Dr. Ross Wirth

Contact Information

Name: Dr. Ross Wirth
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Website: http://www.franklin.edu/about-franklin/faculty-profiles/ross-wirth.html
Blog: http://rosswirth42.blogspot.com/

Leadership Development

Background in leadership development (Education and/or Experience):

Doctorate in leadership and organizational change.

Current leadership development work (Roles and/or Positions):

Hosting a monthly Change Leadership Symposium on campus, networking change leaders across central Ohio.

What do you hope to gain from and contribute to the learning community:

Network with others interested in championing grassroots leadership where everyone feels empowered to self-initiate change leadership.

Personal areas of interest or expertise:

• Boundary-crossing
• Collaboration
• Community specific leadership development
• Curriculum Development
• Networking and social capital
• Organizational Leadership
• Program Design
• Shared leadership
• Strategic Planning

Interest-oriented Learning Circles

• Evaluation Learning Circle
• International Learning Circle
• Social Media and Leadership
• Sustaining Networks Learning Circle

More About You

Other Interests:

Testing the use of a multi-media simulation for experiential learning of strategic planning

Current Questions about Leadership & Leadership Development:

(1) How can Democratic Governance initiatives be scaled beyond local communities? (2) How can social media platforms be structured to support transient groupings that morph and bifurcate with changing interests?

Favorite Quotes:

"The Answer to the great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is . . . 'forty-two' . . . I checked it very thoroughly . . . and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"