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About Don Stone

Scholarly Interests: 
  • Action Research and Collaborative Inquiry as the basis for building leadership capacity in groups and organizations.
  • How to develop research and validity procedures for making meaning of experience and the construction of knowledge for deep understanding as a basis of personal and organizational change.
  • How to build leadership capacity within organizations so that when the positional leader leaves, the adaptive leadership remains.
  • How to implement "360 degree leadership" to encourage leading from the middle and from the bottom-up as well as top-down.
    Pedagogical Interests: 
    • How to follow Plato's dictum to "Know thyself" as the starting point for leadership development.
    • The Hall-Tonna Values Inventory, used in the Saint Mary's Leadership curriculum, as a brilliant methodology for leadership and organizational development.
    • How "knowledge" is not information immaculately conceived, but rather a personal and social construction.
    • Creating curriculum for learning environments that nuture personal and organizational transformation, and exploring how the roles of advisor, coach, and teacher can contribute to the mutual learning.
    • Methods to question the beliefs that keep us from a more accurate perception of reality, from being in the present moment, and from our experience of connection.
    Personal Interests: 

    Parenting, gardening, connecting with the Mystery in nature, social justice theater, the mystical and prophetic interconnections between Christian and Jewish traditions.


    Positions

    February 1987 - Present Academic Counselor and Instructor, Saint Mary's College of California
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    Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Master of Arts in Leadership
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    Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Kalmanovitz School of Education
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    Disciplines

    Research Interests

    Grants

    2011 - Present Honorary Public Works Leadership Fellow
    The Donald C. Stone Center for Leadership Excellence in Public Works, American Public Works Association
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    Professional Service and Affiliations

    1980 - 1987 Experiential Learning Associate and Instructor, University of San Francisco
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    Courses

    • Graduate Leadership Action Research Project: proposal, implementation, synthesis paper

    Education

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    1981 Ph.D. Sociology, University of California - Berkeley
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    1967 B.A. Social Studies, Wesleyn University
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