Barbara C. Crosby
Minnesota - USA
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Biography:

Barbara C. Crosby is associate professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and  a  member of the Institute's Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center at the University of Minnesota.  During 2002-3, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.  She has taught and written extensively about leadership and public policy, women in leadership, media and public policy, and strategic planning.  She is the author of Leadership for Global Citizenship (1999) and co-author with John M. Bryson of Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World of (2d. ed. 2005). A frequent speaker at conferences and workshops, she has conducted training for senior managers of nonprofit, business and government organizations in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Poland.  She is a former gubernatorial press secretary and speech writer.  She also has been a newspaper reporter and editor and has written several book chapters and articles for national journals, including the National Civic Review and Social Policy.  Dr. Crosby has a B.A. degree with a major in political science from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has a Ph.D. in leadership studies from the Union Institute.