Dr. Steve Kaagan

bpc Partner Steve Kaagan also serves on the faculty of Michigan State University where he teaches graduate courses on leadership and organizational development. He has a doctorate from Harvard University and has been honored with several awards, including membership in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London, England and Honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters, from Williams College in Massachusetts and Green Mountain College in Vermont.

He joined bpc in 2001 and Michigan State University in 1991. Before that Steve served as President of Hurricane Island Outward Bound in Maine (1989-91), Commissioner of Education for the State of Vermont (1982-88) and Provost at Pratt Institute in New York City (1977-82).

He has written extensively on leadership and leadership development and assessment of organizational effectiveness.

Selected Publications include:

• Developing Teacher Leaders: How Teacher Leadership Enhances School Success, with Frank Crowther et al., Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, California, 2002.  
• A  special edition of the International Journal of Educational Management on organizational learning, co-edited with Frank Crowther, MCB Publications, London, England, 2001. 
• Leadership Games: Experiential Learning for Organizational Development, Sage, Thousand Oaks, California, 1999. 
•  Leadership Lessons: From a Life of Character and Purpose in Public Affairs, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1997. 
• Leadership for Learning, a Perspective of the Council for Basic Education, Washington, D. C., Winter, 1993. 

Steve Kaagan is currently a Charter Board Member of ArtServe Michigan. In the late eighties he served as a member of a distinguished panel on "Making the System Work Better for Poor Kids", a Carnegie Foundation-sponsored project of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Steve's experience spans a diverse academic and administrative career; wide-ranging service as an advisor to government agencies, corporations and educational institutions; military experience in the United States Marine Corps Reserve; extensive travel throughout the world including mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayas, Andes and Cascades; and Rugby Football refereeing for the United States Rugby Football Union.

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