Jim “Gus” Gustafson, Ph.D. is currently the Chief Ministry Officer at the Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines, Iowa – as well as the Leadership Scholar-in-Residence and Director of Executive Education for the Center for Values-Driven Leadership at Benedictine University. He is Chair of the Business Leadership Division of the International Leadership Association, former Editor-in-Chief of the Organization Development Journal, serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Leadership Studies and the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, and was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Global Strategic Leader Award given by the World HRD Congress. Prior to coming to Hope, he was Director of Strategic Leadership Research and Development and Organizational Transformation at U.S. Cellular, where he received many awards for his pioneering work in leadership development and organizational change.
On January 1, 2002, Gus resigned as President and COO of a very successful company to follow his passion and focus his efforts on conducting research towards a doctoral dissertation on socially-responsible leadership. In so doing, Gus conducted face-to-face interviews with 22 founders of not-for-profit organizations – including Millard Fuller (Habitat for Humanity), Eleanor Josaitis (Focus: HOPE), Eunice Kennedy Shriver (Special Olympics) and Blanton Belk (Up With People) -- that are making a positive and sustainable impact on the world.
Dr. Gustafson has over twenty-five years of successful organization development, sales, marketing, operations, leadership development, channel management and general management experience in public, private and non-profit organizations. He consults and speaks globally on a variety of topics, including Values-Driven Leadership, Appreciative Inquiry, Corporate Social Responsibility, Organizational & Team Effectiveness and Servant-Leadership Development. Gus lives in West Des Moines, IA with his wife and their two children.
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