business, and agriculture-related conferences, and conducted management development seminars for corporations which include Tenneco, Trajan, and Philip Morris. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications which include books, articles, book chapters, and papers. One of his books, Leadership and Futuring: Making Visions Happen, was a best seller and selected as The Book of the Month for August 2007 by the National Association of Career and Technical Education.


John R. Hoyle, Ph.D.
John R. Hoyle, Ph.D.


David W. Jamieson, Ph.D.
David W. Jamieson, Ph.D.


David W. Jamieson is President of Jamieson Consulting Group, Inc. (JCG). Prior to forming JCG, he was a partner with MRG Associates, a management consulting firm. He has been consulting since 1971, with a generalist orientation and an emphasis in organization strategy, design and change. Prior to his consulting career, Dr. Jamieson worked in production and methods management with Schramm, Inc., an air compressor manufacturer, in industrial engineering with Lukens Steel Company and as Assistant to the Dean, Office of Student Affairs at Drexel University. He combines an in-depth knowledge base with practical experience in formulating strategy; designing organizations; evolving desired cultures; creating and facilitating change strategies; managing for high performance, quality and service; creating diversity-friendly organizations; building effective teams; and developing leaders for the future. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from UCLA and a B.S. in Business Administration from Drexel University. Dr. Jamieson is a respected author, with numerous publications on organization alignment, organization development, managing workforce diversity, developing teams and team-based organizations, and consultation. He is co-author of the best-selling book Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage and co-author of The Complete Guide to Facilitation: Enabling Groups to Succeed and The Facilitator’s Fieldbook.


Matt May is the founder of Aevitas Learning, which was a preferred business partner with Toyota from 1999 to 2006 and the only non-Toyota entity certified to teach Toyota methods by the University of Toyota. Aevitas Learning teaches organizations how to build culture and discipline around innovation. Matt is a superb speaker with years of experience inspiring new ideas and teaching the most effective process for innovation in industry today. He offers audiences invaluable practical guidance on how to make continuous and companywide innovation a reality. Matt is the author of an important book on innovation, The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation and is a contributing author of the Financial Times Handbook of Management. Matt earned an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.


Matthew E. May
Matthew E. May


Howard T. Prince II, Ph.D.
Howard T. Prince II, Ph.D.


Dr. Howard T. Prince II is the Director of the Center for Ethical Leadership and holds the Loyd Hackler Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (LBJ School) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a 1962 honor graduate of West Point, holds the M.A. degree in International Relations from American University, studied the University of Bonn in Germany as an Olmsted Scholar, and earned the Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. After serving for over 28 years in the United States Army, upon his retirement in 1990, Dr. Prince was advanced on the retired list to the rank of Brigadier General and presented with the army’s highest award for service, the Distinguished Service Medal. His other military awards and decorations include two awards of the Purple Heart for combat wounds, two Bronze Stars for valor, the Bronze Star for service, the Distinguished Flying Cross for valor, the Silver Star for valor, and the Combat Infantryman's Badge.


Professor Moshe F. Rubinstein is a professor at the University of California Los Angeles School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and is Director of the A-B-C Corporate Network at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He is an internationally renowned authority on problem solving and creativity in organizations; is widely respected for his insights, expertise, and ability to infuse organizations with tools for decision making and innovation; has been a consultant to many major corporations; and has been invited to lecture all over the world. Professor Rubinstein is a Fulbright Hays fellow and has received numerous awards for his outstanding teaching, including the UCLA Academic Senate Award, the UCLA Alumni Award, and the Anderson School Executive Education Teaching Award. He has written ten books, including Patterns of Problem Solving, Tools for Thinking and Problem Solving, Concepts in Problem Solving, The Minding Organization, and over 100 articles. His books have been translated into several foreign languages. Professor Rubinstein was named in January 2000 one of the top twenty professors of the century at UCLA.


Moshe F. Rubinstein, Ph.D.
Moshe F. Rubinstein, Ph.D.


Cary Simon, Ph.D.
Cary Simon, Ph.D.


Cary Simon is a professor of strategic management and organizational change at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and teaches International Organization Behavior at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. During his 18-year career with the U.S. Navy, he was a diver specializing in Explosive Ordnance Disposal, and held senior management positions at two major weapons facilities and Australian and U.S. diver training commands. Professor Simon has conducted executive strategy seminars for the Ministries of Defense in Colombia (2000-2004), Peru, the Czech Republic and Poland, and facilitated strategy seminars for U.S. Naval Forces Europe, Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command and Joint Munitions Command, California cities of Marina and Porterville, Moss Landing Board of Commissioners and the Defense Language Institute. Professor Simon holds three graduate degrees including a doctorate in strategic management from U.S. International University in San Diego.


John M. Smart is president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit community for analysis and scholarship in issues and technologies of accelerating change. He co-produces Accelerating Change, a periodic technology futures conference in the San Francisco Bay Area; edits ASF's newsletter, Accelerating Times; and teaches undergraduate and professional courses in Foresight Development. John holds a BS in Business from University of California Berkeley, an M.S. in Futures Studies from the University of Houston, and has done post baccalaureate coursework in biological, medical, cognitive, computer and physical sciences at UC San Diego.


John M. Smart
John M. Smart

 

 


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