James "Jay" Sullivan, PhD

Specialties and Interests

• Cross-cultural management
• Economics
• Leadership and management

Programs and Research Projects

• Research centeres around determining the relationships between Environmental Turbulence, leadership training, leadership styles, employees' and managers' cultures and managerial effectiveness.

Courses Taught

• ECO 1010 Principles opf Microeconomics
• ECO 1020 Principles of Macroeconomics
• MGT 4010 Dimensions of Leadership and Management
• MGT 4030 Cross-Cultural Management
• BUS 5050 Survey of Economics
• BUS 6060 Cross Cultural Management
• BUS 6030 Leadership and Management of Change

Selected Publications

• Four Dimensional Leadership Textbook, Kendell Hunt, 2002

Recent Dissertations Chaired

• Relationships between Evironmental Turbulence, Top Managers' Mindsets, Organizational Culture and Power and Performance in Korean Firms, Han 1999
• Various Strategic Factors and Their Relationship to the Success of Change Institutionalization in American Business Firms, De Vries, 2002

Professional Activities

• After a long and distinguished career in the military, Sullivan joined the world of academia. He has lived and worked in Japan, Europe, and Vietnam, and traveled extensively throughout Scandinavia.
• He also worked as part of an international staff at NATO with people from many different countries, and had a great deal of cross-cultural professional and social interaction.
• Sullivan is also the president of Leadership Excellence Association, an independent management consulting firm.

Degrees, Professional Licenses, Certifications, and Honors

• BS, Fairfield University, Connecticut
• MS, Salve Regina College, Newport, RI
• PhD, United States International University

Interests and Hobbies

• Military History
• Travel
• Golf