Dr. E. Arthur “Woody” Self, GLG’s founder, principal and senior evaluator and communicator is an expert at measuring leadership behaviors that create great success and worker/colleague engagement. He wrote the book on evaluating good and bad leaders and learning from both. His understanding of how great personal and professional success can be achieved by observing what bad leaders do and don’t do and what good leaders do and don’t do results in the creation and execution of three domains of engagement listed just above. His ability to assist executives as they engage, evaluate, develop and retain high potential (HIPO’s) personnel justifiably positions him and the services of GLG as valuable extensions of a senior executive’s toolbox.
Dr. Self, Ph.D., has more than forty years successfully blending a leadership career in higher education with business and leadership theory and organizational practice. The combination of the theoretical and the pragmatic has led to transformative tactical solutions and powerful strategies for his clients, the institutions he has served and the businesses he has launched, managed and sold.
He has held positions in community colleges and doctoral degree-granting institutions and has been President of two institutions of higher learning: Malone University of Canton, Ohio, and Seattle Pacific University. He also served as the founding Dean of the School of Business at Northwest University.
Dr. Self’s academic preparation was in higher education administration, organizational communication and speech (Ph.D., M.A., Michigan State University, B.A., and Olivet Nazarene University).
As Professor of Business Administration, he taught a variety of courses, such as Business Strategy, Management, Leadership, International Business and Entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His content knowledge has been broadly and successfully applied in a variety of for-profit, not-for-profit and governmental settings.
As a business strategist and confidant to senior management, boards of directors and trustees and investors, Dr. Self has enabled the increased success, capacity and performance of healthy, as well as, underachieving companies.
Additionally, Dr. Self has served as a strategic opportunity and planning analyst in numerous start-ups, mid-stage and mature companies. As such, he has come to be known as an extraordinarily insightful judge of talent, executive performance and opportunity.
His book Good Lessons from Bad Leaders: Discovering Courage Beyond the Chaos enjoys positive reviews from early-career readers, as well as those who have experienced the effects of working with sub-optimal bosses and supervisors. His follow-up book GOOD SUCCESS: Learning Good Lessons from Bad Leaders is available now at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Goodreads.
GOOD SUCCESS provides solutions to reduce job/employee churn caused by the negative attitudes and actions of upstream leaders. GOOD SUCCESS has come to the attention of HR professionals seeking solutions to increase employee satisfaction and the continued engagement of high-potential employees. Additionally, GOOD SUCCESS offers 52 lessons which teach would-be leaders how to avoid becoming known as a bad boss and someone with whom no one would desire to work.
He and his wife Carol, a former teacher, health care foundation executive and university First Lady reside in Oro Valley, Arizona, and are the parents of two adult sons: Adam of Chicago, Illinois, and Eric of Atlanta, Georgia.
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