Faculty

 Dr. Joseph C. Santora has held numerous administrative, professorial and practitioner positions in the US. In recent years, he was the dean of a school of business and management.  He has also served as an assistant dean, coordinator of a business administration department, director of program development, and a tenured full professor of business and management. As a practitioner, he has founded and served as the managing director of a consulting organization which provided leadership and staff development, succession planning, and board training to more than two dozen nonprofit organizations.

On the international scene, Dr. Santora serves as an adjunct senior research fellow, department of management, Monash University (Australia); an faculty affiliate in the MBA/MIB programs at Grenoble Graduate School of Management (France), where he taught leadership, change management, and organizational behavior on the Grenoble, London, and Moscow campuses;  a visiting faculty member at the German Graduate School of Management & Law (Germany), where he taught leadership and teams in the MBA program; and  a visiting professor at ISM (France), where he taught executive leadership in the MBA and IeMBA program.  He was a visiting professorial fellow at Monash Mt-Eliza Business School (Australia), attached to the Leadership Centre to write  leadership and management teaching cases and teach in the leadership development program. He has also served as an external PhD and MBA thesis examiner for several universities. He was the founding editor of the International Leadership Journal, an on-line refereed academic journal devoted to exploring multi-disciplinary organizational leadership issues. He serves on eight international academic editorial boards. 

Dr. Santora’s current research interests focus on leadership, succession, and nonprofits. He has published almost three dozen refereed articles and cases and more than 100 practitioner papers, cases, book chapters, and reviews. His research has appeared in academic and practitioner journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, British Academy of Management, Career Development International, Development and Learning Organization, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organization & Leadership Studies, Nonprofit World, and SAM Advanced Management Journal,.  He received the Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009 for a co-authored paper published in Development and Learning Organizations. A second co-authored paper published in Leadership and Organization Development Journal was list among the Top 10 Downloaded Article in the 30-year history of the journal. Dr. Santora has presented papers at international conferences in more than a dozen countries on three continents. 

Dr. Santora received his doctorate (EdD) from Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City. He has done post-doctoral work at Harvard and Princeton.