Jepson Faculty: Defining Leadership Studies

Biographies and CVs

Leadership moves the world. That’s why it’s important, why we study it and why we strive to do it well.

At its base, leadership is about human beings coming together to accomplish some desired outcome. It guides and facilitates the processes that allow groups of people to attain personal, organizational and societal objectives.

At Jepson, faculty and students work side by side to gain insight into leadership as a basic part of the human condition. Faculty members draw upon their rich variety of academic disciplines—history, law, economics, political science, philosophy, literature, psychology, religion, public administration and others—to drive research and define the field.

Faculty members write and edit for leading publications. They guide research and lecture worldwide. They investigate problems such as why leaders fail ethically and how groups form and make collective decisions. They explore the leadership of grassroots groups and study presidential leadership. They write the textbooks that are used in classrooms around the world. They serve as resources for national and international media, consult other colleges and universities, organize national conferences and hold leadership roles in countless scholarly associations. 

Beyond the Richmond campus, Jepson's faculty contributes to making leadership studies a priority in higher education worldwide. One initiative helped professors incorporate themes of responsible leadership into their courses—regardless of discipline. This collaboration brought together philosophers with physicists and artists with economists. Participants created new courses in justice, science, ethics, economics and public policy and new relationships with the nation’s top scholars.

Visitors from colleges and universities often turn to Jepson to hone programs based on the Jepson model. Faculty members share ideas and syllabi with teaching colleagues worldwide.

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