Our President

• Academic Achievement – Four earned degrees, each focusing on various aspects of religious morality, the history of ethics, and historical causes of conflict in nations, societies, and religions

  • PhD, MA                    The University of Chicago

  • MDiv                           Emmanuel School of Religion

  • BA                               Kentucky Christian University

• Academic Practice – the design and administration of a Masters degree in conflict resolution, based on U.S. standards of practice in ethics and conflict management; course design and delivery of graduate and undergraduate courses at Sullivan University, the University of Louisville, Indiana Wesleyan University, and Maryville University; lectures at St. Louis University and Loyola Marymount University; and, a developing course in business ethics for the University of Catalonia

• Training in Ethics, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution – delivery of professional lectures and seminars for practitioners in the Association for Conflict Resolution, the American Bar Association, the Center for Conflict Resolution; on litigation prevention and management for clergy and clergy managers in the Kentucky Council of Churches; on litigation prevention and team management in government for the Illinois Municipal League; and, on historical backgrounds for today’s Middle East conflicts for the Frazier International Historical Museum

• Leadership in Best Practices in Ethics – has served to assist in creation of ethical standards of practice for professional associations, such as the ABA Section on Dispute Reolution’s Ethics Committee; the Association of Conflict Resolution’s Ethics Committee; the National Association for Community Mediation’s and, the International Association of Ombuds’s Ethics Committee

• Employment Experience – an employee for the U.S. Postal Service REDRESS Program; Sullivan University; the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Commission on Human Rights; as a paid expert presentation speaker for professional associations, such as the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, the Kentucky Municipal Clerks, the Kentucky Tourism Council , and for businesses, such as Holiday Inn.

• Community Leadership – leading and organizing conflict resolution programs for uninsured families, social service delivery, senior services, community poverty and hunger, services for mentally disabled, literacy, and discrimination

• Publication Leadership – books; academic journals; nationally syndicated newspapers, such as Chicago Tribune and regional newspapers; and, Internet websites dedicated to conflict resolution, such as mediate.com

• Deep Resources – is certified to administer the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, and the Conflict Dynamics Profile; draws on a wide and deep network of professional friends and colleagues in allied disciplines, such as several divisions in the American Psychological Association, the American Arbitration Association, the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, and the Society of Risk Management