Joan V. Gallos is professor of leadership at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she has also served as professor and dean of education, coordinator of university accreditation, special assistant to the chancellor for strategic planning, and director of the higher education graduate programs. Gallos holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in English from Princeton University, and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has served as a Salzburg Seminar Fellow; as president of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society; as editor of the Journal of Management Education; as a member of numerous editorial boards, including as a founding member of the Academy of Management Learning and Education journal; and as a member of regional and national advisory boards for such groups as the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, the Forum for Early Childhood Organization and Leadership Development, the Kauffman and Danforth Foundations’ Missouri Superintendents Leadership Forum, and the Mayor’s Kansas City Collaborative for Academic Excellence. She has also served on the national steering committee for the New Models of Management Education project (a joint effort of the Graduate Management Admissions Council and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business); on the W. K. Kellogg Foundation College Age Youth Leadership Review Team; on the University of Missouri President’s Advisory Council on Academic Leadership; and on civic, foundation, and nonprofit boards in greater Kansas City. Gallos has taught at the Radcliffe Seminars, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Babson College, as well as in executive programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Missouri, Babson College, and the University of British Columbia. She has published on professional effectiveness, gender, and leadership education and is editor of Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader (2006), coauthor of the books Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart (with V. Jean Ramsey and associates, Jossey-Bass, 1997) and Reframing Academic Leadership (with Lee G. Bolman, Jossey-Bass, forthcoming), and creator of a wide variety of published management education teaching materials. She received the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for the best article on management education in 1990 and was finalist for the same prize in 1994. In 1993, Gallos accepted the Radcliffe College Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2002 and 2003, she served as founding director of the Truman Center for the Healing Arts, based in Kansas City’s public hospital, which received the 2004 Kansas City Business Committee for the Arts Partnership Award as the best partnership between a large organization and the arts.