Joe Raelin, Ph.D.

Joe Raelin is the Asa S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University. In this capacity, he is founder and director of the Center for Work and Learning at Northeastern. He was formerly Professor of Administrative Sciences at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. While at Boston College, Joe was a co-founder of the ethics curriculum in business and regularly taught courses in both business ethics and corporate social responsibility. He has published and advocated for the "dual bottom-line" in business and corporate affairs and has shown how business and professional ethics can co-exist. In the latter domain of professional ethics, Joe is recognized internationally for the classic, The Clash of Cultures: Managers Managing Professionals, a book which was among the first of its kind to address possible mediation between professional and managerial cultures.

As a management consultant with over 30 years of experience working with a wide variety of organizational clients, Joe's primary interest centers on human resource development concerns, particularly executive education and development. Most recently, he has been a featured speaker on the topic of shared or collective leadership, based on his recent book, Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003), and also on the topic of action learning, based upon his Work-Based Learning: The New Frontier of Management Development (Prentice-Hall, The "OD Series," 2000).