- Department: Management
- University: Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo
- Location: San Luis Obispo, California
I am in my encore career; there have been two before this one. Now I teach management and HR at Cal Poly. It's a wonderful third career, and I've wondered sometimes why I did not do this from the get-go, as it is wonderfully satisfying. But God has a reason for layering on the experiences of all my past lives to bring me to this present one. I've been in Christian work (Church staff positions), and doing Organizational Development at Intel Corp. All of it, including an array of stumbles, high points, and the ordinary and unremarkable trudging between those extremes, has sustained a family (Nancy, 3 kids, now also 3 grandkids). These memories also blend sweetly to inform and delight my time with students.
Favorite Quote
"If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together."
Friends describe me
Calm (most days), rarely intense, enthusiastic, loquacious, intuitive, focused on ideas, visionary, relational.
My hobbies
Travel, camping, reading, film, writing.
Fantasy dinner guests
Dinner party with Jesus and the Disciples (yes, Judas too; I have some questions), Matin Luther, Wolfgang Mozart
Best advice I ever received
Get a mentor (wish I had done that; it would have helped).
My undergrad alma mater
Vanguard University
My worst subject in school
Math. "Worst" not due to dislike--quite the opposite--but because I preferred the humanities.
In college I drove
myself to school. 🙂
If I weren't a professor, I would
Writer; speaker.
Favorite books
Bible, Les Miserables,
Favorite movies
Amadeus
Favorite city
San Luis Obispo
Favorite coffee
Coastal Peaks SLO: "Organic Sienna"
Nobody knows I
met my wife on the Dating Game TV show, in LA, in the 70's. (Well, some people know this...)
My latest accomplishment
I've occasionally received the HR/Management Prof of the year over a couple of the recent years.