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Organizational Leadership Faculty

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Jeff Bailey is an organizational change and development consultant with CherryRoad Technologies. He has been consulting on organizational change and development matters for nearly eleven years, which included two and a half years with Blackwell Consulting Services at State Farm in the Systems Department and with KC Management Group in Chicago. Additional professional experiences include Dr. Bailey as an instructional designer and training manager for approximately eight years that started with the Arthur Andersen professional development center in St. Charles, IL. His leadership training started with a four year stint on active duty with the US Army as a tactical communications officer with the 1st Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, KS. His military experience is a foundation of his organizational leadership knowledge and practice but he has learned and practiced leadership in a variety of cultures and learns more about other cultures from each student in the program. Dr. Bailey has extensive experience with cohort programs as he earned his PhD in the cohort program at Benedictine University in suburban Lisle, IL where he also advised master’s degree students in cohort programs at BU. Dr. Bailey lives with his wife Becky and four dogs in Kappa.

 

Kathleen Melcher received her B.S. in Psychology, and her M.S. in Industrial/Organizational-Social, and Quantitative Psychology from Illinois State University. She conducts research on person-job fit, work-stress tolerance differences between employees who leave versus continue employment, and issues related to applicant response
distortion in pre-employment personality testing. She has presented research at university, regional, and national conferences. Kathleen has conducted evaluations of organizations, focusing on improving the organization's functioning for two separate departments of a large Midwestern university, and has analyzed the compensation system for a local division of a national non-profit organization.

 

Tari Renner is currently the Political Science Department Chair and Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington (since 1994).  He received his B.A. from the University of South Florida in 1978, his M.A. from American University in 1979, and in 1985 he received his Ph.D. from American University.  He was elected to the McLean County Board in 1998 and was re-elected without opposition in 2002 and 2006.  Renner is currently the Chair of the McLean County Board’s Justice Committee.  In 2004, Renner was the Democratic nominee for U. S. Congress in Illinois’ Eleventh Congressional District.  Tari Renner was the weekly political commentator on Peoria/Bloomington’s NBC affiliate (WEEK Channel 25) from 1996 through 2003.

During and after the completion of his graduate work in Washington, D.C., Renner worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).

 

David Marvin is currently the Associate Professor of Business Administration at Illinois Wesleyan University, Business Administration Department. He received his B.S. (magna cum laude) in General Business Administration at St. Cloud State University in 1980.  In 1984 he received his J.D. (cum laude) from University of Minnesota Law School.  He received his M.B.A from University of Oklahoma in 1994.  He worked as an Attorney from 1984 until 1990.  He began teaching at Illinois Wesleyan University in 1994 and in 1996 was nominated for Professor of the Year.

 

Gregory Jackson, adjunct faculty member at Eureka College, is an Instructor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Leadership Program.  Mr. Jackson is the Chief Administrative Officer (County Administrator) for Woodford County.  He received an AA with high honors from Triton College, a BA in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, from Northeastern Illinois University, and a MPA from Roosevelt University’s School of Public Policy.  A United States Marine Corps veteran he is a member of the American Legion and also holds memberships in the International City/County Management Association, the Illinois City/County Management Association, as well as a variety of other professional and community organizations.  Mr. Jackson is completing his first manuscript to be published in 2008 on the topic of political campaigns and public policy.