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Jeffrey Gandz

Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy

  • Managing Director, Program Design - Executive Development

Education

  • MBA, York
  • PhD, York

Contact Information

Profile

Jeffrey Gandz is Professor of Strategic Leadership and Managing Director, Program Design for the Executive Development division of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

After his early education in the UK he worked in sales and marketing for Riker Laboratories, Dresser Industries and Abbott Laboratories in the UK before immigrating to Canada in 1969.  Prior to joining Ivey Business School, he worked for Warner-Lambert, Cheesebrough-Pond's and Grey Advertising in Toronto. He earned an MBA and PhD at York University and has taught in Ivey's MBA, Executive MBA and HBA programs, has been a visiting professor at the Darden School, University of Virginia as well as at Queen's, York, Penn State and L'Institute Superieur des Affaires in France and Xinghua University, Beijing.   He is a former director of the MBA program and associate dean of programs at Ivey and also held the Taylor-Mingay Chair in the Global Environment of Business.

He currently focuses on developing custom programs for companies in North America and Asia including, most recently, programs for Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group, Aecon Engineering, The Globe and Mail, Rogers Communications, KPMG LLP, Petro-Canada, The Civil Service Bureau (Hong Kong), Manulife Financial, John Hancock, Magellan Aerospace, J.D. Irving Limited, HSBC (Asia), Arclin, Hutchison Ports Holdings, and Mattel Asia-Pacific.

His research interests focus on the development of leaders in organizations as well as the impact of economic, political, societal and technological change on the strategic and operational challenges facing business leaders today.  He is the author of six books, many articles in both practitioner and academic magazines and journals, and over 100 case studies used in management development programs around the world.   He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on topics including leadership, talent development, changing organizational culture and global trends affecting business.  He is also in demand as a facilitator and leader for strategic retreats and as a senior executive coach. 

In addition to his teaching and research work, he has consulted on organizational design, strategy and talent development issues with many private and public sector organizations and governments.  Dr Gandz is also a member of the boards of directors of Maple Leaf Foods Inc. and Canadian Medical Association Holdings.

Teaching

  • Custom Corporate Programs

Selected Publications

  • Leadership on Trial: A manifesto for leadership development. (with Mary Crossan, Gerard Seijts and Carol Stephenson).  Ivey Publications (London, ON) 2010.
  • Cross Enterprise Leadership; Leadership for the 21st Century (with Mary Crossan and Gerard Seijts).  Toronto, Jossey-Bass, 2010.
  • "Moral Character Revisited".  Ivey Business Journal, March/April 2009.
  • "Compelling visions: Content, context, credibility and collaboration". Ivey Business Journal, March/April 2009.
  • "Deconstructing Stupidity";  Why smart people often do stupid things.  Ivey Business Journal.  November/December 2008.
  • "The Cross Enterprise Leader" (with Mary Crossan and Gerard Seijts).  Ivey Business Journal, July/August 2008.
  • "'Go-to' People: Here They Come to Save the Day", Globe and Mail, April(27) 2007.
  • "Seven Deadly Leadership Sins", Globe and Mail, July(6) 2007.
  • "Remove clogs in your talent pipeline; Avoid common blockages to your leadership development by following these tips", Globe and Mail, March 2006.
  • "Talent Development: The Architecture of a Talent Pipeline that Works", Ivey Business Journal Online, January/February 2006.
  • "Leadership Character and Competencies", Organizational Performance Review, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 3-6.
  • "The Leadership Role", Ivey Business Journal Online, January/February  2005, pp. 1-6.
    "Globalization and the legitimacy of dissent" Ivey Business Journal, May/June 2002, Vol. 66, Iss. 2, pp. 17.
  • "Train dogs, develop leaders" Ivey Business Journal, London, November/December 2001, Vol. 66, Iss. 5, pp. 8.
  • "Global leadership and personal power" in Ivey Business Journal, May/June 2000, Vol. 64, Iss. 5, pp. 10, 3 pgs.
  • Workplace Diversity - The Business Case. Internet Site Document for Government of Ontario, Updated and revised, April 1998. 
  • "The Ethics of Empowerment" (with F.G. Bird), Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1996, pp. 383-392. 
  • "Identification of Values Relevant to Business Research" (with P. McDonald), Human Resource Management, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1992, pp. 217-236. 
  • Good Management: Business Ethics in Action, (with F. Bird), Prentice-Hall Canada (Toronto) 1991, 499 pages. 
  • Effective Managerial Action, (with Rush, J.C., DiStefano, J.D., and Lane, H.W.), Prentice-Hall Canada (Toronto) 1988, 623 pages.

 

Research/Course Development

  • Global Environment of Business: Leadership
  • Governance

Experience

  • Visiting Professor, The Darden School, University of Virginia and L'Institut Superieur des Affaires
  • Marketing and sales management in consumer goods, pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries in North America and Europe
  • Director, Maple Leaf Foods, Inc.
  • Director, Canadian Medical Association Holdings

Expertise

  • Business Education
  • Leadership Development
  • Strategic and Issue-Based Executive Retreats
  • Geo-Economics and Politics
  • Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
 

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