Senior educator, manager, consultant and coach with broad experience in leadership and organization development, utilizing methods that emphasize genuine dialogue, value-based learning, and shared inquiry facilitation. Provides executive workshops in areas such as strategic leadership, ethics, team building, conflict management, and organization diagnosis and change. Successfully manages executive development programs that strengthen the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral competence of emerging leaders. Published scholar in the areas of leadership, executive development, and ethics.

President, Zauderer & Associates, LLC
Works with public, private, and non-profit organizations to create effective results in leadership development, ethics education, executive coaching, team building, organization diagnosis and change, and strategic planning. Clients include HHS University, the National Gallery of Art, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the Department of Transportation, the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and American University.

Senior Advisor & Director, Mastering the Art of Public Leadership, The Brookings Institution
Designed and implemented leadership programs and services for emerging public sector leaders.

Professor and Director, Leadership Programs, American University, School of Public Affairs
Designed and implemented innovative programs in leadership, human resource management, management consulting, public financial management and the management of high technology for the MITRE Corporation. These value-based leadership programs resulted in ninety-eight percent of alumni indicating their academic program contributed to career mobility and leadership effectiveness. Seventy percent received a promotion soon after graduation.

Ph.D., Indiana University, Public Management and Organization Behavior, Public Policy, Political Science, Economics

M.A., Kent State University, Political Science

B.S., The Ohio State University, Education, Government, English

Institute for Global Ethics
The Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics
Mediation Training Institute International
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Covey Leadership Center
University Associates
The Cape Cod Institute
NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science

Member, DC Bar Ethics Committee
Feature Editor, The Public Manager (Culture of Bureaucracy)
Certified Professional in Managing Workplace Conflict
Donald G. Zauderer Endowed Scholarship, American University

"Leadership Lessons from World Class Coaches." The Public Manager, Fall, 2006

"The Art of Framing for Political Advantage." The Public Manager, Winter, 2006

"Mason Structural Steel: A firm Built on Character and Fierce Resolve." 2005 (forthcoming).

"Leading With Character." The Public Manager, Spring 2005.

"Mastering the Art of Public Leadership." The Public Manager, 2003.

"Workplace Incivility and the Management of Human Capital." The Public Manager, 2002.

"The Benefit of Dialogue." The Public Manager, 2001.

"Winning with Integrity." The Public Manager, 1994.

"Integrity: An Essential Executive Quality." Business Forum, 1992.

Institute for Global Ethics

Academy of Management