About the Authors
Scott J. Allen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of management at John Carroll University, where he teaches courses in leadership and management skills. Scott is also the coauthor of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for College Students (Jossey-Bass) and the corresponding suite of resources (Workbook and Facilitation and Activity Guide). In addition, Scott has articles published in the Journal of Leadership Educators, Journal of Leadership Studies, Advances in Developing Human Resources, Leadership Review, The International Leadership Journal, The OD Journal, SAM Advanced Management Journal, and Leadership Excellence. Along with writing and speaking, Scott blogs (www.weeklyleader.net), consults, facilitates workshops, and leads retreats across industries. He resides in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, with his wife, Jessica, and three children—Will, Kate, and Emily.
Dr. Mitchell Kusy (Mitch) has had twenty-five years’ experience in leadership and organization development (OD). A Registered OD Consultant, he is a full professor in the Ph.D. Program, Leadership & Change, Antioch University, and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Internationally, he has consulted in more than fifteen countries and recently received the international honor of being selected a Fulbright Scholar in international organization development. In 1998, he received the prestigious Minnesota Organization Development Practitioner of the Year award.
Previous to his position at Antioch University, Mitch was a full professor in the master’s and doctoral program in organization development at the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, where he taught for seventeen years. Before entering academia, Mitch worked in industry and directed the leadership development area at American Express Financial Advisors; before that, he managed organization development and employee relations for Health Partners, Inc.
His latest book is coauthored with Dr. Elizabeth Holloway and is entitled Toxic Workplace! Managing Toxic Personalities and Their Systems of Power. It is based on their research study on the specific strategies leaders should employ to mitigate the effects of toxic personalities at work. His publication record consists of hundreds of articles and the following books coauthored with Dr. Louellen Essex: Manager’s Desktop Consultant: Just-in-Time Solutions to the Top People Problems That Keep You Up at Night (Davies-Black Publishing); Fast Forward Leadership: How to Exchange Outmoded Practices for Forward-Looking Leadership Today (Financial Times-Prentice Hall); and Breaking the Code of Silence: Prominent Leaders Reveal How They Rebounded from Seven Critical Mistakes (Taylor Trade Publishing/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group).