Patrick Malone

Executive-in-Residence
Department of Public Administration and Policy

• Professor Malone is an Executive-in-Residence in the Department of Public Administration and Policy where he teaches courses in public sector leadership, executive problem solving, organizational analysis, action learning, leadership ethics, and public administration in the policy process. He also serves as a senior advisor and faculty member in American University’s Key Executive Leadership program. He is a frequent guest lecturer on leadership and organizational dynamics in state and federal agencies, professional associations, and universities including Oklahoma State University and the Visiting Scholars program at Yale. He has extensive experience working with federal sector leaders from DHHS, EPA, IRS, USDA, HUD, DHS, and DoD among others. Professor Malone also regularly presents in international forums to government leaders from the Republic of Vietnam, Panama, Poland, Belgum, and Mauritius. His research interests and scholarship include work in public service motivation, leadership, ethics, and organizational behavior. He is one of only thirty researchers in the country certified to score the Subject/Object qualitative research methodology developed at Harvard University. Dr Malone spent twenty-two years in the Department of Defense where he served in a number of senior leadership and policy roles including as a professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Academic Director; and Dean of Academics for Navy Medicine. His most recent publications include “Leading in Ballast Water,” “Can Leaders Keep Their Cool While Feeling the Heat?” “Running Into the Jaws of Conflict,” and “Keeping Your Lens Clean Amidst Ethical Challenges.”

• Degrees

  Ph.D. American University, M.S. Trinity University, San Antonio B.S. Southwest Texas State University
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